Example sentences of "[vb infin] [coord] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4.27 All employees in day or residential establishments should know and have easy access to telephone numbers which can be used to summon help or support in the event of difficulty . |
| 2 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 3 | In all areas of food policy we believe in the principle that the consumer should choose and have sufficient information to do so . |
| 4 | Local artist Hazel Albarn has been working with ten and 11-year-olds and their teachers , helping them design and create large sculptures relating to their other work topics . |
| 5 | He can not work but wants interesting things to do in the day time . |
| 6 | I hear what you say , and I hesitate to make any further comment on that , given the current climate , but let's set about just examining the shape of the difficulty at the moment , and see what we can as it were immediately deal with ourselves , and what we can try and persuade other people to help us to know . |
| 7 | He gave sound advice to the proprietors , that they should encourage and leave favourite trees to reach full maturity — ‘ on every estate at least as many trees as acres ’ … ‘ causing utility and beauty to go hand in hand . ’ |
| 8 | A tiff with his nephew was no disqualification in the eyes of Charles II , who disliked William and his religion ; Ken on his return to England was made a chaplain to the King , who would remark ruefully on Sundays , ‘ Now I must go and hear little Ken rebuke me for my sins . ’ |
| 9 | Unfortunately , you obviously ca n't go and buy all the fish and throw them straight in , nor can you go and buy fully-grown specimens to fill the tank on this sort of budget . |
| 10 | Even those texts which appeared concerned with uncontroversial matters were open to be seen as engaging in political and social questions in which the state could suddenly intervene and cause uneasy writers to account for their work . |