Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem this poses for the educationalist is formidable because , as well as designing curricula that will help the surveyor cope with future changes , he has also to provide the basis of a training experience to enable him to cope with contemporary practice . |
| 2 | Till the Union made them acquainted with English manners , the culture of their lands was unskilful , and their domestic life unformed ; their tables were coarse as the feasts of Eskimeaux , and their houses as filthy as the cottages of Hottentots . ’ |
| 3 | Since the kite has a lift component to enable it to accelerate at certain positions around the hemisphere it also has what is known as an ‘ apparent wind ’ and it is this which sustains the motion within the flight envelope . |
| 4 | Her work refuses any concession to polite conventions of ‘ good taste ’ , indeed her fleshy pinks and pulsing reds make us squirm with embarrassed recognition , reminding us of the ‘ nasty ’ things we do at home — after the guests have gone . |
| 5 | One consequence of public anxiety is an increasing demand for scientists with the specific skills of chemists , geoscientists , biologists etc , who are aware of the contribution that their own discipline can make to understanding the environment and are sufficiently acquainted with other disciplines to enable them to work in multi-disciplinary teams . |
| 6 | David Gettings , manager of Binns , Darlington , has presented certificates to four of six members of staff who have successfully completed a sign language course to enable them to communicate with deaf customers . |
| 7 | Reports of sea serpents say they look like smooth snakes , but they are many times larger than the biggest snakes on earth : the longest seem to be about 200 metres . |
| 8 | A study of the GEC bid to takeover Plessey outlines clearly the conflict that can exist between maintaining competition in the domestic market and restructuring an industry to enable it to compete with foreign competition , by allowing rationalisation to occur and encouraging the combined group to exploit economies of scale . |
| 9 | The Old Testament records them running after false gods , the gods of the nations round about them , whenever opportunity offered . |
| 10 | The poignant melody made him think of soft feminine sighs , warm arms and whispered words of love in the dark of night . |
| 11 | When you 're in the Alps , having a car allows you to drive to different resorts if either poor snow or long queues in yours is a problem . |
| 12 | Practical support at the time at which young people raised in care are forced to leave their residential homes to help them settle into satisfactory new home environments , perhaps by helping them to get flats with friends or places in small half-way hostels with friends and supplying a realistic preparation for independent living , might avoid many difficulties . |
| 13 | ‘ I think the best solution to all this is to have third country umpires like we have in other sports . ’ |
| 14 | But Pat remembers him saying to various children : ‘ Why do n't you lay down at the bottom of the swimming pool for half an hour ? ’ |
| 15 | It is a bit like taking a poll of general election candidates asking them to state in public whether they think that they will win . |
| 16 | That woman have the impertinence to send you to ask for unmentionable things on Sunday ? ’ |
| 17 | Their long legs allow them to stride through tall vegetation and shallow water to forage for a variety of animal and plant items . |
| 18 | A period in the engineering department saw him promoted from senior mechanical engineer to head of mechanical engineering before he was appointed head of facilities for BP 's northern district which included the Buchan , Beatrice , SWOPS , Clyde , Thistle and Magnus upstream activities . |
| 19 | The Society sees this as the best protection against the exclusion of some firms from franchising and against any attempt to force them to tender for legal aid work on the basis of price . |
| 20 | Only in high-tech R&D units do they work as technical staff in any numbers without supporting technicians . |
| 21 | What other animals do you know from other countries ? |
| 22 | A report submitted to the International Maritime Organisation warns that hundreds of Russian sailors are at risk of serious contamination because accommodation shortages force them to live on dangerous nuclear submarines . |
| 23 | The fact that Nikon overreached himself was clearly exposed when Tsar Alexis forced him to withdraw from public affairs and subsequently had him deposed and replaced by a more pliant successor . |
| 24 | Pat said they went to late-night movies , and then on to parties . |
| 25 | His first student essays in photography show him fascinated by natural order and symmetry , the geometry of nature , the abstract face of concrete things . |
| 26 | The disinterested passions compel me to see from other viewpoints , but also blind me to the equality of viewpoints . |
| 27 | US forces used loudhailers to urge them to surrender amid intermittent explosions of gun and cannon fire . |
| 28 | The women 's hats and bright make-up made them look like exotic birds . |
| 29 | His reputation , style and personal charm enabled him to recover from serious mismatches , such as the ill-advised moving from ITT to RCA of Maurice Valente , who lasted a mere six months in his new job . |
| 30 | My occasional brushes with office work leave me filled with inarticulate rage . |