Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When public funds are required to support someone in private care the needs of that person should be assessed in the same way as for admission to statutory care and admission should depend on the results of that assessment . |
| 2 | ‘ All that stuff just kinda blends into blues , but it is real hard to compare someone like Blind Lemon Jefferson to Albert Collins . |
| 3 | Enough grain is produced to provide everyone with ample protein and more than 3,000 calories per day . |
| 4 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 5 | You are not likely to find anything of archaeological interest , but museums may be inclined to keep a watchful eye on you ! |
| 6 | To obtain anything like pure silver from a natural gold alloy involved a relatively sophisticated process of separation . |
| 7 | Drunk certainly , thank God — too drunk to suffer anything but minor guilt pangs , extremely muted and infrequent . |
| 8 | Given , let let's say y'know somebody of a status goes to see somebody of equivalent status wait so it 's it 's about the distance , yeah . |
| 9 | Some species may be receiving sufficient light to grow plenty of healthy foliage , but will always lack that little extra needed to produce flowering shoots . |
| 10 | ‘ To steal something of sentimental value shows a total lack of common decency and sensitivity , ’ he condemned swiftly , eyes chilling . |
| 11 | While this represents an important development in Parliament 's powers of scrutiny , non-departmental bodies account for only a small part of the work of these committees which are quite unable to exercise anything like detailed oversight . |
| 12 | A special feature is a cantilevered bay window which is designed to create more space and to give plenty of natural light . |
| 13 | The Liberal Democrats ' defence spokesman , Menzies Campbell , said later that the president 's proposals were a gimmick and ‘ smacked of being seen to do something without serious understanding of its effectiveness ’ . |
| 14 | Around 18 months ago , Algora was contacted by the organisers of Expo 92 who wanted to do something with virtual reality at Seville , but did n't know what exactly . |
| 15 | Mrs Thatcher 's identification of the ‘ inner cities ’ as the focus of her third term 's agenda was not therefore a new conversion to the need to do something about urban poverty , squalor , and alienation . |
| 16 | He really could n't help himself , and I ended up having to do lots of steady canter work on and on until he settled before I could start to work on more interesting things . |
| 17 | So that , we 've got , there you 've got to do lots of different concrete and excavation , slightly different thing , here you 've got to do lots and lots of these . |
| 18 | Blame it on the government 's refusal to do anything about global warming . |
| 19 | So the detergent companies have been careful to use lots of recycled plastic in their containers . |
| 20 | With every inducement to satisfy Anselm — and Anselm did not hesitate to urge his sufferings on behalf of the papacy as a reason for conceding the claims of Canterbury — Paschal II was careful to concede nothing of lasting importance . |
| 21 | It costs upwards of £300 a week to keep someone in residential care . |
| 22 | An intention to kill must be proved in order to convict someone of attempted murder . |
| 23 | This trick seems likely to ensure plenty of immediate development work on applications and so plenty of products for NT when it arrives . |
| 24 | If homo sapiens is unequivocally demarcated from the rest of the animal kingdom by the language barrier then it would seem reasonable to accord something like honorary status to those existing in its image , as it were , but otherwise enfeebled through age or retardation . |
| 25 | Chapter 6 offers specific advice on some aspects of developing good study habits , but it 's important at this early stage to understand something about human learning . |
| 26 | It 's important for the foreign traveller to accumulate lots of useless gadgetry and ephemera that they 'd never dream of buying normally , and which makes the whole process of travelling so much more cumbersome and awkward for others . |
| 27 | Localised knowledge is put to better use and in the right circumstances it may be less costly to establish area factories/offices than to control everything through Head Office ( eg. costs of transportation and travelling may be less ) . |
| 28 | Although the August amendments to the Public Security Act had made chief district officers ( CDOs ) more accountable by ordering them to maintain law and order through district police , on Oct. 6 the government announced that CDOs had been armed with unlimited powers under the Security Act , as amended in September , to hold anyone in preventive detention for the maintenance of law and order . |
| 29 | Well he does that on every questionnaire , but he still has got to get someone to double check it . |
| 30 | ‘ Mr Williams agreed to get someone from Grand Met to meet all the landlords affected . |