Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [conj] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If young attachés were unpaid this made it more difficult to treat them as cogs in a bureaucratic machine . |
| 2 | He did n't mind socializing with his staff as long as it was on His terms and at their expense , but to meet them as equals on neutral ground was another matter . |
| 3 | I advise owners of small dogs who have to leave their pets in kennels to find one that specialises in little dogs . |
| 4 | I mean that each image tries to express something that belongs to millions of people . ’ |
| 5 | Thinking of the faith as though it were a philosophical position , and of those who had come to preach to them as if they were travelling intellectuals , led the Corinthians to imagine themselves as judges between the various emphases they heard . |
| 6 | If you must use a painting program then it is essential to use one that works at the resolution of the output device . |
| 7 | However brilliant our modern technology may seem , the best way to care for the Taj is to monitor its behaviour , try to reduce pollution and develop a team of conservators and craftsmen who can care for the building , carrying out maintenance and repair where necessary but not to do anything that pretends to be final . |
| 8 | Transferred to the realm of gender relations , this would describe the state of affairs in which a woman has influence over a man and manipulates his discourses , but is allowed this power only as long as she agrees not to flaunt it and remains in the position of silent partner with no autonomous voice . |
| 9 | He seems barely able to recognize us and refers to last year 's campaign on Azrad as if it were yesterday . ’ |
| 10 | We males naturally reject the idea that we 're not at all times ready to cream anything that moves as a monstrous slander on our virility , while women certainly do n't want to think that creatures whose sexual urges are so undiscriminating that they have been known to rape grannies and animals and even corpses , for God 's sake , could possibly find them so unattractive that they need to simulate orgasm . |
| 11 | It enables us to remove anything that gets in the way of our relationship with God . |
| 12 | They stand in rows , stiffly craning themselves upwards , jaws apart , ready to bite anything that interferes with them . |