Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court to which an application for a stay of action should be made is the court in which that action is pending and the court can either stay the action or allow it to continue on such terms as it thinks fit ( s 285(2) ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Eight acres is all the council needs — we 'd build the club and manage it both as pay and play and as a private club . |
| 3 | He wraps it in balls if you 'll pardon the expression and puts it in M+M packets . |
| 4 | After careful consideration Ted decided to deep plough the land and prepare it for cultivation . |
| 5 | He did not quite make the grade and said he was happy to come home after missing all last year . |
| 6 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 7 | The judges in that case recognised that decisions of the stewards might affect the public but concluded they were not decisions in the sphere of public law . |
| 8 | Whether we 're covering Bananarama 's latest career move or state terrorism in Italy , we can promise the coverage and reporting you need to keep in touch . |
| 9 | ‘ Then they said they would need the cubicle and wheeled her out into the corridor opposite a phone . ’ |
| 10 | It may actually paralyse the person and put them on erm a life-support machine . |
| 11 | Bill and wife Sally , 35 , are waiting to hear if a housing association will buy the house and rent it back to them . |
| 12 | I am sure you will enjoy the session and find it very useful in your own teaching . |
| 13 | I thought I would catch the child and make him my friend before he was old enough to be frightened of my terrible face . |
| 14 | The necessary conditions for the formation of sand dunes are a wide foreshore exposed at low tide so that the wind blowing over it can dry the sand and set it in motion ; something to trap the sand and cause it to start accumulating ; and plants to colonise the pile of sand and by binding it together to prevent its complete destruction by the wind or high tides . |
| 15 | But Inman said : ‘ The referee did not recognise the technique and let her off the hook . ’ |
| 16 | . And the idea with these is that when you get reimbursed for expenses , you put the receipt into the expense envelopes then at the end of the month , erm , you would staple the envelope and attach it to your company expense claim or you know , throw it at the person who 's going to give your money back or whatever . |
| 17 | Whilst we were at it , we thought we 'd strip the floor and varnish it . |
| 18 | I would hazard a guess and say she would be , at the time , about six years older than I , making her about 17 years old . |
| 19 | They will need space and comfort , perhaps a garden if they have always been used to one and enjoy gardening , and , above all , they will need a property that gives them some self esteem and security . |
| 20 | You can buy a rose and have it named for yourself , your wife or husband . |
| 21 | ‘ As students at Edinburgh College of Art , we always said we would buy a castle and do it up , but when it came around to it most of them had been restored , but Lachlan knew of Ballone Castle near Portmahomack which was still derelict and persuaded the farmer to sell it . ’ |
| 22 | If any flier could steal a Foxbat and fly it to the West , Vologsky could . |
| 23 | We must hide until it is dark , and then I will steal a coracle and row you to the Drowned Forest . |
| 24 | I can not believe that many members of the public believe that that is justice , or that it conveys the right message to those who , tonight , will steal a car and race it in the path of some other innocent victim . |
| 25 | You can wet the line or spray it with a silicone floatant . |
| 26 | The high subsidies offered by the UK government to Nissan and by other European governments to encourage Japanese investment gave rise to fears that the Europeans were engaging in ‘ beggar-my-neighbour ’ subsidy policies , which would benefit the Japanese and give them an unfair competitive advantage when compared to existing producers . |
| 27 | if he 's gon na borrow the money and get it |
| 28 | ‘ To do our job we need the help of our tenants and I would urge anyone moving out of a council house or flat to give us plenty of notice so we can identify the property and allocate it to someone else , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ To do our job we need the help of our tenants and I would urge anyone moving out of a council house or flat to give us plenty of notice so we can identify the property and allocate it to someone else , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Thus the central dogma of the constitution — that the sovereign nation could enact the constitution that suited it — could be derived alike from the premisses of the radicals or from the necessity of rebutting Joseph 's claim to be legal king of Spain as a result of the abdication of Bayonne : a transfer of the crown by Ferdinand alone was invalid por falta de consentimiento de la nación . |