Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 2 | Questionnaires were sent out to 300 employees and timekeepers in order to gather data on the problem areas . |
| 3 | He said : ’ I reserve my position on that because I have not only got to find money for the welfare changes . |
| 4 | This was used to infer values of the Census variables for households which never returned a form . |
| 5 | Since 1984 the Justice Department has had authority to prosecute terrorists who attack Americans abroad , but the FBI has had to request permission from the host countries to return them to the US . |
| 6 | They particularly wanted to obtain copies of the prospecting licences to see what conditions were attached . |
| 7 | The Accommodation Service is available to provide assistance during the vacation periods as well as during term-time . |
| 8 | Our efforts to provide Cuba with the petroleum products it needed put a heavy burden on our own shipping system and forced us to order extra tankers from Italy . |
| 9 | Controlling either the monetary base or broad liquidity is difficult given that the Bank of England is always prepared to provide liquidity to the discount houses as lender of last resort . |
| 10 | The crossbow is not a popular weapon amongst men from the Empire , but there are always foreigners eager to be recruited into the Empire armies so it is quite common to find crossbowmen amongst the state regiments . |
| 11 | Pension schemes are already notoriously complicated , so it is not surprising that lawyers have turned to the actuarial profession to establish valuations of the pension benefits in divorce cases . |
| 12 | Bosnia and Serbia possessed rich forest resources , which were used to provide charcoal for the metal workers ' furnaces as well as timber for the construction of houses . |
| 13 | BPX-A has initiated worker training programs to increase awareness of the safety issues associated with polar bears and grizzly bears . |
| 14 | we have set up co-ordinators in every local education authority to train teachers about the harm drugs can do , a nd to bring the fight against drug abuse into the classroom ; |
| 15 | THE Queen made a morale-boosting visit to Northern Ireland yesterday to meet members of the security forces and public . |
| 16 | We have already noted the crystallization of parliamentary language working to exclude sexuality in the repeal struggles . |
| 17 | We know from the pottery of the Chimu period that the Incas were cultivating potatoes during the 13th Century but we believe that for many hundreds of years before that the Quecho Indians had enjoyed a staple diet of wild potatoes and had even developed an ingenious method of freeze-drying them to provide food throughout the winter months . |
| 18 | This chapter is concerned with developing methods able to provide estimates of the confidence regions around GIS map-based outputs by taking into account certain selected sources of uncertainty affecting spatial databases . |
| 19 | The skirmishers in the fields had seen them now , and the French had started to withdraw , firing occasionally , but for the most part just running as fast as they could , to obtain cover amidst the village buildings . |
| 20 | It was he who went on to train me to the point where I could begin to set in motion a way to extract revenge from the blanc nations , and ensure that no one would so betray us again . |
| 21 | Large Government grants are being offered to attract industries to the Enterprise Zones within Liverpool and Manchester but , with an uncertain future , most managers are being cautious over investing money for new industries in the region . |
| 22 | The system was designed to prevent plagiarism , and to establish copyright over the thesis contents . |
| 23 | Labour 's apparent shift towards PR to woo the Liberals , Ashdown 's insistence that he would allow a government to function only if it gave way to PR , all seemed to point to a deal being hatched up behind the backs of the voters to secure power for the opposition parties . |
| 24 | He said he was ‘ disgusted ’ that Mr Clarke had refused to meet representatives of the ambulance workers . |
| 25 | If you have questions about the Off-Site Emergency Plan , or are unclear about what is involved , we shall be holding a public meeting for you to meet representatives from the Emergency Services , the Health Authority , the District and County Councils and CIBA-GEIGY Plastics . |
| 26 | Or do you want me to wreak havoc on the supper tables ? ’ |
| 27 | We would like to see work at the accident blackspots ; junctions and blind bends where you ca n't see . |
| 28 | This view has also received support from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and from the environmental directorate of the European Commission , although in the UK government itself the Department of the Environment failed to acknowledge receipt of the FoE reports . |
| 29 | More could have been done to allay Japanese fears regarding the survival of the imperial institution in a new constitutional form ; this was not achieved because Truman and his Secretary of State , James F. Byrnes , wished to permit the Japanese no room to cause difficulty over the surrender terms . |
| 30 | Each of these problems is similar enough to fall under the same broad heading but distinct enough to create confusion as the problem-solving proceeds . |