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

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1 There was no way he could risk incurring the wrath of a superior but he did n't want to lose manhood in front of his uniformed thugs .
2 Ms Hyslop added : ‘ There are those who were unhappy with the parliamentary group 's vote but who do not want to see months of infighting within the party . ’
3 company standing orders and regulations revised to promote uniformity of practice throughout ships of the fleet
4 The two LEAs in Wales were invited after advice from the Welsh Office , as it was intended to include tests in Welsh in the schools .
5 She expected to see signs of fury in his eyes at that stab but she saw nothing to indicate any such irritation .
6 As a part of that we intend to arrange excursions from time to time , and there will be winter lectures .
7 When he dropped short outside off stump there would be mutterings that Wilfred was never cut in his entire career ; if he failed to bowl Yorkshire to victory on a wearing pitch , grumblings would be heard that Wardle would have had them out by tea .
8 However , rarely are such rationales clearly worked out or attempts made to provide evidence in support of these claims .
9 Miguel Rafaelo said quietly , ‘ You do n't want to come face to face with yourself , then , Shelley .
10 He did not want to appear flash in front of his workmates .
11 Father Morrow felt it his duty to try to appeal face to face to Tony 's parents to allow their son to live .
12 To get to the next section of footway the pedestrian has to risk death by collision in the road reserved for motoring , analogous to the castaway having to swim the shark-infested waters to reach the next island .
13 I mean there 's chaps like myself — about twelve stone ten pounds — you were expected to carry bags of barley at sixteen stone four ; and sometimes there was n't a job for you in the hard days when there was a lot of men out of work .
14 We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl .
15 The imperial governor of the duchy of Spoleto , Conrad of Urslingen , tried to remain governor as vassal of the pope .
16 On April 30 a court in Bhopal ordered the seizure of all Indian assets of the US company Union Carbide , valued at Rs420,000,000 ( about US$14,500,000 ) , following the failure of its employees to appear to stand trial in connection with the December 1984 poison gas leak which killed more than 3,800 people [ see pp. 33647-48 ] .
17 But it is not only in Scotland that police appear to over-emphasise violence in connection with rape .
18 These forums had been held before the move was considered to provide lines of communication between management and staff but , the company notes , these meetings took on a new usefulness when the relocation was announced .
19 Nell half expected to come face to face with Mahon inside .
20 Instead , the theory has to relate types of state to distinct socio-economic structures , without placing them as a whole in any historical sequence , and to explain changes in the state by characteristics of the structure of each particular form of society which engender a structural transformation .
21 Denmark and Saxony hired out considerable forces to the anti-French coalition during the War of the Spanish Succession , while Britain employed Russian auxiliaries in 1747–48 and confidently expected to obtain others for use against the American colonists in 1775 .
22 Instruction should be given at a point of high motivation , as for example when the student wants to obtain information in connection with a particular project .
23 The White Paper , the Act itself and the preliminary draft guidance all emphasize the government 's expectation that not every referral will necessitate a comprehensive assessment and that departments will need to establish criteria of eligibility for a full assessment and an initial screening mechanism ( DoH , 1989b , 1990 , 1991a ) .
24 In a clear indication that he favoured a future constitutional dispensation based on the concept of protected " group rights " , he declared that a new system would need to provide guarantees of protection against domination by any group , by means of constitutional checks and balances , a decentralization of power and " the requirement of consensus on controversial matters " .
25 A therapist will often need to provide patients with information on the basis of his professional knowledge ( e.g. explaining the side-effects of psychotropic medication ) .
26 An example is where a director has agreed to try to sell shares on behalf of the shareholders , in which case he is acting as their agent and not as a director of the company .
27 While the research was designed to answer questions of origin of type and chronology , the resulting groupings are based on similarity of design elements .
28 Saddam Hussein rose to rule Iraq in succession to a cousin from the Takriti clans , and depended upon cousins and near relatives to consolidate his hold on power .
29 At Dunstable , where the rebels were townsmen , they tried to restrict freedom of trade to within the borough , whereas the rural Essex rebels had followed precisely the opposite policy , and at Yarmouth the insurgents , drawn from the neighbouring countryside attempted to overthrow the rights of the municipality ( 98 , pp.41 , 108–11 ) .
30 Conclusion If you want to create works of art on your Spectrum 's screen then you can certainly do it with the Grafpad …
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