Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The convener went on to warn against funding schools on the basis of their pupil numbers . |
| 2 | The internal mechanisms regulating relations between different enterprises and industries during the long post-war boom had less to do with price competition between enterprises and , in countries like the UK , more to do with state policies . |
| 3 | Messengers ran out to call for help in men and gear and food . |
| 4 | In the morning Nigel tried faintly to argue about money . |
| 5 | During the Second World War he came to national notice as chairman of a Senate committee set up to check on war contracts and to prevent war profiteering . |
| 6 | Stephen came in to change for dinner , thoughtful and brooding . |
| 7 | There was room for both science and religion since the Bible taught how to go to heaven , not how the heavens go . |
| 8 | STEELFACE KNEW how to get to City Hall . |
| 9 | Mr Lawrence chaired the steering group set up to look at life profit reporting and there is no doubt that he and the Prudential are the driving force behind the new proposals . |
| 10 | The sea lagoon turned out to vary in depth from a few inches to a couple of feet . |
| 11 | If the UK decided not to join in stage three of Economic and Monetary Union ( EMU ) under the ‘ opt-out ’ protocol negotiated , then in effect the UK would be outside the European Central Bank ( ECB ) . |
| 12 | After a couple of minutes ' polite talk and the offer of a cup of tea , Mrs Tanner went away to talk to mother . |
| 13 | At the height of the party , when he thought he would not be missed , Seb slipped away to return to Fern Cottage . |
| 14 | The bid by what is now Braintree District Commercial Services , an organisation set up to comply with Government rules over competitive tendering for council jobs , is for £246,285.27 . |
| 15 | In spite of the fact that Leese 's charges were much more blatant than in the original offence the authorities decided not to prosecute in case an acquittal might be misunderstood by the general public . |
| 16 | This Friday Geraldine settled down to wait for Newsnight . |
| 17 | ( So much so that when , at the 1989 party conference , a delegate got up to speak in defence of Sunday as a day of worship , he was met with a chorus of boos from shopkeepers on the floor . ) |
| 18 | GEORDIE Glam-rock band who had four Top 40 hits in the early Seventies , Brian Johnson went on to sing with AC/DC . |
| 19 | Ann Butler had written to Uncle Nathan in Leeds to say that when Sarah went there to act as bridesmaid to her sister Christiana , she would stay on to be his new housekeeper . |
| 20 | That the provision of egalitarian welfare was also implicitly a means of social control emerges clearly : ‘ The Peruvian government knew how to hold in check passions destructive of the social order and to prevent the revival of primitive anarchy . |
| 21 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 22 | Darlington Civic Theatre THE Heather Brothers ' musical knew how to pull at heart strings of those who have felt first love . |
| 23 | I understood only too well why Jean-Claude chose not to deal with M. Chaillot himself . |
| 24 | Cosmas 's death had more to do with flesh and blood than curses , witches or ghosts . ’ |
| 25 | The WRC said not to worry as copper was not particularly toxic . |
| 26 | For some , entering the market as consumers had more to do with necessity than with a growth in personal income . |
| 27 | The Communist Party had most to gain by combination with other groups , for with its strong discipline it could always hope to attract supporters from allied groups without losing many of its own members . |
| 28 | The High Street tilted abruptly to rise to Thrush Green . |