Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I CAN IMAGINE THE INDIGNANT HOWLS OF protest as collectors all over the country now run to their shelves to gather together a clutch of beloved performances . |
| 2 | Most users would then have to wait only a couple of hours for a new telephone . |
| 3 | Democracy is not always taken to signify only a form of government , or of choosing a government : it may be a term applied to a whole society . |
| 4 | In the meantime , the Government have attempted to pull together a solution to the dilemma that arises as a result of the different views that are held by various groups . |
| 5 | Other voices , too , are now being raised in support of a national body to pull together a multitude of organisations , currently pursuing , often blindly , their selfish individual goals . |
| 6 | 88open is trying to pull together a meeting of consortia chiefs this month to mull over the kinds of business , customer and anti-trust issues they all share . |
| 7 | Where a possession order is made in respect of a " regulated tenancy " of residential property in a mandatory case ( Cases 11 – 20 ) , the court is empowered to grant only a maximum of fourteen days and has no other discretion : Rent Act 1977 , Sched 15 , Pt II and s 89 of the Housing Act 1980 . |
| 8 | But in 1934 , the District managed to obtain only a promise of a mere £70 in grant-aid from the LEA for those courses provided by Whiteley — a wholly inadequate offer . |
| 9 | However , while it was comparatively easy to cobble together a story around a popular star , the British industry was not yet well organized when it came to finding a steady output of ideas for dramatic features and developing them into workable scripts . |
| 10 | Then he stepped towards her to stand just a couple of feet away . |
| 11 | Normally , it can take forever — well , even months at times — to extract just a nugget of information from the Pentagon , but this time minutes only . |
| 12 | 10.7.6 In respect of the due exercise of any right or licence ( i ) confirmed or granted or ( ii ) agreed to be granted under the provisions of Clauses 10.7.2 , 10.7.3 and 10.7.4 , each Party ( i ) grants or ( ii ) agrees to grant respectively a licence under any intellectual property rights in respect of results and ( i ) grants or ( ii ) agrees to grant respectively to the extent reasonably necessary for such due exercise a licence under any background intellectual property right , and undertakes to procure like grants or agreements to grant from its Related companies . |
| 13 | You used to come once a week for dinner |
| 14 | It is permanently divisive , as well as educationally mean and unadventurous , to establish deliberately a kind of school within which the curriculum is so inward-looking that those who followed it could not , for example , hope to proceed to higher education or ultimately into one of the professions . |
| 15 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 16 | Sometimes we will arrange to meet once a week for five weeks to talk and pray . |
| 17 | Each partner was to bring in £50 per share ; they were to meet once a month at least , with the accounts made up and settled every three months . |
| 18 | Their duty is to tell blacks that although group political activism can stop discrimination , growing rich , wise and safe is then up to the individual — to hammer home a message of homework , punctuality , saving and self-discipline , the things that helped America 's immigrants get off the floor . |
| 19 | However the different structure of the international legal system makes it dangerous to accept automatically a development in municipal law into international law . |
| 20 | The department is actively developing a programme of MSc degrees to provide both a grounding in research methodology and the opportunity to develop research competence in particular fields . |
| 21 | As a result , Europe 's share of the total world population does not vary greatly between then and 1945 : it fell slightly , but continued to provide about a quarter of the world 's people . |
| 22 | Students will appreciate the word-list ( over 800 terms with a phonetic transcription ) and the index of grammar exercises which enables them to find immediately a range of exercises on a number of key grammar points . |
| 23 | Wilko has yet to find even a place on the bench for either of his two big-money summer buys . |
| 24 | This error is common enough in the literature , but it is disturbing here to find even a hint of support for such thinking . |
| 25 | In contrast , it took me months and umpteen phone calls to obtain even a brochure from a well-known American vintage manufacturer . |
| 26 | I could lean forward till my head was between my metatarsals and they 'd still need a zoom lens to catch even a hint of Page 3 . |
| 27 | And if you are stuck for supplies or a place to work then a listing of major suppliers , studios and darkrooms will accommodate you . |
| 28 | This meeting took place under the guise of the 1987 Technology and Change Agreement whereby the Banks are to meet twice a year with the IBOA to discuss their future plans . |
| 29 | A subject I happen to know quite a bit about because we 've got seven and a half million square feet erm in development at the moment in Lutterworth at Magna Park . |
| 30 | You 've got to know quite a lot about rhythm . |