Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked up in surprise to see Jason with an unusually serious expression on his face . |
| 2 | The dispute is over the US 's reluctance to curb emissions of the most important greenhouse gas , carbon dioxide . |
| 3 | It 's 5.30 a.m. in the morning and a baby lamb is about to see daylight for the very first time . |
| 4 | One-half of this was to be sold by auction , and the profits above the official price of $ 42.2 an ounce were then to be used to promote aid to the less developed countries , whereas the other half was to be sold back to members at the prevailing official price . |
| 5 | In fairness it has to be said that Levin tries to isolate Debord from a purely formal Modernism , and from naive realism ( the politics of the signified ) . |
| 6 | Potential employers , for example , have to weigh up the possibilities of employing mentally handicapped people ; schoolteachers and heads may have to accommodate handicapped children in normal schools ; members of a jury may have to pass verdict on a mildly handicapped person . |
| 7 | The sport is now obliged to find income from the more normal sources of television and sponsorship , to replace his largely unacknowledged private patronage . |
| 8 | But other forms eventually arose which were able to extract hydrogen from a very much more widespread source — water . |
| 9 | Thus , it has been suggested that the attempts to re-organise football in a more businesslike manner , to make it more professional , have alienated young working-class fans from their football clubs . |
| 10 | As a bonus , ticket holders will be able to tour Plymouth before the 8pm performances , and to go on board HMS Onyx , moored alongside . |
| 11 | Although many hospitals , schools and institutions are making a big effort , there is still a need for the Government to provide guidance for the less enthusiastic or efficient . |
| 12 | To establish LASMO as the most effective global pure exploration and production company . |
| 13 | MTM 's bankers have agreed to continue to provide funds for the deeply troubled chemicals group until the end of the month . |
| 14 | Suburbs sprawled out to provide homes for the newly prosperous who were searching for more peaceful surroundings . |
| 15 | It is not possible to obtain data at a sufficiently disaggregated level to confirm this argument , but it is consistent with the data that are available . |
| 16 | There are exercises to check comprehension and to provide practice in the most relevant lexical and grammatical areas . |
| 17 | He had come home late the previous evening from a tedious conference to find Sylvie in a strangely seductive mood , a champagne bottle at the ready , her favourite music pulsing through the house . |
| 18 | A digital file has been prepared at the LSE in collaboration with the Norwegian Social Science Data Services ( NSD ) to provide linkage with the most commonly available mapping packages and geographical information systems . |
| 19 | Perhaps the greatest mistake in the application of GIS has been to allow the glamour of the technology to distract attention from the more mundane , yet vital , aspects of data acquisition and verification . |
| 20 | The study of bacteria was to provide biology with an enormously useful approach to the nature of life , but at this period it raised no theoretical questions which the most conventional scientist would not immediately recognise . |
| 21 | The Bath Clinic in Avon is cutting the price of vasectomies to £180 to attract patients over a traditionally quiet Christmas . |
| 22 | Clearly subject coverage is a matter of degree , and no public librarian ( nor any reasonable library user ) would expect to find works of a very specialized nature immediately available on the shelves of a small service point . |
| 23 | 1 To increase awareness of the more recent products . |
| 24 | However , a knowledge of classical melodic structures will still be useful , even if our purpose is to write music of a more up-to-date character . |
| 25 | Over the past twelve months it has been my great privilege to become more closely involved with those with disabilities , I have seen the enormous efforts being made to encourage participation at a very high competitive level as well as tremendous strides being made at many clubs to bring disabled people into sailing at all levels . |
| 26 | We were very glad to pass Gibraltar into the relatively calm waters of the Mediterranean , and that night we were able to undress and sleep in peace . |
| 27 | Although a vineyard thus cultivated always appears to contain vines of no more than three years of age , they do of course all issue from their parent plants , thus a ‘ pre-phylloxera ’ vine nowadays will be either three or eighty years old , depending upon how it is viewed . |
| 28 | This is because the areas of women 's greatest visibility in sociology tend also to contain examples of the most rampant sexism . |
| 29 | Nor should industry expect ‘ to find refuge in a perpetually depreciating currency ’ , Mrs Thatcher said , underlining Nigel Lawson 's opposition to devaluation of the pound . |
| 30 | THE PROBLEM WAS TRICKY : AT BEST IT was going to concentrate minds for a very long time indeed . |