Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it be possible for them also to prune this tree hard back so the light can be seen . |
| 2 | your previous home is empty because you have gone to live with someone else to provide personal care because they are elderly , ill or disabled |
| 3 | ‘ I would love , ’ he said , ‘ to go along with you just to see this horse do the work . ’ |
| 4 | It is so grave , because , on any view , the putting to death of a human being by the society to which he belongs is an appalling act , calculated in itself rather to familiarise that society with the taking of life than to heighten the sense of life being held sacred . |
| 5 | The suggestion that pre-exposure to a stimulus establishes an exact representation of it , for instance , is not in itself enough to explain latent inhibition ; indeed it seems capable of predicting quite the wrong result . |
| 6 | We owe it to them never to surrender this country to those whose motive for murder is your place of work . |
| 7 | Philip is ironic also about his tendency to think in terms of ‘ higher ’ literature , and he discredits the validity of a quotation from Eliot , when it comes into his mind , simply on the grounds that he has been too corrupted by contemporary culture for anything that occurs to him spontaneously to have lasting value : |
| 8 | It is paramount for us now to retain high interest rates , which are high in the historic sense , in real terms , and are high compared with Japan , and with America , where they stand at 5 per cent . |