Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My recollection was that it was £250 for a great deal of work and endless consultations with courteous BBC representatives who were terrified by my refusal to produce a total text ( since I can only give plausibility to anything I say when there is at least an element extemporised ) and refused to accept my positive assurances that I was as unlikely to dry up as the Thames . |
| 2 | In April 1765 Collinson wrote , ‘ I have the pleasure to inform my good friend that my repeated solicitations have not been in vain , for this day I received certain intelligence from our gracious King that he has appointed thee his Botanist with a salary of fifty pounds a year . ’ |
| 3 | Everything made sense now — his obsessional hatred of the drugs world , his grim determination to fight the dealers , his refusal to accept her repeated protests that she had never been involved . |
| 4 | While still learning , to swim or drive a car or speak a foreign language , he does have to think out what to do next , but it is when he comes to trust his own reflexes that he will have mastered the skill . |
| 5 | The magazine served to reinforce my own feelings that we in the UK must fight to preserve lesbian and gay rights which were so hard won and which Mrs Thatcher seems determined to destroy . |
| 6 | The publication of the General Theory before the war was part of Keynes 's campaign to persuade his fellow economists that his proposition — that the trade cycle could be ironed out by the government adjusting the volume of demand in the economy — was correct . |
| 7 | I have tried to persuade our excitable friend that he should do the same . ’ |
| 8 | I wish that we had been able during the last few months to persuade our European colleagues that we are not arguing just for a narrow British position . |
| 9 | To lead in all the polls as the favoured candidate for the Tory succession , to persuade your own party that you offer a distinctive viewpoint without being in any way overtly disloyal , to convince even the cynics of the Press that you pose a realistic alternative to the present leadership — no phenomenon like it has been seen in British politics for 50 years . |
| 10 | It is not that the Sergeant really objects to the constable having a legitimate excuse for being late , but it is because he too has to satisfy his superior officers that his omission to visit all the constables regularly is due to efficient Police duty . |
| 11 | Although you have not been in the manager 's seat very long , you have done nothing to alter my original opinion that your appointment makes about as much sense as the Charge of the Light Brigade . |
| 12 | What Sylvia had accomplished while doing her homework was to convince her subconscious mind that she was quite capable of entering an enclosed space without fear ; and since it is the subconscious which is responsible for sending out all those panic signals — the racing heart , the sweating palms , the feelings of nausea and so on — those symptoms did not appear . |
| 13 | This denial is so certain that other people close to the sufferer may even come to doubt their own certainty that there really are problems or they may even come to doubt their own sanity . |
| 14 | ‘ If a military posture is demonstrably defensive the hawks in the neighbouring system will find it harder to convince their own establishment that they need new weapons for self protection ’ . |
| 15 | Often she had to work so hard to overcome her paralysing shyness that what she had to say burst out in a shout , or in a tone of great fierceness . |
| 16 | The police became irritated too with the need to check her unsubstantiated claim that there were communist arms dumps and Russian involvement in plans for revolutionary uprisings . |
| 17 | A tower may seem round from a distance , but there is no need to doubt our closer observation that it is square . |
| 18 | Another superb serve led to no more than a defensive return from Sampras and Forget was so confident that the American would not be able to return his first volley that he only just stopped himself from throwing his racket into the air as he started to dance for joy along with the crowd . |
| 19 | This week UK , Cambridge-based IXI Ltd is going to confirm our months-old story that it 's signed HaL Computer Systems to license and bundle IXI 's Motif-compliant desktop manager X.desktop on its anticipated 64-bit Sparc machines ( UX No 388 ) . |
| 20 | I 'll even withdraw my men to assure your so-called sister that I do n't want her brother 's castle . |
| 21 | I could go on , but this is enough to prove my initial statement that there is a sort of safety to be found in your average school playground . |
| 22 | If not it 'll be for me to tell her lovin' papa that his baby daughter is lost , and what 's the bettin' he 'll be over here on the fastest boat runnin' , to cut my throat for me if anything 's happened to her ? ’ |
| 23 | In 1496 he was able to tell his royal employers that he had found a goldfield of El Doradan proportions , capable of producing up to 3 tons of gold a year , enough to justify the cost of his four expeditions . |
| 24 | He told the shepherd to tell his own people that he would use these weapons to regain the Holy Sepulchre . |
| 25 | However , this was clearly not the moment in which to tell his dearest Laura that she looked magnificent when she was angry , and he hastened to set the record straight . |
| 26 | In 1956 Simon returned from a Christmas vacation to tell his bemused students that he and Newell had spent the festive season inventing a ‘ thinking machine ’ . |