Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | We greatly respect and value each of our employees and we strive to provide for them an appropriate workplace environment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If adult human beings wish to impose upon themselves an inappropriate and inefficient diet , that is their own business . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We had to work on it a great deal . |
| 8 | ‘ So far he has not had the opportunity to appear to us a flexible and strong politician . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the B–17 at Duxford stands daily inviting visitors to reflect on what a 30 mission combat tour entailed for the men of the Mighty Eighth . |
| 13 | Now spent , exhausted , heavier than ever , we pull ourselves off this fun-float , this transport of delight , to see beneath us a crushed flower , a stamped upon camellia , its pollen and sap smeared like blood on the infertile ground , the dry ground , the any old iron , lurking-tetanus ground . |
| 14 | I daresay if we get someone sensible to look after them a few hours a day , they wo n't suffer too much . |
| 15 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
| 16 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 17 | The flamboyant ritual celebration of male bellicosity and the male collectivity among the Shavante appears to carry with it a corresponding devaluation of women , and indeed to be built upon it . |
| 18 | Glen volunteered to supervise the distribution of his work in Persia , and to circulate with it a new edition of the Persian translation of the New Testament by Henry Martyn [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | As I was sending a copy of the new book to all those slimmers who were mentioned in the Complete Hip and Thigh Diet , I decided to include with it a second questionnaire . |
| 20 | It is fortunately in the hands of such a man as Captain Vidal , R.N. , who has steadily devoted himself , during a long period of ill-health , to complete this unpopular work , and to connect with it a minute examination of the Canary Islands . ’ |
| 21 | What the actual or even likely or standard effects of his saying this would be on a hearer , himself included , has little to do with what a reasonable speaker means in saying something . |
| 22 | express any dissatisfaction try to do in it a constructive and diplomatic way . |
| 23 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 24 | This attitude must change , for man 's progress through time must inevitably confer upon him the right to use his powers of reason and logical thinking to build for himself a satisfying religion based on a credible ‘ god ’ . |
| 25 | From the middle of the thirteenth century they were allowed to deduct for themselves a fixed salary out of the Forest revenues they collected — 100 marks a year for the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and £100 for his colleague south of it . |
| 26 | All of them were English-born and helped to imbue in me a loyal appreciation of the Royal Family . |
| 27 | And it all comes back to what I was saying earlier about trying to get kids to believe in themselves a little bit . |
| 28 | Grandison described him as a ‘ dearly loved member of our household and a valuable and willing servant to us and to our church of Exeter ’ ; and next year wrote to the abbot and convent of Sherborne to commend to them a young man , J. de Sparkeforde , son of Master Thomas de Wytteneye ‘ whose industry is of special value for the repair and in part new building , by his skill , of the fabric of our church of Exeter ’ . |
| 29 | That the calf is afraid of death , let alone its fleeing it as the greatest of evils , seems misleadingly to ascribe to it a self-conscious grasp of death and evil , possible only of beings capable of language . |
| 30 | It was not in the circumstances a natural use of the land to plant on it a poisonous tree . |