Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He had to go to Burford to see someone about a new job . ’ |
| 2 | Kissing in this form , as a proper way to greet someone in a certain relation to oneself , is a social convention . |
| 3 | Forest Mere , which is owned and run most luxuriously by the Savoy Group , really is the most wonderful place in the world to revive one after a tiring period , and remove any aches and pains . |
| 4 | Many a Harvard dealer has needed to haggle with one of the market-makers in the adjoining room , in order to obtain something like a fair deal for his client . |
| 5 | The complicating factor is the reader 's motivation : the effort that children will make if they need to obtain something from a particular book or periodical . |
| 6 | Naturally , one desires to suppress the personal element so far as possible , but if one has an opinion to express there is nothing to offend anybody in a straightforward ‘ in my opinion . ’ |
| 7 | First , any illusions that people may have had about Britain were soon dispelled : Britain still refused to accept anything above a loose intergovernmental structure . |
| 8 | MARTIN EDWARDS has not been the only man in Manchester trying to sell something of a sporting nature . |
| 9 | You may want to choose one with a reflective strip incorporated into the design . |
| 10 | He found his colleague struggling with two youths , and managed to arrest one after a brief chase . |
| 11 | If the mixture of live action and 2-D animation achieved surprising commercial success in the late 1980s ( $78m rentals , justifying a cost of over $50m ) , the combination of live action with 3-D animation seemed to reach something of a dead end with Clash of the Titans ( 1981 ) . |
| 12 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |
| 13 | Be careful not to create anyone with a phoney Chelsea ‘ Sloane ’ accent or anything outrageous . |
| 14 | The grid size can easily be increased or decreased at any stage during the design process , thus allowing you to create anything from a tiny motif to a large electronic or intarsia design that would cover a complete garment piece . |
| 15 | Redken would recommend a new permanent wave called TRUST which combines both acid and alkaline ingredients to create anything from a soft body wave to springy , resilient curls . |
| 16 | These powers are to take immediate possession of all the debtor 's property but only to sell anything of a perishable nature or goods which are likely to go down in value if not sold ( s 287(2) ) . |
| 17 | They had come to expect nothing from a disenfranchised people except violence and anarchy . |
| 18 | He is being wooed by three counter-arguments : first , that when it comes to big , company-wide computer systems , customers still prefer to buy everything from a single , proven supplier ; second , that mainframes will remain at the heart of many of tomorrow 's systems , in which a network of PCs will be served by a central processor ; and third , that IBM is moving away from being hardware-dominated to become , increasingly , a one-stop-shop for computer consultancy and services . |
| 19 | For practical purposes it is probably safe to assume something like a 50/50 split and this is probably putting inherited factors too high . |
| 20 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 21 | Right , so that 's the digression over and done with it 's pretty fascinating stuff okay , you 'll you 'll need that in the in erm in your Q M project if you have to apply one to a particular problem . |
| 22 | Even in normal society it is boring and , after a while , meaningless to trace everything to a common source , especially when the detail is elaborate . |
| 23 | Output and display requirements dictate architectures which support high-resolution colour graphics , can display both RGB ( ‘ Red-Green-Blue' , the colour screen standard in which the three basic colours remain individually controllable ) and composite video information , and provide an audio capability able to handle anything from a feeble bleep to high fidelity stereo . |
| 24 | If you try to whisk something with a hard metal balloon whisk it is hopeless ; you want to use something supple . |
| 25 | It is unwise to erect one on a grassed area unless you use scaffold boards to spread the load |
| 26 | In an atmosphere so heady with romance , in a climate so receptive to gothic detail and intricate workmanship , jewellery and its design were to enjoy something of a golden age . |
| 27 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 28 | So I have to go something like a five past seven train or something ? |
| 29 | To do nothing in an active and important manner is a rare skill . |
| 30 | If you would like to nominate someone for a future issue , send the details to at . |