Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme will be targeted at 25–35 year-old chemical engineers or chemists to encourage them to take up the available lecturing academic posts and to carry out teaching and research on environmental issues . |
| 2 | If you over oil the skin it will be too slippery to enable you to build up the necessary friction . |
| 3 | We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined . |
| 4 | Ill health and bereavement are the most common needs for which the charity gives assistance — for example , it has recently helped a member whose career was terminated by multiple sclerosis to buy an electric wheelchair , and given a loan to a member 's widow reliant on state benefits to enable her to pay off the disputed partnership settlement debts accrued when her husband died . |
| 5 | Naturally they are plotting to get us to take over the dangerous bits of the Front , and launch all the expensive attacks , and so on . |