Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience has taught me to avoid those parts of a city with modern architecture . |
| 2 | Experience has taught me to avoid those parts of a city with modern architecture . |
| 3 | We have pressed them to make provisional payments where necessary , to ensure that students do not suffer hardship . |
| 4 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 5 | The spirit of the Lord God is upon me Because the Lord has anointed me To bring good tidings to the afflicted ; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted , To proclaim liberty to the captives And the opening of prison to those who are bound ; To proclaim the year of the Lord 's favour … |
| 6 | Working together on the floor had not constrained them to produce similar representations . |
| 7 | The doctor has forbidden him to put any weight on it . ’ |
| 8 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 9 | He had n't expected her to make this sort of use of the opportunity he had given her . |
| 10 | His mother , he knew , would never have expected him to walk those yards alone had she known that he suffered such atavistic panic , but she had n't known and he would have died before telling her . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely . |
| 12 | All parties to the April 1989 round-table agreements had already committed themselves to free multiparty elections at the end of the new National Assembly 's first four-year term — see p. 36578 . |
| 13 | The arrangements agreed and jointly administered by the Training and Enterprise Council and the local authority Careers Service , allow for the registration of over 200 companies , in the first year , which have committed themselves to offer high quality training for employees under 19 . |
| 14 | The veteran foreign minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , has done nothing to allay this idea , bluntly denying the debt his country owes to the west by declaring , ‘ There is not a capitalist Germany and a communist Germany , there is only one German nation ’ . |
| 15 | Cutbacks in the budget have done nothing to curb chronic overstaffing : any official above teaboy needs a full supporting cast . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ He vehemently opposes active regional policies , he has wound up a lot of the government 's aid to the North and during his term as Industry Secretary he has done nothing to create new technology and skills or back new firms and enterprise in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 17 | As the Prime Minister has done nothing to change that policy in his first year , is not Majorism simply Thatcherism without the courage of her convictions ? |
| 18 | Handsome , talented , and wealthy he might be , but he was also rude and abrasive , and she had done nothing to deserve such treatment . |
| 19 | Nicholas I had put some order into 200 years of imperial legislation by publishing the Complete Collection and Digest of the Laws , but he had done nothing to alter judicial procedure . |
| 20 | There is no denying that the present government has done something to influence both sides of this equation . |
| 21 | Many also feel responsible because they assume that they must have done something to bring this man down . |
| 22 | What on earth had possessed her to volunteer that information ? she wondered numbly . |
| 23 | Sitthi explained that the ASEAN countries had instructed him to communicate these principles for a settlement to the Soviet leadership . |
| 24 | Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops . |
| 25 | They have instructed us to sub-let 20,000 sq ft of offices , surplus to their requirements , for three years . |
| 26 | Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence ? |
| 27 | We 've always taught you to give borrowed things back , have n't we ? |
| 28 | He had had nothing to eat that day at all and had been up quite a lot of the night and now felt a bit dozy , but it did n't mean that he was ill . |
| 29 | Do n't go into the , this morning when she was doing activity she said ah , she said I I 've got them to spot ten similarities , ten differences , great ! |
| 30 | Got I to grow more carrots . |