Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Handiman made everyone think about the handicapped person in their family that it 's easy to deny , ’ says Damon , who may have found the character 's roots in his own childhood club foot . |
| 2 | What , then , can one make of the various explanations for the growth of government' ? |
| 3 | I have only seen one badger in the so-called ‘ wild ’ , caught in the beam of car headlights as it dashed across a small country road in Cornwall . |
| 4 | All show an understanding of space but also a negation of it , and the exquisite colours and naturalistic detail make one think of the Italian Duccio . |
| 5 | Nor must one exclude from the economic benefits to the crown 's war effort the acquisition of funds which would otherwise serve to enrich French mother houses and very probably , through taxation , the French crown . |
| 6 | They would simply raise disdainful eyebrows and say what else could one expect of the lower orders ; the Irish ? |
| 7 | Close inspection makes one marvel at the intricate perfection of nature opposed to the finest fashion houses . |
| 8 | Theodora was faced with the usual dilemma of such contrivances , did one hammer on the outer door ( there seemed to be no bell ) and risk not being heard or did one penetrate to the inner door proper and risk being judged intrusive ? |
| 9 | Nor perhaps need one dwell on the powerful thematic use of the expanded , minor-ninth version of the idea , especially as it expresses Grimes 's insatiable yearning for " haven " , for acceptance and respect — a yearning so intimately bound up with his personal tragedy because , to most of us , these things seem comparatively within reach ( whether we desire them or not ) but are patently and without qualification beyond Peter 's grasp : [ 8,10,17 ] . |
| 10 | He made one tour in the early 1830s , when already ill and enfeebled . |
| 11 | We made one change for the second week of interviewing . |
| 12 | How does one arrive at the required covariance then ? |
| 13 | Not by history alone , in other words , would one come to the firm description of a Council , and its relationship to the Roman Pontiff , that is contained in the 1983 Code of Canon Law . |
| 14 | Only from roughly the middle of the tenth/sixteenth century-perhaps coincidentally with the building of two other medreses which were to form part of the altmisli class , namely that attached to the mosque built by Suleyman for his son , Sehzade Mehmed ( the Sehzade medrese , completed in 954/1547 ) , and that built by the same sultan for his father , Selim I , apparently around 955/1548 — can one discern in the biographical sources the existence of a class of medreses , comprising these and others , one rank higher than the Sahn and normally carrying a salary of 60 akce , teaching in one of which seems to have been a generally recognized prerequisite for the holding of the highest learned offices . |
| 15 | Theodora was faced with the usual dilemma of such contrivances , did one hammer on the outer door ( there seemed to be no bell ) and risk not being heard or did one penetrate to the inner door proper and risk being judged intrusive ? |
| 16 | Once , however , Master threw the stick and Sergeant went to retrieve it , and the dog heard something rustle in the long reeds that grew beside the canal . |
| 17 | Does anybody dissent from the first criterion . |
| 18 | Does everybody learn in the same way , or in different ways ? |
| 19 | He promised ( i ) to drop immediately the 10 per cent tax on imports ; ( ii ) to eliminate Central Bank financing of the National Treasury , except for guaranteed financing provisions , and to streamline fiscal accounts to avoid deficits ; ( iii ) to combat speculation ; ( iv ) to end private and public monopolies ; ( v ) to introduce tax reforms at the beginning of the new year aimed at simplifying the tax system and making it more progressive to " make everyone participate in the national effort " ; and ( vi ) to carry out an administrative reform in the state sector with some state companies to be privatized . |
| 20 | Does anyone approve of the proposed er , a agency ? |
| 21 | ‘ Does anyone know about the two of you ? |