Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was even harder to bear than his own self-criticism . |
| 2 | Probing to know if its new-gnarled root |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Shall I be mother and pour or d' you want me to disappear while you two talk Jockey Club business . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Tricia decided to temp when her youngest child started nursery full time . |
| 8 | And Pendleton 's managers are hopeful their sales will continue to soar when their famous Twicer ice lolly is relaunched next week . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | And I 'd rather have the things I used to see than your phoney talk any day . |
| 11 | Two-stroke units for microlights develop more power from less weight and are generally cheaper to replace than their four- stroke equivalents , but they do demand careful attention . |
| 12 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |
| 13 | Some twenty-five years later , when I became interested in hypnosis and then in regression therapy , I began to wonder whether my earlier fascination was because I had actually lived in Tudor times . |
| 14 | She foraged in it immediately to see if her young supporter had been able to smuggle through a twist of tobacco . |
| 15 | In July 1922 , the Company enquired whether either of the other two companies had any covered top cars to spare , which they could borrow , to see if their own cars could be fitted with top covers . |
| 16 | ‘ It will be enlightening to see if his new-found honesty runs to incriminating himself in any way , ’ observed Amiss . |
| 17 | The Duke of Kent had to wait until his fiftieth birthday for the Garter , the senior ranking Duke of Gloucester ( at 45 ) is still waiting . |
| 18 | However , among the lucky or sheltered it is common enough for someone to have the uneasy feeling that he is living too comfortably , might find himself unprepared to cope if his present security were to collapse , lacks adequate understanding of miseries outside his experience . |
| 19 | None of his victories was more characteristic of his indomitable will to win than his first success in the Arlington Million . |
| 20 | The modern plastic bath is so much easier to handle than its heavier metal counterpart . |
| 21 | The nonagon is easier to comprehend if its three fold symmetry is revealed . |
| 22 | Four Australian cricket-writers and one Australian team manager will never forget the day at net practice in Christchurch on the 1985–86 tour of New Zealand when , during a routine discussion with the journalists on preparation for a one-day match , he made mention of the fact that he intended to resign if his shattered team did not win the match the following Saturday . |
| 23 | Or you might be invited to a party , start to feel uncomfortable and have the courage to comply when your inner voice tells you to go , knowing that your guide will keep you safe from harm . |
| 24 | Mr a forty four year old restaurant owner is still unable to sleep although his four year old son appears unaffected by what happened . |
| 25 | Mr Richard Smith , who works in Dr Dudley Williams 's group at Cambridge , said that the technique was quicker and easier to use than its major competitor , field desorption mass spectroscopy . |
| 26 | In the crucial aspect of image-building , the TDC has had more to do than its regional partner in trying to alter the widely-held perception of Teesside as an area dominated by smoking chimneys . |
| 27 | Perhaps he worries too much about Mr Carman , who , he says , ‘ will not be running true to form if his closing speech is not a formidable tour de force . |
| 28 | And yet , much as she enjoyed her career and would not want to give it up permanently , she had a great desire for a strong , loving relationship and wanted to have children of her own — something she would never be able to do if her present feelings persisted . |
| 29 | But here 's a thought for both men : there are times when a nation has to be persuaded to do something that it does not want to do because its future welfare demands it . |
| 30 | On Saturday the pupils could enjoy the austere pleasures of going into the small granite town of Elgin , something Richard did not enjoy but decided to do because his injured feet ruled out most alternatives . |