Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helps pupils express emotions and explore personal feelings : it encourages them to make sense of different situations and different points of view , to practise negotiating successfully with others , and to cope with — and resolve — new situations . |
| 2 | The achievements of their monitored sexual athletes led them to prescribe standards of sexual behaviour which were quite unrealistic in terms of ordinary people living normal lives . |
| 3 | It is not a master plan for member states or for the development of Europe , but it will provide a useful reference for member states and others to enable them to take decisions with due regard to the European dimension . |
| 4 | Thereupon the applicants , who had been unable to plead justification as defence in the libel action , applied to the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) , as the court to whom the implied undertaking had been given by B. , to vary the undertaking to permit B. , who was anxious to co-operate , to disclose to them the authority 's documents in the interests of justice to enable them to plead justification with full particularity and in the expectation that admissible evidence would become available to support the plea at trial of the action . |
| 5 | One of the key issues at the conference had been the question of providing financial incentives to industrializing Third-World countries , notably India and China , to enable them to abandon use of ozone-depleting chemicals in favour of benign , but more expensive , alternatives . |
| 6 | Starting from Oct. 1 , vouchers with a value of 10,000 roubles each would be issued to all Russians to enable them to buy shares in privatized state property . |
| 7 | While clients therefore would like to see their lawyers being more proactive , helping them to foresee ways round particular hazards before they arise , the difficulty seems to be in how to do it . |
| 8 | Well , I like them a lot , but they make me feel kind of young and stupid at times . ’ |
| 9 | We grow them to provide jobs for poor Filipinos and to enable the Philippines government to export . |
| 10 | A spokesman explained yesterday : ‘ Whoever designed them had knowledge of classical architecture . |
| 11 | When I stay in hotels around the world , do you know I get photos of naked women pushed under my door with phone numbers on them ? |
| 12 | Well , you say you have representatives of local government bodies and so on , but really how much do you think they contribute in that situation ? |
| 13 | If you arrange your archers on the slopes of a hill the rear ranks can shoot over the heads of the ranks in front , enabling you to take advantage of large numbers . |
| 14 | Thankfully , there is now a wide range of window styles available in the various materials , enabling you to choose windows with conventional casements and top lights , or with top-hung , horizontally-pivoting and tilt-and-turn panes . |
| 15 | Landing on lucky squares helps , enabling you to win wodges of useful cash with which to buy better players ( see box ) . |
| 16 | Then he dedicated his life to music and the pursuit of women , and we found we had things in common . |
| 17 | Robert Burns was introduced to her in Edinburgh and , no doubt , they would know they had friends in common in the Tennant family . |
| 18 | Marlin had not been pleased to know that one of her ex-lovers had attempted to play hero in his own apartment , and he would n't have been happy to find her making contact with Gentle at two in the morning . |
| 19 | More than two out of every five Britons say they buy products on environmental grounds — over double the number who did so in 1988 . |
| 20 | Almost seven out of 10 directors say they have procedures for social workers who handle clients ' money . |
| 21 | A couple are suing their bank for half a million pounds because they say it bungled advice on small business and forced them into debt . |
| 22 | It had other beneficial and related properties too , as Martin notes that ‘ the plant itself is not used , but the root is eaten to expel wind , and they say it prevents drunkenness by frequent chewing of it ’ . |
| 23 | Because people had seen the recorder being switched off , they ignored the microphones , leaving them within a few inches of their mouths , thus enabling us to record conversation of superb acoustic quality . |
| 24 | Tawny Owl helped us to make things from other countries , such as heart decorations , Mexican weaving and raffia mats . |
| 25 | * Use cohesive markers , but do n't expect them to create connections between unconnectable material ( see pp. 100 – 4 ) . |
| 26 | Gentleman , this is to quaint you all of you cor Serning the Billing of this workhous think to starve the poore theare Stephen Wite Stratford Lews of Barfield Wile of TataSon Loyd hintlesham but let them tak care of thin Selves for farit that is hap on shall there Brains be Blown out and that as sure as death and fail not and the hous shall not be bilt a toyle for theare shall be 500 planted soon and will di all it and pull Wiles hous down . |
| 27 | Discuss with them the issue of sharing tasks and power and let them suggest ideas for improved delegation . |
| 28 | FastPort allows you to move printers to convenient locations and connect them directly to the network . |
| 29 | This allows you to redefine responses to certain types of message . |
| 30 | He says you have hair like dark sunlight with flecks of gold as if the sun is trying to get through . |