Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1897 she supported moves , viewed with dismay by the established women 's societies , to found a separate women 's university to examine students at Oxford , Cambridge , and Royal Holloway College , London . |
| 2 | On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living . |
| 3 | Insert your ticket , if you are fortunate enough to have one , into one of the newly-installed electronic barriers designed to reduce fraud ( handy tip for cheapskates : exit barriers are happy to accept a cheap children 's ticket regardless of age ) . |
| 4 | So at this grave moment we have come to establish a supreme people 's council which can represent all the Korean People and include representatives from all the classes of the Korean people . |
| 5 | Mr Gould , a prominent Euro-sceptic in the early 1980s , is likely to argue for the commitment to maintaining sterling 's value within the Exchange Rate Mechanism to be ditched , to increase a Labour government 's room for manoeuvre . |
| 6 | To provide a professional service satisfact I 'm sorry Dennis , would you just excuse me ? |
| 7 | This chapter has outlined the range of materials to which scientific techniques have been applied in order to discover a particular object 's provenance . |
| 8 | He would lie here , no one knew for how long , until the tribe had painstakingly amassed the financial and ritual wherewithal necessary to launch a dead king 's soul back to the stars . |
| 9 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |
| 10 | I would like to stress that I wish to hear from all who may be enthusiastic , not just pilots ; I have no wish to create a posing pilots ' paradise . |
| 11 | Sometimes when I , I write a poem I want to create a particular mood erm giving the piece erm a shape , a , a definite shape or just a shadowy shape erm and the overcoat in er Bon Jour Monsieur Gaugin , I found very , very expressive and the starting point for , for this particular poem I 'll hand this round to you know , with the name of the , the front , right I do n't , has anybody , if you already know this picture , does anybody actually know it already ? , no I start with the overcoat obviously erm very expressive , not just because it was , people wear over , overcoats in cold days , but it was the size of the coat and the shape of it and , and it gave me a weight , I felt , er I felt a very definite mood erm about this picture because of the coat and it was a , er a ejective mood that I , that I felt from that , and the stick in the erm hands of the women over the bridge gave me the sound for , for this poem would you like me to read as the , the thing being passed around , would that be ok ? |
| 12 | Her first thought was to pick a young teenager 's romance of the kind that is written for fifteen-year-old schoolgirls , but for some reason she found herself instinctively walking past that particular shelf . |
| 13 | Their ability to react to given situations using slide and a film projector images and er a written examination at the er end of it , plus a full classification shoot whereby they have to reach a certain standard erm of ability in order to er pass the two week course . |
| 14 | My concern is to show that , on , the contrary , culture and social rules may well constrain males to fit a given society 's ideas about virtuous male behaviour . |
| 15 | In other cases , where it is not possible to identify a returning officer ex officio , a returning officer is specifically identified by order . |
| 16 | We joined the group that had been out in sleet and gales in December , hoping to experience a typical day 's training . |
| 17 | As Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury , he has yet to experience a single quarter 's growth in output ( excluding oil revenues ) , but nor will he accept any blame for the recession . |
| 18 | Auctioneers will still be required to buy a licensed auctioneer 's office at anything from FFr500,000 ( £51,000 ; $92,000 ) to FFr20 million ( £204,000 ; $368,000 ) , and that right will be reserved for persons but not firms , thus still excluding the likes of Sotheby 's and Christie 's . |
| 19 | The Captain 's mirth over the Butcher 's Assistant 's love-life and the reasons therefore reached the ears of the Old Stager as he settled down in his deckchair to relish a happy evening 's criticism of his own team . |
| 20 | I suppose it 's too much to expect a senior Queen 's Counsel to work the same hours as ordinary folk , ’ Bragg said grumpily . |
| 21 | Youngsters could also enter a map drawing competition and have the chance to win a Young Rambler 's Adventure Kit of boots , rucksack and waterproofs . |
| 22 | The North Eastern Coop 's Summerville hypermarket at Stockton has given neighbouring Blakeston Comprehensive School 400 trees as its contribution to the school 's attempt to win a one-off Queen 's 40th anniversary trust award . |
| 23 | The Tucson , Arizona company has also added a remote server management feature , enabling users to edit a remote server 's accounts or resources , and a batch de-spooling feature enabling users to de-spool commands to a remote server from a local personal computer and specify when these commands should be executed . |
| 24 | The county council quite clearly accepts its regional responsibilities to accommodate a significant degree er of migration led er development . |
| 25 | ‘ Your Grace , I ask your indulgence but I would like us to perform a small mummer 's play , a useful introduction to what we are about to declare . ’ |
| 26 | Although it is possible to sample a pure Côte aux Enfants red wine made by Bollinger and matured in small oak casks , the production is tiny and availability correspondingly restricted . |
| 27 | What a guide IF YOU are thinking of a driving holiday in France this year it is well worth being able to parle a little motoring Francaise and the AA , along the National Tyre and Autocare have come up with ways of helping to make yourself understood . |
| 28 | They are thought to have been attached to wooden figures to carry a dead king 's crown in ceremonies expressing the continuity of royal office . |
| 29 | This afternoon we went to see a new workers ' housing estate and visited some homes . |
| 30 | The Rev. Al Sharpton , a black clergyman who had led several protest marches in connection with the case , stated that " we are proud to see a young man 's life paid for with some measure of justice " . |