Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Activity 47 ( p. 101 ) , " Working with Scalar Paradigms " , provides a place for considering the role of value-judgements and obliges the reader to relate them to specific textual features . |
| 2 | ‘ To find me in rollicking good humour , basking in my good fortune ? ’ |
| 3 | However , and with great irony , it was the Government 's cuts which led to the virtual abandonment of the Council 's housing policy since the Council decided that whereas it was cheaper to service houses in groups , it was even cheaper and perhaps even permissible not to provide them with certain expensive services at all . |
| 4 | ‘ They are going to try me with small artificial legs to start with and once I get my balance they will give me bigger ones . ’ |
| 5 | COHSE , the RCN , and the HVA all offer indemnity insurance schemes , and your local steward should be able to provide you with specific written details of this . |
| 6 | By the time Nina was five , though , Ricci was sharing fewer nuts with her , but had started to provide her with convenient wooden hammers and uncracked nuts , thus stimulating Nina to start cracking nuts on her own . |
| 7 | Last Friday 's ruling concerned the case of a 14-year-old dyslexic boy from Salford , Greater Manchester , who claimed that his education authority had failed in its statutory duty to provide him with adequate extra lessons to help him cope with his disability . |
| 8 | Basic salary is based on the expatriate 's home salary with a number of allowances added to adjust it to local living conditions . |
| 9 | Fortunately , steps are being taken by the Indonesian wildlife department , assisted by the Worldwide Fund for Nature , to protect the remaining population and to increase it by artificial rearing . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , several governments which had participated in the US-led coalition against Iraq now sought to assure Iran that there was no plan to exclude it from post-war regional security arrangements . |
| 11 | From 1899 to 1902 he encouraged young Labour church workers to visit him for informal religious training . |
| 12 | Gabriel took over John Coffin 's neglected cup and began to drink it in anxious little sips . |
| 13 | Or the experiences and social importance of women may be particularly misrepresented through the need to fit them into pre-defined male-oriented sociological categories . |
| 14 | Partly because these changes have been seen as shifts in design philosophy to be applied incrementally to new housing areas or to rehabilitated inner city districts , there has been no attempt to apply them to established residential areas . |
| 15 | The Multi-National Legal Practice Rules 1991 ( ‘ MNLPR ’ ) amended rules affecting solicitors extensively , so as to apply them to registered foreign lawyers practising in partnership with solicitors in England and Wales . |
| 16 | Indeed , political argument , policy-making and economic analysis were suffused with an increasing flow of statistical data which in range and scale was quite unlike anything which had been experienced before : to such a degree that by the end of the period under review the rate at which data were being generated exceeded , probably by a wide margin , the capacity to apply them in practical economic action . |
| 17 | The alternative , when plutonium is seen as a fuel , is to load it into existing Russian reactors , unused to the stuff and already regarded as unsafe by outsiders . |
| 18 | Recently a new group of drugs , cytosine and adenosine arabinoside , have been used with considerable success against generalized viral illness , particularly in people whose natural defence mechanisms are below par , but it remains to be seen whether it is feasible to use them on localized herpetic infection . |
| 19 | Whilst the Spirit is ready to help prayerful communicators to guide them to hidden personal needs of which otherwise they would be unaware , he also expects us to take practical steps to discover the needs around us . |
| 20 | And as there is n't the money available to do it at full commercial price , in my view we should go for what they call cross-subsidy , that is to say that they give erm planning permission on a plot for some commercial housing on which the landowner can make some money , and in , a condition of that would be that part of that plot would be made available for low cost housing . |
| 21 | You decide to leap over the convent wall and hightail it to England to a new life , and you have the wit to do it on early closing day . ’ |
| 22 | The founders of a German car pooling scheme are planning to extend it to other European countries . |
| 23 | Some tracks are treated with silicone to ensure smooth running , so an occasional polish with a silicone-based spray will help to keep them in good operational order . |
| 24 | My salary was barely enough to keep me in sliced white and undies , never mind maintain Mrs Dennis Parsons in the style to which she had become accustomed . |
| 25 | ‘ I bet he manages to land them on poor old John in the end . ’ |
| 26 | At the Police Federation 's annual conference , which opened in Blackpool yesterday , they protested strongly against Mr Clarke 's plans to subject them to new disciplinary rules . |
| 27 | Given the close relationship between the occupational behaviour of working-class adolescents and their ‘ personality ’ , reformers faced certain difficulties : how to imbue them with approved ethical principles ; how to turn them into efficient workers ; how effectively to reorganize the labour-market for social and economic ends . |
| 28 | Yes , that is what I should do , if I wished to match you in devious cunning . |
| 29 | Gaidar 's speech was followed by calls for his resignation , but on Sept. 23 the Supreme Soviet refused to endorse a no confidence motion , encouraged to reject it by Supreme Soviet Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov , usually a critic of the government , who asked deputies not to make such a " strategic mistake " . |
| 30 | He decided to sell it because he wanted time to look for other things and because whichever organisation bought it would automatically attract people who would want to study it for different scientific reasons . |