Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Another stock to advance for the same reasons was General Cinema , owner of Harcourt Brace .
2 Yes Chairman , the figure of a hundred thousand as we said did , was erm a figure quoted on by account chief 's executive of the purchasing consortium erm , that was spoken at a public meeting held here in Harlow last week erm the issue of the the transport around the area erm , was accepted by the the chief executive of the health authority erm or of that of the consortium erm , and the and the view that it would be much more difficult with the lack of public transport to get to the more relo , remote areas of Essex the the reason that the erm reduced use of London was put into this report was also erm , clearly stated by the chief executive , i it 's their clear aim to provide more of , to purchase more of the services from within the north Essex area , and that was stated in a major part of the conta , of of their erm achievements and that automatically means a reduced amount of choice for those people who would otherwise for , to London .
3 The shoals of fish became scarce and unreliable from one year to another , probably because of overfishing when the power of modern engines made it possible for foreign boats to fish in the same waters .
4 When David Kay , Roy Goddard and Fred Rogers established their business in 1970 , they were one of the first British firms to operate in the same way as Spencer Stuart , Heidrick and Struggles and Egon Zehnder .
5 ‘ Well fashion is still faring better than advertising in the current page squeeze , but there are now less editorial pages to correspond with the fewer advertising pages being sold in magazines ’ .
6 On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant .
7 I think that the whole business was just another gimmick to add to the many introduced to the Church over these last 20 years .
8 And I have n't come all this way to listen to the same complaint , Irina .
9 He 's come to this country to work for the former England star , Mike Burton , who runs a local sports agency .
10 It is normal for this sensitivity to remain for a few flights and then gradually to disappear .
11 In Latin America , Africa , and Asia , peasants might make a similar journey to market with a few chickens or other stock and produce if the fare were low enough to leave some profit .
12 But as mystics these medieval women , though " taking the route [ they ] would be likely to take " , join with their male counterparts to point to the same inner journey into the truth of the Incarnation — a wisdom which transcends human distinctions and where " there is neither male nor female .
13 One standard way of establishing the degree of discrimination in employment is to arrange for equally qualified black and white workers to apply for the same job .
14 ‘ It means it now rests with the international side to put on the same , if not a better kind of performance as we put on against Norway last month .
15 ‘ It means it now rests with the international side to put on the same , if not a better kind of performance as we put on against Norway last month .
16 However , in the USA , the chemical fallout from industry and agriculture has prompted an environmental expert to warn of the many unseen air pollutants which are not covered by the Clean Air Act and are damaging not only to human health — linked to ills from leukaemia to heart disease — but are implicated in the formation of ‘ acid rain' which has devastated vast tracts of forest ( Begley , 1988 ) .
17 It arranged for groups of identically qualified white and black applicants to apply for the same jobs in Chicago .
18 Counselling can play a vital part in helping retired , or retiring , elderly people to cope with the many dilemmas and pressures such attitudes place upon them .
19 Microsoft divides these template packages into three : those just described fall into the category of ‘ collaboration templates ’ which enable multiple users to contribute to the same document , however others fall into ‘ tracking templates ’ such as project schedulers , which help to co-ordinate particular activities .
20 Some multicentre studies have been published in aggregate and separately , and we took great care to avoid including the same results more than once .
21 ‘ I have an important function to attend in a few days ’ time .
22 After all , when a quail is chased by a man , it must take more steps to run at the same speed .
23 Because of the latter requirement there can not be a double charge to tax on the same income ( s744 ) .
24 He was an inventor , and designed quick-selling gadgets which he used his showman-like qualities to retail at the many regional and metropolitan exhibitions being organized in the last quarter of the nineteenth century .
25 The Scottish Protestants had their own dramatic gesture to make within a few weeks of Mary Tudor 's death .
26 Ten years later , still in Pig Street , things were rather different : there were more children to cram into the same limited accommodation , but by the middle of 1795 they were motherless .
27 Do you really believe that the first contact after weeks of silence just happened by sheer coincidence to fall on the same day as your arrival here ?
28 Rory and Tony Underwood become the first brothers to play in the same England side since the war , while Bath No 8 Ben Clarke makes his debut .
29 Irish need to think along the same lines .
30 Giving the mother a small job to do in the same room as the child during the meal will help distract her .
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