Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Businesses now have a lower pound — that means a golden opportunity to invest and export into new markets . |
| 2 | Here in the final work , the shaping of a total unity , there returns a crucial division , and because I can not read from it , even badly , I will not talk about it , which leaves intact your freedom to go and read it . |
| 3 | They could not distinguish public splendour to dazzle and impress their people and foreigners alike ( if that is the effect their trappings achieved ) from the conveniences of private life . |
| 4 | Citing ‘ the absence of significant interaction ’ between the museum and the mall these two ‘ sites of consumer culture ’ Ms Greenberg condemned ‘ the Western museum 's inability to acknowledge and respond to this new presence ’ , i.e. , the mall , labelling it ‘ one more episode in a history which continues to separate art and life , the past and the present ’ . |
| 5 | By ‘ magnanimity ’ the last thing one means is a willingness to forgive and forget . |
| 6 | His basic theology , his belief in the verbal inspiration and authority of the Bible , the nature of Christ as perfect God and man , His death on the cross to pay the penalty for sin , God 's gracious gift of faith to His elect , man 's responsibility to repent and believe the Gospel , and so on , are all considered as ‘ outmoded ’ by many leaders in the modern church . |
| 7 | An increase from fifty to a hundred members would allow greater flexibility for our regional committees in the regions to decide whether they allow the branch to continue or to amalgamate with another branch . |
| 8 | The latter may be due to inability to shop or cook , for example because of limited mobility or language problems . |
| 9 | The earlier detection of prostatic cancers that have not spread will surely allow us the opportunity to treat and cure some of these patients . |
| 10 | Despite the imperfections of the documents , he felt to the full his responsibility to preserve and hand over intact to his successor all the rights , privileges , and possessions of which he was the divinely constituted guardian . |
| 11 | Its " root " system has been found to extend down the face of a cliff 12m ( 40ft ) , and breaking the rhizomes stimulates buds on the remainder to sprout and produce more growth and spores . |
| 12 | I did n't accept er the opportunity to retire and take it easy , it seemed as if I had worked twenty seven years for nothing ! |
| 13 | When the Campaign for Real Ale embarked in the early 1970s on its crusade to preserve and promote our disappearing beer heritage , three watchwords came quickly to the fore ; choice , quality and tradition . |
| 14 | I 've made a decision to go and say , hey , this might be worth having . |
| 15 | It would n't convict our man , but it gives us an excuse to go and pay a call on the Putts of Swinbrook Manor . ’ |
| 16 | The fragments may be eaten there and then or tucked away beside the column to be collected when the hunt is over and taken back to feed the queen and those who stayed back in camp to tend and protect her . |
| 17 | Using the structured eavesdropping technique allowed me complete freedom to sit and observe groups . |
| 18 | Each weekend begins on Friday evening with supper , followed by an introductory talk , film or video , night prayers and then the freedom to sit and chat or go to bed . |
| 19 | No executions had been carried out since 1984 , and there were currently 287 people in prison waiting for parliament to confirm or commute their death sentences ( mostly handed down in the early 1980s ) . |
| 20 | I , only guardian to wait and hold . |
| 21 | She had the terrible feeling that if she told her too much , gave her an excuse to poke and pry , somehow , all the safe fabric of their lives would be rent apart . |
| 22 | Local authorities will be encouraged to offer those in housing need the opportunity to restore and improve council properties . |
| 23 | But there were many , including senior ministers , who were highly critical of her decision to continue and believed that despite it she could and should be persuaded to stand down . |
| 24 | It will only be small at the outset for example one might get the opportunity to go in and on or might get the opportunity to go and advise on P R P or something and it 's not suddenly going to result in an invitation er to . |
| 25 | ‘ Dennis had played a seasson for Northants and I got the opportunity to go and see him in Perth , ’ he explained . |
| 26 | So you have to keep spending your money to go and visit them . |
| 27 | The involvement of members of the Factory enraged Warhol 's gay militant friend Ondine who confronted Morrissey : ‘ How dare you accept the $25 a day in blood money to go and make fun of Andy ? |
| 28 | That 's what record companies do , they give 'em just enough money to go and make a single , tell 'em they 're gon na make them into stars and the next minute , they do n't push the single , they do n't bother with it . |
| 29 | Why people spend good money to go and listen to that sort of stuff I 'll never know . |
| 30 | And er to a certain extent I do that , for instance people pay a lot of money to go and buy what they call boxes , they 're quite expensive . |