Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five or six in one part of the hall would create a din , and when Blackshirt stewards approached to eject them scores of Red colleagues would arise to join in the battle . |
| 2 | But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood ? |
| 3 | Indeed without any wish to evade my responsibility for subsequent events , I think I may fairly claim that in everything I did in re Karen and her husband I was market-led . |
| 4 | Tom caught my eye behind her back and winked to acknowledge my presence on alien territory . |
| 5 | I recently had to treat my tank for White Spot , which seems to have cleared up , but my Emperor Angelfish is still scratching , although there is no external sign of White Spot . |
| 6 | ‘ I like to see my women with long beautiful hair . ’ |
| 7 | If challenged , I ought to be , and can be , in a position to support my claim with quantitative evidence . |
| 8 | There were moves yesterday to find them accommodation in local hotels and guest houses . |
| 9 | ‘ I had to work my way through medical school , ’ he told her . |
| 10 | ‘ I attempt Tube but am driven out again by gang of pubescent boys who want me to write my name on various bits of their exposed torsos . |
| 11 | I puzzled out easily enough how to pull my needles to held and put the gold-coloured pieces over the needle butts and sinker posts in order to hold the needles still with the knitting pulled slightly forward , free of the bar . |
| 12 | What will it cost to adjust my car to unleaded petrol ? |
| 13 | My plan was to increase my pace from normal ( around 3 miles per hour ) to brisk ( 3.5–4.0 miles per hour ) and to walk longer and further as the weeks went by . |
| 14 | Where the home environment seems to be unsupportive in as much as it is highly arousing , strategies to increase the social distance in key relationships , or to modify their ways of interacting , would be helpful . |
| 15 | ‘ But Jesus did acts of kindness on the Sabbath , ’ he replied , thinking to meet her objection on Biblical grounds . |
| 16 | This may limit the ability of these hospitals to meet their pledges of maximum inpatient waiting times of two years . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , ’ he continued , ‘ I know we all call this place the summer-house , and it is only used to keep salmon nets and baskets in nowadays , but it is really a gazebo , where the local gentry used to meet their ladies of ill repute in the old days . ’ |
| 18 | Earlier this week the London Fox sought to defuse the danger of companies being unable to meet their commitments by increasing margins — the amount necessary to preserve the value of collateral with a broker . |
| 19 | Would it be a proper recognition of the quality of their teaching and administrative staff to accept their judgment of academic standards absolutely and make them mature degree awarding bodies ? |
| 20 | Such conflicting predictions highlight the limitations of the analogies and models currently employed , and point to the need to relate their predictions to regional trends in precipitation detected already ( figure 6.19 ) . |
| 21 | In addition , most of the courses include a period of placement with employers , which enables students to relate their studies to real-world problems , as well as affording them an opportunity to gain some experience of dealing with these problems . |
| 22 | The main exchanges are already competing to establish their stake in pan-European futures and options contracts such as the ECU bond and the euro-index contracts . |
| 23 | Additionally , private landlords became marginalized politically ; industrialists had not extended the housing market and private landlords were drawn largely , though not entirely , from the lower middle class — the very people who found it more and more difficult to establish their position on local councils , bearing in mind , at least , the new element of organized labour via the Trades Councils . |
| 24 | Although the Vatican has records of a physic garden in 1277 , it was not until the sixteenth century that centres of learning , first in Italy and then elsewhere , began to establish their gardens of medicinal plants . |
| 25 | While not exactly extravagant , the couple felt it necessary to establish their place in Viennese society by entertaining their friends in lavish style . |
| 26 | The so-called ‘ Donation of Constantine ’ , used by the Church in the eighth century to establish its authority in secular affairs , is now universally acknowledged as a blatant forgery — a forgery which , in a contemporary context , would be regarded as unequivocally criminal . |
| 27 | As Japan 's legal and political system conformed increasingly to Western models it became more and more difficult for foreign governments to refuse to entrust their nationals to Japanese jurisdiction . |
| 28 | In the second and third years , they have an opportunity to concentrate their studies on particular aspects of human geography , including population geography , historical geography , regional development in the European Community , Third World development , environment , conflict and planning in the countryside , population mobility , and the conservation of natural and man-made elements of the urban and rural heritage ( particularly in Ireland ) . |
| 29 | Some students , for example , might wish to concentrate their choice on Scottish , or European , or Asian , or medieval , or classical studies . |
| 30 | Firstly , the company has recognised that the major manufacturers in the world today continue to concentrate their resources on continuing but minimal improvements in frame design . |