Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at least give that person whose turn er , on the Management Committee for representing er , another committee , give him the opportunity to s either speak on it , or to say whether or not he wishes to carry on and of course to see what the vote people would take , and to put himself forward even so , which unfortunately , I was n't er , able to do so . |
| 2 | Volleyball : Chelmsford Partners women 's volleyball side are banking on a wealth of experience to give them the edge this Sunday in their first English Volleyball Association Cup Final.The team has an average age of nearly 34 , but they still fancy their chances of defeating a younger Sheffield Wednesday at Riverside ( start 1.30 pm ) . |
| 3 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 4 | Most people need to talk about their grief , to express it with others and have some kind of ceremony to show what an important life change it brings about . |
| 5 | Now that you are completing the preliminary studies and will shortly be embarking on the more complicated part of the syllabus , I feel that , at this stage , it would be of benefit to give you the following lessons in an endeavour to press home to you the importance and value of your continued perseverance . |
| 6 | On 17 , and level with Gower , Gooch off-drove Paul Reiffel for four on the stroke of lunch to earn himself a prolonged standing ovation . |
| 7 | But the majority of policemen and women we encountered were not like this and did not engage in little acts of subterfuge to limit what the field-worker saw or heard because either they had nothing to hide or , more rarely , they were not concerned to conceal it . |
| 8 | Foreign Agriculture is full of evidence to suggest what the cynical reader must have already suspected , and what the open minded reader may well be beginning to suspect . |
| 9 | It makes your body pour out masses of adrenalin to give you the strength to draw on your reserves to protect yourself and fight off the danger . |
| 10 | And I said do you want a piece of paper to write him a message or something ? |
| 11 | He showed us the whole lagoon ( it is very big ) , slowing down to let us see the most interesting parts , then hurtled off amid boiling clouds of spray to give us a thrill . |
| 12 | Most tournament players throw up blades of grass to tell them the wind direction and strength , which is ideal to copy . |
| 13 | It does not rely on its tail and the downward pull of gravity to give it a secure grip . |
| 14 | Haeckel reconstructed the tree of life to give it a main trunk or stem with the human race at the top : all developments in other directions were merely side branches of little real importance . |
| 15 | TUC research officer Simon Jones said : ‘ We understood the Secretary of State to give us an assurance that the investment plans would continue . |
| 16 | Oliver would n't understand that it was nicer of Dad to make him a toy than to buy him some dull old thing from a shop . |
| 17 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 18 | It was pitiful , the broken blade of a dagger that he had bound with strips of rag to give him a handle , and sharpened as best he could on the edge of the stone under the window ; the worn hollow , paler in colour , was there to be seen . |
| 19 | Get stuck into an engine without confiscating the car keys , and plenty of drivers will start the motor out of curiosity to see what an AA man looks like without any hands . |
| 20 | The failure of diplomacy to win them a homeland has left them hoping that Israeli retaliation against Iraq will split Syria and Egypt from the anti-Iraq alliance and open a new Arab-Israeli conflict . |
| 21 | Mr Singleton knew other talented people , among them an extremely obliging fellow who could treat a sheet of notepaper to give it the feel and appearance of age , and could also produce ink of a quality used in the past . |