Example sentences of "[unc] [adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 2 | Tacq 's technical knowledge enables her to give complicated ideas pictoral form . |
| 3 | Over The Net 's extensive options enable you to play one or two players against the computer . |
| 4 | Although part of the same expedition , Gould 's and Sturt 's different objectives led them to work independently . |
| 5 | Hurstdown 's Benedictine origins encourage us to emphasize the language of Catholicism at the expense of that of Orthodoxy . |
| 6 | You would enter from below , at the level of the Old Town , and progress upwards , just as Wright 's generous ramp encourages you to do in New York . |
| 7 | Australia 's generous rules allow him to revalue intangible assets like newspaper mastheads , without saying specifically how much each asset is worth . |
| 8 | Brenda 's direct statement pushed me to act , to move and to go to where my energy had always been . |
| 9 | Other firms were less well-prepared , but the depression in London 's commercial-property market enabled them to put thousands of workers in unlet offices quickly . |
| 10 | The papacy 's moral powers enabled it to look for money throughout the western world . |
| 11 | The strict mother can be very effective in getting what she needs if the man 's early experience helps him to relate to that kind of woman . |
| 12 | Some of Hugo 's drunken friends told him to let the hounds chase her , and so he ran from the house and unlocked the dogs . |
| 13 | It probably wo n't be long , before Kenan 's nagging John to take him to see his favourite football team . |
| 14 | It probably wo n't be long , before Kenan 's nagging John to take him to see his favourite football team . |
| 15 | Mdf 's smooth surface enables it to accept all types of finishes , from veneers and laminates , to paints and varnishes . |
| 16 | Fraser 's considerate gesture enabled them to lengthen the visit to include a two-week trip to New Zealand . |
| 17 | EMERALD ISLE : Ireland 's brooding landscape invites you to explore |
| 18 | Whether the issue is North Korea 's nuclear defiance , tensions between India and Pakistan , or the wrangle over Cambodia , China 's new-found influence obliges it to choose : it can join in and help with the sorting out , or confirm the suspicion that China may become , instead , Asia 's most troublesome power . |
| 19 | The exceptional stiffness of the Clio 's basic structure allowed them to select and develop a suspension layout with MacPherson struts at the front and trailing arms with a torsion bar at the rear . |
| 20 | Laura 's natural adaptability enabled her to settle quickly . |
| 21 | Loyalty to the group 's famous brands helped it to boost pretax profits by 13.2pc last year to £316.4m from £279.6m in 1990 , although sales grew by just 2.7pc . |
| 22 | She suggests that women 's distinctive experience leads them to form a moral sensibility that is closer to aesthetic response than to the legalism implicit in much principle-based morality . |
| 23 | ‘ So be my witness , ’ he said , ‘ that before the face of God and in your presence I swear this : that when God 's good time serves me to do it without injury to my foremost obligations to Him and to my country , I will take and destroy the castle of Parfois for the wrongs of Harry Talvace dead and Harry Talvace living . |
| 24 | A quick glance showed that towels were needed , so she went to the linen cupboard and collected two large fluffy ones , but as she returned to the room the sound of Doreen 's plaintive voice caused her to pause . |
| 25 | Moreover , as with the rank-and-file townsmen , the State 's bureaucratic weakness led it to impose crippling burdens on the leading merchants . |
| 26 | Genette 's relational strategy leads him to construct purely abstract combinations without any real existence in literature . |
| 27 | In front of Fraser , Ramsay himself had to be more restrained than he would have wished , but at least Agnes 's cheerful kisses allowed him to bestow a like greeting on her sister , Fraser looking on somewhat askance . |
| 28 | Lorenz 's own observations led him to take a different view . |
| 29 | Lightbown 's thorough approach leads him to investigate aspects of the artist never before considered , such as costume and ornament . |
| 30 | Colberg galled him most — the officer 's gentlemanly aplomb helping him to swim like an eel under and between the weapons of a thousand angry people . |