Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and five senior consultants will seek through judicial review a declaration that Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , used taxpayers ' money unlawfully in implementing white paper directives . |
| 2 | He should include in each demise a small number of spaces the availability of which the tenant can be sure . |
| 3 | That , in itself , is an argument for the establishment of a Select Committee on Scottish affairs , which could consider in more detail an education system that we all value highly . |
| 4 | That they should make of one body a site where the variousness of all other bodies is in some way received . |
| 5 | We shall now take a ferromagnetic material that has a very narrow hysteresis loop so that we can assume with good approximation a unique ( though of course nonlinear ) relationship between B and H. The material is again assumed to be of a toroidal shape but it is now excited by a current I flowing in a coil of N turns ( Fig. 3.13(a) ) . |
| 6 | It is their duty to hear and determine according to law , and they must bring to that task a fair and unbiased mind . ’ |
| 7 | And erm being as he put a new table in the mill he thought we could work for thirty pound a week less , on this table . |
| 8 | Well no when we started when the strike started in the mill , I told then , you know y I do n't know what you are going to do with us , I said , but the way you are carrying on now you are going to bring trouble into this quarry , cos these lads are n't going to give in to you at all that quick , what you 're trying to do , make them work for thirty pound a week less , so you better think it over now , I said , before it gets any worse . |
| 9 | His saying was " If I can work for 1 Yard an hour I can walk for 1 1/2d an hour . |
| 10 | But seems to me that 's silly is that we did n't keep with that correspondence a copy of the enquiry form , which , the original is gone to the central record . |
| 11 | And unlike Picasso Braque did not see in African art an answer to some of the problems of contemporary painting . |
| 12 | I did touch on this problem a good many years ago in an essay I wrote on the death of a great music-hall artist , Marie Lloyd . |
| 13 | One can actually see on this trace a period here where there was no airflow , so in this particular period the subject would not be breathing . |
| 14 | Since delegation can occur at any time a basic question you the manager should regularly be asking yourself is : ‘ At this moment , am I making the best use of my time ? ’ |
| 15 | what 's that mean , so you , what you doing twenty mile an hour you think that you can stop in twenty mile an hour , at twenty feet |
| 16 | Can you move round this side a bit . |
| 17 | Kate had felt she could not stay in that house a moment longer . |
| 18 | It may range from one afternoon a week to full extension services opening daily , staffed by a paid worker and volunteers . |
| 19 | To me , he wrote on 10 February as follows , the invective being tempered by the desire expressed at the beginning that we should have in due course a prolonged tête-à-tête : |
| 20 | ‘ The Darkfall strike generates what we can only call at this stage a chemical reaction . |
| 21 | No paintings are known , but he did commission from another artist a series of three substantial history pictures in which his family appeared as witnesses to religious scenes . |
| 22 | At least 25 per cent of original programmes will now come from independent companieswith a proper proportion of European origin . |
| 23 | The Law Commission pointed out in a report in April that the use of computers has greatly facilitated the ability to plan and implement in one country a fraud that has its deleterious effect in another . |
| 24 | I will come to that matter a little later , as the hon. Gentleman will hear . |
| 25 | If can recall to this day a book I had for review years and years ago in which the hero swaggered into a smart London nightclub , ordered a magnum of champagne and drank it down . |
| 26 | As Keynes wrote " 'The Treaty includes no provision for the economic rehabilitation of Europe , nor does it promote in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the allies themselves ; no arrangement was reached at Paris to adjust the system of the Old World and the New " . |
| 27 | I 'll sit on this seat a little minute while you tell me what you can see . |
| 28 | Unless you have recently became a Contract Volunteer you will find with this newsletter a Mailings and Materials sheet which I would like you to fill in . |
| 29 | ( I sometimes wonder whether there is not an element of satire addressed by Shakespeare against the persona of the poet here , who can argue with such single-mindedness a case that seems the height of egoism in its intention to exploit the other — a woman — merely in order to reproduce itself . ) |
| 30 | I do not find in this decision a sufficient support for the wide proposition for which Mr. Collins contends . |