Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [prep] [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only does it hamstring itself by trying to please all nations , it also attempts to appeal to a mythical European consciousness that can not exist in the continent whose countries have spent centuries ever more jealously defining their national characteristics . |
| 2 | These signs , it must be said , largely reflect the changing strategies and priorities of management itself in coming to recognise that people have their personal plans and needs . |
| 3 | The caller from the agency may plead and cajole you into agreeing to accept the job , especially if it is a last minute booking and they are desperate for someone . |
| 4 | They saw the cartel as a necessary evil to make the market less volatile and to restrain producers themselves from trying to corner the market in coffee futures . |
| 5 | An exception to this tendency towards a belief in technological determinism is that branch of Marxist history which follows Marx himself in preferring to focus on changes in the social organization of productive relations . |
| 6 | ‘ He was speaking to himself rather than to me at the time , but I recall Jeff muttering under his breath something about having to go to the mainland soon … ’ |
| 7 | The interests of those who profit from slavery should play no role whatsoever in deciding to abolish the institution from which they profit . |
| 8 | The materialistic , scientific view of life processes has achieved no success whatsoever in endeavouring to answer how living systems are able to maintain their forms through continually changing conditions , or how growth is planned or organised . |
| 9 | In this respect , a document purporting to be a sale of hire purchase agreements was construed by Eve J at first instance in Re George Inglefield [ 1933 ] Ch 1 , as a charge on book debts whereas , in the Court of Appeal ( at p27 ) , it was held to be a sale : " [ There is ] no reason whatever for attempting to drag the transaction within the operation of the section [ s 395 of the Companies Act 1985 ] by calling it something which in truth it is not . " |
| 10 | Whether knowingly or not , the Wordsworths had entered the deer park surrounding a large unoccupied mansion called Alfoxden , and reached the house itself before deciding to turn back . |