Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SENIOR Tories in Cheltenham were trying yesterday to persuade Mr John Taylor to remain as their prospective parliamentary candidate after his failure to become the first black Tory MP . |
| 2 | The two books I have chosen to compare for my English open study are ‘ To kill a Mockingbird ’ by Harper Lee and ‘ The Disappearance ’ by Rosa Guy . |
| 3 | These cries and messages cause many unnecessary deaths but yet , the families of these children continued to search for their long lost children . |
| 4 | There is increasing pressure on people to plan for their own old age , possibly using their assets to purchase suitable accommodation and personal care . |
| 5 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 6 | They began to acquire for themselves important political positions , especially in Parliament , and the ‘ West India lobby ’ became a powerful political force ( Fryer , 1984 , pp. 40–50 ) . |
| 7 | After all , it is flattering to a hard-working policeman to think that someone as glamorous , or glamorous-seeming , as an author wants to know about his dull daily life . |
| 8 | Had she gold , poor woman , so to entrap for herself that monstrous lump of selfishness ? |
| 9 | In general , employers were more likely to provide for their better-paid skilled workers who were less easily replaced than the unskilled labourers . |
| 10 | For a quarter of a century , the Association has allowed us , as students , to provide for our own independent social life , recreation and representation . |
| 11 | Married couples need to work through their shared past disappointments and mistakes as much as individuals do . |
| 12 | The challenge of AIDS involves more than individual sexual behaviour : it represents an opportunity to work through our commonest societal fears–and taboos , to reach new understanding and evolve compassionate action . |
| 13 | He has to come of his own free will . |
| 14 | This leads to problems when I try to conceive of my own knowing , believing or thinking in behaviourist terms . |
| 15 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 16 | The best thing to bring it all out , would be to write in my own African language , but I have to write in another language . |
| 17 | Gradually , I learnt to live more comfortably with a ‘ foot in both worlds ’ , and to revel in my new way-of-being . |
| 18 | While officers within General Noriega 's inner circle continued to benefit from their various illicit businesses , the majority of the military has not been paid in three weeks . |
| 19 | Historical biographers tend to work within their own national boundaries , and to prefer as subjects the Good Kings of national history . |
| 20 | ‘ I assume you made it worth her while in other ways , but obviously I failed to discover from her own fair lips how much you thought she was worth , and I 'm damned sure you wo n't admit how much you 've paid over the odds for her favours . ’ |
| 21 | I found among my mother 's papers when she died a letter from my grandfather which must have wrung her heart for years after his death : ‘ … ca n't you spare a moment to write to your poor old Dad … ‘ |
| 22 | Coleman , he wrote , a struggling surgeon ‘ condescended ’ ( why condescended ? ) ‘ to come to our only veterinary college and to teach that of which he had absolutely no knowledge or experience ’ . |
| 23 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |
| 24 | As a result , UNDCP now intends to concentrate on its other drug-control measures in Bolivia , such as tackling the growing problem of drug-taking among local children , and will leave many of its alternative-development projects in the hands of other UN agencies . |
| 25 | John will have more time to concentrate on his architectural interior design business . |
| 26 | It is useful for those of us who worry that hearing other opinions and listening to other people may weaken our case , or make it difficult for us to concentrate on our own determined agenda . |
| 27 | But I was surprised to discover on my first full day at Thornfield that Mrs Fairfax was not in fact the owner , as I had assumed , but the housekeeper , and that my new master was a Mr Rochester , who was often away from home . |
| 28 | The difficulties of this task are compounded by a natural unwillingness to admit any independent criteria for judging a particular reading , since Althusser 's aim is to interpret Marx in his own terms , rather than to impose on him any independent ( and ideological ) standards . |
| 29 | We should like the inspector to comment on what those large classes do to the quality of education . |
| 30 | However , the novel 's climax , which sees the Indians successfully assert themselves , reflects Arguedas 's confidence in the ability of Quechua culture to flourish beyond its traditional rural confines and to change the character of national society . |