Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pos pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told her plainly , ‘ My reason was this : I have no wish to lose my newly appointed designer at such a crucial stage in the proceedings . |
| 2 | The reason is clear — they believed property was the best investment to meet their rapidly inflating liabilities — and that was even in the dark days of 1975 . |
| 3 | The 34-year-old still managed to win 21-17 , 21-9 against Cooke , who has been struggling to find his best form all season . |
| 4 | Whatever you need to know our specially trained staff are always happy to help . |
| 5 | Pluralists and some Marxists expect such institutions to indoctrinate policy-influentials with the need to perform their organizationally defined roles . |
| 6 | Of course members would not wish to lose their hard won membership , and a renewed request is now made for all 1992 subscriptions unpaid . |
| 7 | The communiqué also called upon the United States to implement its recently announced decision to dismantle its chemical-weapons incineration plant at Johnston Atoll , and criticized the US government 's " inadequate " consultations before beginning the destruction project . |
| 8 | In order that this may swell easily to accommodate its rapidly accumulating tissues , this simple body is not burdened with a heavy sclerotised skeleton but enclosed in a thin and to some degree stretchable cuticle . |
| 9 | In cases like these local landowners allowed the construction of only the minimum number of houses needed to accommodate their permanently employed labour force , often in ‘ estate villages ’ . |
| 10 | The combination of repossessions and building companies ' inability to sell their newly built homes has resulted in an estimated 200,000 properties standing unoccupied . |
| 11 | It appeared to roll forward and unfold under its own natural momentum , to reach its clearly defined objectives . |
| 12 | It is impossible to imagine their ever retaking control , but at a philosophical level the estrangement of the party from some of the old landed values still seems more a separation than a divorce . |
| 13 | Forget talking to your plants … if you want them to look their best try a bit of good old fashioned pampering . |
| 14 | The discount houses agreed to abandon their collectively agreed price for the weekly Treasury bill issue , but they would continue to apply for a quantity of bills sufficient to cover the tender . |
| 15 | One is the magnanimous view that the DES was caught out by economic circumstances and a declining birth rate and that circumstances combined to overthrow its carefully planned reorganization . |
| 16 | If European bankers now want to keep their newly won crown , they must resist the same temptation to lend , lend , lend . |
| 17 | Certainly the men were only too ready to propitiate their rarely seen companions , leaving them scraps of food , and pieces of candle . |
| 18 | I 'm told the press is at a loss , finding little of sufficient calibre elsewhere in publishing to satisfy its extremely demanding requirements . |
| 19 | Well you obviously welcome all of these regulations , and this added burden on your services , but is n't that going to stretch your already over-stretched services too much ? |
| 20 | Not to mention our highly regarded free customer support service which is always on hand should you need advice or assistance . |
| 21 | Mind you Idlike to think its professionally done , not some woman in the back with an iron : - ) |
| 22 | The 17-member Co-Ordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls ( COCOM ) , the body whose main role had been to regulate the sale of Western technology to communist countries , agreed in Paris on June 1-2 to invite the former Soviet republics to join its newly established COCOM Co-Operation Forum on Export Controls . |
| 23 | In Kings North Trust Ltd. v. Bell [ 1986 ] 1 W.L.R. 119 a husband and wife agreed to charge their jointly owned matrimonial home to secure an advance made to the husband for the purposes of his business . |
| 24 | A good way to work up an appetite and enjoy an evening in Amsterdam will be to join our fully escorted city bike tour . |
| 25 | Finally , when you are hanging the mirror , do remember to use some extra-sturdy hooks and nylon picture cord , as it will be heavier than a normal mirror , and you do n't want to ruin your carefully constructed design , as well as incur seven years ' bad luck , by watching the whole thing smash on to the floor ! |
| 26 | Gary was a steady , reliable , unspectacular right-back , who joined the Palace at Alan Mullery 's instigation in January 1983 and certainly helped to bolster our somewhat suspect defence in the trying days of the early mid-1980s . |
| 27 | I had been called upon to show my newly strengthened Christian faith before the whole congregation of the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 28 | The larger female is more heavily marked , this helps to make her better camouflaged on the ground nest she builds in the Arctic spring , immediately after the snow begins to melt . |
| 29 | It follows that is not an objective number generated by considerations of overall balance in the labour market : its value turns critically on the political preferences of governments which are supposed to be in a position to define for themselves what unemployment rate will correspond to full employment and to be capable of action to achieve their newly defined objective . |