Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 2 | Because information technology is new and exciting , its proponents naturally exaggerate the cultural role it will take But do they really believe that we shall have nothing better to do in the future than to sit in front of a screen for hours , plugging into Which ? , mail-order catalogues , and the index to Chemical Abstracts ? |
| 3 | At first the wood smoke brought distressing symptoms of choking and crying , and I was continually opening windows and doors — with little apparent effect except to sweep in cold draughts which swirled the smoke around . |
| 4 | If diarrhoea is described in some particular terms rather than others ( e.g. if it described as empacho ) the patient is more likely to consult a traditional practitioner than to go to a health clinic . |
| 5 | The matter gave him enormous regret , no doubt an unhappy situation whose solution lay in the lap of the all-merciful Allah ; nothing would give him greater pleasure than to return to Mr Laing his passport , which he had taken into nightly safekeeping only at the specific request of Mr Pyle . |
| 6 | She lay stiffly on the bed , unable to make up her mind whether to scream in disappointed rage or to burst into hysterical laughter . |
| 7 | But being unqualified for anything more taxing than preparing meals and cleaning rooms , it seemed I might have no alternative but to go into service . |
| 8 | The girl called Maggie had no alternative but to sit in a chair close to Eileen . |
| 9 | If they are held in overcrowded conditions , unfit for a dog to live in , and have no meaningful occupation — I do not mean soulless , non-productive work — they have no alternative but to fall into mischief and cause trouble . |
| 10 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 11 | He says it leaves prosecutors no alternative but to resort to methods such as plea bargaining , where defendents plead guilty in exchange for shorter sentences . |
| 12 | He had so manipulated the situation that if she wanted to do what she could for the twins she had no alternative but to agree to his terms . |
| 13 | However , not enough was known of the biology of stocks to make control measures credible or effective , and whalers in international competition for declining stocks had no alternative but to press for the largest allowable quota , and hunt at maximum efficiency to attain the largest share . |
| 14 | AT&T complains that US carriers wanting to enter the UK market not only have to invest substantial time and money in building their own networks , but also have no alternative but to negotiate with British Telecom for local access to customers . |
| 15 | He hoped , he said , that relations with Greece would improve , stating that the two countries had " no alternative but to live like good neighbours and friends " . |
| 16 | In the end , since the pope refused to free him , he had no alternative but to continue in office . |
| 17 | The capitalist system implied a monopoly of these ‘ means of production ’ in the hands of the few , so that the workers had no alternative but to work for the capitalist and on his terms in order to survive . |
| 18 | Balcha now had no alternative but to surrender to Ras Tafari who , with characteristic magnanimity , spared his life ; as to whether he ordered Balcha to enter a monastery or banished him to his estates in the Gurage country , accounts differ . |
| 19 | The otter has no alternative but to retreat in agony and attempt to prize the claws free . |
| 20 | ‘ So if my company wishes to supply the domestic market of this large and expanding population , it has no alternative but to manufacture from within the country itself . |
| 21 | My room-mate happening to be a policeman , I was at a loss whether to look upon it as a special honour or a special precaution , mine host putting into my room a representative of the force . |
| 22 | Indeed some propositions falling into the second category are of such little weight as to amount to virtually no authority at all , while others are so significant as to be more important than those apparently of binding authority . |
| 23 | No one wanted the children to be more traumatised than they already were , she said , and it would certainly be less travelling for them to go to Inverness than to return to Kirkwall . |
| 24 | Where it is clear from Jane Austen 's novels that those of humbler birth , if they had something to teach them , also had something to learn from them-Fanny , William , and Susan are all improved by their contact with Mansfield Park — in the reign of Victoria even Mrs Gaskell , who was certainly gifted with what Charlotte Bronte described as ‘ the organ of veneration ’ , is less inclined to revere great houses than to laugh at them . |
| 25 | In too many cases the draughtsman finds it quicker to design a new part than to search through hundreds of drawings for one that fits his task . |
| 26 | It was wittily said by a bright genius , who observed another to labour in the composition of a discourse he was to deliver in public , that such a painstaker was fitter to make a pulpit than to preach in it . |
| 27 | But what could be worthier of my human intelligence than to discriminate between and interrelate the parts of a painting or musical composition with the concentration of a mathematician solving a problem , yet respond to them with the immediacy of a dog pricking up its ears ? |
| 28 | Herbert had at first been reluctant to believe that it was better for John to study dance in Cape Town than to return to high school in Johannesburg . |
| 29 | ( Incidentally , it was harder to work out that there was a question than to think of the answer ! ) |
| 30 | The Mexican government has informed them that they have to decide by December whether to return to Guatemala , or to lose refugee status and become Mexican citizens . |