Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrest warrants were issued for two former Central Bank officials implicated in the scandal after they failed to appear to testify before the Senate . |
| 2 | Therefore , should we not use our strength and influence to try to organise throughout the west a Marshall plan , similar to the one after the second world war , to strengthen the hands of those who are doing their utmost to stave off anything approximating to anarchy ? |
| 3 | I now want to go to back to the beginning of the statement . |
| 4 | The same situation was prevalent in England over a decade ago , and while the new breed of English walls has blossomed to state of the art types such as Newcastle 's Berghaus Wall , Scotland 's walls remain poor relatives . |
| 5 | But Christians believe that God acts in history , so the Church always has to try to respond to the leading of the Holy Spirit in each age . |
| 6 | The Banking , Insurance and Finance Union has resolved to cooperate with a scheme for voluntary redundancies but says it could take industrial action if the job losses are made compulsory . |
| 7 | The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail . |
| 8 | On the 27 January 1991 Siad Barré fled the country , and the clans embarked on the intractable conflict which has come to look like a nation intent on destroying itself . |
| 9 | This is where family work could be useful helping the whole family to understand the part alcohol has come to play in the life of the vulnerable elderly person , the pattern of abuse , the defensiveness about it , and the likely outcome . |
| 10 | The chapter has come to rest with a description of the currently established , liberal-democratic , constitutional theory — a theory which argues that the constitution provides for a system of Cabinet or prime ministerial government within a larger parliamentary democracy in which Parliament is legally sovereign and the people are politically sovereign . |
| 11 | Sayer has come to work as a laboratory assistant but he 's drawn to a group of patients scattered throughout the hospital . |
| 12 | Fundamentally , many regard the ‘ conflict ’ over housing as an extension of the major divisions in society and argue that the allocation of housing is determined largely by the power that each group has come to possess in a society with a long history of class conflict ( Haddon 1970 ; Duncan 1976 ; Mellor 1977 ) . |
| 13 | The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends . |
| 14 | The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision . |
| 15 | This phase will only be entered if no errors were detected during the prepass phase and the user has selected to continue at the end of the prepass phase . |
| 16 | THE province 's economy has been ‘ on hold ’ during the past two years as the rest of the UK has struggled to cope with the recession , a leading economist said today . |
| 17 | New world motor racing champion Nigel Mansell has threatened to retire from the sport if the Williams team from Oxfordshire does n't renew his contract for next season . |
| 18 | Environmentalists have strongly opposed the commission 's findings , and the Environment Minister in the centre-right coalition government , Olof Johansson , has threatened to resign over the issue . |
| 19 | A county council has decided to appeal against the Government 's decision to cap its spending . |
| 20 | Mr William Purves , the bank 's chairman since 1987 , has decided to stick to a strategy developed in the late 1970s . |
| 21 | So , for example with the 80386 and 80486 implementations , the company has decided to stick with the MS-DOS file system . |
| 22 | So , for example with the 80386 and 80486 implementations , the company has decided to stick with the MS-DOS file system . |
| 23 | Imagine a millionaire who has decided to donate to a charity . |
| 24 | But on the basis of these latest extremely encouraging results , the joint venture has decided to apply for an exploitation licence in the Laurenzana permit area . |
| 25 | Esther Breuer has decided to walk to the intersection of Harley Street and Weymouth Street . |
| 26 | So now , like Virgin founder Richard Branson before him , Sugar has decided to throw in the towel and buy his firm back . |
| 27 | And the work that France has done to escape from the tyranny of oil has already begun to pay handsomely . |
| 28 | There is no clear evidence that the MITR has helped to contribute to the nation 's stock of housing . |
| 29 | ‘ The bomb in Newtownards was not the first time Connors Chemists has had to cope with the aftermath of a blast . ’ |
| 30 | In the 15th century there is a dearth of Florentine musical examples of the laude , and Wilson has had to resort to a discussion of the music found in lauda sources from the Veneto . |