Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they should try and do something more positive to curb that sort of thing . ’ |
| 2 | The Express and the Mail saw the Empire Crusade as a means of uniting the Empire by encouraging free trade within it and both newspapers gave publicity and financial support to those by-election candidates who promised to uphold that line in Parliament . |
| 3 | I had been so in love with her , and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling . |
| 4 | The efforts of the management and the work force now in the shipyards on the Clyde and in Yarrow 's have done a great deal to restore that badge of quality , which was in danger of slipping away . |
| 5 | It would be useless to pretend that identity of non-meanings , if it is to make sense , ought to be so explicable and then criticise this idea on the grounds that it can not be so explained . |
| 6 | It was also useless to pretend that corruption at elections was one-sided ; the scale was far smaller than thirty years earlier , but it went on just the same in both parties . |
| 7 | MORRISSEY and organisers of the ill-fated Madstock Finsbury Park concerts are embroiled in a legal battle , with both parties threatening to sue each other over Morrissey 's non-appearance on the Sunday bill . |
| 8 | Brooktree Corp , San Diego and Advanced Micro Devices Inc have settled all pending litigation and agreed not to sue each other on patents related to colour palette chips : the settlement provides for payment to Brooktree of $26.8m from an earlier award of cash damages for patent and mask work infringement and dismissal of all other litigation pending between them . |
| 9 | It is impossible to perform each stage of production simultaneously . |
| 10 | Cummings further suggests that certain aspects should be looked in selecting software in order to encourage conversation and pupils to see each other as resources : 1 . |
| 11 | They had parted in a friendly enough way , promising to see each other from time to time , but Jenna very much doubted if it would ever happen . |
| 12 | I does have limitations , particularly when attempting to treat each element in isolation . |
| 13 | ‘ And I hope we 're both mature enough to treat each other with civility and respect for the few remaining days we 're forced to spend together . ’ |
| 14 | The unkind but graphic association of names with feet and noses and twittering conversation was enough to bring both to mind , and allowed the registrar to greet each student by name , even after a long interval . |
| 15 | A normal child of 3 is far from being a completely effective language user , and yet it would be inappropriate to target that child for therapy . |
| 16 | But surely even having second thoughts about marriage was n't enough to prompt that kind of reaction , particularly as Isabelle must have known she was expecting Fabien 's child . |
| 17 | Despite the positive results achieved by the mixed professional/ paraprofessional social service teams to which we have referred and the efforts being made in some countries to promote that model of service provision , little is being done in schools of social work to provide professional social workers with the type of skills needed for that kind of practice . |
| 18 | With regard to the War Department , I quite agree with Panmure , that the best course will be to lodge that Department in an unpretending but suitable manner in Pall Mall , and to carry that arrangement into effect at the same time that a Foreign and Colonial Office are building in Downing and Fludyer Street . |
| 19 | I think the stress and strain on the bearings for instance , the the middle bearing of it was underrated to carry that amount of weight , not in the vertical sense but in the yawing to and fro . |
| 20 | ‘ And so , ’ I continue , ‘ the suntan becomes fashionable and it 's no longer as necessary as it was — taking Robinson Crusoe by way of example — to hide from it under a parasol in order to conserve that fairness of skin threatened by the desert island climate . |
| 21 | It is a nonsense to inhibit that sort of synergy on the basis that together the merged units have a logically dominant position in the relatively small British market . |
| 22 | Do you know what it did to me to see that animal on top of you , about to … ? ’ |
| 23 | There are things around this , that I wonder what on earth we 're doing and what is the best way forward and I would like to see that kind of report come back to us . |
| 24 | Erm I think they , I think they do that during the day and then in the evening it 's on for anybody else who wants to see that take-off on cheeses . |
| 25 | Yes , I think it 's just to follow on from that erm about trusting children to give us the sort of clues that we need to be able to respond to , very often they do that in ways that are not directly associated perhaps with the anxiety that 's around , so that they may be expressing their anxiety by just generally difficult behaviour or by wetting the bed at night , or maybe being quite disruptive in their play , or provoking other children , and adults who are able to see that sort of behaviour as useful for information for us , so that we can respond appropriately , not out of anger and a erm judgemental sort of response , but in a way that we can support their anxiety by by not getting over excited and + and erm responding in a very aggressive way to the very aggression that they 're expressing as a result of their anxiety . |
| 26 | Apart from that he was rather a handsome man , she thought , if you happened to like that type of thing . |
| 27 | He has been a very high profile MP and the voters tend to like that sort of thing . ’ |
| 28 | Not until dark , since his intention was to search that patch of ground thoroughly . |
| 29 | It took energy to sustain that degree of emotion , she discovered , and what little she had left was directed at physical recovery . |
| 30 | However , it is necessary to emphasise that exploration of materials such as sand , clay , soil and wood for sheer delight , without the intervention of an adult , is extremely important and for some children lasts a long time . |