Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became virtually impossible to find anyone except NGC in favour of the plans . |
| 2 | Sadly , the British Museum , which does not own a plate by the artist , has turned down the opportunity to buy one on grounds of expense . |
| 3 | In their non-obstetric role , they are expected to handle anything from hysterectomies to period pains . |
| 4 | I have recently been given an electric propagator and am keen to grow lots of plants from seed . |
| 5 | But explore all the options first , such as cost-cutting and restructuring borrowings , before calling in an insolvency practitioner : they tend to see everything in terms of insolvency legislation . |
| 6 | And that caught the interest of everyone straight away er , budgeting , how to be able to look at banking etcetera , and I said well and I want you to do that first so I do n't mind mainly because I was gon na work wi with Anne about the , with the environments , and then it 's science , could n't cover with the with the environment that she would like me in tutorial to do and er she has n't , well it 's not her now , unfortunately , I think it 's Sue that is supposed to be working with me cos I want to do something on recycling of rubbish etcetera within the school and do a big sort of er project on it . |
| 7 | there there 's been a She asked us to do something in relation to employer awareness campaign . |
| 8 | I had now a faint ambition , both definite and indefinite , to do something in connection with learning or literature . |
| 9 | And although such particulars are understandably meaningless to people digging out from billions of flakes , they are becoming crucial to scientists who are trying to predict everything from avalanches to metal failures . |
| 10 | Yet , thanks to the cumbersome appeals procedure , each execution currently costs between $2m and $5m , four or five times what it costs to keep someone in prison for life . |
| 11 | By contrast it costs about $600,000 to keep someone in prison for life if they live for another 40 years . |
| 12 | Well we had to keep somebody on watch in case there was any damage , say the ship was up the river and a chain broke or they hit you , so you had to put your navigation lights up and to put navigation lights up we had hurricane lamps , we had a red and a white one , they should have been six foot apart , they never were they was about three foot . |
| 13 | Already , China is breeding its own Hong Kong-style businessmen — financiers who welcome foreign investors into joint enterprises to build everything from factories to golf courses , former peasants making fortunes from rural industries , former factory workers opening photographic shops and beauty salons . |
| 14 | But I soon reminded myself that such trivial slips are liable to befall anyone from time to time , and my irritation soon turned to Miss Kenton for attempting to create such unwarranted fuss over the incident . |
| 15 | They are likely to get plenty of ribbing at school and need to feel accepted and approved at home . |
| 16 | ( A university school must be a place of research , but it should not be overbalanced by this , and it ought to have plenty of room for scholarship too . ) |
| 17 | The point , so I thought , was to have one in case of emergency , and hope that it never came out of its pouch . |
| 18 | Before deciding , for instance , to dismiss anyone on grounds of redundancy , governing bodies should consult the representative of the employees ' recognised trade unions and work to explicit criteria . |
| 19 | It might have been induced to spend lots of money on dividend payments and on buying back shares , to boost share prices and keep shareholders sweet . |
| 20 | Liberal Democrat candidate Peter Bergg said : ‘ We have made it perfectly clear that we intend to invest lots of money in training . |
| 21 | There are also times when there may be no option but to admit someone to hospital for treatment when there is a serious risk that the person will harm him or herself or is becoming physically ill through inadequate nourishment and self-care . |