Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To , to make contingency plans to hold it on a day when we do n't need the cooperation of the employers in terms of time off |
| 2 | I 'll get our contracts department to ring you about a fee ’ |
| 3 | I even went out and bought a dictionary on Sixth Avenue to assist me in the project . |
| 4 | Farmers will be offered money to cut the use of pesticides and fertilizers , and those who choose to convert to organic methods of cultivation will receive support premiums to assist them during the lean transition period . |
| 5 | ‘ The Daleks ’ , however , took the show up into the rarified heights of peak viewing , prompting programme schedulers to see it as a very useful keystone in grabbing audiences for the whole of Saturday evening — which had been Donald Baverstock 's prime intention all along . |
| 6 | The police were called to resolve the dispute , and although Mr Levy did not make a formal complaint he contacted Arsenal Football Club to inform them of the incident . |
| 7 | ITN has recruited American investment bank Lehman Brothers to steer it through the restructuring . |
| 8 | I am also writing to at the South Side Association to notify her of the developments . |
| 9 | Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September . |
| 10 | On our way home via New York , some ‘ dear ’ friends ( as in generous ) , fixed us a stretch limo to take us to the airport . |
| 11 | ‘ I telephoned the coastguard and port authority on Friday night to inform them of the event , start times and which VHF frequency we would be using . |
| 12 | Straw Dogs managed to attract enough blood seekers to put it into the black at the box-office , but this disturbing tale of rural atrocities can scarcely have done much for the Cornish tourist industry . |
| 13 | The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers . |
| 14 | It would be a disservice to Denis Law to mention him in the same breath as some of Scotland 's more notorious hell-raisers . |
| 15 | You can then either accept the SPR or ask a user with SPR SSR Controller privilege to force it onto a user . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've no doubt he 'll ask Dr Curtis to admit her to a cardiac ward . ’ |
| 17 | Designs based on these principles are known as linear voltage regulators to distinguish them from the kind of regulator we are going to investigate in this article . |
| 18 | Apart from the deepening and modification of the existing central window openings of each main gable to create garden access doors , the only other alterations to the external appearance were modifications to the existing very high classroom windows of the east and south elevations to reconcile them with the newly inserted upper floor and gallery . |
| 19 | According to Smith , the illness was described in the language of the day as a putrid fever with buboes on the face and body , which caused Dr Crawford to compare it to the plague . |
| 20 | If the newcomers have fairly extreme opinions , some towards the Right and some towards the Left , it will be more difficult for the select committee atmosphere to mould them into a team upholding the legislature as opposed to the government of the day . |
| 21 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 22 | The war was just over , and she was climbing aboard an RAF transport to take her to the demobilisation centre . |
| 23 | Samuel begged the company 's indulgence as chairman elect to entertain them with a short piece in Sir Thomas 's absence . |
| 24 | These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place . |
| 25 | The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million . |
| 26 | From Hamilton came a call from Winnie Ewing to join her on the platform at her eve of poll meeting , which ( as there was no Liberal standing ) I gladly accepted . |
| 27 | As the season progressed , so had the heat , and Huy and Merymose stood over the body with their heads wrapped in linen cloths to protect them from the sun . |
| 28 | Instead of ribs , the machine has a canvas roof to shield us from the weather , and although one can peer out through slits here and there , the effect is of travelling in a closed world , like an outsize gypsy wagon . |
| 29 | Virgin Atlantic , as the new airline was to be called , would need to become airborne within the next three to four months , to take advantage of the summer traffic and generate the necessary cash reserves to see it through the fallow winter months . |
| 30 | Despite some misgivings , he persuaded Tom Gray to accompany him on a wander to a nearby burial ground , Lying on top of a heap of bones , ‘ almost asking to be taken , was a femur . |