Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise . |
2 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
3 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
4 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
5 | I do n't want to see Sarah in that way , and I would n't want her to see me in that kind of light either . ’ |
6 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
7 | They were so far away from me , and there was nothing that they could do to alleviate the hardship of Legion life , so it appeared unnecessary to burden them with minor worries about bullying and violence . |
8 | He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living . |
9 | The aim of the research is to document new developments in the organisation of farming in Estonia and to compare them with modern arrangements in Finland . |
10 | This research aims to assess UK policies for technical innovation in this broad context and to compare them with similar policies in other countries . |
11 | The temptation is to anthropomorphise their plight , to compare them with human beings in similar situations ( as Rollin does explicitly ) who would almost certainly be distressed at the opportunities that they were foregoing and make protest . |
12 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
13 | Reports of ‘ untoward occurrences ’ — anything from an allegation of assault to a staff member having a cold — were not going directly to Mr Thomson , who was legally bound to report them to social services within 24 hours . |
14 | The only major difference between such accounts and pluralist accounts is that pluralists tend to describe the specific political pressures without attempting to relate them to broader theories of the relationship between state , society and economy . |
15 | The teacher 's function is to decide what these chains are to be and to take steps to establish them as permanent ways of responding . |
16 | But I still maintain to encourage them at twelve years of age to be ab oh I think it 's all wrong . |
17 | He questioned whether it would be possible to prosecute them with any chance of success with the present rules of evidence and he would be against proceeding if it meant changing the way in which the courts worked . |
18 | Because students are taking two qualifications at one , it is very important to provide them with easily-understood information at appropriate stages of the programme . |
19 | And if you are to provide them with decent motives for a murder , and decently different ones as well , you will need room to do it in . |
20 | Some live within plants , stimulating the tissues of their hosts to provide them with custom-built homes by growing special galls , hollow stems or thorns with swollen bases . |
21 | An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness . |
22 | Trains had been laid on to despatch them to all parts of the country , so that for the rest of their lives they would be able to recall a few moments of honour , even glory . |
23 | The Middle English dialects are mainly continuations of the corresponding Old English ones , but it is convenient to designate them in some cases by different names . |
24 | But Clare seemed to know nothing of this side of the relationship between her brother and her cousin . |
25 | Karadjordje 's attempt to impose himself on this structure by having himself declared ‘ Supreme Leader ’ created tensions which were never resolved during the nine years of his rebel regime . |
26 | When the door to the Scotland team opened in Paris earlier this season , the Bonnyrigg blacksmith seized the opportunity and went on to establish himself with further caps against Wales and England . |
27 | Even after stripping out the jingoism that tends to impose itself on British attitudes towards the game , the fact remains that it was a host of late-Victorian engineers , merchants and military men who took the rudiments of football abroad with them , almost as missionaries . |
28 | In the context of nurses and health visitors returning to work it might be more useful to look at the ways in which regrading affects your application and appointment , and to provide you with general advice on what to expect from employers in due course . |
29 | In the case of an employer 's scheme , ask the pensions department or the person responsible for pensions ( this could be the personnel manager or company secretary ) to provide you with full information about your pension and future benefits . |
30 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |