Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or has this issue never previously been on the Church 's agenda because the majority of women did not — until our century — have the education , the freedom or the position in society to enable them to take a priestly role ? |
| 2 | The campaign had already cost the locals £2,000 and a fighting fund was started to enable them to take a High Court case if necessary . |
| 3 | Large GP practices to be able to apply for their own practice budgets to enable them to purchase a defined range of services direct from hospitals . |
| 4 | I did not have enough knowledge to enable me to make a complete computer model of the individual player 's contribution to the stroke . |
| 5 | More than 4,500 Ford employees have taken up the company 's new education scheme to encourage them to learn a foreign language . |
| 6 | But they will be designed to encourage you to be a long-term holder rather than to enable you to take a quick profit . |
| 7 | A fixed position allows the use of a tripod and , for the first time in this Christmas video shoot , the use of an extension microphone to enable you to make a good job of recording all those fascinating speeches that tend to be made after the second or third glass of wine . |
| 8 | I have given a list of strictly forbidden foods within this chapter to enable you to make a definite resolution , before you begin the diet , to ban them totally from your life ! |
| 9 | You will find crockery and electric kettle to enable you to make a hot drink . |
| 10 | Very often the examiner will have worded it in a particular way in order to enable you to show a little originality of treatment . |
| 11 | There 's also a ‘ back-up supervisor ’ which can be set to prompt you to start a present back-up routine . |
| 12 | I can not promise to make you into a world authority on ingredients , but I do hope to share my passion for good food with you , and to inspire you to try a different type of tea or a new way of serving pasta . |
| 13 | Her immediate antagonism to David Wallington had led Julia to expect her to display a similar hostility to Jack French . |
| 14 | So spoke Arnold Wesker at the Riverside Studios where , next week , he will take the unusual step of mounting eight rehearsed readings of his play , Shylock , formerly titled The Merchant , in a bid to raise enough interest from commercial backers to persuade them to mount a full production . |
| 15 | The secret is to use them to create a striking feature , and not just hide them away in a shady corner of the garden . |
| 16 | A number of issues arise in deciding how to combine such priority scores and how to use them to pursue a complete interpretation . |
| 17 | Try to persuade him to make a real effort to give up smoking — he may put on a bit of weight but he can tackle that later — and to eat frequent snacks throughout the day instead of two or three heavy meals . |
| 18 | It thus becomes possible , through writing , to specialise language , to use it to serve a specific function rather than conflating different functions . |
| 19 | The republicans , in other words , were keen to push the civil rights agitation further and to use it to build a radical coalition which would set its sights , eventually , on a united Ireland . |
| 20 | The names of the other two workers have been placed on the waiting list for the test to permit them to drive a mini bus . |
| 21 | The names of the other two workers have been placed on the waiting list for the test to permit them to drive a mini bus . |
| 22 | The purpose of serving a contemnor with a copy of the committal order is to enable him to have a written record of the findings made by the court and of the sentence and to provide him with the materials necessary to enable him to decide whether or not he wishes to appeal . |
| 23 | Enough of him had , however , remained in the present to enable him to present a powerful case for the area 's preservation and to prophesy that the objectors would win . |
| 24 | And that is why , as Mr said , I think they ought to be allowed to produce some sort of advertising pamphlet , and get their act together , because if they 're going to go and compete out there they 've got to be prepared for it , and we 've got to allow them to give a decent presentation , at least have a decent glossy brochure to push round , so at least they can say what they do , because they will never compete when they are privatised unless they get it . |
| 25 | This degree of organisation was sufficient to allow them to remember a large part of the information in the passage so that when the theme was finally presented the remembered information could be re-structured . |
| 26 | He called for new legislation to allow him to appoint a new justice in addition to each one who had reached the age of 70 ( up to a limit of six new justices ) . |
| 27 | He increased his speed until he was running flat out , buying a few seconds of precious time to allow him to find a good defence position . |
| 28 | NORTH Korea , suspected of trying to develop nuclear arms , declared yesterday that any attempt to force it to accept a United Nations inspection could lead to war . |
| 29 | On the other hand , it requires a membership large enough to enable it to represent a significant number of credit managers . |
| 30 | They are little more than delicate hooks hidden in their plumage and are so short that they are quite incapable of lifting the bird 's body high enough to enable it to make a complete wing beat . |