Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it turned out , he was able to see them while in no danger of being seen . |
| 2 | It had taken her four years to meet him and within an hour it was all over . |
| 3 | Our courts have refused to consider the validity of an Act of Parliament either on the ground that Parliament had no power to pass it or on the ground that the statute had been improperly passed . |
| 4 | To this he added a determination that existing regulations which restricted the number and quality of foreign seamen employed on British ships should he enforced and strengthened , drawing attention to the abuse whereby shipowners discharged British seamen at foreign ports and hired cheaper foreign crews to replace them and to the need to repeal the Indian Merchant Shipping Act which permitted owners to employ lascars on worse terms than British seamen . |
| 5 | The male does nothing to feed them and from the start they find all their food for themselves . |
| 6 | And I do so in the desire to serve you and in the power of the Holy Spirit . |
| 7 | We tried to rouse him but to no effect . |
| 8 | she 's had her chance and I 'm doing all I can to help her but at the end of the day it 's on her shoulders . |
| 9 | If you 've signed a contract you have to fulfil it except in the most desperate circumstances . |
| 10 | He explained that ‘ As far as laboratory chemists are concerned there are just a few specific uses [ for tetra ] — they have tended to avoid it because of the toxicity ’ . |
| 11 | None of the frustration of seeing a great-looking slope from the chairlift and not having the time to ski it because of a lunch date in the next valley ? |
| 12 | I 'm sorry Mr , I think we have to press you on this , can I can I take it from what you have said We have to press you because for the reasons we explained on Friday morning , we have to go through the sector sites , if only to find at the end it can not be done . |
| 13 | In other words , if Dr Akhtar has his way , it would become unlawful to vilify a person 's religion , just as it is to humiliate him because of the colour of his skin . |
| 14 | That , along with the kicks and punches shown , has to be practised , and there is no better place to do it than in a kick-boxing or Thai boxing class . |
| 15 | ‘ … he said that a girl he knew once used to do it while in a handstand position . |
| 16 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 17 | Well I wo n't be able to do it till after the , the end of September , cos we 've got the Victorian fair , the flower festival and |
| 18 | Mm , I suppose they have to do it because of the computing erm , departments , has some equipment they want . |
| 19 | But you would n't have done it quite you would have thought about whether you did it , whereas the moment you 've been forced to do it because of the cuts that have been forced upon us by the Poll Tax capping . |
| 20 | Despite its immense size , it was severely underpowered : by the late 1940s , with BOAC refusing to use it and with no other customer , the project became an expensive white elephant and was ultimately scrapped by the succeeding Conservative government . |
| 21 | or whether you want to leave it until as an out patient . |
| 22 | How better to inculcate it than in the young ? " |
| 23 | You are allowed to keep them but in a centred box . |
| 24 | And thirdly we have to satisfy you that in the circumstances of the operation the police were justified in restraining Mr with handcuffs for the short period of time that he was restrained and in addition Mrs who you will remember was restrained in her lounge , she was told she could n't leave the lounge , again for a few minutes . |
| 25 | Lewis says he hopes that public pressure will force Bowe to fight him but after the euphoria of his win over Ruddock and the anticipation of becoming champion , he finds himself as far from the title as ever . |
| 26 | Then as the evening goes on they begin to understand him and at the end they genuinely feel sorry and care for him . |
| 27 | ‘ I was doing everything I could to keep him because of the jobs in the area . ’ |
| 28 | Later , I managed to contact him and after a preliminary meeting , which lasted some thirteen hours , he was gracious enough to supply me with large-scale copies of maps of the area for me to be able to check his work — generosity indeed ! |
| 29 | The opening of a poem is obviously important because there is no previous discourse through which to interpret it except for the title , but this is not precise enough to enable us to assign the proper indexical meaning to the deictic elements and terms . |
| 30 | Every area you look at South Africa in a report I gave to the Norwegian government which they commissioned we pointed out every area is like a major disaster area as if you 've been hit by an earthquake in every area of human activity and that situation needs something like a martial plan if we are , a martial aid plan , if we 're to address it but in the world we live in there 's no prospect of such assistance coming to Southern Africa . |