Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assembler does not directly offer these facilities , but it is possible to implement them by using other features of BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 2 | If the purpose of the march was to force the French to battle it failed ; Charles 's council debated whether to go on the offensive against Gaunt 's army , but in the event their belief in the military superiority of the English was still sufficiently strong to inhibit them from offering an open challenge , and they agreed to pursue the usual defensive tactics . |
| 3 | That is significant because that covers us for paying you commission . |
| 4 | What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions . |
| 5 | This led them into feeling that airlines and motor car manufacturers were their main competitors since they took passengers away . |
| 6 | This involved him in showing how Freud 's theory needed modification so that it could be integrated into the Parsonian social and culture systems theory . |
| 7 | ‘ Would a thing like this stop him from staying in power ? ’ |
| 8 | This allows us to built mixed consultancy teams to fit the need and , in many cases , we can provide experimental validation of the software . |
| 9 | Greenfield herself provides some evidence that the test situation was not entirely culture-free although she does not allow this to restrict her from making large inferences from the results . |
| 10 | This prevented him from taking part in yesterday 's pre-qualifying after he had waiting 10 years for the chance of an F1 drive . |
| 11 | This prevented him from continuing his work . |
| 12 | On balance it is easier to reach someone by telephoning them than by trying to see them . |
| 13 | I had been reaching up to put packets and tins into one of the wall cupboards , but this startled me into turning . |
| 14 | If you seriously wish to lose your weight then it is most sensible to do it by looking carefully at your diet and eating a good balance of carbohydrates and protein with a reduced fat content . |
| 15 | It is one thing to step into the unknown , another to do it without exaggerating the claims for the product , and quite amazing to end our launch year with a turnover that exceeds our most optimistic forecasts by 250% . |
| 16 | This commits you to examining each word and can be quite tiring . |
| 17 | They wanted to free Sycorax without further delay , and Ariel too , though some doubted her allegiance , and were willing to abandon her for carrying the stranger 's child . |
| 18 | For example , it is more convenient to believe that your behaviour ‘ just happens ’ because this absolves you from having the responsibilities that accompany choice . |
| 19 | I suppose nobody is willing to put themselves through reading all the SHITE . |
| 20 | I thread the yarns through these before they go up through the yarn guides on the mast and this prevents them from tangling together at the back of the table . |
| 21 | This prevents her from becoming pregnant but does not interfere with her love-life . |
| 22 | This prevents him from supplying sperm to fertilize his females , but again it does nothing else . |
| 23 | This prevents us from supposing that the conditional in question , to speak in the ontologically extravagant way , comes to this : in the possible world where it is raining , but everything else is the same as in this world save that the balcony is wet , the balcony is indeed wet . |
| 24 | Not that you 're likely to need it : they 're usually only too willing to release it on hearing of completion because then , with the balance of their commission , it can be used by them . |
| 25 | The trouble is that there are so many ways of continuing , so many alternatives and possibilities , that it would be wrong to advise him by saying that one procedure is better than another . |
| 26 | It is one thing to make students aware of the literature in their subject through a structured but indigestible literature guide , but quite another to assist them in selecting the literature they would be best advised to consult . |
| 27 | The British people are willing to pay something towards preserving an attractive landscape . |
| 28 | Women are doing what they can in the controlled zones — this means anything from making tortillas and looking after the kids to political and military work . |
| 29 | These hostilities and complaints from readers were occupying the Editor 's attentions as much as his war memoirs : one correspondent , for instance , was angry about an attack he had made on James Joyce , while another accused him of letting Christopher Stone ‘ drag the paper down into the subhuman world of jazz ’ . |
| 30 | This reminds me of bringing i , coming up to Debbie 's . |