Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |
| 2 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 3 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 4 | In 1985 , however , the Government specifically rejected calls for another inquiry like Lord Scarman 's , arguing that since the riots were a ‘ criminal enterprise ’ it was useless to search for social explanations or to have yet another report advising it about what to do . |
| 5 | Do they want to plan for organic change or reap the fruit of a retail giant that might , no matter what the quality of the architecture , be redundant in another 25 years ? |
| 6 | This is understandable as , given the choice , no one wants to go through great suffering or pain . |
| 7 | To think ; to search after any truth or fact . |
| 8 | If their application fails , the player has then to decide whether to try for other posts or apply for reinstatement . |
| 9 | Do you want to know about occasional days or you you 're presumably concerned with with full periods . |
| 10 | They give wrong information and then they do n't want to know about any queries or problems . |
| 11 | The guidance says that Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , ‘ is minded ’ to go for Japanese-style pendulum arbitration — where the arbiter would be free only to find for one party or the other , and would not be able to compromise . |
| 12 | The principal strengths of the human information processing system lie in its ability to make selective use of available visual cues and to utilise an understanding of the text to compensate for any degradation or ambiguity within the visual stimulus . |
| 13 | Trade unions exist in order to increase the market power of labour as otherwise most workers would face competition from other workers offering to work for lower wages or worse conditions . |
| 14 | If electrons are sent through the slits one at a time , one would expect each to pass through one slit or the other , and so behave just as if the slit it passed through were the only one there — giving a uniform distribution on the screen . |
| 15 | Skin generally starting to age like old handbag or bodywork of car : not bad at distance , but close to , mysteriously patterned , like surface of Mars . |
| 16 | A network is likely to include at least one printer and may be able to communicate with other networks or electronic devices located far away . |
| 17 | To resolve the problem that most organisations have multiple networks that communicate using different network protocols , the multiprotocol networking software in Oracle7 is designed to enable any client computer to communicate with any server or group of server computers in the network , regardless of network protocol . |
| 18 | Also , enhanced TCP/IP software improves the ability of OpenVMS systems to communicate with Unix-based systems or any system running TCP/IP . |
| 19 | Both during training and after qualifying some people said that they had been encouraged by senior colleagues to work with disabled people or in areas of medicine of low prestige . |
| 20 | This means that there is no need for staff to work in city-centre offices or to congest the city with traffic and spend time travelling to and from work . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So , back to work in two weeks or so and then where ? ’ he continued in the same quiet voice . |
| 22 | And then , would you like to work in this area or would you like to go elsewhere ? |
| 23 | These targets were more difficult for some doctors to meet in deprived areas or in practices where the population moved frequently . |
| 24 | All horses are likely to suffer from internal parasites or ‘ worms ’ and should be regularly treated for them . |
| 25 | I was not prepared to suffer in any shape or form in training . |
| 26 | Paradise derives from the French parados which is a mound behind a fortified place to secure from reverse attack or fire . |
| 27 | She lay stiffly on the bed , unable to make up her mind whether to scream in disappointed rage or to burst into hysterical laughter . |
| 28 | Our ability to ‘ read ’ objects for their social appropriateness and to impose upon any series or new forms that order which would make them culturally acceptable does not in any respect lessen the place of strategy , or the possibility of intent ; both , however , are accomplished within objective conditions of which we have an underlying experience , even if we choose to deny them in formulating strategy . |
| 29 | I 'M 17 , a little bit sad , female student from Prague ( Czechoslovakia ) - I would like to write to any male or female , aged 17-20 . |
| 30 | you 'll be , you 'll be sent instructions on what , who to write to and it 's a matter of sorting those out and erm sending out letters to group members like asking them to write to this person or that person , so that 's not too bad , . |