Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | CYNTHIA Hirst was disappointed the Budget failed to give substantial help to disabled people . |
| 2 | Sometimes , earthworks of ridge and furrow or narrow early enclosed strips remain to give some clue to the course , but elsewhere the boundary itself must be the clue to the former existence of such an arrangement . |
| 3 | In view of this , it seems clear that pre-service or initial preparation needs to pay particular attention to training . |
| 4 | We suggest that an authority embarking on a project of this kind needs to give serious consideration to the time-scale for guaranteed funding and the relative merits of schemes which are openly competitive and those based on selection and sponsorship . |
| 5 | However , the all too familiar constraint of funding has prevented much progress to date . |
| 6 | A new generation of chefs has raised British cooking to poetic heights — with some unfortunate exceptions , says AISLING FOSTER |
| 7 | The recession has exacerbated this problem to such an extent that the Metropolitan Police has a Fraud Squad division detailed to look at the issue . |
| 8 | Clive Barker ( 1977 ) of Warwick University has given new substance to the use of games in the training of actors and Brian Watkins ( 1981 ) has evolved a theoretical framework conceptually linking drama and game in a way which I shall attempt to build on in the next chapter . |
| 9 | One day after a very difficult time with him , I exploded and said to him : ‘ I ca n't say that the Christian faith has made much difference to your life ! ’ |
| 10 | The EC 's overseas aid directorate has given conditional approval to a funding proposal for a southern African ivory trading centre , which would flout the existing provisions of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 11 | The simple hedges described in Fig.7.3 are essentially insurance operations in which profits and losses on each investment tend to offset each other to some extent . |
| 12 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 13 | Further discussion of the role of bureaucracy in Bonapartist regimes will be reserved for the analysis of underdevelopment , since it is in the context of the post-colonial state that The Eighteenth Brumaire has provided most stimulation to contemporary Marxists . |
| 14 | This programme has given more coverage to committees than any other programme , with 25% of its attention being given to select committees and 6% to standing committees ( compared with 9% and 3% respectively , in Parliament ) . |
| 15 | The privatization programme has reduced net lending to the nationalized industries ( part of total government expenditure in Table 15.1 above ) and has provided a ( temporary ) boost to Treasury funds . |
| 16 | The department has directed much effort to European issues . |
| 17 | However , the planting of beech hedging and the erection of rabbitproof fencing has enabled some work to be completed . |
| 18 | Marine biologist Sam LaBudde has presented new evidence to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea that Alaskan Indians are killing walruses for their ivory . |
| 19 | Aergo : The name given to Karrimor 's moulded backsystem designed to give good ventilation to the back area and distribute the load between the hips and shoulders , as in an adjustable system . |
| 20 | Characterised by confusion over aims and changes of membership , the panel made a number of false starts and fresh starts with the injection of new blood to try to give more direction to its work . |
| 21 | This chapter has given more space to the anti-rather than to the pro-classical themes that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 22 | Although Grubb has sent Denizen back to his New Jersey stable for a rest , before coming to Europe in May in search of a place in Britain 's Olympic team , he brings a useful substitute in Ever . |
| 23 | SCOTLAND captain David Sole has given short shrift to anyone who has blamed Martin Bayfield and Tim Rodber for the drastic change in Scottish scrummaging fortunes between the World Cup semi-final and the Five Nations opener , when his side scored their first pushover try against England for donkey 's years , despite losing by a record score . |
| 24 | The retreat from professional standards which marked the period of industrial action has given new impetus to those politicians and administrators who seek to define the teacher 's role . |
| 25 | And the princess 's closest friends claim that the friendship has done much harm to the royal marriage . |
| 26 | The experimental rig that will be built at the UKAEA 's Harwell base is , ironically , called ACHILLES , The NII agrees that recent work in Canada , West Germany and the United States has gone some way to showing the likely scale of the ballooning effect . |
| 27 | Live orchid plants used rather than imported cut flowers , full recycling programme includes selling unused food to local farmers and wrapping goods in paper , if necessary , rather than plastic . |
| 28 | The Maltese parliamentary secretary for the environment , Dr Stanley Zammit , has met with members of the country 's shooters ' and trappers ' association to discuss transferring government-owned woodland to association members . |
| 29 | Power-assisted steering fitted as standard to all Safrane models is a speed-sensitive system that ‘ weights up ’ as road speed increases to provide more feedback to the driver . |
| 30 | Scots set to decline return ticket to Fiji |