Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That decision to organize ourselves as a group was a really important step forward for us as workers and for the organization . |
| 2 | The timetable we had to work to meant there was little opportunity to do anything with the draft scripts except change factual errors . |
| 3 | If it can be shown to the satisfaction of the jury that the defendant had the intention , he has very little opportunity to exculpate himself on the grounds that he lacked mens rea , as will be explained further presently . |
| 4 | er we were given very little opportunity to raise anything with Mr |
| 5 | If you are really living in a mess , have a grand clear-out and put the whole place straight ; after that try to discipline yourself to dean and tidy on a regular basis to keep it under control . |
| 6 | It can not have helped him , but the restored democracy had treated the leaders of that attempt to destroy it with , if anything , excessive leniency . |
| 7 | Do you know it is possible because of the fear of people around you , the fear of your peers , the fear of what men may say , of what your family will think , of what your work mates might say about you , it is possible to allow that fear to send you to hell . |
| 8 | It is the responsibility of each employee to acquaint themselves with the full details of these and any local arrangements . |
| 9 | So what would we do to both sides of the equation what would we do to that side to turn it into opposite instead of opposite divided by a hundred and twenty . |
| 10 | He found another porter to address himself to . |
| 11 | In the village , mothers told their children this story to warn them to be careful when they went down to the river . |
| 12 | this opportunity to welcome you to Barley Hall again and er I hoped you all enjoyed Charles ' bit . |
| 13 | Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to join me in expressing joy at the release of Terry Waite and Tom Sutherland from their long and terrible captivity ? |
| 14 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 15 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 16 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support of the Society . |
| 17 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 18 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest which you have shown . |
| 19 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown . |
| 20 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in the School and to wish you a pleasant morning with us . |
| 21 | My companion took this opportunity to hide himself in his papers . |
| 22 | I would like to take this opportunity to inform you of the high standard achieved by your service engineer , Dick Churcher [ Healthcare Atherstone ] for his attitude and appearance whilst working at our depots . |
| 23 | Something tells me he wo n't pass up this opportunity to establish himself as an international . |
| 24 | The seamstresses will call this afternoon to measure you for your dress , and the Archbishop has agreed to marry you next Tuesday . |
| 25 | The Prince is also very keen on deer stalking , another pull to keep him in the Highlands for as long as he can manage . |
| 26 | But neither should we enable this sympathy to blind us to the greater truth that more persons suffer , many fatally , from corporate crime than ‘ conventional ’ crime . |
| 27 | A cowardly vacillation , this hesitation to commit themselves to being myth . |
| 28 | ‘ If this is some trick to manoeuvre me into allowing anything to develop there … ’ he threatened . |
| 29 | Some people allow this fear to block them from forming close relationships of any kind ; while others face the challenge of deep intimacy despite their fears . |
| 30 | But , while these points may be reasonable , and some of them may be true , this attempt to embed them in a general theory or schema seems unhelpful . |