Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the starvelings it had to suffice that His Munificent Highness personally attached the greatest importance to their fate , which was a very special kind of attachment , of an order higher than the highest . |
| 2 | According to them , to accept the legitimacy of an authority is simply to accept that whatever other reasons there may be for a certain action , its being required by the authority is an additional reason for its performance . |
| 3 | It was Rosa Luxemburg , with the strong support of the German leadership , who defended the position of the German Social Democrats in the name of internationalism , urging the Polish worker in Prussia ‘ to give up national utopias and to accept that his national interests are best taken care of by Social Democracy , and not by taking up a separate position as a Pole in the wake of nationalist parties ’ . |
| 4 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 5 | You can hardly believe that a few stretchsuits and some nappies can possibly cost as much as they say , but nine months and a lot of shopping trips later , you will have been forced to accept that your new addition has managed to tip the scales severely in the debit direction . |
| 6 | Enough to know that her righteous indignation would fade under the realisation that no malice had been intended and no real harm done . |
| 7 | He released her as suddenly as he had come to her support and she grasped quickly and covertly at the back of another chair , not wanting him to know that her numbed leg was tingling painfully now . |
| 8 | MICHAEL Heseltine , the new Secretary of State for Trade & Industry may be interested to know that his powerful exhortations last week to vote Tory were unsuccessful with his daughter Annabel . |
| 9 | It was at least gratifying to know that his initial dislike of the young man had been justified . |
| 10 | They consider the ‘ lives , class affiliations and social circumstances ’ in which Socrates , Plato and Aristotle were writing and ‘ try to establish that their political theories are essentially partisan in origin and ideological in content ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 11 | Arriving back , as he did from his holidays , to discover that his honourable companions had n't given him a second to call his own , he took umbrage ( somewhere near Troy ) |
| 12 | Tinnion is appalled to discover that his old friend proposes to throw in his lot with the Nazis . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ We started producing CD and SRi versions with the airbag a few weeks ago so several customers will already have been pleasantly surprised to find that their new car has one fitted completely free of charge . ’ |
| 14 | As a screen Englishman , he felt it his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy when war broke out and was amused to find that his newly-developed persona automatically promoted him to officer class . |
| 15 | ‘ I live in fear every evening , McAllister , that I shall come home to find that our unlikely treasure has flown the nest , tired of playing with us . ’ |
| 16 | After thanks and apologies all round I was driven back to the Lion to find that my borrowed sheep had been sold and had disappeared . |
| 17 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 18 | There was her article to write and her whole way of life in London . |
| 19 | Probing to know if its new-gnarled root |
| 20 | Particular attention must be given to the following : ( 1 ) The secrecy obligation is closely linked to Rule 2.2(e) which requires that where more than a very restricted number of people ( ie those in the companies concerned who need to know and their immediate advisers ) are included in pre-offer negotiations or discussions , then an announcement must be made . |
| 21 | ( e ) when negotiations or discussions between the offeror and the target are about to be extended beyond a very small group of people ( ie the persons in the companies concerned who need to know and their immediate advisers ) . |
| 22 | The Alesis 3630 is easy to get to know and its quiet performance is better than its modest price would suggest . |
| 23 | Th What 's happened is that this spelling , th this reversal of spelling has occurred in English , as some of you obviously do n't seem to know and your modern English versions you speak used it . |
| 24 | Many parents feel that the speed of education reform and curriculum change has caused their children to suffer because their usual classroom or subject teachers are often taken out of the classroom to undergo courses related specifically to those changes . |
| 25 | The problem for the Labour Party , of course , was that playing this propaganda card was always likely to backfire since its natural constituency should have been the very groups it was attacking . |
| 26 | You need to know whether your potential accountant could undertake royalty examinations , and if he or she has colleagues in other countries to assist with international tax problems at very short notice . |
| 27 | And Pendleton 's managers are hopeful their sales will continue to soar when their famous Twicer ice lolly is relaunched next week . |
| 28 | We divide throughout by the last element to obtain as our new starting column unc then the iterations , using ( 3 ) at each step , begin unc We postmultiply A ( ignoring its top row ) by the column ( 4 ) to get the column of three numbers on the right ; divide by the last element to get the bottom three elements in the next column , and find the top element from ( 3 ) . |
| 29 | And I 'd rather have the things I used to see than your phoney talk any day . |
| 30 | To see that her financial affairs as a whole are being managed properly for her , according to the law , if she is mentally incapable . |