Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] [pron] [vb base] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , and while anxious not to bore the pants off either of my faithful readers , I feel bound to return to and to expand upon the theme as a result of what I consider to be a truly appalling piece of recent news . |
| 2 | Members of Parliament then have an opportunity to discuss and amend , accepting or rejecting the proposals in the light of what they consider to be the needs and desires of their constituents . |
| 3 | The Horses ' sequence ( of which Nos.1 to 49 are also illustrated here ) provided " a dictionary of what we do to an image " . |
| 4 | There is a breath of punk in what they aspire to : the Do Anything You Wan na Do line of thought that infiltrates everything from their offstage character through to their dealings with the record company . |
| 5 | There is the one where a madcap home supporter gingerly urinates from above on opposition fans who are innocently drinking tea in what they take to be a gentle drizzle . |
| 6 | In the process we should critically re-evaluate how we understand the relationship between research , policy and practice in childcare and research , policy and practice in what we refer to as child abuse and child protection work . |
| 7 | However , landlords usually calculate the rent on what they consider to be reasonable use of shared facilities , which is already to their advantage . |
| 8 | But I think it 's always a case of what you bring to acting — bring to the parts that are being offered to you . |
| 9 | To the locals , however , it appears to lack the spontaneity of what they consider to be a ‘ real community ’ , which they regard as arising ‘ naturally ’ out of living and working together over succeeding generations . |
| 10 | Other situations where a landlord has a guaranteed right of repossession are : lettings by temporarily absent owner occupiers ; lettings of retirement homes — a letting that enables people to let a home to which they intend to ultimately retire ; lettings by servicemen . |
| 11 | If there is a particular site for which you want to be kept informed of any future development , you can ask the planning department to tell you if it receives an application affecting it . |
| 12 | According to functionalism , it is useful to categorize environmental stimuli on the basis of what they mean to a subject rather than on the basis of their gross physical characteristics . |
| 13 | Do you think it would be a good idea to privatize planning control in the sense of letting it be up to developers to choose whether they should go ahead or not on the basis of what they conceive to be constraints , or that that should be within the entire realm of the local planning authority ? |
| 14 | What was much more important to me was the emergence of what I consider to be the breakdown of constitutional government . |
| 15 | There 's no record of what I say to her |
| 16 | Lina Stimpson thinks this is because the residents are mostly Londoners who have ‘ bettered themselves ’ and are ‘ putting their confidence in what they aspire to be ’ . |
| 17 | But his speculation — so far only seen in outline , in a methodological ( and often polemical ) essay rather than in a series of detailed studies — point to what I believe to be the correct questions even if he does not provide all the right answers . |
| 18 | Secondly , and perhaps most important , they have claimed that they do not want to hand over control of an income tax to what they perceive to be extremist Labour local authorities . |
| 19 | Show the smile by which we respond to the story . |
| 20 | I confirm that this is the name by which I intend to be known in all my professional practices as a lawyer . |
| 21 | They were like astronauts landing on the moon and finding footprints in the dust , or like the mountain climbers in Jules Verne who , having at last reached the summit of what they take to be a virgin Himalayan peak , find a sign saying : M. Durand , Dentist , 14 rue Caumartin , Paris . |
| 22 | The feature of Althusser 's view that repels his liberal critics is his neglect of what they take to be a central distinction between the essential and contingent properties of individuals . |
| 23 | Bearing in mind that Labour Members have made many promises without costing them , will my hon. Friend tell us whether they have made promises about the environment in which they claim to be interested ? |
| 24 | I think that they are erm unfortunately erm affected by any event which happens in an area in which they happen to be . |
| 25 | That actions are interpretations of movements and speeches with respect to what we take to be the intention of the actor in making them . |
| 26 | This is a much older problem and one which precedes the rise of environmentalism , because in addition to the environmental lobby the exclusive rights of the farmer have long been under threat from another source — the massed ranks of the urban population , intent on using the countryside as a source of recreation and determined to gain access to what they consider to be semi-public territory . |
| 27 | Rumi wrote , ‘ The gallows ( on which we are killed ) is the buraq on which we ride to heaven . ’ |
| 28 | Although the form of English pronouns reflects their number and gender , it almost always depends on the semantic number and gender of what they refer to , rather than to any linguistic property of the names of their referents . |
| 29 | This is not justice ; it is not even a theory of morality , since it rejects a consideration of what I take to be central to moral theory , the sense of each person being a member of a community with , inevitably , obligations and duties to others , as well as rights . |
| 30 | In 1963 , Leavis published an essay called ‘ Research in English ’ , attacking what he called ‘ a menacing academicism against which we have to be militantly upon our guard — a form of academicism institutionally established in America , and one the tendency towards which in this country — the developments of civilization favouring it — is much strengthened by American influence … |