Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [coord] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On receipt of an application from the member for permission to purchase and use these chemicals on the same basis as farmers and commercial growers , supported by the RSC statement , MAFF would issue a licence to do so . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the cessation of major hostilities left the northern English border exposed to endemic raids and marauding : the northern magnates looked to the crown for help to repulse and extinguish these threats . |
| 3 | From here he set out about 36 AD for Damascus to capture and punish those Nazarene who were claiming that Jesus was the Messiah expected . |
| 4 | Far from taking this supply of trained musicians for granted , the local church should be providing its own kind of expertise to complement and augment that which comes from the schools . |
| 5 | In recent years a number of attempts to integrate and coordinate these functions has come to be called Physical Distribution Management . |
| 6 | Before I pay a lot of money to try and get this problem sorted out , maybe you can tell me how I might be able to control this problem . |
| 7 | Swarms of wolf riders are often deployed ahead of the army 's line of march to scout and block any route of escape . |
| 8 | ‘ You have to have a massive show of force to contain or control any riotous situation , ’ says the mayor . |
| 9 | Events which have been linked with depression , for instance , are those which , in the context of the person 's current life , seem to pose a marked degree of long-term threat following a loss or disappointment , not least in the sense of failure to restore or replace that which has been lost . |
| 10 | ‘ She used the Christmas season of goodwill to try and murder these men . |
| 11 | He argues that this control enables a group of conquerors to subdue and dominate those who do not have access to such technology . |
| 12 | I enclose five original letters of authority to enter and inspect all of the premises owned by Name , other than the head office at [ address ] . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the indecent haste with which regulation 64A was brought forward in the recess , and then — it must be unprecedented — replaced by another identical regulation 64A , designed to come into operation immediately the next day , in the middle of the 21-day period that a regulation is supposed to lie on the Table before being implemented shows not only the willingness but the eagerness of Ministers to block or restrict those entitlements . |
| 14 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 15 | In fact , together with several colleagues , I was endeavouring to set up an informal meeting with ministers to try and discuss this matter er when the haemophiliac 's representative decided to go to law for their own good reasons , because that made it more difficult for any negotiations to take place . |
| 16 | If you can graft Licensing Bills and Land Valuation Bills and measures of that kind on the Finance Bill , what is to prevent you grafting on it , let us say , a Home Rule Bill — setting up an authority in Ireland to collect and dispense all the taxes of that country ? |
| 17 | Rather , the authors have made a selection and described them fully in order to explain and illustrate several different military strategies . |
| 18 | In order to connect and explain these facts , we need to generate a new framework , namely the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 19 | Under this modern view , contractual obligations may only be justified in order to deter or compensate some harm to the interests of another person . |
| 20 | In order to monitor and facilitate this process , the Council set up a Further Education Board in 1979 which , among other things , produced a set of guidelines , which has been formally approved by the Council , for colleges submitting courses for validation . |
| 21 | In order to study and characterise these differences lipid mixtures were prepared using only one species of phospholipids Some of these mixtures were definitely unphysiologic . |
| 22 | The sexual struggle is of two kinds ; in the one it is between individuals of the same sex , generally the male sex , in order to drive away or kill their rivals , the females remain passive ; whilst in the other the struggle is likewise between the individuals of the same sex , in order to excite or charm those of the opposite sex , generally the females , which no longer remain passive , but select more agreeable partners . |
| 23 | And people are doing it again now , in order to try and re-create those sounds . |
| 24 | The difficulty is I want to try and be helpful erm er er my Right Honourable Friend has , has made a number of conceptions and we have er put down in my name a number of these amendments to the Bill in order to try and meet those very concessions and those the anxieties which your Lordships have have expressed . |
| 25 | I was very tempted to gamble the little money I had left in order to try and accumulate some more — tempted also to have a go just for the thrill of it . |
| 26 | A standard anaesthetic regimen , using isoflurane , was therefore used in all patients in order to standardise and minimise any potential effect of anaesthetic drugs on liver protein synthesis . |
| 27 | When the text has been transcribed you work through it in order to discover and learn any new words or useful idioms . |
| 28 | Unfortunately one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savour these sidelights on the management of a Midland shooting estate , and in this reviewer 's opinion the book can not take the place of J. Miller 's Practical Gamekeeping . |
| 29 | In order to accept and welcome those chances it helps to have worked out in thinking and preparatory supervision one 's own feelings about dying . |
| 30 | He had sent for Philip who had raced up from Wales to coach and instruct this miraculous son in a great Shakespearian role to be performed in an Oxford college before an audience of West End luminaries ( Gielgud , Terence Rattigan ) : ‘ We worked on it line by line , hour after hour , into the early morning … |