Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with
2 And he says it is becoming more common for people to sue for medical negligence after a delay of ten , twenty , even thiry years -- but such course is fraught with problems .
3 At first Clare decided to wait for further information from Tess 's mother , but then he re-read the letter sent on to him in Brazil , written from Flintcomb-Ash :
4 They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called .
5 He will not have long to wait for another diet of his own words .
6 Captain Mark Phillips had been expected to remain for some time in his cottage on the estate , where he has lived since the marriage broke up three years ago .
7 What on earth was she supposed to wear for this evening with Dane — this evening that was n't exactly a date , yet she could think of no other description for it ?
8 Exit trainee thespian to toilet for good cry for no obvious reason .
9 Er ours is a slightly more difficult task , I would suggest a much more difficult task , in that we 're trying to go for one certificate for the whole of the group .
10 It must have cost a lot of money to go for that amount of time ?
11 Meanwhile , promising teenage winger Andy Turner has opted to go for international recognition with the Republic of Ireland rather than England .
12 The sort of questions your adviser will ask are : whether you are investing for income now or capital growth in the future ; whether you need to go for absolute security with every penny you have or whether you can afford slightly more risky investments in the hope of making more money in the long run ; what other sources of income you have , or might expect to receive .
13 The best advice I can give you is simply to go for unfair dismissal on the basis that you 've got two managers who do exactly the same job , there 's no need for you to go on site , there are other drivers that could get you there , therefore it 's not necessary to finish your job simply because you 've lost your licence .
14 The response is that in a rapidly growing market ( say 30 per cent growth per annum ) the only way to increase market share is to go for massive expansion of capacity ( say 50 per cent per annum ) .
15 And in a sense Mao is saying that it 's , it 's not right to go straight for land reform , you , you 've got to go for this policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction first .
16 The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis .
17 So try to get him to a point where he is agreeable to discussing the problem openly with you or else to go for some form of counselling .
18 It helps if we know where to go for formal approval of decisions , or know who is responsible for what .
19 It is difficult to see how punishment could be justified on purely retributivist grounds consistently with the positive freedom principle , and the same would seem to go for expressive denunciation as a general justification of the system .
20 The only concession forced through before the critical days in September was on the tax allowance to foster parents who were now able to claim for any child in their care under the age of sixteen or in full-time education .
21 Never carry more than one-third of your body weight , and aim to carry about one quarter of it .
22 The central fact to acknowledge about any sort of storage is that there is rarely enough of it , and this is certainly true in the kitchen .
23 I left her , and went to search for more information in a different place .
24 ( 9 ) To authorise an applicant for an emergency protection order to search for another child on the same premises ( s48(4) ) .
25 Program the sensor pods to search for any sign of ancient habitations within a twelve thousand mile radius of the pole . ’
26 He may even refuse to search for any answer at all , though expressing the deepest need for one .
27 He is the only person in opposition to plan for greater unemployment as a matter of policy .
28 The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems .
29 Calcium chloride was used to speed up the hardening of ordinary Portland cement and to allow concreting to continue through cold weather without the threat of damage from frost .
30 Incomes policies were seen as crucial to help solve our problems , yet over and over again governments found that political pressures made these very difficult to sustain for any length of time .
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