Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 2 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 3 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 4 | ‘ If he shares his uncle 's hostility towards the female sex he might very well be prepared to treat them with similar contempt ! ’ |
| 5 | These were slow to develop , and the realisation of this made it difficult ( even had they wished to do so ) for Ministers to treat them like private sector companies , subject largely to control by fiscal and monetary policies rather than detailed intervention on capital spending . |
| 6 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 7 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
| 8 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 9 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 10 | The doors are tough and durable , and they require almost no maintenance , a quick wash down being all that is required to restore them to pristine condition . , , . |
| 11 | When public funds are required to support someone in private care the needs of that person should be assessed in the same way as for admission to statutory care and admission should depend on the results of that assessment . |
| 12 | We like to make sense of things , to analyse– to generalise , to see ourselves as rational problem solvers . |
| 13 | ‘ All that stuff just kinda blends into blues , but it is real hard to compare someone like Blind Lemon Jefferson to Albert Collins . |
| 14 | In social situations , most of us want to enjoy ourselves through pleasant company and good food and wine . |
| 15 | Also a good pointer where we 've been able to compare ourselves with civil engineering scaled fees , which was on the Overtown Bank Slip which was a job which went completely right , perfect no problems . |
| 16 | The Queen added that 1993 would bring new challenges and called on people to resolve to meet them with fresh hope . |
| 17 | Watching Maureen feed very small birds who were unable to do it for themselves was to stand me in good stead later , when I began breeding barn owls . |
| 18 | I 've experienced more now , and it 's going to stand me in good stead . |
| 19 | But now these beginnings had become something of a joke between them and the congregation had learned to accept them with amused tolerance . |
| 20 | The pictures resisted his efforts to shuffle them into chronological order . |
| 21 | However , for patients in their forties it is usually a simple matter to establish them on similar insulin regimens to the Type I patients . |
| 22 | ‘ I can not allow any man to accuse me of bad behaviour ! ’ she cried . |
| 23 | Other forms of the occult , I believe , certainly mislead and abuse youngsters spiritually and mentally , but it is unjust to accuse them of physical abuse . |
| 24 | Could I have honestly earned enough to have subsisted upon , to find me in proper food and clothing , such as is necessary , I should not have gone astray … |
| 25 | Because students are taking two qualifications at one , it is very important to provide them with easily-understood information at appropriate stages of the programme . |
| 26 | The directors of this project found that it was not enough simply to do what is usually done when there is a desire to maximize the performance of paraprofessionals , that is , to provide them with appropriate training . |
| 27 | Because it is subject to the conditions of carriage that we accept their business and therefore we have to provide them with written information . |
| 28 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 29 | In these sessions they practised their kicking and wheeling ; John brought in a sergeant-major to train them in military marching . |
| 30 | Enough grain is produced to provide everyone with ample protein and more than 3,000 calories per day . |