Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charge was that the trio had ‘ conspired with persons inserting ads and with other persons to induce readers to resort to the said advertisements for the purposes of homosexual practices and thinking to debauch and corrupt public morals contrary to common law . ’ |
| 2 | to obtain permission to telephone for a follow-up sales interview ; |
| 3 | So far as the seller is concerned he would prefer not to accept liability to deliver by a particular date in the first instance . |
| 4 | In actually measuring subjective risk while driving it seems appropriate to encourage drivers to think about the external environment in a more normal way and answer questions about subjective risk with reference to their internal states . |
| 5 | It was already Acheson 's custom to meet Franks to engage in a weekly " tour d'horizon " of world affairs . |
| 6 | This deliberate government policy was to encourage people to live in the rural areas and ensure that their income was at least as high as that of the factory worker . |
| 7 | To encourage people to voyage into the psychic seems about as responsible as the Wright brothers taking day-trippers on their first ever flight — without parachutes ! |
| 8 | This process usually involved the gradual and haphazard addition of side-streets and lanes so as to provide access to land beyond the immediate frontages . |
| 9 | THIS year 's machinations over disposal of the Ivory Coast 's cocoa crop indirectly pushed up prices on the London Futures & Options Exchange yesterday as dealers scrambled to obtain cocoa to deliver against a substantial long position controlled by Philipp Brothers , the big American commodity trading group . |
| 10 | If you wish to encourage mistletoe to grow upon an old apple tree , you should not use seeds which are left after being hung inside the house over Christmas — these will have dried out and besides , winter is not the time to plant them . |
| 11 | It is difficult to find examples to correspond with the American experience in England . |
| 12 | By the 1290s the priory 's financial base was secure enough to enable Eastry to invest in the local land market and , after the expulsion of the Jews , to acquire the former Jewish tenements in the city of Canterbury . |
| 13 | Several papers report a new invention from the USA aimed at the angling market which is supposed to cause fish to go into a feeding frenzy . |
| 14 | ‘ This is probably the first time a lot of these artists have exhibited their work and it made our job even harder having to eliminate pieces to decide on the final winners . |
| 15 | Have we any right to urge others to vote for a political party that will compel others to give ? |
| 16 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 17 | The second strand of the work to help people to move across the European Community is the mutual recognition of qualifications . |
| 18 | It will incorporate through proclamation the awesome truth of the love God has for us , and our involvement in actions to help people to believe in a real God . |
| 19 | What are the main principles teachers and parents should hold in mind as they try to help children to develop to the full their ability to use and understand English ? |
| 20 | Yes we have obviously got problems throughout the team , and I think it was too much to expect Leeds to put in a real championship challenge . |
| 21 | One reason why farm workers ' wages remain so comparatively low is that the demand for labour within agriculture has been declining as a result of mechanization-Indeed , the prospect of more expensive labour has often been sufficient to stimulate farmers to engage in a further round of mechanization so that both the supply and the demand for labour have chased each other down in an ever-decreasing spiral . |
| 22 | He had this meeting on Wake Island that I described to you when they would n't get out of the planes , all attempts to persuade MacArthur to behave in a reasonable fashion . |
| 23 | Some of the latest equipment is designed to use automation to cope with the combined problems of filtration and misuse of equipment by staff . |
| 24 | As such , this would therefore suggest a predisposition of some of the Scottish judiciary towards the possession vaut titre continental concept and the logical concomitant here is the failure to give effect to ss17-19 of the 1979 Act . |
| 25 | Attempts to resolve differences met with little success when Latin American regional heads of state gathered in San Jose , Costa Rica , in October and sought to persuade Brazil to agree to a new price-support scheme based on a reduction of its 30 per cent quota allocation in return for a similar agreement by Colombia to cut exports . |
| 26 | In order to conserve online storage space , it is possible to nominate packages to go into an offline state . |
| 27 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 28 | As the language of mathematics is so tightly defined , the ability to use mathematics to communicate in a particular language may take longer to develop than we would expect , and this may lead us to underestimate pupils ' grasp of ideas , particularly since language is so closely related to culture . |
| 29 | Since a mother generally has a new baby every four and a half years , there may have been pressure on her to speed up each youngster 's training , to leave time to care for the latest addition to the family . |
| 30 | Individual farmers had come across difficult times and they needed to borrow to finance seed to plant for the next year 's crop . |