Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow . |
| 2 | So the persistence of the last male to mate her is rewarded , as he is father to most of the kits . |
| 3 | If the opportunity to reach them is missed through a preoccupation with building plans and bricks and mortar , then a never-to-be-repeated golden opportunity has been lost . |
| 4 | Hong Kong 's decision to free him is understood to have been made after talks involving the governor , Sir David Wilson , and the territory 's political adviser , William Ehrman . |
| 5 | The amount of the pension is not related actuarial to the sums which each recipient has actually paid in contribution ; but the right to receive it is treated as flowing from the possession of a contribution record , and indeed the pension rates are represented as related to the contribution rates , assuming contribution over a full working life . |
| 6 | If a government has the right to rule it is regarded as legitimate , and this , in turn , provides it with authority . |
| 7 | So he can give it a final tug to check it is closed . |
| 8 | In a country whose people so crave economic success , failure to produce it is bound to produce negativism . |
| 9 | Indeed , the way in which they could disappear beyond the ability of governments and even their owners to find them is eliciting a long , hard look at Europe 's toxic waste rules . |
| 10 | Another way in which computer users can help suppliers to help them is to appoint a system manager . |
| 11 | It is sometimes argued that an experienced programmer can detect the ‘ general shape ’ of a particular high-level language X from blocks of machine code , just by hunch and judgement , but this ignores the possibility that the code may have been written in language Y with the syntactic style of X precisely in order to create this confusion ; just as one can murmur English with a German intonation and cause a distant listener to believe he is listening to unintelligible German . |
| 12 | ‘ The jetstream has come in earlier than expected , and the race to beat it is lost , ’ Neame admitted . |
| 13 | This allows for longer cooking to ensure it is cooked right through . |
| 14 | The effect of consent to treatment by the minor or someone else with authority to give it is limited to protecting the medical or dental practitioner from claims for damages for trespass to the person . |
| 15 | But otherwise it 's basically I think it 's , it 's all there , all you 're trying to do at this stage is , is to give , your aim here is to get is to get firstly , first of all , to get it on the diary , on the picture editor 's diary for your picture , and also to get the basic information in so that somebody can write a few cards as an advance to say it is going to happen . |
| 16 | Bending the rules would allow the Government to claim it is sticking by next year 's public spending ceiling of £244.5bn while actually allowing public borrowing to rise . |
| 17 | Bending the rules would allow the Government to claim it is sticking by next year 's public spending ceiling of £244.5bn while actually allowing public borrowing to rise . |
| 18 | What possesses a grown man to pretend he is sitting in a psychiatrist 's chair on radio and ask celebrities questions in a lilting Irish accent about their mummies and daddies ? |
| 19 | To say that it is a duty to do it is to say that its consequences would be better than those which would ensue from any alternative . |
| 20 | He said something like , ‘ I 'll ignore that remark , and the best way to treat it is to play well . ’ |
| 21 | The only way to compare them is to calculate what they would be paying over the whole 25 years if neither of them moved from their present home . |
| 22 | There are any number of things that could go wrong and the only way to discover them is to discuss with the parents exactly what they did . |
| 23 | Probably the best way to find it is to extend a line from Iota Carinæ , in the False Cross , through Beta Carinæ and prolong it for some distance . |
| 24 | For southern observers , a good way to find it is to join Canopus to Rigel by an imaginary line ; this will cross Columba and Lepus . |
| 25 | It lies south of Fomalhaut ; one way to find it is to prolong a line from Beta and Alpha Pegasi , in the Square of Pegasus , through Fomalhaut . |
| 26 | The best way to find it is to look some way off a line joining Beta Ceti to Alpha Phœnicis . |
| 27 | The train of thought that begins like this is as slippery as an eel , and the only effective way to catch it is to examine the truth of the matter . |
| 28 | The only way to avoid it is remember where it is . |
| 29 | the only way to do it is to split it into two continuous bits . |
| 30 | The way to do it is to treat that murder in as formal a manner as you can . |