Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My thanks to David Bogie , studio manager and Fish for their time and patience — and for allowing me to visit the Funny Farm . |
| 2 | I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon ( Mr. Amess ) for allowing me to say a few words on a matter that is so important to my constituents and to his . |
| 3 | I would therefore like to finish by thanking you all most sincerely for helping us to write a further chapter in what continues to be a major UK success story . |
| 4 | The three , all members of the legislature 's trade and industry committee , were accused of having accepted $60,000 from the Korean Automobiles Manufacturers ' Association in return for helping it to gain the National Assembly 's approval for a package of state aid . |
| 5 | The Jungian concept of synchronicity was much on his mind because he was toying with the idea of using it to underpin the narrative structure of London . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the race is on among the other cosmetic companies to come up with even more original ways of helping you to make the right make-up choices . |
| 7 | This not only enables them easily to recheck particular information if they need to , but it also has the effect of encouraging them to consult a wider range of sources of information . |
| 8 | Quantum mechanics may be peculiar but not to the extent of allowing one to obtain the square root of minus one as the result of an experiment ! |
| 9 | She accused me of instructing them to dig the wrong grave , which I did n't and I immediately defended myself and said : ‘ Mary , I did not . |
| 10 | And it has the advantage of enabling us to consider the two problems associated with terms and relations in a single context . |
| 11 | The technique of getting them to supply the missing dialogue after a silent viewing of a scene provides a good opportunity for you and them to find out what language they have at their command and how flexibly they can use it . |
| 12 | The doors of the bar opened behind them and they went in to order hot chocolate from the rather older part-time student who had learned the advisability of doing something to earn a little money and had taken several jobs as a waitress . |
| 13 | They would never have dreamed of telling me to take a certain attitude towards white people . |
| 14 | And you ca n't stop science from helping us to make a better job of things . |
| 15 | What 's more , releases like this , and the others in the series , are extremely valuable in allowing us to form a fuller picture of the musical background against which giants such as Brahms are judged . |
| 16 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 17 | If we lack the information that is vital in enabling us to gain a subjective awareness of our real interest then we are hardly likely to be a position to get together to organise . |
| 18 | And Dearle claimed that in addition to the small scale of their work and the inexperience of their members , the committees also suffered from a difficulty in gaining the support of employers , especially in persuading them to grant the young worker time off for further education . |
| 19 | They see no problem in joining us to visit the elderly of the village ’ . |
| 20 | The injunction that Churchill gave Hugh Dalton , in asking him to oversee the Special Operations Executive , was ‘ to set Europe ablaze ’ . |
| 21 | Unless you have a specific allergy , there is no great harm in taking something to relieve an isolated headache . |
| 22 | Above Planing the lute ribs to a thickness of just 1½mm before curving them to form the bowl-shaped back |
| 23 | Thank you very much for inviting me to attend the forthcoming AGM in Aberystwyth . |
| 24 | One of the earliest detailed discussions of how the artefacts of the period might be dated was provided by Åberg ( 1926 , pp. 149–58 ) , although typically there is no consideration of what such chronology could be used for beyond using it to relate the archaeological data to an historical narrative : |
| 25 | Many of the training difficulties encountered with dogs in later life can be traced back to allowing them to exert a subtle dominance over you at any early stage , while they are puppies . |
| 26 | The question , therefore , was how to satisfy the aspirations of the political groupings , without allowing them to gain the upper hand ; how to make use of their mobilizing capacities , without these being used to ends other than those approved by the Commander-in-Chief , Generalísimo Franco . |
| 27 | It is far better , for the sake of peace and quiet , to ‘ give them their head ’ within reason , without allowing them to get a total stranglehold on your time . |
| 28 | Particular attention is given to the training , career development and promotion of disabled employees with a view to encouraging them to play an active role in the development of the group . |
| 29 | He concentrated on training me to become an Olympic athlete . |
| 30 | It seems to me that , if we are spending £3 million on training someone to fly a fast jet and if , when he leaves the force — there are a lot of people leaving before their time is up — he is not being used in the reserve forces , that is a tremendous waste of a national resource . |