Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as the norm for conversational speech ; that is , to accept that in informal speech there is an inherent tendency to a reductionism by which we say only that which is necessary to effective communication . |
| 2 | The God who is hidden to sight and beyond human understanding is also the God made manifest in our earthly environment . |
| 3 | It 's £55,000 of poll tax payers ’ money down the drain and , yet again , the bands and gig-goers have to suffer because of crazy council bureaucracy . |
| 4 | These two tasks are inextricably interwoven : if advisers fail to establish what it is that a client wants to know because of poor interviewing , then they will not be able to supply the correct information even if it is available . |
| 5 | The smooth finish means clothes are less likely to snag than on ordinary basketwork . |
| 6 | It takes little thought to see that someone who is physically crippled and confined to a wheelchair may still lead a very full life if his mental and higher faculties are in good order whereas a physically fit but totally demented person has little left to give and little capacity to receive except for physical care and a little love . |
| 7 | Ball winners are easier to come across all you need is someone pretty fit , willing to tackle and with reasonable distribution skills : I ca n't name a likely or desirable replacement though . |
| 8 | Falcon 3 from Spectrum Holobyte is still the best around for serious sim pilots , Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe from Lucasfilms , and Aces of the Pacific from Dynamix show how good ‘ historic ’ flight sims can be — against this formidable opposition Birds of Prey does not come up to scratch and in open combat would soon become the hunted , rather than the hunter … |
| 9 | When faced by political questions , the British are as hard to rouse as in everyday life . |
| 10 | This important point is often ignored , and can in our view be taken further ; to suggest that in human society there are no natural and neutral phenomena . |
| 11 | The UK 's position in the mid 1960s provides a good example since she tried to avoid a change in her par value for as long as possible but in the end was forced to devalue because of increasing capital outflows . |
| 12 | There are no indications that British troops will be required to operate in Bosnia-Hercegovina , where the UN has been unable to function because of intense fighting . |
| 13 | Unattainable standards , even though not appealed by a discharger , may still lead to practical problems of enforcement , since a continued failure to comply because of inefficient treatment plant or other ‘ good ’ reason which enforcement agents tolerate may suggest condonation by the agency of the continual breach of consent . |
| 14 | The the problem we had is because if in December , when we put the Christmas lights up for example , to use that as prime example , we put one erm harness I think it 's called on the tree , it was absolutely pathetic . |
| 15 | Our everyday awareness of these value-laden distinctions makes it all the more necessary to stress that in social anthropology ( and sociology ) ‘ culture ’ is a neutral term . |
| 16 | Unable even to enlist because of ill health , Eliot had found work as a bank clerk while others fought in the warm rain . |
| 17 | Drugs companies continued to weaken because of gloomy news about Aids treatments . |
| 18 | Young people who are genuinely unable to attend because of ill health should not be penalised . |
| 19 | Power is so seductively close that it is easy to forget that in British politics the winner takes all , or to believe that this time it all will come right and they can themselves grasp power without conceding any . |
| 20 | As soon as someone gives you ten to the minus eight , you can say , Well if I want to convert that into real money , |
| 21 | The effect of high interest rates and a ‘ petro-pound ’ was to strengthen sterling ; the consequences were for exports to sag and for inflationary pressure to increase rather than diminish . |
| 22 | Paris alerted Croydon , where both planes were due to land and in due course a pilot went up from Croyden to guide him down . |
| 23 | Brief periods of withdrawal will be allowed to calm agitated individuals , especially if they are unable to understand because of severe learning difficulties , autism , or emotional disorder . |
| 24 | The Thai Airways jet from Bangkok was minutes away from landing at Katmandu when it was told to divert because of torrential rain . |
| 25 | Shipowners were eventually compelled to concede to the force of circumstances what they had been unwilling to concede either to reason or to industrial muscle . |
| 26 | We do n't want to squander that through lax cost control , irresponsible pay increases and things like that . |
| 27 | At one point in the novel the ‘ implied author ’ intervenes to argue that in critical discourse the critic-as-reader becomes a principle of unity and semantic determination : |
| 28 | Ranger Smith , 21 , the first member of his regiment to die while on active service , was due to leave the Army only six weeks after the blast . |
| 29 | Death and dying Some residents are likely to die while in residential care and there is a need for staff to have some training in helping to care for dying people , in supporting their families , and in attending to the feelings of other residents . |
| 30 | As discussed in the introduction such deposits are difficult to locate because of extensive peat cover in the lowlands . |