Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trader can appeal to a magistrates ' court against the notice and obtain compensation if there has been no contravention . |
| 2 | Yet this does not really speak to the conservatives ' point . |
| 3 | Thailand 's four labour congresses and unions representing state utility workers and other service sectors threatened to stage a general strike if the government did not accede to the dockworkers ' demands . |
| 4 | Or you may transfer to the solicitors ' branch . |
| 5 | They left Verdeţ unsure about how Ceauşescu would react to the miners ' insistence that he himself should come . |
| 6 | For the police may apply to a magistrates ' court which can issue a ‘ warrant of further detention ’ if it reasonably believes this course of action to be justified . |
| 7 | Students may complete the course at diploma level , and if they attain a satisfactory standard in the diploma examinations , they may proceed to the masters ' course . |
| 8 | If you ask such a child " How should we respond to the aliens ' request for help ? " s/he 's not likely to respond very articulately . |
| 9 | The situations should relate to the students ' needs and the language should be natural , useful and interesting . |
| 10 | This problem causes the available land to be used unevenly , and can lead to the birds ' droppings saturating the ground surrounding the house . |
| 11 | The latest reissue bears a sticker that claims all sales will go to the victims ' families . |
| 12 | When the signal for launching crusade finally did come to the Fists ' astropaths , Battle Brothers would depart in warpships from the jutting sword-deck — to return , perhaps years later in realspace time , as heroes … and some as cripples needing reconstruction by the experts in the Apothacarion … and others as honoured corpses , or perhaps only in the form of retrieved progenoid glands from which new Marines would be kindled . |
| 13 | Ironically , the quest for profits may ultimately come to the dolphins ' rescue . |
| 14 | I would look out of the window at the blue sky and the cypresses and the sea , and pray for the day 's end , when I could retire to the masters ' wing , lie back on my bed and sip an ouzo . |
| 15 | At the time of writing it appears that the broker in this case has gone into liquidation without making the required payment , and the couple must now turn to the Investors ' Compensation Scheme , which can pay compensation in cases where ( a ) the broker has gone into liquidation , and ( b ) the original investment was taken up about 28 August 1988 . |
| 16 | On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine . |
| 17 | The focus , expressed in these quotations , is on the fact that some aspects of the passage did not conform to the readers ' expectations . |