Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And , er , the other problem with it is , you really have to know quite a lot about history , or biography to really to really get into . |
| 32 | Well , I happen to know quite a lot of clever , amusing , wise , energetic old people who are excellent company and among whom are several of my friends . |
| 33 | I used to know , I used to play at tennis with Bay , the daughter and er the eldest daughter she married another chemist and he ran the place afterwards I think , then there was Jack but er I , I used to know , I used to know quite a lot of the er people on the , who kept these shops . |
| 34 | Very often your teacher may ask you to come twice a week for two or three weeks and then once a week for a further period which will vary from pupil to pupil . |
| 35 | She did seem to meet quite a number of people on her walks ; people whom I knew a little , so that fragments of conversation pursued me . |
| 36 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 37 | But would it be so absurd for those who sought refuge in tranquilisers or pep pills to try instead a course of Beethoven , Mozart or Chopin ? |
| 38 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |
| 39 | In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition . |
| 40 | Peter Slater , of Sussex University , used a sonograph to compare exactly a recording of the new song as sung by a wild song thrush with the sound of a trimphone ( Animal Behaviour , vol 31 , p 308 ) . |
| 41 | UNFORTUNATELY the majority of memorial dedications tend to receive only a fraction of the publicity they deserve . |
| 42 | Support staff , numerically increased in some areas , but threatened with further reductions in others , are able to reach only a minority of the estimated number of children in need of special attention . |
| 43 | Manley claimed that it would provide training , marketing and financial advice to help " ambitious and disciplined young people " , but the benefits were expected to reach only a minority of the young unemployed . |
| 44 | This apparent failure of the laws of war to tackle directly a class of weapon which is spectacularly indiscriminate and inhumane raises a number of questions , namely : |
| 45 | Perhaps one method would be to allow small firms to set aside a percentage of profits into a tax free investment vehicle on the understanding that it is to be used for reinvestment within 5 — 10 years . |
| 46 | Publishers will need deliberately to set aside a proportion of ‘ play money ’ , which they can afford to lose , but on which they will seek to recuperate the large returns that go with true risk investment . |
| 47 | You will need to set aside a bit of time to review the events of the last eight weeks . |
| 48 | It includes a commitment to create five new national parks by 1996 , and to set aside a total of 12 per cent of the country 's territory as " protected areas " for wildlife . |
| 49 | This description , if accurate , would appear to reflect more a desire on Nizan 's part to reassure his friends than a genuine assessment of current diplomatic realities . |
| 50 | Before deriving the results of this section it is necessary to state clearly a number of underlying assumptions . |
| 51 | He began to fantasise quite a bit about this as he walked down Kensington Church Street . |
| 52 | Kenneth Graham did come to visit quite a lot between 1880 and 1910 . ) |
| 53 | The patient was then randomized to receive either a course of Evans or Pasteur B G C. |
| 54 | University lecturers , politicians , trade unionists and showbusiness figures rubbed shoulders with the citizens of Dublin in an attempt to drive home a message of peace to the men of violence . |
| 55 | Habitual criminals were also required to report once a month to a police station after they were released . |
| 56 | Unless a society is to utilise only a fraction of the intelligence at its disposal it must obviously in one way or another make sufficient provision for vertical mobility to ensure that capacity passes , unimpeded by vulgar irrelevancies of class or income to the type of education fitted to develop it . |
| 57 | Events in Vietnam , in many ways comparable although obviously complicated by the factor of French colonialism , were of infinitely less interest and for the moment seemed to require only a definition of attitudes rather than acts of policy . |
| 58 | Trying to group together a selection of best walks in an area as complex as Northumberland , with its historical landmarks , beautiful coastline , vast afforestation and rolling moorland is a very subjective exercise , but Frank Duerden has managed to select 30 diverse walks . |
| 59 | What is clearly a dealers ' market is often signalled by the invention of a brand name to group together a variety of material , perhaps rather disparate . |
| 60 | Questions are often worded to cover only a fragment of a particular subject ; in that case the examiner does not want the whole of it . |