Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , you suffer from a skin complaint such as eczema , psoriasis or acne , you may need to seek further advice ( an aromatherapist , herbalist or nutritionist ) who will devise for you a personalised healing programme . |
| 2 | He thought that to remain would look ‘ unsporting ’ and would count against him the next time . |
| 3 | The more frankly we could discuss with them the better . ’ |
| 4 | When you sort out your notes , Sergeant , you might include in them the additional information that my car was parked at the other end of Boundary Drive , the end furthest away from Glenfair Road , see ? |
| 5 | He seems thrilled to stumble across the notion that war has a technological impetus of its own ; others will recognise in it the familiar railway-timetable explanation of why the first world war proved so unstoppably disastrous . |
| 6 | The new myth , the myth of the siamese twins will make of him a forgotten bogey . |
| 7 | What Abraham receives instead is a command , ‘ Go from your country and your kindred and your father 's house to the land that I will show you ’ , and promises : ‘ And I will make of you a great nation , and I will bless you , and make your name great , so that you will be a blessing . |
| 8 | Herluin advanced upon the altar very slowly , as though these few paces , and the climbing of the three steps , must be utilized to the full for prayer , and passionate concentration on this single effort which would make or break for him a dear ambition . |
| 9 | Sandy was going to the US and I asked if I could carry for him the next year , but everybody was asking so I did n't get very far . |
| 10 | The deconstruction of the old view of photography , as inexorably tied to " reality " , may bring with it a necessary sharpening of attention to the claims of all media representations . |
| 11 | Secondly , there is a fundamental connection between critical reasoning of this kind , and the idea that the process of higher education can bring with it a new level of intellectual freedom for the student . |
| 12 | Equally , the current trend of research councils to favour formal training , an important component of which for history will be computing and methodology , should bring with it a fuller measure of recognition of the skills acquired by the computer-using historian ( Denley 1990 ; Kruse 1991 ) . |
| 13 | However , it is likely that a quantitative shift from elite to mass higher education , such as has happened in the USA and Japan , will bring with it a qualitative change in the undergraduate curriculum . |
| 14 | It has often been observed that , whilst old age is not an illness , it does bring with it an increased susceptibility to illness and disease . |
| 15 | You should bring with you the following : |
| 16 | The King therefore saw Samuel before Baldwin ; and Samuel gave the advice which the Sovereign wanted to hear , namely that if MacDonald proved unable to carry his Cabinet , the best solution to the crisis would be a National Government , led by MacDonald , ‘ unless he found that he could not carry with him a sufficient number of his colleagues ’ . |
| 17 | If the fact of ownership does not carry with it a moral right of control , then the property rights justification of corporate power collapses and the objection in the previous paragraph ( and the one before ) becomes irrelevant . |
| 18 | Any synthetic chemical will carry with it a small percentage of undesirable substances which are not found in the essential oil . |
| 19 | Ruskin would surely have been surprised if he had been told that a time would come when railway stations , like lakes and mountains , would become a part of the imaginative life of men , and when the sounding express engine no less than the sounding cataract would rouse in them a noble delight . |
| 20 | Yeah but I got by these people who 've been to Jamaica , says that he gi if you give five pound tip for there , there what 's erm they do n't like it , it 's not enough , they wo n't speak to you no more . |
| 21 | Here was this young creature , beautiful and restless , married to a man almost old enough to be her grandfather , and apparently setting out to make the very best of it , too , with no signs of regret or self-pity ; but the prospect of having a girl of her own age in the house , even for a few days , might well matter to her a great deal more than the extension and acceptance of a mere conventional politeness . |
| 22 | The rub is the general conviction , based on the man 's record , that the same pragmatism , unencumbered by ideology or ethics , that leads him to sign an agreement one day will lead him to renege or cheat on it the next . |
| 23 | My worst country I think would be New Zealand as I do n't remember any of the country and it would appear to me a complete stranger if I moved there . |
| 24 | We do n't have to get to a certain stage of sinlessness , before God will give to us the Holy Spirit . |
| 25 | Could you swear to me every one of your circle 's above suspicion ? |
| 26 | If you 'll teach me I 'll come and work for you a few hours a week . ’ |
| 27 | I do not look like her a little bit |
| 28 | I do not look like her a little bit |
| 29 | After a hundred yards or so I could see behind me the whole cliffed extent of the headland , and the house . |
| 30 | If you look at , say , American TV wrestling , you can already see in it a strutting prediction of the showbiz-sports of the future , where drug-enhanced body-sculpture plays a part both in the athletic demands of the spectacle and in the personality-selling which is its true purpose . |