Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the highest value was put on just being there , the willingness to sit by a bedside and to do more listening than talking , the patience with inconsistencies and sudden reversals of mood and the readiness to come back , week after week . |
| 2 | Mount Charlotte Investments , the hotel group , offers the opportunity to invest in a stockbroker . |
| 3 | The decision to search for a partner has been taken ‘ in the context of competing investment requirements ’ across the broad sweep of BAe 's business interests . |
| 4 | And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) . |
| 5 | He said the 51 people flown back from Hong Kong early yesterday had been removed ‘ in line with procedures used worldwide to remove people refused permission to remain in a territory . |
| 6 | Deportations had been , he said , ‘ in line with procedures used worldwide to remove people refused permission to remain in a territory ’ . |
| 7 | Weddings were an excuse to indulge in a complexity of symbols , some of which look like vestiges of atavistic and pagan ceremonies — a whiff of Pan , a nuance of Sleeping Beauty . |
| 8 | Whenever I saw her , she always smiled at me , It was as if she 'd got me confused with someone else , someone important Once I had half an hour to wait for a transport . |
| 9 | ‘ The decision to go for a greenfield site was taken in June , 1992 , and the countdown to Highbridge — a site within reach of all employees , with good motorway links — began soon afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Under the new system , we want an increasing proportion of the budget to go into a pot of cash , which local authorities will be able to give out . |
| 11 | We will allow British Rail to proceed with a leasing scheme of 188 new Networker trains on the North Kent line — the first step in securing private investment to help modernise Britain 's railways and protect our environment . |
| 12 | The facts are : Lady Eleanor kept to herself , put on her cloak to go for a walk and , in the half-light , slipped on the staircase at Godstowe , fell and broke her neck . ’ |
| 13 | She slipped the newspaper cutting into the top drawer of her bedside chest , then took the opportunity to go for a walk by herself , without Josh . |
| 14 | It is not surprising that many citizens ‘ banned and cursed her ’ , nor is it wholly surprising that there were some among them prepared to give her money to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St James of Compostella in Spain . |
| 15 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 16 | The decision to proceed to a currency union and accordingly revise the Rome Treaty was reached on political grounds , just as was the case with the signing of the original Treaty of Rome , the creation of the EMS and the ratification of the Single European Act . |
| 17 | Doolittle ( 1952 ) reconsidered Batschinski 's suggestion that the resistance to flow of a liquid depended upon the free-space available to a molecule rather than upon the temperature . |
| 18 | A MC clause obviously sustains collusion by creating an incentive for a buyer to report to a seller keeping to the agreement prices of a seller who may be cheating on the agreement , at the same time nullifying the effect of the latter . |
| 19 | But it gave him an excuse to retire for a while , to re-assess things . |
| 20 | where there has been surprise , as where the trial judge allows the case to proceed on a basis other than that pleaded without giving the other side an opportunity to consider the new material ; |
| 21 | But lasting influence depended not only on some form of regular , close contact , but equally crucially on a sense of affinity , of common inheritance and character , which allowed a grandchild to see in a grandparent a model for his or her own development . |
| 22 | Calling a passing taxicab , I ordered the driver to drive to a hotel quite near Lanyon 's house . |
| 23 | The device uses an infra-red link to connect to a desktop computer or to other Personal Digital Assistants , and it will use a low-power RISC processor — Cambridge , UK-based Advanced RISC Machines Ltd 's ARM600 presumably , a 3″ by 5″ supertwist but not backlit screen and will have no other input devices except a pen . |
| 24 | A further key advantage for many people is that AVCs allow you to purchase ‘ added years ’ , to make up any shortfall in your entitlement to benefit under a company scheme . |
| 25 | The cultivation of the mind entails giving it freedom to soar like a bird into the mind 's sky . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's always a fantastic experience to pull on a Scotland jersey and run out at Murrayfield : I get a tremendous buzz from that , ’ he says . |
| 27 | Minns brought a broad range of expertise to bear on a field extending from eastern Europe to China , while at the same time paying close attention to the antiquities and books of his own college , where he occupied the same rooms over a period of fifty-five years as undergraduate , fellow , president ( 1928–49 ) , and senior fellow . |
| 28 | Most word processing programs , such as WORDWISE VIEW , APPLEWRITER and EDWORD allow the user to work from a menu . |
| 29 | None of them have the wherewithal to conceive of a Reconciliation . |
| 30 | The Taipei job was only unusual in that it would be a new experience to work in a country where English was not the official language , but the presence of a large population of Westerners , the bulk of them American , ensured high listenership figures even with the competition provided by the existence of other English-language stations . |