Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was expecting to wait till about a quarter past seven . |
| 32 | As a governor to a Compact school you would be in a strong position to learn about how a school works and influence its management and curriculum policies . |
| 33 | ‘ Join us , ’ she whispered , and then two things happened ; there was a sharp pain , almost as if he 'd swallowed broken glass , as she started to take her hand away , and in that same moment the generator missed another beat and caused the lights to drop for barely a fraction of a second . |
| 34 | Women 's moral reasoning is more ‘ relational ’ : they tend to think about how a decision would affect particular persons in a concrete situation , and make their choices accordingly . |
| 35 | In the first place you will start to think about how an actor 's work differs according to the demands of the medium . |
| 36 | If you have not worked regularly at some time since 1978 because you have had to stay at home to care for either a child or a sick or elderly person you may have protected your right to a pension by claiming HRP . |
| 37 | The building work was not complete — indeed , the kitchen was not finished until January , and we had to survive with only a gas primus stove . |
| 38 | It was not in fact until a newly legalised Solidarity had been successful at the polls and formed a majority administration in 1989 that the making of public policy began again to command at least a minimum of public acceptability . |
| 39 | The Bank sets itself exceptionally high standards that , inter alia , call for projects to deliver at least a 10% economic rate of return . |
| 40 | It is possible that in the course of time scientific advance will be able to offer at least an hypothesis which will throw some light on the mystery of the origin of the universe and give substance to the belief that life , in some form or other , does have an ineradicable and eternal place in the universe . |
| 41 | " And I win over you in one way — I 'm going to have at least a weekend in Joanna . |
| 42 | HP seems to have at least a couple of options : an immediate Thunderbird response , levelling the playing field with Sun right now — with ships in October — or a big splash in the Autumn , with immediate deliveries . |
| 43 | As discussed verbally , it is important to have at least a couple of days notice as we are currently finalising the procedure that staff will follow should the alarm be activated and it is important that everyone knows and is satisfied with the procedure before its introduction . |
| 44 | And this is why any new owner is strongly advised to have at least a safety inspection of the system carried out immediately on moving in . |
| 45 | Well if we do a stall I would really like to have at least a leaflet on new recycling . |
| 46 | Jess went out , closing the door , determined to get at least a moment of privacy . |
| 47 | Now if Hereford are to build on last week 's success they need to get at least a draw at Gigg lane . |
| 48 | ‘ I expect everyone to go at least a second faster tomorrow , ’ said Mansell , who set the record in the penultimate lap of the session . |
| 49 | With this weekend 's match against Paisley now rendered meaningless , Stokes is likely to promote at least a couple of players from the advanced training group to give them national league experience . |
| 50 | Backed by the army , the administration was generally able to keep a semblance of order , to crush peasant insubordination , and to gather at least a proportion of the taxes decreed . |
| 51 | That 's right , as , as , as Theresa said at the beginning , one of the prime characteristics of dreams is this kind of visual erm symbolism and in the course of analyzing thousands of dreams of course which he did in his practice , Freud found that very often certain fundamental things that people tend to dream about quite a lot tend to appear in lots of people 's dreams with similar kinds of er representations , and among the most notorious and obvious of these were things related to sex . |
| 52 | Generally , it is not possible to act for both a buyer and a seller , for their interests vary . |
| 53 | In particular consider time limits — both for enacting and for advising , perhaps the performers have to spend at least a minute improvising before they can request advice . |
| 54 | It is not a place you can just go to for the day and therefore you need to spend at least a couple of days getting there overnight , coming back again and er , for a family of four I calculate that even taking one 's own car across the Channel , the average cost for a family of four , is of the order of five or six hundred pounds . |
| 55 | The vernacular of any way of life can only be absorbed ‘ through the skin ’ by immersing oneself in its people ; and to this end you would be foolish not to spend at least a year ( preferably two ) working on mixed farms in the district in which you hope to settle , making friends and winning the respect of the countrymen who will be your neighbours . |
| 56 | But before he 's even fit enough to be flown home , doctors say he 'll have to spend at least a fortnight in hospital . |
| 57 | . Thus in the Cobb Douglas case , with and , a 50 per cent tax causes the net return to fall by only a quarter . |
| 58 | There is the danger of tautology and of failing to distinguish between how a system operates and the way in which people believe it should operate . |
| 59 | The trader would be obliged to make at least a bid in one of the generic runs and in a size of at least $5 million . |
| 60 | The revitalised company that started life building its own 16-bit minicomputers , ultimately plunged into bankruptcy and returned from the dead as a library automation systems specialist , may make two more acquisitions this month , president and chief executive Stephen Sadler told the Toronto Society of Financial Analysts — and it expects to make at least an acquisition a month for the rest of the next 12 months . |