Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Fiat had emerged from the gateway of the Miletti villa at five o'clock that afternoon , Zen had been astonished to find that his driver for the ransom drop was to be Silvio 's secretary , Ivy Cook . |
| 2 | You are likely to find that your memories of the house of childhood are split — into fear and security , fire and ice , harmony and conflict . |
| 3 | Conversation is an important part of reviving the patient 's ability to communicate and his interest in the world around him . |
| 4 | But it is difficult to know whether their defence of the Masai in such cases should be attributed to the peculiarly seductive qualities of this people , or to the well-documented tendency of District Officers throughout British Africa to become closely identified , in a paternal and proprietary way , with the interests of ‘ their ’ tribe . |
| 5 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 6 | Admittedly the absence of Brian Reid gave him the 250 at Carrowdore and then Derek Young 's injury at Kirkistown handed him the Open Road Racing Ireland award , but he has certainly had a year to remember and his performances in the 600cc series have all been high class . |
| 7 | These have tended to widen as our understanding of the needs of children has developed . |
| 8 | World War 1 veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 9 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 10 | Tribe looks back on his time in England with a sense of practicality , interlaced with many fond memories , some of which he hopes to rekindle if his plans for a visit next year come to fruition . |
| 11 | When I first met these ideas , I was reluctant to accept them , because they seemed to suggest that our knowledge of the world is more unreliable than I would like to think . |
| 12 | But it really is nonsense to suggest that his remarks about the quality of a decanter and glasses and the longevity of his earrings compared with a prawn sandwich presaged the decline in Ratner 's fortunes . |
| 13 | It is important to perceive that our interest in the past will be dictated by our involvement in the present . |
| 14 | Within twenty-four hours of the publication of the Report , Boyle rose in the House of Commons to announce that its recommendations on the scale of necessary expansion were accepted by the Government , that funds were being made available to cover the next ten years , including £650,000,000 for capital expenditure on building by universities . |
| 15 | The FMLN stated that the handover demonstrated its " willingness to negotiate and its support for a political solution and peace " but did not affect its anti-aircraft capability . |
| 16 | By looking at the links between sea level rise and volcanic activity over the last million years , he hopes to be able to predict whether our heating of the atmosphere today could earn us a fierce and violent reprimand from the planet in years to come . |
| 17 | Teachers are asked to ensure that their entries for the new class lists are brought up to date by the end of July . |
| 18 | However , this recognition is not in order to freeze into cynical inaction , in the words of John Huddleston , but rather to ensure that our thinking about the future is practical and down-to-earth as well as visionary ( Huddleston , 1991 ) . |
| 19 | More and more Conservatives , in and out of the House , are coming to believe that their chances at the election would be stronger under a different leader . |
| 20 | Leaving aside the areas of conflict , librarians would like to believe that their input to the trade is a vital one . |
| 21 | This can be illustrated from a wide variety of cases : the uses of literacy for social control in nineteenth century Canada , for instance , where any ‘ critical ’ element was carefully excluded ( Graff , 1979 ) ; the restriction of the content of written forms to religious tracts by the Methodist missionaries who introduced literacy to Fiji in the nineteenth century ( Clammer , 1976 ) ; the examples from British literacy campaigns that show how illiteracy developed in schools because of the class-based nature of schooling ( Mace , 1979 ) ; the uses of literacy for religious and symbolic purposes in Ghana ( Goody , 1968 ) ; the greater trust placed by thirteenth century knights in England on seals and symbols as means of legitimating charters and rights to land and their suspicion of the written document as more likely to be forged and inaccurate ( Clanchy , 1979 ) ; the development in Iranian villages of forms of literacy taught in Koranic schools into forms of literacy appropriate for commercial trading in a rapidly modernising and urbanising economy ( Section 2 ) . |
| 22 | We no longer allow the old to starve when their usefulness to the community is ended . |
| 23 | One possibility is that in excluding nursing home residents we left out an especially vulnerable group of elderly people who were more likely to die than their counterparts in the community . |
| 24 | As will be shown below , there is some reason , though not perhaps positive evidence , for supposing that his appointment to the Muftilik occurred relatively late in his life ; and there seems also to be good reason to suppose that his appointment to the muderrislik of the Manastir medrese occurred before his appointment to the kadilik since it was usual even in the early days of the Ottoman state for a man to have done some teaching before being appointed to as important a kadilik as that of the capital city . |
| 25 | This obviously reintroduces the scepticism which Descartes had hoped to avoid , and it increases when Malebranche goes on to argue that our perceptions of a material world could not anyway be caused by that world even if there were one , but must be caused by God . |
| 26 | Consider Hart 's account of what it is for a social rule to exist and his distinction between the internal and the external points of view . |
| 27 | Douglas Groom , checkout assistant at Bramingham Park , was delighted to learn that his nomination for the Good Neighbour Scheme had been successful . |
| 28 | A tuft of hair on the front of the body helps them to check that their motion through the air is straight , but their primary navigational guidance comes from huge mosaic eyes on either side of the head , which provide superbly accurate and detailed vision . |
| 29 | In 1954 a Royal Commission was set up to investigate and its Report on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency , published in 1957 , was followed by the 1959 Mental Health Act . |
| 30 | Since it is assessed on the difference between the value of the land without permission to develop and its value for the development permitted , the amount of the charge is inevitably a matter of judgement and valuation — and therefore for negotiation , in the same way as the price of land is a matter for negotiation . |