Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 On Jan. 14 Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis once again to fight to the death to defend Kuwait , and the National Assembly in Baghdad formally voted unanimously to approve full powers for him to determine both the Iraqi military response to any allied offensive and the handling of any negotiations .
2 The upper levels of the incline were , we believe , supported on foundations deep enough to rest on firm subsoil ; while to reduce the danger of slippage on the slopes and particularly on the steeper embankment at the side , amounts of clay baked on site were mixed with the surface material .
3 She had worked with Africans long enough to value their skills and ability and be totally incensed by studies purporting to prove that Africans were of lesser ability than Europeans .
4 ‘ The mortgage market in the UK is a very mature one , ’ reflects Hendrik Vos , Marketing Manager , ‘ therefore you have to things exceptionally well to stand out from the crowd . ’
5 Back on the path I came to the " chasm " said by many geologists to be a collapsed cave system and suggested by others more recently to have been carved out of a weakness in the limestone by the raging melting ice waters of a glacier .
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