Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Totemism originated after this to cope with the guilt the brothers felt , for the totem animal will protect them like a father , and they will love it , and not kill it under normal circumstances . |
| 2 | Unlike Simon , however , ( who withdrew to France ) Peter accepted the king 's recovery of power in 1261 , and next year served the king and Edward as custodian of Abergavenny , which he tried in vain to protect from the attacks of Llywelyn ab Gruffydd [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | Arriving at IHM earlier in the year was G–HAUL , the sole Westland TT300 , built in 1986 to participate in an RAF competition , for a tactical helicopter to replace the ageing Wessex and Puma . |
| 4 | The rest of this dissertation relates the various attempts made since 1979 to promote to the people of Bangladesh the idea that drinking an oral electrolyte solution is an effective method of replacing the fluids and minerals lost during diarrhoea . |
| 5 | Then Modigliani 's old friend , Blaise Cendrars , came to Nice to work on a film script and was shocked to see Modigliani looking so ill . |
| 6 | She dressed in clean jeans and a shirt , and drove to Villereal to shop for the following day . |
| 7 | NATO strategists talked of the need for a ‘ flexible response ’ and of the possibility of a ‘ limited ’ nuclear war ; translated into the ordinary language of British voters , this seemed to many to amount to a willingness to contemplate nuclear war restricted to European soil . |
| 8 | You must also remember that whatever deal you do , it 's reflected for all to see on the Ticker page of the Topic system . ’ |
| 9 | The Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front ( FPMR ) , a major left-wing guerrilla group founded in 1983 to fight against the military regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , decided to abandon its armed struggle on June 1 . |
| 10 | In the same way , attempts by a small but highly articulate pressure group around the journal Nature , founded in 1869 to argue for the social utility of scientific research , gained only limited success . |
| 11 | It is the oldest order of Chivalry in the world , founded in 1099 to care for the sick and wounded soldiers in the Crusades . |
| 12 | On 19 February 1804 Brigadier Engineer Reynaldo Oudinot , a Frenchman who had taken Portuguese nationality , arrived in Funchal to look into the problems of flooding in the city . |
| 13 | No French nation was waiting in 1500 to emerge in the concept of France ; and it could just as well have been Burgundy which assumed that role . |
| 14 | The third-person form , in its rather more personal state as ‘ my love ’ , is used in 33 to smooth over the Friend 's faults . |
| 15 | The de facto right to take wild deer would become to right to participate in an LDMT , and so to take wild deer . |
| 16 | ‘ He said he was going to trained to go on a crash team . |
| 17 | LEAKED memoranda from the Department of the Environment were yesterday used by Labour to protest at the alleged abuse of civil service time to cost Labour 's programme . |
| 18 | The case had received massive publicity and became symbolic of the institutionalized racism and brutality alleged by many to exist within the LAPD [ see pp. 38091 ; 38139 ] , and led to an independent commission of inquiry [ see pp. 38329-30 ] . |
| 19 | Citizen involvement began in 1972 to coincide with the approval of a large urban renewal project . |
| 20 | Freud writes , for example , of the ego 's ‘ wish to sleep ’ , although while asleep it stays on duty' to protect against the worst emanations of the unconscious , ‘ guarding ’ the sleep of the dreamer … |
| 21 | Although the precise aims and composition of RARA remained unclear , the organization appeared to have been formed in 1986 to protest against the " criminal policies " of the Netherlands authorities towards asylum seekers . |
| 22 | Today , participation in the event is encouraged by the Open Spaces Society , which was formed in 1865 to fight for the preservation of Hampstead Heath and which now campaigns nationally for the protection of commons , village greens and footpaths . |
| 23 | Bill Sanderson was in 1972 encouraged by the then art editor of New Society , Charlie Ridell , to experiment with scraper-board to cope with the poor letterpress reproduction that was not uncommon at the time . |
| 24 | ‘ We could find no evidence that these risks had been explicitly recognised by the department when they decided in 1988 to proceed with the system . |
| 25 | Partly I bad believed for reasons which were extraneous , and I had used the emotional commitment I had found in this to cover for a lack of genuine commitment . |
| 26 | Before independence , a daily half-hour in Asian languages had been introduced in 1959 to cater for the territory 's substantial Asian minority . |
| 27 | Formula Two was introduced in 1947 to cater for the new breed of younger driver who wanted to break into the sport but could not afford to get into Grand Prix racing . |
| 28 | Following parliamentary pressure , the population which would attract this privileged status was reduced to 50,000 to allow for the claims both of the boroughs with ancient histories and the growing manufacturing towns . |
| 29 | It is an opportunity given to few to lead in the creation of a new Department of State , especially one which has so much to contribute to your own vision of improving the quality of life in this country . |
| 30 | Mala looked about ready to climb up the side of the ship towards him , if she had to , so that I felt necessary to grasp her by her arm . |