Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Typical are the films written by T. E. B. Clarke , such as Passport to Pimlico ( 1949 ) , about a community whose discovery that it is an independent Burgundian principality enables the inhabitants to forget for a while the realities of post-war austerity , and The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) , about a bank clerk who robs a bank . |
| 32 | These are people who are so obsessed with the first decade of this new century that they 're inclined to forget for a moment the nineteen hundred or so years that went before it . |
| 33 | I want to consider for a moment the true price of coal . |
| 34 | I am an American , this is my home , it does n't do me any good commercially to race in a formula the people back home do n't understand . |
| 35 | Many people leap out of bed and charge about the ward on their first day after the operation only to collapse in a heap the day after that . |
| 36 | But it should be kept in mind that the home visit , for reasons of either vocational guidance or after-care , was intended to do more than simply attend to the school-leaver , who was urged to ‘ put your shoulder to the wheel ’ in order ‘ to reduce to a minimum the number of inefficient citizens ’ . |
| 37 | We were anxious therefore to reduce to a minimum the number of samples where parental choice was unclear so from November 1990 we sent lists of infants untested to the local health district at the end of each month so that parental choice could be checked while the original sample was still usable . |
| 38 | Time is money , and one must expect to see more pressure being brought to bear to reduce to a minimum the time taken from the start of a project to the arrival of the product on the shelves . |
| 39 | Where this method is used care must be taken to avoid leakages and to keep to a minimum the concentration of residual ozone remaining at the end of the reaction , as it is quite toxic with a Threshold Limit Value of 0.1 ppm . |
| 40 | All blood samples were obtained between 0830 and 0930 h to keep to a minimum the spontaneous circadian variation of fibrinolytic system . |
| 41 | The debuting vocalist therefore spent the entire set stooping to sing through a microphone a foot shorter than his requirement , hardly a sure-fire confidence booster . |
| 42 | In his ward at the Waterloo they 'd been allowed to smoke for an hour a day . |
| 43 | There are also bouts of alcoholic excess which he continues to describe with a verve no other writer can touch . |
| 44 | He had taken his first steps forward in English politics by denouncing the emphasis on German politics ; he was able to shift to a position the King found acceptable by adopting the policy he later described by saying ‘ America was conquered in Germany ’ , and this approach suited Britain 's position very well . |
| 45 | To quote Bethe : ‘ It is difficult to describe to a non-scientist the novelty of the new concept … it was to me , who had been rather closely associated with the programme , about as surprising as the discovery of fission had been to physicists in 1939 . ’ |
| 46 | Rather than try to describe to a journalist the subtle but crucial distinctions between individual and group differences , these scholars describe their results in technical journals and allow merchants to sell their products quietly . |
| 47 | The most complex form of representation is where expression ( dramatic playing ) in the actor exists alongside his attempt to represent to an audience the character 's expression . |
| 48 | As a consequence they pose real problems to the policy maker , practitioner and manager , who are expected to respond to a problem the magnitude and significance of which are open to wide and sometimes conflicting interpretations . |
| 49 | Would you like to get into a vehicle the length of a bus with no extra tuition |
| 50 | Would you like to get into a vehicle the length of a bus with no extra tuition |
| 51 | The connoisseur also hopes to have in a drawing an authentic work by an artist 's own hand , which in the case of an oil painting may not be so assured . |
| 52 | It is as follows : that the decision to turn off a ventilator is , in fact , a decision to terminate the life of a patient or to remove from a patient the last thread by which he held on to life . |
| 53 | As you can see we 've got three children who will be going to the school and I do n't want them to think they have to get in a car every time they travel anywhere . |
| 54 | I read the first sentence : ‘ It is always difficult to summarize in a page the life of a living giant without somehow reducing the giant to a mere man . ’ |
| 55 | At the start , you will need to approach from a spot a little bit more upwind due to the effect of the other yachts , but not much higher than before . |
| 56 | The best insurance is to have on a window a sticker of the Shahs great enemy , the turbulent , intransigent priest , Ayatollah Khomeini or , even better , to play one of the tapes on which , from his exile near paris , he exhorts the Shahs overthrow . |
| 57 | To permit this method of mortgaging land to continue would have been quite contrary to the policy of the Property Acts , which is that the owner of property shall be able to convey to a purchaser a good legal title free from all equities affecting that property . |
| 58 | So an order ought not , in my opinion , to require a contravener to repay to an investor the purchase price of shares sold to the investor unless there is also provision for the return of the shares by the investor . |
| 59 | Using this diagram , it is possible to see at a glance the relationship of one context to the rest of the site . |
| 60 | Thanks to the war with yourselves ( the British ) democracy returned with Alfonsín and I was able to return on a visit a year ago . |