Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of a day to wait for the skilful of ecstasy … she sighed . |
| 2 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 3 | They said if we did n't consent for him to claim for the two of us , they 'd summons me and him for aiding and abetting . |
| 4 | You 've now all seen a project quality plan , but I 'd just like to go through a few of the headings just to advise you where I think the benefits lie . |
| 5 | They 're much easier this way round because you have n't got to go through the minor at all to reach them . |
| 6 | The D12 has been designed to perform as the ultimate in digitally controlled amplification . |
| 7 | However , her books , though absorbing to the adult reader , are difficult to revive for the young of another generation because of their preoccupation ( even greater than that of her female contemporaries ) with social status . |
| 8 | On the morning of 8 May , Ciparis had been waiting as usual for his breakfast to be brought to him , when it suddenly grew dark , and immediately afterwards , hot air laden with ashes began to come through the grating over the door . |
| 9 | It happened to work for the two of us , we were lucky . |
| 10 | I suspect that were I to appear of a sudden in royal regalia , crown , sceptre and all , it would be a different story ! ’ |
| 11 | He was good enough to work like a black for the Tories , but would they offer him a seat ? |
| 12 | Taking her cue from him , Fabia realised then that perhaps barely to step over his threshold and then at once to launch into the dozens of questions she must ask him was perhaps , in this gracious room , rather graceless . |
| 13 | Yes and he 's very , very difficult to feed himself , to get the food in because , you know , he liked to come in a half past ten and bully me to cook things for him that 's why sometimes I used to run up to bed and pretend I was asleep . |
| 14 | Following the implementation of the new Financial Services Act , licensed dealers dragged their nets to pull in a few of the old-style hard sell merchants . |
| 15 | Whatever resources were devoted to the transformation approach , the bulk of agricultural production continued to come from the millions of small farming families who were adjusting their forms of production only slowly . |
| 16 | The day when McQuaid always used to come from the fair in Mohill and we had to make the big tea . ’ |
| 17 | I had to write to the next of kin . |
| 18 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 19 | The county chairman Brian Walsh said : ‘ We have a very full agenda for our scheduled meeting on October 26 so it was decided to meet on the 10th with cricket as the sole topic of discussion . ’ |
| 20 | So in our search for innovation we decided , without much conviction , to concentrate on a few of the rapidly developing fields , that is on the current fashions such as biotechnology , new materials , lasers and the like , but the emphasis was to be on supporting the research whose main objective was to improve understanding in these fields rather than on products . |
| 21 | Almost immediately after completing the poem , he began in the early months of 1941 to work on the fourth in the sequence ; it was entitled " Little Gidding " . |
| 22 | Individual members of society were encouraged to work to the best of their abilities and improve themselves , and a translation of Samuel Smiles , Self Help became a bestseller . |
| 23 | So I 'm sorry Mr Chairman if the report is doom and gloom but that is the situation that does prevail we will endeavour to work to the best of our ability , or the lack of it but please remember the constraints that we are under and if we have got any views , to stand , and if we do want to help the people in Dundee and we do want to stop the government pilfering the British Rail pension scheme |
| 24 | Toynbee Hall was designed as a residential settlement to be inhabited by young university graduates , who were to work among the poor in their spare time — offering art , music and education as well as material help and advice — with the aim of achieving mutual knowledge and respect between the classes . |
| 25 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA plans to pitch at the top-end of the volume workstation business with high-performance machines built around Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha RISC that will compete with the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp — if it can figure out how to market the things . |
| 26 | Now it is quite likely that there are two alternative pathways for arriving at that same end-product , each needing six different enzymes , and with nothing to choose between the two of them . |
| 27 | But there is little to choose between the two in terms of overall performance . |
| 28 | People wore different clothes , shopped in privately-owned shops and were able to talk with the thousands of foreigners living , working in or touring China . |
| 29 | Go to own in the best of British tradition and spend a month in the country . |
| 30 | It was scheduled to open on the twentieth of May . |