Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | St Matthew 's seems to suit her for some reason . |
| 32 | Keeping braillers , typewriters and even magnifiers in their cases , or at least under covers when not in use , helps to maintain them in good condition , since dust and grime can cause damaged surfaces . |
| 33 | At a given signal the egg is passed by sleight-of-hand to one of the members of the triad , who endeavours to move it by bodily force across the white lines of winter … |
| 34 | If it accepts , it thereby agrees to purchase the item for cash from the trader and at the same time agrees to transfer it on hire-purchase terms to the customer . |
| 35 | ‘ I have a message from the farmer , who wishes to thank you for all you 've done , ’ she said . |
| 36 | cheques payable to a person who wishes to pass it through another person 's bank account , e.g. if they have no bank account of their own ; |
| 37 | But no , this ai n't Alvin Stardust , and anyone who tries to lump me with these people gets the wrath of Harley straight on their head . ’ |
| 38 | While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way . |
| 39 | Fig 101 The wind bends at the shoreline in an offshore breeze and tries to cross it at 90 degrees . |
| 40 | It still retains all its working parts and would require only minimum repairs to put it into full working order . |
| 41 | Clearly , children can not speak at birth , but Chomsky wishes to credit them with two distinct kinds of knowledge . |
| 42 | he tries to do it with one finger but he 's just not quite strong enough |
| 43 | Yeah the l that 's the laughable thing as well , he tries to criticize it on ideological grounds |
| 44 | If , for instance , Ms Intrepid acquires a small cafe and wishes to convert it to high-class tearooms and this necessitates minor internal building works and extensive redecoration , planning permission will not be required , since the alterations are purely internal and do not alter the use to which the buildings are put , nor do they materially affect the external appearance of the property . |
| 45 | So they can be the deciding factor in what your programme 's going to be , so it pays to keep them in good trim . |
| 46 | UHA and University House have suffered two sad losses during the year with the deaths of Arthur Butterworth , who was Warden 1968–81 , and Alice Godsell , a faithful supporter to many since her student days of the early 1920s , and UHA wishes to commemorate them through some lasting gifts in House . |
| 47 | Certainly for the American clearinghouses it is one of their few sources of finance , and again it also serves to maintain them as focal points for information . |
| 48 | Network Appliance expects to push it through value-added resellers , systems integrators and distributors in the US and through OEM customers and distributors in the Far East and in Europe . |
| 49 | ‘ Yet no-one thinks to ask me about this . |
| 50 | It is to director Phil Alden Robinson 's credit that he manages to invest them with distinct , sympathetic personalities and a taut mutual need which makes their awesome risk-taking seem unquestionable . |
| 51 | But Thomas Kuhn has argued that even the concepts and laws become intelligible in practice only as components of a disciplinary matrix which he calls the ‘ paradigm ’ , in which the scientist learns to apply them through concrete instances of problem-solving which serve as models in approaching new puzzles . |
| 52 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 53 | Freud seeks to use it in this book as if it were a purely biological concept , and furthermore , one which is found among all living organisms . |
| 54 | ‘ I bet he manages to land them on poor old John in the end . ’ |
| 55 | And the immune system normally functions to protect us in this way , and is regulated in such a manner that it does not attack bits of oneself , but only legitimate foreign targets , and thereby is our ally . |
| 56 | If this sounds a strange gospel coming from a theologian , let me say immediately that there is so much in the Bible about the awfulness , the cruelty and the unfaithfulness of human kind that we may be sometimes justified in wondering why God continues to love us at all . |
| 57 | This argument was later extended with respect to the experience of living in the modern metropolis , which Simmel suggests provides for a massive intensification of stimulation and experience , but which threatens to overwhelm us as objective culture ( 1950 : 409–24 ) . |
| 58 | Well , now , when you see the doctor , if he decides to mend you with one or two stitches , you tell him I said , could he please give you a stitch to take home in a matchbox ? |
| 59 | Recognise that the medical profession already sees the consequences of addictive disease in enormous quantity but frequently fails to perceive them as such . |
| 60 | 5.5.3 the Landlord shall be entitled which shall be forfeited and become the property of the Landlord where the Tenant fails to remove them within 5 working days of receipt from the Landlord of a notice in writing to do so |