Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shandruk also indicates that , following contact with Gen Anders , the Polish commander in Italy , the division was given Permission to march through the British lines towards Italy . |
| 2 | Finally , a person who is given permission to enter for a particular purpose will be a trespasser if he enters for a different purpose . |
| 3 | Earlier this week , the college announced plans to extend to a second campus either in the Grassmarket or near Leith . |
| 4 | The charge was that the trio had ‘ conspired with persons inserting ads and with other persons to induce readers to resort to the said advertisements for the purposes of homosexual practices and thinking to debauch and corrupt public morals contrary to common law . ’ |
| 5 | The Confederation of Peoples of the Caucasus [ see p. 39155 ] on Nov. 11 ordered partial mobilization in all of its republics , instructing commanders to go to the Chechen capital , Grozny . |
| 6 | He 's gone all over the eastern Mediterranean , and now has plans to go to the western end , to Spain , which was a thriving colony of the Roman empire with a lively intellectual life which had n't been touched by the Christian faith . |
| 7 | to obtain permission to telephone for a follow-up sales interview ; |
| 8 | So far as the seller is concerned he would prefer not to accept liability to deliver by a particular date in the first instance . |
| 9 | The union wants employers to agree to a specific date for equalising eastern and western wages , though it is willing to wait beyond 1994 . |
| 10 | Third , and less depressing than the first two , Corinth is not completely excavated ( most of what the modern visitor sees is Roman ) and there is still hope that the classical agora may produce evidence of the kind we want ; though to get it , the excavators ( the American School in Athens ) will need permission to dig under the main square of the modern town . |
| 11 | In actually measuring subjective risk while driving it seems appropriate to encourage drivers to think about the external environment in a more normal way and answer questions about subjective risk with reference to their internal states . |
| 12 | ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week . |
| 13 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 14 | ‘ Johns has aspirations to get into the American World Cup side . |
| 15 | But many farmers will need help to adapt to the new conditions , and we will continue to provide assistance . |
| 16 | They had expected game-birds to benefit from an increased food supply of insects as farmers stopped spraying pesticides to protect their cereal crops . |
| 17 | New technology has already enabled an ever-widening range of jobs to be moved out of the office , allowing staff to carry them out from their own homes with obvious benefits in terms of reducing office overheads as well as enabling businesses to recruit from an additional pool of people who , because of location in remote rural areas or conflicting domestic responsibilities , might otherwise be ruled out of employment . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , it would be unwise to expect managers of publicly owned firms to act in the selfless way modelled above . |
| 19 | It was already Acheson 's custom to meet Franks to engage in a weekly " tour d'horizon " of world affairs . |
| 20 | This deliberate government policy was to encourage people to live in the rural areas and ensure that their income was at least as high as that of the factory worker . |
| 21 | To encourage people to voyage into the psychic seems about as responsible as the Wright brothers taking day-trippers on their first ever flight — without parachutes ! |
| 22 | This process usually involved the gradual and haphazard addition of side-streets and lanes so as to provide access to land beyond the immediate frontages . |
| 23 | Mexicans are the cheeriest : comparing optimists and pessimists , a net 76% of Mexican businessmen expect sales to rise in the second quarter of this year , compared with 69% in the first quarter . |
| 24 | The socio- psychological stress positively discouraged people to participate in the socioeconomic and sociolinguistic life of the wider community.In industry with a large ethnic , non-English speaking labour force any ‘ vertical communication ’ from the top to the bottom can be greatly facilitated by the use of a language that the participants in the discourse of instruction or socialisation understand and identify with . |
| 25 | The Falcon 20 was now well established enabling Dassault to concentrate on a smaller four to seven passenger executive transport , namely the " Falcon 10 " . |
| 26 | Domestic prices , only three regions expect prices to increase by a meaningful amount . |
| 27 | Such knowledge could , however , continue to be useful when used in a regional context , which is what the RANs do , enabling members to react to a wider range of human rights violations in any given region . |
| 28 | THIS year 's machinations over disposal of the Ivory Coast 's cocoa crop indirectly pushed up prices on the London Futures & Options Exchange yesterday as dealers scrambled to obtain cocoa to deliver against a substantial long position controlled by Philipp Brothers , the big American commodity trading group . |
| 29 | All must seek leave to appeal from the special adjudicator who is to be appointed by the Lord Chancellor . |
| 30 | If you wish to encourage mistletoe to grow upon an old apple tree , you should not use seeds which are left after being hung inside the house over Christmas — these will have dried out and besides , winter is not the time to plant them . |