Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The portable screens are designed to fit round the witness box when needed to block the child 's view of the defendant but allow them to see magistrates and lawyers in the case . |
| 2 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 3 | The excitement , suspense , and danger which seems the lot of the police on celluloid feeds into the definitions many of Easton 's section police give to their work experience , and the supposed similarity of this experience leads them to see police films and television programmes as an accurate portrayal , to be watched avidly because of this shared world . |
| 4 | It is hoped that this will make people feel safer and encourage them to report crimes . |
| 5 | Ideas include allowing them to issue shares up to 49% of capital , to turn non-voting certificuts d'investissement into full shares , to sell subsidiaries or create cross-holdings with non-French European companies . |
| 6 | The beautiful and promiscuous Muslim women of the Maldives , for example , he thought shockingly immodest , and though Battuta frequently ‘ ordered them to wear clothes … |
| 7 | They concluded that God was calling them to plant churches . |
| 8 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 9 | The company says its four other Magnox stations , which have similar steel pressure vessels , are not threatened by the same defect and the NII has allowed them to continue operations . |
| 10 | and to permit them to carry bows and arrows for the defence of themselves and their custody , as is the custom of the King 's foresters , and the foresters of others elsewhere in England . |
| 11 | The hostel even had its own fleet of camels on its regular Hillaby-style treks , used them to carry supplies or provide a mount for weary walkers . |
| 12 | Within a few years of transfer to the South Metropolitan system , all these cars had the headlamps moved from the canopy front to the usual position on the dash , one reason being that it enabled them to carry advertisements in the same positions as the rest of the fleet . |
| 13 | Integrity expands and deepens the role individual citizens can play in developing the public standards of their community because it requires them to treat relations among themselves as characteristically , not just spasmodically , governed by these standards . |
| 14 | If so , encourage them to paint pictures as they listen to music or try using art games . |
| 15 | He would n't allow me to wear stockings , and I was still in knee-socks and lace-ups when I left school . |
| 16 | They did n't want me to wear saris . |
| 17 | A study in which the majority of the subjects suffered from mental aberrations of one sort or another required them to perform tasks continuously , and in isolation , for forty-two hours.4 Three of these ten subjects experienced actual hallucinations , and seven of them suffered perceptual distortions or illusions . |
| 18 | IT really annoyed me to see leaders of the public service unions on TV going on about how a pay freeze would be unacceptable to their members . |
| 19 | It seems strange to me to see cattle out in a field in mid-winter . |
| 20 | I thinks the manufacturing experience I had was very important , because it enabled me to see things from the manufacturer 's point of view , which many retailers have n't done . |
| 21 | Instead it switched a light on inside my head that enabled me to see things , which at the time , were away beyond my full understanding . |
| 22 | It was Peter who forced me to see things in a different light . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I worked from home and took Elliot with me to see clients . |
| 24 | At the Pattmore project in London and the Rosemount project in Glasgow for example , mothers are provided with adequate child care and it enables them to attend courses and gain skills and qualifications that give them a better chance in the job market . |
| 25 | The implementation of the legislation was delayed to enable some of them to acquire qualifications . |
| 26 | Also children want to learn , to enable them to acquire qualifications needed for the jobs they would like to do when they leave education . |
| 27 | Despite the fact that the majority of students in adult education are women , the majority of volunteers , part-time workers , detached workers , and assistant workers in adult education are women , those with key jobs in the career structure — mostly men — made no recognition of this fact , except in so far as it influenced their assumptions about ‘ relevant ’ curricula and enabled them to plan programmes which depended upon an enormous amount of female exploitation . |
| 28 | This suggest that if manufacturers spend on training , it is difficult for rivals to achieve the level of competitiveness that will allow them to poach workers or markets . |
| 29 | A council in rural Hampshire , where the uniform business rate averages £1,250 , is hoping to save village shops and sub post-offices by encouraging them to claim rebates of up to 80 per cent . |
| 30 | They wanted me to paint signs , so I painted signs . |