Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 2 | Notice , too , that your choice between active or passive has the effect of enabling you to move the " actor " and the " acted upon " around in the sentence , most often either to the beginning or to the end ( as in the " Jane Austen " example above ) . |
| 3 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 4 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 5 | The crucial experiment is to rear male crickets without allowing them to hear the song of other crickets . |
| 6 | I would like to follow up your article on the Letters page of April 's Woodworker by asking you to put the following question to your experts or readers . |
| 7 | And it has the advantage of enabling us to consider the two problems associated with terms and relations in a single context . |
| 8 | The technique of getting them to supply the missing dialogue after a silent viewing of a scene provides a good opportunity for you and them to find out what language they have at their command and how flexibly they can use it . |
| 9 | The three , all members of the legislature 's trade and industry committee , were accused of having accepted $60,000 from the Korean Automobiles Manufacturers ' Association in return for helping it to gain the National Assembly 's approval for a package of state aid . |
| 10 | It means abandoning the working class to sectarian politics and violence and insulting their intelligence by telling them to join the SDLP . |
| 11 | This protects users ' investments in equipment by enabling them to buy the enhanced management and security of higher Tiers as their requirements dictate . |
| 12 | Mary was outraged by these measures , and resisted Pole 's recall by forbidding him to leave the country , and refusing to receive either the papal nuncio bearing the letters of revocation or any replacement for the cardinal . |
| 13 | Er it was hardly ever er a mother was just sort of given something to ease the pain . |
| 14 | Infuriated by what she called the actions of a wicked little sneak , Smallfry had forced him to eat every last crumb of the cake without allowing him to clean the dirt and animal saliva from its surface . |
| 15 | This is often the feeling the bereaved find most difficult to acknowledge , their anger against the dead person for abandoning them to face the world alone . |
| 16 | Kenneth drove me here last Sunday after helping me to load the car with clothes , shoes , video recorder , sound equipment , books , photos , kettle , mug , hot-water-bottle ( never go anywhere without it ) and all the required paraphernalia of a season away from home . |
| 17 | Fennel can be bought as tea bags and one of these can be used instead of half a teaspoon and the bag left hanging in the tank for one day after using it to make the remedy . |
| 18 | At Mr Baker 's age there was little point and probably less chance of persuading him to change the habits of a lifetime . |
| 19 | If she responds favourably to this ( which , if you are wise , you will have conveyed more through your attitudes than your actual words ) , you and her other helpers should try to create various circumstances or events which may stand a chance of helping her to break the habit of mourning : an interesting holiday , perhaps , or some new and mildly challenging experience which calls for her to look beyond herself to someone else in trouble , who will make her feel ‘ needed ’ . |
| 20 | It is always a good idea to keep cakes for at least a day before cutting them to allow the contents to settle . |
| 21 | And Hill recognises he owes both his famous and late dad and his predecessor at Williams , Nigel Mansell , thanks for their efforts in helping him to land the chance he now has . |
| 22 | Another set of problems that has serious implications for the social survey involves issues to do with data analysis rather more than collection but , none the less , does have a bearing in getting us to understand the limits of the survey and of variable analysis . |
| 23 | Once Richard had launched his attack on the Woodvilles , moreover , he exposed himself to recriminations should Edward V come to power , and this in turn may have played some part in deciding him to take the throne . |
| 24 | Once Richard had launched his attack on the Woodvilles , moreover , he exposed himself to recriminations should Edward V come to power , and this in turn may have played some part in deciding him to take the throne . |
| 25 | was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , the race is on among the other cosmetic companies to come up with even more original ways of helping you to make the right make-up choices . |
| 27 | He was told that the government department , with general responsibility for arts policy , has no means of helping him to reclaim the bronzes from the Ariadne Galleries in New York . |
| 28 | That he was regretting his impulse in inviting her to spend the weekend with him was obvious . |
| 29 | Writers of porn in the States have also been quick to acknowledge their role in helping us to face the epidemic . |
| 30 | She herself eats very little , and she attempts to fit me into what she sees as her future role by teaching me to do the same . |