Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not be doubted that the constable was ‘ on duty ’ when he stopped the cyclist , and he was no doubt under some sort of obligation to stop the cyclist to enable him to bring the defendant before the court ultimately . |
| 2 | SCOTVEC is always interested to hear from people who feel that they have the subject expertise and commitment to National Certificate to enable them to undertake the job of subject assessor . |
| 3 | ‘ However , we will continue with the appeal to raise money to enable us to run the scanner . |
| 4 | These costs include the re-filling of fire extinguishers or damage caused by the fire brigade to a building to enable them to put the fire out and would be covered under the fire section . |
| 5 | It is no secret that there was great division among Transvaal administrators in releasing Rice from his contract to enable him to join the Channel 9 TV commentary team for the World Cup that clashed with the latter stages of the South African season . |
| 6 | He tended to come behind the bit , so I wanted a fixed bit to encourage him to take a contact rather than a loose ring one . |
| 7 | They had found for Cottle a scholarship to enable him to pursue an MA . |
| 8 | It is important to us to maintain and seek to improve those ratings to enable us to minimise the cost of our borrowings . |
| 9 | The government is now devising methods to enable them to use the welfare state to control people and make them tow the line . |
| 10 | It is the document which can be viewed by our existing and prospective clients to enable them to gain an insight into our quality system . |
| 11 | She does not wish to conceal this news as she strongly believes that the mind can play a great part in overcoming such a complaint and she asks everyone to join her in positive thinking to help her to fight the illness . |
| 12 | Subjectively worded regulations were treated literally , and the courts eschewed any attempt to persuade them to judge the necessity or reasonableness of such regulations . |
| 13 | I disputed the latter with Tony who conceded that the differential existed more because it was ‘ expected ’ by customers than in any attempt to persuade them to buy the beer in preference to another . |
| 14 | Representatives from Compaq Computer Corp 's East European headquarters in Munich are trying to arrange a meeting with the Slovakian government in an attempt to persuade it to ease the currency regulations adopted by the National Bank in February . |
| 15 | If BR does not come up with the money the council is warning it may take action to force them to remove the ticket office . |
| 16 | It was agreed that any club invited to the Glenfiddich will be paired with a local side to allow them to play the fixture in midweek either before or after the trip to Glasgow . |
| 17 | We shall work with your lawyer to assist you to negotiate a contract on the best available terms . |
| 18 | At a meeting of the Finance Committee members will pr , make a progress report on how the poll tax collection is going , and campaigners say they intend to put pressure on councillors in an attempt to get them to review the collection process . |
| 19 | At the end of his judgment he said , at p. 356 , that mandamus would not lie to direct the benchers of Gray 's Inn to compel them to call the applicant , who was a student member of the Inn , to the degree of a barrister-at-law and added that , if there was a ground for mandamus , the party must take the ancient course of applying to the 12 judges . |
| 20 | Or you may be a carer looking for help to enable you to take a break , either for regular short spells , or to go on holiday or in an emergency . |
| 21 | He waited until their faces reached a satisfactory degree of indignation then , over the next half hour , his low north-country voice spun out a story which revealed that political interests in the United States had channelled money through MacQuillan 's companies to enable him to acquire the Post ( or any other major British newspaper which came on the market and could be turned into a propaganda tool ) . |
| 22 | In courteously making a special journey to Beeching 's home to induce him to accept the invitation , Gardiner incurred the Prime Minister 's displeasure : Dr Beeching should have been invited to call on the Lord Chancellor . |
| 23 | He wrote : ‘ Dear Mr Fallon , I have been requested by the council to urge you to ask the Government to assist local authorities in the collection of essential poll tax revenue . ’ |
| 24 | It was further agreed that Joe McGhee be asked to write to the association of Chaplains to invite them to send a representative . |
| 25 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 26 | A FEUDING doctor who was awarded a record £150,000 damages against his partner for slander has been forced to give up his battle to get her to pay the cash . |
| 27 | I AM writing on behalf of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection to ask you to support the Walk for Laboratory Animals on Sunday , September 26 , at 31 venues . |
| 28 | They agreed to release him as an uncontested registration to enable him to find a county where he could hope for greater opportunities , and although we ca n't guarantee a first-team place , he 'll get plenty of chances if he does the business . |
| 29 | It is , obviously , not possible for us in a textbook to permit you to have the experience of everyday discourse in what Stenning ( 1978 ) calls a ‘ normal context ’ , where the hearer is part of the context and then experiences the text . |
| 30 | He was also very curious and begged Ted to allow him to have a look round . |