Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cancer victim Alfred McTear , 48 , is suing Imperial Tobacco and his home became a temporary courtroom to enable him to give preliminary evidence for a court case he is unlikely to live long enough to see . |
| 2 | The stranger asked him to promise one thing : ‘ Do n't stay in the job for more than ten years , because you 'll get stale . |
| 3 | Tarbes is a busy , professional plant with a big enough workload to enable it to adopt modern manufacturing techniques . |
| 4 | The use of the pros mutant to remove innervation allows us to divide postsynaptic development into innervation-independent and innervation-dependent events . |
| 5 | Electrophysiology allows us to correlate one set of observable physical events ( electrical activity in the brain ) with another ( the behaviour , including the behaviour of reporting experiences , of the subject being recorded from ) . |
| 6 | But their definition of the female subject as a biological or cultural essence leads them to pursue this ambiguity much less than egalitarian feminists . |
| 7 | Many of the disciplines of contemplation have been designed precisely to wean the mind and head away from these earth-bound modes of perception to help them to discover another kind of experience , which they call ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 8 | Your religion allow you to take another wife without repudiating Empress Farah Diba . " |
| 9 | But the realization that his own civilization is extinguishing cultures of ‘ savages ’ possessed of coherent ways of living prompts him to demand that civilization be considered in no narrow perspective . |
| 10 | ‘ This computer allows us to send electronic mail , E-mail , which reduces the need to use paper and is far quicker . |
| 11 | The relatives of our electively ventilated organ donors do not feel that we act improperly ; rather , they all consider that the process of organ donation allows them to make some sense of an otherwise inexplicable loss . |
| 12 | Held , ( 1 ) granting the application , that ( per Taylor and Farquharson L.JJ. ) , since the defendants stood to lose their liberty if the judge 's order were upheld , the court should act by analogy with the practice of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) which , by section 23(1) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 , permitted the adduction of fresh evidence where justice required it ; that ( per Sir Donald Nicholls V.-C. ) under R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(2) the court retained sufficient flexibility to enable it to admit fresh evidence where justice so required ; and that , accordingly , the evidence would be admitted notwithstanding that the usual conditions for admissibility admitted might not have been satisfied ( post , pp. 223C–E , 226F–G , 227C–D ) . |
| 13 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
| 14 | The management want me to put another voice on it so the rushes do n't go to waste . |
| 15 | It thereupon wrote to all institutions offering advanced work asking them to provide detailed information about student numbers and other aspects of planning forward to 1984–5 . |
| 16 | However , its terms of reference require it to seek effective liaison with the university and voluntary sectors of higher education in Wales , and with NAB in England . |
| 17 | Modifying current equipment enables them to minimise new capital outlay while the product is being launched and its success evaluated . |
| 18 | The Natural History Museum wanted me to complete some ecology wallcharts of ponds and streams , sponsored by British petroleum , who have a long standing relationship with the Museum , aimed at encouraging and supporting a better understanding of current environmental issues . |
| 19 | I am invited from time to time to sow the seeds of Medau , and last time Brown Owl allowed me to present each girl with a Medau leaflet . |
| 20 | Whilst boards of directors may delegate the day to day conduct of an offer to individual directors or committees of directors , the board as a whole must ensure that proper arrangements are in place to enable it to monitor that conduct in order that each director may fulfil that responsibility . |
| 21 | My husband wants me to have anal sex , but I find it revolting and painful . |
| 22 | Miss Ellis writes cleverly and without wasting words , and her tale of Lili whose father is Egyptian and whose mother English , and whose own nature allows her to assume either nationality as the whim takes her , can be said to be compact and readable . |
| 23 | Erm and we find in the office that we get lots of forms coming in from the Paymaster General asking us to confirm that mister X is employed you know on a on a part time basis . |
| 24 | " Heaven sent me to plough this field , and in order to do so , I must have oxen . |
| 25 | He aimed to increase off-peak travel in particular by enhancing the quality of travel and station environment by ‘ Operation Pride ’ , a name coined to launch the quality improvement drive , and by new and imaginative marketing exercises , one of the first of which was a ‘ Network Day ’ on 21 June when over 200,000 people took advantage of the special £3 ticket enabling them to travel all day anywhere . |
| 26 | Four other cases , brought on Sept. 10 and 12 , involved the improper grant of a contract to oversee a power scheme , the export of Pakistani cotton at below market rates , the sale of property in Islamabad worth £150,000,000 for a mere £500,000 to a foreign company managed by associates of her husband , Asif Ali Zardari , and the improper granting of permits to a close relation and to a friend enabling them to distribute liquified gas . |
| 27 | Half load The half-load facility allows you to wash six place settings using just one basket ( usually the bottom one ) without wasting detergent , water or energy . |
| 28 | Neither programme really effected any change in the course of events , but they did build a sense of trust in those who might one day use us to bear public witness against the Godfathers of terrorism . |
| 29 | Then her hairdresser persuaded her to do some modelling . |
| 30 | I hope that we have proved today that SQL Server is well proven advanced technology , Replication Server enables us to deliver data to who needs it , where they need it , when they need it even if there are system failures , that Navigation Server provides us with a high capacity with a low entry cost , that Omni SQL Gateway enables us to have complete vendor transparency and integrate all information for decision support . |