Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real problem is that if solicitors prepare the written brief , there is much less of a case for denying them the right of audience to argue that brief before the court . |
| 2 | ‘ Just so that you 'd have a good excuse for keeping me a prisoner here ? ’ |
| 3 | You can see the absurdity of ‘ single-handed acceptance ’ of the responsibility for making anything a commercial success . |
| 4 | Having decided that they would accept Mr Cowdrill as a franchisee , Athena took responsibility for finding him a suitable site , in a prime position in Sutton Coldfield . |
| 5 | I mean flipping talk about keeping it a secret ! |
| 6 | The common denominator of this type of use is not therefore non-entailment but rather viewing knowledge of the referent denoted by the direct object of know as a condition for attributing what the infinitive denotes to this referent . |
| 7 | The distress of leaving them no doubt contributed to the ‘ sudden & severe indisposition of Mrs Gould … which inducing the utmost fears for her safety , rendered it very doubtful up to the last moment whether they would be able to go or not … ’ |
| 8 | Nor had Innocent any intention of allowing himself the humiliation of Lateran I where the council defeated the pope . |
| 9 | British Coal had decided to sell the house for conversion into a hotel to Roo Management , a company run by an Australian businessman who had also bought Holme Lacey in Herefordshire with the intention of making it a hotel . |
| 10 | As usual the ‘ big race ’ will lure the top names and Lisburn Borough Council expect to have in action ‘ 26 miles ’ specialist Peter O'Donoghue of Omega , who had a PB last year and Annadale 's John Walsh … and they are also confident that last year 's winner , Jerry Kiernan of Clonliffe Harriers , will take the starter 's gun with the intention of making it a hat-trick . |
| 11 | Mr Johnson , of Coningsby Drive , Kidderminster , claimed the company had boasted of the success of using saleswomen and never had any intention of offering him a job because he was a man . |
| 12 | I promise you I have every intention of releasing you the moment the eighteen months are up . ’ |
| 13 | She was standing straight , looking in his direction but seemingly through him , and the strange look on her face brought him around fully , and he was about to speak , not with the intention of giving her the true version of why he wanted to volunteer , for it was n't in him to hurt her to that extent , but she turned from him and , quietly opening the door , went out . |
| 14 | THE organiser of a big karate competition in Whitby says he has no intention of giving it the chop after casualties kept the town 's hospital at full stretch . |
| 15 | I want you , but I have no intention of giving you a plain gold ring or any other ring that could be held against me as a pledge . |
| 16 | As she says : ‘ There seems to be so little appreciation of the potentially devastating emotional effect of finding yourself a victim ’ |
| 17 | He was summoned down on the Saturday evening and his presence at least had the effect of giving its a vignette of Baldwin 's behaviour on the eve of what was likely to be the most testing week of his premiership . |
| 18 | v. Lindley Lord Reid said , ‘ A case where a defendant presents to the plaintiff the alternative of doing what the defendant wants him to do or suffering loss which the defendant can cause him to incur is not necessarily in pari casu and may involve questions which can not arise where there is intimidation of a third person . ’ |
| 19 | All of us at John Fowler Holidays will be pleased to see you at any time and hope to have the pleasure of giving you a good holiday . |
| 20 | He also paid Cranmer the compliment of making him a Penitentiary for England . |
| 21 | What we are groping for , what Pound ( we now see ) is inciting us to grope for , what Yeats is laying claim to , is that effect in writing which an earlier criticism knew as ‘ lapidary ’ : that is to say , the effect or the illusion of words as not written or printed on a page , but as incised on a stone block . |
| 22 | The integrity of a community 's conception of fairness requires that the political principles necessary to justify the legislature 's assumed authority be given full effect in deciding what a statute it has enacted means . |
| 23 | But the love that surrounds that boy is having a marvellous effect in giving him a life . |
| 24 | ‘ They 'll know because I shall take great pleasure in telling everyone the truth ! ’ |
| 25 | I have pleasure in sending you the Programme for the 1982–83 Q.T. days . |
| 26 | Had I an opportunity I should have great pleasure in giving you a few hints on this subject which might not be useless . |
| 27 | I hoped my action in sending him the book would place him under a sense of obligation . |
| 28 | No harm in telling you the story , I guess . |
| 29 | As Senator Cohen put it , a sort of metaphysical exercise went on ‘ to define how many foreign leaders can be made to dance on the head of the President 's contra programme without calling it a solicitation , |
| 30 | One such person was John Curran , a producer at ITN , who had already demonstrated his kindness by giving me an answering machine so that I could screen any calls from the press . |