Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Usually we will not be given permission by the Legal Aid Board to issue proceedings and go to court until the investigation is finished .
2 Trinity House is becoming increasingly concerned about vandalism to light buoys and beacons in the Thames Estuary and Channel areas and says that damage to navigation aids cost half a million pounds to repair last year .
3 It is also worth reiterating that traditional rape laws frequently give rise to light sentences for lesser offences .
4 Such clinics had always been prohibited from using federal money to perform abortions , but until 1988 they had been allowed to discuss abortion and to provide information about its availability .
5 The ease of use and flexibility of GIS allow the user to perform operations on map data that were previously impossible on a large scale .
6 Customs can make a direction to treat persons as a ‘ single taxable person ’ for VAT registration purposes if Customs ( not necessarily any other person ) are satisfied that :
7 The nature of access may merely involve regular authorised visits by warships or it may include the permission to conduct repairs in port , without the use of onshore installations , and to load on fuel and supplies .
8 They cite a child 's restricted field of vision , inability to estimate speeds and perception of the street as an exciting adventurous place , not a dangerous one .
9 We had all gathered for Hamish and Tone 's traditional Ne'erday partyette ; a necessarily quietish affair during which people exchanged tales of drunkenness , broken resolutions and recipes for hangover cures , as well as taking advantage of the opportunity to compare notes regarding blank spots in the memories of any of the assembled penitents .
10 Collectors will also have the opportunity to acquire objects formerly at Marbury Hall , including a bust of the Emperor Antoninus Pius ( est. £50–60,000 ; $90–110,000 ) and a Roman marble altar from the first century A.D. ( est. £25–35,000 ; $45–63,000 ) .
11 There is the old English custom of dancing around the Maypole to weave leaves back onto the bare branches .
12 In contrast , the media enjoyed the opportunity to report cases of mature women being charged with indecent offences against under-age boys .
13 A NEW technique to enable men with irreversible vasectomies to become fathers has been developed by the Surgical Advisory Service , a private London infertility clinic .
14 Mint , in its variegated varieties , makes a colourful addition to flower borders as well as herb gardens .
15 Partnership It should rival the best of European cities and should be famously celebrated in Britain as an example of what can be achieved when resources and the expertise to implement solutions to environmental problems are combined with civic will . ’
16 Process engineering superintendent Peter Watson will continue to be responsible for long-term terminal development , hydrocarbon accounting , loss control , laboratory services and for technical support to plant operations .
17 Cell sap normally starts to freeze at about -3°C , and ice forming within the cells causes fatal damage to plant tissues .
18 SGI is currently working with Microsoft Corp to enable Windows NT for the MIPS architecture — though SGI wo n't offer NT itself — and is also trying to win Gates as a customer for Irix' symmetric multi-processing technology , following Microsoft 's adoption of the GL library .
19 ‘ As far as we are concerned , if nurses are in conflict with their employer - and they are the least-able section of our society to fight — it is incumbent upon workers to take a stand to support nurses and other workers . ’
20 British education systems as much as most have traditionally been used to inculcate a single concept of mainstream culture and to allocate young people to the occupational market on the basis of their receptivity to that culture and willingness to mirror values , language and behaviour ( Lynch 1981 ) .
21 Thus structures facilitate ‘ mutualist ’ struggle in which workers aim to establish alternative and independent markets for production and distribution , ‘ economistic ’ struggle to increase job security within extant relations of production , and ‘ statist ’ struggle to promote interests through enlisting the aid of the state principally through legislative enactment .
22 the authority make financial provision to enable teachers to visit schools outside the ILEA ( perhaps along the lines of the West Glamorgan Teacher Fellowship Scheme — see Reid , 1985b )
23 This is true for any social variables including social class which are not necessarily geographically robust proxies for exposure to risk factors and for health care needs .
24 TV monitors were suspended from the roof of the stand to enable spectators to follow the progress of the race around the circuit , and she raised her eyes .
25 Play instinct is redirected into working ability and willingness to perform tasks .
26 Discretion always exists even over such matters as the pace of work , the attitude to work or the willingness to perform tasks .
27 It is a struggle to paint grasses in a true watercolour technique and the purist may well react against the use of white and acrylic here , but I have found a release from the restrictions of technique through this method and comfort myself with the knowledge that white has been in common use by artists throughout the history of watercolour painting .
28 The content of the NBC programmes has ceased to be lifeless with the newly acquired freedom to debate facts and events without fear of reprisals .
29 The content of the NBC programmes has ceased to be lifeless with the newly acquired freedom to debate facts and events without fear of reprisals .
30 In fact Gittins sees women as individuals who use such structures to maximize their own resources as well as feeling responsibility to support others , and she argues that women are involved in an informal economy to a far greater extent than are men .
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