Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] and [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have come through five heart attacks for my dogs and will carry on fighting , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Christians believe that Jesus is concerned about their needs and will reach out to ‘ touch ’ them and help them — the leper ( Mark 1:40–45 ) . |
| 3 | They may also furnish invaluable information on the target company through their analysts and can provide the manpower and support necessary for a contested takeover . |
| 4 | The RCN runs a comprehensive advisory service for its members and can offer the benefit of continued professional indemnity insurance . |
| 5 | However , he added : ‘ We think it is high time the French government took responsibility for their citizens and should pay for this kind of damage . ’ |
| 6 | Meanwhile , one would exhort those workers who are conscious of the problems for their residents and would help them if they could to do their best — within the law and within the limits of their own conscience — to mend the situation in their own particular place of work if mending is needed there . |
| 7 | Even where parents no longer live together they each continue to be responsible for their children and will need to decide who the children should live with for most of the time and how often the other parent should see the children . |
| 8 | The brigade will force them to withdraw most of their forces and will defeat the remainder in a classic set-piece brigade attack , on a well-sited defensive position . |
| 9 | The draft student charter would allow students to opt out of their associations and would constrain unions within the law on charitable status . |
| 10 | The draft student charter would allow students to opt out of their associations and would constrain student unions by use of the laws on organisations which lay claim to charitable status . |
| 11 | Mike Foster , Executive Chairman of Courage , says they 're proud of their products and would defend people 's right to use them . |
| 12 | Some GPs are very resistant to producing copies of their records and can cause considerable delay . |
| 13 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |
| 14 | He is usually accompanied by a stalker and gillie , local men who are familiar with the herds and their habits , and who know the country like the back of their hands and can help lead those doing the shooting to the right place . |
| 15 | They have been selected for the quality of their objectives and will involve working in partnership with geographers , conservationists and ecologists in the countries they visit . |
| 16 | The panel that he envisaged would be made up of their representatives and would provide them with a forum to air concerns . |
| 17 | It has advanced at the pace of its peoples and must continue to do so . |
| 18 | English Heritage is a challenge of quite another order , being a vast multifarious organisation which probably needs to be disassembled , but all the more reason to entrust it to someone who understands at least some of its roles and can respect the quality of the people who work within it and who advise it . |
| 19 | The activity which his reason can criticize and partially direct was not initially chosen by him , it is spontaneous ; the physical processes of birth , breathing , digestion , orgasm , death ; the emotions ; the desires and aversions which are independent of his principles and may conflict with them , irrespective of whether he thinks of them as innate or as socially conditioned ; dream , reverie and fantasy ; ecstasies of love , mystical illumination , intellectual discovery , artistic creation and contemplation . |
| 20 | Nigel was proud of his reviews and would have liked another woman to show them to . |
| 21 | He has had his problems , trying to manage animals that have no fear of his dogs and can clear I-5 m with a standing jump . |
| 22 | He was good at acting the part necessary for the communication of his ideas and would dramatise his talks by pacing up and down or by flinging his jacket onto the floor . |
| 23 | You are responsible for your own safety and that of your colleagues and should follow any health and safety rules which apply to your workplace . |
| 24 | They pass it around behind their backs and must make sure that it is ringing loudly . |
| 25 | Munster 's narrow win over Leinster means that they , like Ulster , have two wins under their belts and will put the title on the line today . |
| 26 | The crucial test of the electro-weak theory will come only when the experimenters have several Z particles under their belts and can say exactly what its mass is . |
| 27 | And he believes that it is precisely because black footballers know of each other 's natural ability , that they are able to construct the most intricate and seemingly planned movements without any preparation at all : ‘ They 've got the receivers built into their heads and can pick each other up on the same wavelength . ’ |
| 28 | While Deng is doing his best to assure the world that nothing has changed , that China will push ahead with its reforms and will hold its door open for foreign business and investment , the post-Tiananmen purging of liberal intellectual elements and the new emphasis on ‘ political education ’ have enormously strengthened the position of the Communist Party 's hardline Marxists , led by Yang Shangkun , the president , and Li Peng , the prime minister . |
| 29 | The holiday was particularly useful for children who are still coming to terms with their conditions and may have been robbed of their self-confidence . |
| 30 | Mr Jones , whose firm is in Chelsea , said : ‘ I have been in touch with their parents and will fly to Nepal myself . ’ |