Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , interestingly , Labour was trying to claim for itself the new Prospective owner-occupiers with a promise of low interest mortgages for low income earners . |
| 2 | Now they began to see for themselves the amazing interconnected web of life which links the creatures and plants on Denmark Farm , and the critical role which each link plays in maintaining the chain of existence — the working ecological system . |
| 3 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 4 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 5 | They also demanded that President Guillermo Endara Gallimany , 56 , make a personal visit to the old part of the city to see for himself the severe level of poverty the population was being forced to endure . |
| 6 | So we 'd have to go through it the next day anyway . |
| 7 | In 1987 , when Tony Heginbottom revived the tradition at Cragg Vale Spa near Hebden Bridge , I was there to taste for myself the chalybeate water . |
| 8 | And how could she , always so proud , have come to ask a stranger to write for her a private letter , even if her sight was becoming bad ? |
| 9 | in the Court of Appeal , ‘ in view of the historic struggle of the legislature to secure for itself the sole power to levy money upon the subject , its complete success in that struggle , the elaborate means adopted by the representative House to control the amount , the conditions and the purpose of the levy , the circumstances would be remarkable indeed which would induce the court to believe that the legislature had sacrificed all the well-known checks and precautions , and , not in express words , but merely by implication , had entrusted a Minister of the Crown with undefined and unlimited powers of imposing charges upon the subject for purposes connected with his department . ’ |
| 10 | By helping teachers understand classroom roles , it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning . |
| 11 | We greatly respect and value each of our employees and we strive to provide for them an appropriate workplace environment . |
| 12 | They had no need to worry about what the National Consumer Council called ‘ manageable commitment ’ , in which the customer operated a system of precisely monitored deferred payment , only ‘ overcommitment ’ and ‘ unmanageable commitment ’ . |
| 13 | If we are ever to pass through what a shrewd American has named the ‘ moronic inferno ’ into what I call ‘ the oxyinoronic paradiso ’ , then responses from a deeper level are required . |
| 14 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 15 | These rhetorical features seem , however , to suffer from being at odds with the rest of the passage , as if James wants us to catch in them a certain false emotionalism in the tone of the speaker . |
| 16 | If adult human beings wish to impose upon themselves an inappropriate and inefficient diet , that is their own business . |
| 17 | … the circumstances are such that any reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence , then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most elegant formulation of principle was given in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd where it was said that if a reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 19 | Lissa thrust her belongings back into her jacket , bending her head to hide from him the secretive smile that touched her lips . |
| 20 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 21 | You can not count the features of loveliness here , but I attach some pages from my notebook to discover to you the ingenious flora of this fair isle and their many productive and rich uses . |
| 22 | We had to work on it a great deal . |
| 23 | ‘ So far he has not had the opportunity to appear to us a flexible and strong politician . ’ |
| 24 | These people might indeed be said to have had a right to move once again centre stage , and so it is hardly surprising to find among them the great names of the first Napoleonic age . |
| 25 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
| 26 | Be determined to define for yourself the exact meaning of words ( like " diplomacy " ) , especially when they are abstract ( like " influence " ) . |
| 27 | English Language , Literature , and History in the colleges was both similar to and different from these other modern disciplines ; similar in that , like them , it sought to create for itself a solid and autonomous identity ; different ( especially from the early decades of this century ) in that its predominantly classically-trained and often clerical academic proponents increasingly claimed for it a status well beyond that of any mere " discipline " or " knowledge subject " . |
| 28 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
| 29 | ‘ He did n't try to flirt with me the whole time , ’ she defended , and half wished then that she had n't said anything about lunchtime . |
| 30 | One day he will , and proceed to create from her the perfect dish of a wife and peeress . ’ |