Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No they just seemed to know how to go about things a hell of a lot better than we did . |
| 2 | ‘ Ca n't say I 'd like to go through lifewith a name like that . |
| 3 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 4 | It states : ’ as to the future , we have to secure for Scotland a much more direct and convenient method of bringing her influence to bear upon her own purely domestic affairs . |
| 5 | If the foundation of the UGC stands as an attempt to relate narrowly-based civil institutions to the concerns of public policy and national agency , the proposals contained in the Newbolt Report represent an attempt to provide for English a similar link with national policy . |
| 6 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 7 | He may have been prepared to accept from Anselm a call for restraint which he would have taken from no one else . |
| 8 | The reading and writing of whole numbers was looked at by asking pupils to write in numerals a number presented in words . |
| 9 | Here it 's the condemned man waiting to ‘ go shuffling out of life/just to hide in death a while ’ . |
| 10 | Richmond was the first black man to find in sport a route out of the despair and misery which were integral parts of his enslavement . |
| 11 | He offers to Samavia a loyalty as warm as Marco 's but deriving partly from hero-worship as he comes to find in Lorestan a father-figure . |
| 12 | The basis in threes was to be expected if God was a Trinity ; and indeed in Swainson 's high-church theology , we should expect to find in nature a network of analogies and symbols . |
| 13 | Chauvinism , local and national , lies at the heart of hooliganism and England fans seem to find in foreigners a convenient target fur a vague resentment at Britain 's diminished place in the world . |
| 14 | The heavy breasts and opulent maternal figures of the old Stone Age goddesses which give way to the multiplied breasts of the Ephesian Diana and then to the Mother-and-Child images mentioned above represent a trend of increasing clarification and refinement of the basic psychological situation — the need to find in heaven a substitute for the primal mother lost on earth . |
| 15 | I do n't want to appear in front a judge in his first five years then . |
| 16 | The company , Altovar Limited , makes varnish , which ignited after a worker used a blow torch to try to unblock a pipe . |
| 17 | However , the threshold at which this figure becomes payable is to increase to £195 a week from the current £190 . |
| 18 | Inflation is supposed to tumble to 17% a month . |
| 19 | And now , quite slowly , there began to creep over Matilda a most extraordinary and peculiar feeling . |
| 20 | It was impossible for any society to absorb without hardship a shock like that of the massive loss of trade to Gdynia . |
| 21 | Melinda , 39 , made the decision to work at home a year ago . |
| 22 | To quote a price by rail is quite simple and to despatch by rail a matter of plainest routine , but it is not so with canals . |
| 23 | More straightforwardly , awareness of another nation 's literature helps to create for authors a sense of the particular character and limitations of their own , encouraging the pursuit of alternatives and possibilities for innovation and change . |
| 24 | For example , an employer who envisages having to slim down his work-force in the future , perhaps after introducing new technology , may offer those who are prepared to resign rather than to wait to volunteer for redundancy a financial inducement , perhaps exceeding state redundancy pay . |
| 25 | One morning , several students and a support worker decided to create with Henry a word-board comprising letters and phrases ( e.g. ‘ p — s off ’ ) that he might need to use . |
| 26 | The effect of introducing just this one gene is to switch off some genes and to set in train a sequence of gene activation so that the cell develops into a muscle cell with all the appropriate proteins — master gene is an appropriate description . |
| 27 | As you may know the Cardinal has already taken steps to set in train a thorough investigation into the moral implications of the Law Lords ' decision . |
| 28 | One of Rayner 's first acts was to set in train a series of efficiency scrutinies within Whitehall . |
| 29 | It is not disputed by the Legal Aid Board , and indeed it is obvious , that the existing practice is highly convenient and may avoid unnecessary costs being incurred which would eventually fall on the legal aid fund if it were necessary in every case to set in motion a procedure for filing of evidence . |
| 30 | It was he who went on to train me to the point where I could begin to set in motion a way to extract revenge from the blanc nations , and ensure that no one would so betray us again . |