Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [det] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He seems to have taken no part in public life under the Commonwealth , but when the Exchequer was re-established under the Protectorate he failed to regain his old post as auditor , having to wait for this until the Restoration , when he protested , perhaps predictably , that he had never really been a parliamentarian at all . |
| 2 | He continued in his refusal to offer a defence in his trial on charges of corruption , which opened in March 1991 and was expected to continue through most of the year [ see pp. 38157-58 ] . |
| 3 | The aim of the measure may also have been financial , because the Crown was empowered to distrain for half of the profits resulting from the enclosure ; it was not , however , an easy way to raise money , so it is unlikely to have been the only reason for the Act . |
| 4 | Now this looks more like it : a normal , natural reaction , even if I do have to search through several of the transcripts on my desk to find one . |
| 5 | Since this possibility existed , the court considered that it would be improper to substitute its own judgment as to whether it was wise to proceed for that of the directors . |
| 6 | I ca n't remember at the policy and resources why it was decided by a majority because in in replying to this report on making our comments to this report , I first had consultations with officers to go through some of the items that we had done and issues that we had covered in this authority especially the members ' services sub committee and we knocked off the bare bones of er a report to the policy and resources committee and the policy . |
| 7 | She knew him well enough now to see through some of the camouflage — perhaps all of it . |
| 8 | The stormclouds that had been threatening to unload for most of the week finally opened their hatches on Saturday afternoon . |
| 9 | He also has been compelled to sit out most of the practices since Scotland 's omission from the Cup stages at Canberra last week . |
| 10 | The government , through a rigorous cash limits approach , is forcing local authorities to carry out most of the unpopular cuts in actual services . |
| 11 | He noticed how bare the room was of the bits and pieces that usually make two lives one life ; but Carla had tried to compensate for that with a beachcomber 's finds : little groups of pebbles and shells on the windowsills , a fan of dried marram in a vase , a gnarled limb of driftwood that she had smoothed and varnished . |
| 12 | However , as modulating notes ( e.g. sharpened leading-notes ) are particularly important at cadence points , it is well to provide for these in the melody . |
| 13 | It is therefore most important to provide for this in the expert clause . |
| 14 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 15 | Even if antibody concentrations began to decline 4–6 weeks after vaccination with IPV , the high titres achieved initially would be likely to persist throughout much of the period of maximum risk of paralytic poliomyelitis , which in most developing countries occurs between 6 and 18 months of age . |
| 16 | ‘ You should be able to stand like that for a week before the nerve implants get tired . |
| 17 | It was a remarkable achievement for a company created just over a year earlier and which had had to pitch against some of the world 's largest train-builders , including GEC Alsthom , Siemens , and BREL , the dominant British manufacturer . |
| 18 | It was a remarkable achievement for a company created just over a year earlier and which had had to pitch against some of the world 's largest train-builders , including GEC Alsthom , Siemens , and BREL , the dominant British manufacturer . |
| 19 | The chapter first provides a critical overview of the standard ‘ referential communication task ’ , where a child 's skills are gauged when required to communicate with another about an array of objects or drawings , while speaker and hearer can not see one another , being placed behind opaque screens to encourage verbal and preclude non-verbal communication . |
| 20 | Thus , despite the fact that he had dealt with the relationship of town and countryside at a very abstract level Bukharin did try to grapple with some of the fundamental , enduring and concrete problems arising from the revolutionary transformation of the economy . |
| 21 | At the end of the test I have to say that I would have been reasonably happy to work with any of the monitors on a long term basis . |
| 22 | As the argument over tax bases and tax rates is by no means over , it appears appropriate to comment upon some of the principal proposals . |
| 23 | Basically , if you write a manual for somebody else to use , then er there 's a standard layout of manuals , computer manuals , that is to have a Getting Started section , tells you how to instal in some of the basics like how to start it running , erm , the How To section is very important . |
| 24 | Given that the role of Nat Sec is different in part from that of Coordinator in England , how does the job description of a Scots , Welsh or Irish Area Sec need to differ from that of an English Area Sec ? |
| 25 | In the explicit limits to their power which they had to accept in some of the areas they ruled ( especially in Hungary and the Basque provinces ) the Habsburgs and the Spanish Bourbons had something in common with the Hanoverians . |
| 26 | By the time hay-making came to an end it was impossible to work in any of the Handley Farm fields without hearing the sound of axes eating their way through Wychwood Forest . |
| 27 | They are seen to suffer from some of the myths and lack of understanding which Bandana Ahmad 's chapter explores . |
| 28 | He has also continued to write , producing one work of fiction , Haroun and the Sea of Stories , and a collection of essays and other pieces , Imaginary Homelands , which Michael Foot argued are fit to stand alongside some of the very best work in defence of the artist 's right to free expression . |
| 29 | Both these parties would also abolish the assisted places scheme by which children of poorer parents are able to benefit from some of the best schools in the country , and will hand City Technology Colleges over to local authorities . |
| 30 | 4.2.2.1 each Party hereby undertakes to each of the others fully and promptly to communicate to each of the other Parties all such technical information relating to background and results as such other may reasonably require to carry out its respective part of the Project or to which such other Part is entitled pursuant to Clause hereof |