Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swirling in an army Chinook helicopter through wind and fog and over a sea of smouldering lava yesterday , it was easy to see why earlier plans to bomb or mine it off course and up on to the surface have been shelved . |
| 2 | She may find it difficult to concentrate or interest herself much in anything or anybody . |
| 3 | The embodiment of such interactions , though not necessary to the understanding of the morning peak hour movements to work or education which have often been the primary focus of transport planning , is important to the understanding of other less straight-forward parts of the daily pattern of travel , which are important both to the travellers themselves and also to those concerned with the planning and provision of transport . |
| 4 | To open the door to this type of possibility is to accept that babies who are mentally handicapped , yet perfectly capable of leading a happy life with either their parents or guardians , are deprived of this opportunity by a small group of people who know little about what this life will be like . |
| 5 | Nozick takes it therefore that for a to know that p we require that a would not have believed that p if p had been false . |
| 6 | Beth had been surprised to know that Cissie herself had been thinking along those very same lines , and it only told her that she was right about Maisie 's children — they were growing up fast . |
| 7 | The ability to give or lend money to relatives obviously is related to one 's own economic resources in some way — although we are unlikely to find that people who have more straightforwardly give more . |
| 8 | Scobie is surely right when , with regard to Let Us Compare Mythologies he says that the title ‘ seems to indicate that Cohen himself regarded the religious sense as the primary one ’ — which in The Spice-Box Of Earth becomes completely explicit and even urgent . |
| 9 | There is also a considerable amount of evidence to indicate that patients themselves see communication as a crucial part of their care . |
| 10 | And er to try and tide them over . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , he did it on purpose — to try and needle me . |
| 12 | The third difficulty is that the criteria which a lender uses to differentiate between borrowers he is prepared to accept and borrowers he judges too risky may , as it were , throw out the sheep with the goats . |
| 13 | ‘ Run along home then and tell your Dad to come and wheel it away . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't want to have to come and winkle you out . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Especially to those under the enchantment of love , ’ he answered , and Fabia experienced a need to discover if Ven himself knew or had ever known that enchantment . |
| 16 | I think he 's got a whole metaphor going in this poem between wild animals and things that exist freely and are difficult to find and poems which are things that exist and have their own life but they are also difficult to find . |
| 17 | When they are stuck , it is so much more attractive to tell them what I think than to encourage and cajole them to tell me what they think . |
| 18 | But in the end the housewife has to encourage and reward herself . |
| 19 | It will have been gathered from what has gone before that the non-gonococcal infections are considerably less easy both to diagnose and to treat than gonorrhoea itself . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , I 've got a lunch date and I 'm going to see that man your father wanted me to see . |
| 21 | There has been a lot of anxiety about the issue since the major blast in the City of London in April , but we are happy to confirm that booksellers who are members of the BA scheme are covered . |
| 22 | Such products are known by the general term ultramarinos , ‘ from across the ocean ’ , and to emphasise that Mariana herself is also an ultramarina , she is often accompanied in Gironella 's tableaux by tins of sardines . |
| 23 | But the king 's cause attracted a motley crew of discontents and zealots , and placed many moderate men in a dilemma over their allegiance to state or church which dominated politics for the next 150 years . |
| 24 | Although it would be wrong to presume that teachers who are excellent in their off-site unit work with small groups of pupils could necessarily become the vanguard of a new service they can provide the focus for some initial developments . |
| 25 | You have to remember that electricity itself was a new , exciting thing . |
| 26 | If name badges are worn , nurses need to remember that people who wear bifocal spectacles have difficulty in reading at that level , and any cues regarding inadequate vision should be noted . |
| 27 | A sign — and it is important to remember that Christmas itself is only a sign . |
| 28 | It is salutary to remember that children who are rated as most aggressive by their classmates are those who view ( unsupervised ) the most violent TV programmes . |
| 29 | Started ringing up again to see if sort it out . |
| 30 | ‘ I like to sit and sun myself in these spots , ’ said the Bookman . |