Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adj] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To find someone able to do the work look in the LRO ads We recently purchased a 1983 Land Rover County 110 2.25 petrol . |
| 2 | It would presumably not be worth splitting the task into two for small batches because the communication costs between programmer and operator , with the frequent interaction needed given the small batch size , would outweigh the savings made in wage costs from hiring someone semi-skilled to do the machining . |
| 3 | Is someone reluctant to sell the land to you so you can go ahead ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And so often it is better for someone other to make the choosing . ’ |
| 5 | This is a tedious process and to short-circuit the boredom you will often find someone eager to move the motion : " That the minutes of the previous meeting be taken as read . " |
| 6 | The implications of this for the relation between how and the infinitive are exactly the same as with need and dare : if the means of realizing the infinitive 's event are not felt to exist , then there is felt to be nothing real occupying the before-position which real means always occupy with respect to the end pursued , and therefore no to preceding the infinitive . |
| 7 | But apart from the number of police rapidly increasing , their technological and quasi-military capacities shamelessly strengthened , their discretionary powers of apprehension , interrogation , detention , and arrest liberally extended , and new prisons built or old ones extensively refurbished ( all with money the government claims the country has not got to maintain existing standards of education , health , unemployment welfare , and social services ) , nothing much justifies the optimism . |
| 8 | Nothing soft to cushion the fall . |
| 9 | It is sad , first of all , that so many educated people miss all the fun that is in good science ; how many hours they spend at dinner parties with nothing substantial to pass the time , and how many acres of The Observer have been devoted to the to-ings and fro-ings of Guy Burgess and the annotated laundry lists of D. H. Lawrence , because the impeccably educated editors of that mercifully ailing rag do not know , after they have worked through the football and the statutory theatre crits , what is interesting . |
| 10 | And there 's nothing better to stimulate the mind and develop creativity than this brightly coloured Wooden Railway from Brio . |
| 11 | Owen Patterson , managing director of the family firm , said : ‘ We are trying everything possible to save the company in the face of a continuing drop in orders . |
| 12 | ‘ We are trying everything possible to save the company in the face of a continuing drop in orders . |
| 13 | Do everything possible to oppose the Poll Tax . |
| 14 | ‘ We would do everything possible to set the record straight . ’ |
| 15 | The petition states : ’ Wherefore , your petitioners pray that your honourable House , which is committed to upholding respect for human life and protection of the weak and vulnerable , will do everything possible to prevent the distribution and use of mifegyne ( known as RU486 ) and any other drugs which , like it , are produced with the deliberate intention of destroying innocent human life . |
| 16 | Our solicitors have done everything possible to show the work is not negligent . |
| 17 | The union did everything possible to convince the government that this had done no more than mop up previously persistent unemployment in the industry and to persuade its members to join their ships , and to do so on time , so that their departures should not be delayed . |
| 18 | the difference here is that C&P really mean what they say and are doing everything possible to make the quality improvement process happen . |
| 19 | In his 1927 Manifesto to intellectuals Barbusse argued that they should do everything possible to help the birth of a new society . |
| 20 | Avon County Council said yesterday that it had done everything possible to help the family . |
| 21 | Her voice blew away the cobwebs and I put on something respectable to cross the road ; she sounded like a child going to a party . |
| 22 | She had lived too long for random encounters to bother her and she was always grateful to the Holy Spirit when He sent something unusual to stir the convent to life . |
| 23 | I came here with Father Herluin , grieving for Ramsey 's wrongs , and longing to do something great to benefit the restoration of our house . |
| 24 | Out on the bay , something enormous broke the surface . |
| 25 | As in a Hammer horror film , the anticipation of something dreadful provides the engine to this dream — the seven bearded men 's appalling appearance was not for instance immediately apparent , and even though they removed his clothes and started to eat , there was no explicit imagery of himself implicated in the cannibalistic orgy , tasting flesh — presumably his own . |
| 26 | When working single-handed there is no one available to beat the ground in front of the net to send the rabbits running for home . |
| 27 | 18.1 If the Publisher notifies the Proprietor that it no longer wishes to publish the Work then on written request by the Proprietor the Publisher will do everything necessary to vest the Work as then published by the Publisher in the Proprietor 's ownership . |
| 28 | 7.1 If the Publisher fails to publish the Video within one year of the Author 's signature of this agreement or notifies the Author that it no longer wishes to publish the Video then on written request by the Author the Publisher will do everything necessary to vest the script in the Author 's ownership |
| 29 | 7.1 If the Publisher fails to publish the Video within one year of the Author 's signature of this agreement or notifies the Author that it no longer wishes to publish the Video then on written request by the Author the Publisher will do everything necessary to vest the script in the Author 's ownership |
| 30 | I feel that the water company should do something constructive to solve the problem they have engineered , and perhaps other readers feel the same way as we do . |