Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because people seem either to write or commission reports at the slightest excuse you must assume that in most cases a formal , written report is not in fact wanted . |
| 2 | Since there is a waiting list for places on the course for better driving , readers may be interested to know that groups affiliated to the Institute of Advanced Motorists hold such classes all over the country . |
| 3 | Governors need to know that savings remain with the school and that losses are immediately deducted from the next year 's budget total ; they must hold it important to understand the whole budget and grasp the concept of virement . |
| 4 | Its purpose is to impose an obligation upon Norwich to secure that Winchester complies with the Rules . |
| 5 | It is perhaps surprising to find that Jacques married for the first time on 31 March 1728 at the age of 55 . |
| 6 | When I raised it as Chairman at the General Management Committee , I was disgusted to find that people laughed at the very subject that was so important to women who 've come up here today to let us know the consequences of what was happening . |
| 7 | In some places the needles were several inches deep and easier to rake than autumn leaves on a tended lawn ; elsewhere they were saturated and packed , or buried among tangled creepers and virulent , shining ivy . |
| 8 | With the Rugby World Sevens being played this weekend , the game at Kingsholm was a taster ; a curtain raiser for good things to come and Gloucester rose to the occasion with a stirring display . |
| 9 | Well want to know if Rick joins in the conversation will we get any vouchers for doggy food ? |
| 10 | Heavy slate slabs ran round the walls — on some pans of milk were set and left to stand until cream rose to the surface , on others there were pounds of butter , ridged by wooden " butter-hands " and stamped with swans , which sweated cold salt like beads or tears to their surfaces . |
| 11 | Guinness continued to encourage and support links with the communities in which it works . |
| 12 | We need to know whether Paul got to the Cathedral under his own steam and at what time . |
| 13 | Some manufacturers provide a capacity record at the start of a track , used to indicate whether space remains on the track during loading . |
| 14 | Although it would be a mistake to see them as watertight compartments , or to pretend that issues raised in the first were not also relevant to the third , this division is helpful in indicating broad trends and key differences , which will be explored in the sections which follow . |
| 15 | Experience shows that it is often difficult to assess the extent of exposure to light that samples receive in the market and hence to estimate the degree of exaggeration or acceleration that any one test gives . |
| 16 | Similarly , if you have junior managers reporting to you , ensure that they have a similar debate with their staff and follow this through to see that action occurs on the suggestions . |
| 17 | To experience joy in suffering is to realize that Jesus stands with the poor , the underprivileged , and those , like Francis of Assisi , rejected by their own people . |
| 18 | She was still naïve enough not to realize that ideas tossed of the cuff could sound quite different in the cold print of day . |
| 19 | His powerful shooting , sometimes from long range , was spectacular and effective and we do well to remember that Albert played in the days when the leather ball grew heavier and heavier , soaking up any moisture there may have been in or on the pitch and possibly finishing up weighing several pounds . |
| 20 | Jenna knew she would feel trapped — she had known for quite a few days — but she was not about to tell Alain Lemarchand that , and she was just gathering her thoughts to answer when Marguerite called from the hall . |
| 21 | But the big money Samuel was still accumulating would have to wait until Canada obliged with the immigration papers . |
| 22 | Is credit rationing easier to implement if banks operate as a cartel or if they are highly competitive ? |
| 23 | ‘ I see no captain on the bridge , no leader , no will to win or passion to play for the club . |
| 24 | One possible alternative may be to suggest that jaws correspond to the velum in a larval lamprey , a special pumping device located at the entrance to the pharynx . |
| 25 | In fact , hindsight leads one to suggest that Jimmy came to the Palace 20 years too soon — he could have become an inspiration in Malcolm Allison 's footballing team of the mid-1970s . |
| 26 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 27 | The unusual nature of these counter-examples indicates that they are indeed the exceptions which prove the rule , and it is normally reasonable to assume that coins made from the same die were produced at the same time and place . |
| 28 | Essentially , occupational pension schemes are designed — by men with male ‘ family wage-earners ’ and male middle-class career patterns in mind , so not only do they exclude the majority of part-time workers , but they tend to assume that earnings peak in the final years of working life , which is much less often the case for women than for men . |
| 29 | In particular , Siegel ( 1967 ) found that a close examination of his results led to the conclusion ( see also Riley 1968 ) that it was unwarranted to assume that responses learned in the first stage could not be the source of the transfer seen in the second . |
| 30 | Mariana made a move to help as Trent returned to the living-room with broom and pan . |