Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need a four base width formation to get your rank bonuses , but it is better to sacrifice the bonus in favour of avoiding being dragged into a broader combat . |
| 2 | The city of Lothern grew from a small fishing village to a great city to accommodate the increase in trade from the colonies and other realms . |
| 3 | Thus when Hollar asks him to smuggle his thesis out of the country and proposes a solution to Anderson 's ethical objections ( " But if you did n't know you were smuggling it " ) , his determination to preserve his negative face is demonstrated by the fact that he interrupts Hollar 's proposal in order to uphold the maxim of quality at the expense of the maxim of agreement ( 'smuggling implies knowledge " , ( p. 56 ) ) . |
| 4 | Remember that it is better to kill the reader with kindness by selecting information for him than to batter him to death in a flurry of factual blows ! |
| 5 | It may be possible to target the liver by interaction with ( for instance ) transferrin receptors , which are abundant in this organ . |
| 6 | I have also made available to local authorities resources to enable the level of expenditure per council house to be maintained and to enable further measures to be taken to tackle the problems of homelessness and dampness in council housing . |
| 7 | On Sept. 9 an official from the French Ministry of Economy and Finance announced that France would help Congo to pay off debt arrears owed to international financial institutions in order to enable the resumption of co-operation between Congo and these bodies . |
| 8 | Hitachi Ltd has a new tool for use in building diagnostic and consulting expert systems : called ES-Pormote2/W-DIAG , it is designed to enable the input of knowledge in a tree structure , and it has been available from the beginning of the month at $6,000 ; it runs on the Hitachi 3050 series of Unix workstations and can be used to generate a source code program for Hitachi 's ES/Kernel series of general purpose expert system development tools ; ES-Promote runs under Hitachi 's implementation of Motif and the X Window system . |
| 9 | But it is important to affirm the independence in principle of the linguistic and social analysis at this stage of the work , especially as this does not always seem to be recognized . |
| 10 | The strength of the Crown during the Tory Reaction was to a large degree dependent on the fact that Charles II was at last prepared to wear the mantle of King of the Anglicans , and he was very careful in soliciting their support . |
| 11 | It should be noteá though that he crosses one boundary , from graveyard to dream , but not the next ; when he tries to swim the river to Heaven at the end of the poem he is halted and woken before he reaches the water . |
| 12 | Through the New Times of Burma and the Burmese Weekly we did everything possible to appeal for a concerted effort to restore the cultivation of rice to the pre-war level . |
| 13 | Failure to optimise the level of support to the caring team will undermine efforts to distribute annual leave evenly among nurses . |
| 14 | An objective judgement can then be made on how to operate in such a way as to optimise the level of risk on a day–to–day basis . |
| 15 | A critical problem during design was how to optimise the allocation of memory to Oedipus . |
| 16 | The Committee will remain in being to monitor the progress of compliance until 1995 , when a new body will be launched , perhaps with a much wider brief . |
| 17 | The research aims to monitor the law on illegitimacy in the light of the provisions which are to supercede it under the Family Law Reform Act 1987 . |
| 18 | First , it would be necessary to monitor the quantity of pollution of each firm in order to assess its tax liability . |
| 19 | ‘ This led to a tightening up of the law and Knowsley 's environmental health and trading standards officers will continue to monitor the sale of food in the borough to ensure that it is as safe as the public rightly expects it to be . ’ |
| 20 | It repeals a duty conferred on them by the existing regime to monitor the wholesomeness of water in their areas . |
| 21 | Constitutional experts believe divorce is inevitable and that Prince Charles plans to renounce the throne in favour of Prince William . |
| 22 | ‘ Charles has at times given the impression that he would prefer to renounce the throne in favour of his son . |
| 23 | Walpole , it is true , kept out of wars and was able to cherish the prospect of reduction from the Sinking Fund established in 1717 . |
| 24 | All in all , the juvenile labour exchange legislation served to institutionalize the transition from school to full-time employment , and in so doing provided it with priests and rituals ; the transition became a rite de passage and , therefore , brought this aspect of the adolescent 's life into a formal arena where it was subject to critical scrutiny . |
| 25 | Road transport pollution Congestion on the roads costs an estimated £15 billion a year , yet the Government continues to do nothing to curb the rate of growth of car use — estimated at 142% between 1990 and 2005 . |
| 26 | It was an answer that did not mean much to me then and I confess that it means very little to me today : it is not only a rather arid and pompous definition , which seems to drain the idea of God of imaginative life , but it also seems arrogant — even hubristic . |
| 27 | Anyway , Nigel , who loved trout , used to drain the millpond from time to time to rid it of some of the accumulated silt and then just pick them up . |
| 28 | The system contract in Chapter 4 deals with this question at some length , but it is not unusual in standard terms and conditions to find a simple clause which permits the buyer to cancel the order in return for payment of a cancellation fee . |
| 29 | In 1162 the senate of Rome made great efforts to preserve the column of Trajan for the Roman people and visitors to Rome were beginning to admire the great classical monuments of the past — the Arch of Constantine , the Pantheon and the statue of Venus . |
| 30 | Boys will seldom be able or wish to preserve the degree of closeness to their mothers that it is open for girls to do . |