Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In which case forgive me for writing as I have done . |
| 2 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 3 | The shapes prevent them from bunching together . |
| 4 | Do not let this kindness on the part of the college discourage you from buying your own textbooks and building up a library of your own . |
| 5 | If the police can exploit the technique for measuring the speed of road hogs , dare we hope to find that bats use it for measuring the speed of insect prey ? |
| 6 | People who do n't put on weight take it for granted that the rest of us are greedy and lacking in will power . |
| 7 | Okay Jean thank you for raising the point . |
| 8 | We shall deal separately later with public service job losses , as a continuing feature of the 1980s , but the data justify us in paying prime attention to manufacturing . |
| 9 | Two reasons prevent it from continuing to provide this function . |
| 10 | Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again . |
| 11 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 12 | Its rules restrict it to lending on property which encourages self-sufficiency , the ecologically efficient use of land and the saving of non-renewable resources . |
| 13 | But too often the system 's outdated working methods and attitudes prevent them from giving their best . |
| 14 | Household duties provide plenty of bending and stretching , which can be consciously made the most of . |
| 15 | There are only two network providers — Cellnet and Vodafone — and as their licences prevent them from dealing directly with end users , this role is fulfilled by the service providers . |
| 16 | It should be remembered that there are other provisions which could in certain circumstances prevent him from doing so ( see Chapter 5 above ) . |
| 17 | If urgent circumstances prevent you from attending this course , please notify your own departmental training contact ( name below ) immediately . |
| 18 | Begone to thy corner , wench , lest thy paramour kill me for trampling thee under my foot . |
| 19 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 20 | In theory there was a simple enough answer to that problem : have the machine protect itself by looking several moves ahead . |
| 21 | , you are with us today and I assure you that all members of of Council join me in conveying our love , affection and good wishes to you . |
| 22 | It may be that learners have internalized aspects of the system which for one reason or another they can not access on particular occasions , that circumstances of different kinds prevent them from acting on this knowledge . |
| 23 | These and other caveats prevent me from giving an unqualified recommendation to this new disc . |
| 24 | The night shifts at some Russian TV stations amuse themselves by using their satellite links to swop pirated tapes of pop music , porn , Bugs Bunny and Bruce Lee . |
| 25 | There are also several varieties that are viviparous — where the plants reproduce themselves by producing young plants vegetatively between the leaf sinus . |
| 26 | In the effort of battering down the wall of the old order Wordsworth suffered some damage ; very frequently the pioneers of new ideas hurt themselves in making the breach through which others will rush gaily ( and take the credit ! ) . |
| 27 | In three weeks learn everything from starting out to making profits — from finding suppliers to coping with clients . |
| 28 | Today a main thrust of Moscow 's security policy is to eliminate the possibility of crises escalating ; pressing economic priorities push it towards cutting defence spending and integrating with the world economy . |
| 29 | If Modernists criticise me for copying the old , I tell them it takes a lifetime to do it well . |
| 30 | Now look at which fears prevent you from doing what you want to do now . |