Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family used to come and stay for a week every year in a cottage across the dale and Martin would come and visit me on a regular basis . |
| 2 | Thus Thoroughbreds , Arabians , Shetlands , and so on , will prefer as a companion a member of their own breed . |
| 3 | Chairman , the motion before us today if passed , will act as a lever a lever against the weight which is rolling inextricably forwards . |
| 4 | We shall consider in a moment the grip this kind of thinking has on the conservative mind , not merely the politically Conservative , but traditionalists of all kinds . |
| 5 | Can you think of a way the retailer could get over this ? |
| 6 | You could do with a lot a lot more . |
| 7 | The closure of the Strait of Hormuz will bring to a stop the wheels of Western industries . |
| 8 | It may also bring to a head a number of crucial questions about spreading priorities — for example , defence versus social security spending — when the oil revenues begin to decline over the coming years . |
| 9 | And it would bring to an end a promising era of Security Council co-operation . |
| 10 | It would bring to an end a long and glorious chapter in the history of humanity 's intellectual struggle to understand the universe . |
| 11 | What Pepper v Hart does is bring to an end an anomaly most lay people would not have believed existed : that the courts , when trying to interpret the meaning of statutory provisions , have not been allowed to take into consideration Parliamentary debates and the legislators ' intentions during the passing of a Bill . |
| 12 | At first Christians looked upon the risen Jesus as the Messiah whose return was imminent and would bring to an end the existing world-order . |
| 13 | It would transfer supervision of the areas from the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) to the National Parks Service and would bring to an end the existing cattle ranching , mining activity and off-road vehicle use . |
| 14 | The end of the Persian War did not bring to an end the Athenian Empire , though the existence of the confederacy was now harder to justify . |
| 15 | Modern microprocessors and computer technology have made such rapid advances that telecommunications and internal communications systems are now in compact units without plugs , switches , or buttons : just small keyboards with touch-sensitive depressions , some with small visual display units ( VDUs ) which can show at a glance the status of all calls being handled and prompt the operator through every procedure so that training can be reduced to a minimum . |
| 16 | Who would not disappear like a wraith the moment she turned her back . |
| 17 | The war and the domestic Russian situation together did , however , shelve for a while the problem of confrontation in Northeast Asia . |
| 18 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 19 | We can use as an example the mining of xyzkqu , which is used in zyxuqk machines . |
| 20 | I find it surprising that Nigel Bruce , in his letter today in support of euthanasia , should use as an argument the character and actions of a God in whom , as a humanist , he does not believe . |
| 21 | Well she does look like a Rottweiler a bit do n't she ? |
| 22 | Excluding the sudden arrival of a frontal system , the wind direction is predictable and you can plan with a map the place most likely to have the ideal cross-shore winds which enable easy launching and recovery . |
| 23 | Sinners , prostitutes , and thieves can understand in a second the power of that argument . |
| 24 | These examples are tolerably plain , but it must depend to a large extent on the facts of each case whether the law will attribute to a person the immediate right to possess . |
| 25 | You will see at a glance the number of calories and the quantity of dietary fibre ( when present ) in a whole average-sized eating apple , or a carrot , or a rasher of bacon . |
| 26 | It is an ideal setting in which visitors can see at a glance the high standard of design and quality in keeping with Sweden 's reputation for advanced and stylish design . |
| 27 | On the other hand he would have a much enlarged Aquitaine , to be held in sovereignty , the ‘ perpetual liberty ’ which he had instructed the Black Prince to demand of his royal prisoner in 1357 , and which would remove at a stroke the threat of confiscation . |
| 28 | But in the isolation that their riches had brought about , and in their serene acceptance that privilege was their due , they did not anticipate for a moment the press of people Don Antonio Beatillo 's idiosyncratic will would bring to their door . |
| 29 | There are regulations governing the safety of toys , which are tested to see if they will fit into a tube the width of a child 's throat . |
| 30 | The computer can record input and present analyses to a high level of detail , and can also dictate to an extent the order in which mathematical tasks are performed , e.g. estimation before computation . |