Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ret in terms of inward investment the economic development strategy focuses on inward investment it has a role to play . |
| 2 | In the cell he shouted a bit to bring them back , but only got shouted at in his turn by two drunken fellow inmates . |
| 3 | Within the industry it became a commonplace to point out that the discovery of ‘ a Libya a year ’ would be required to maintain the depletion horizon . |
| 4 | Since I have a reason to buy a loaf of bread I have a reason to buy a sliced loaf , as well as a reason to buy an unsliced one . |
| 5 | Although he was the first to use motor transport on an extensive scale in Lewis — many a time as a youngster I ran a mile to see his fleet of yellow Fords — he failed to see that the advent of the bus made it possible for the crofter to live in the country and work in the town . |
| 6 | Within weeks of forming the campaign we had a chance to advertise on a television show with a huge audience ; Mandy even got Wogan to agree to display the campaign 's recently acquired address and telephone number . |
| 7 | As a County Council we have a commitment to reduce the amount of waste produced in the County , the building waste which includes spoil and rubble , forms around fifty per cent of the total waste production . |
| 8 | How will the public be able to gain access to the information that by law they have a right to see ? |
| 9 | However the crash crew person asked the instructor to accompany her in the fire vehicle , and on arrival at the vehicle they asked a bystander to raise the alarm . |
| 10 | In return for their hard work they get a chance to fulfil a lifetime ambition . |
| 11 | By section 12 , the senior police officer is empowered to impose conditions on the proposed march if he reasonably believes that it may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or alternatively that the purpose of persons organising the march is to intimidate others ‘ with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do . ’ |
| 12 | The wording of section 12(1) ( b ) is , however , slightly unfortunate in requiring the intimidation of others ‘ with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do . ’ |
| 13 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 14 | We will carry out pilot projects for the ‘ foyer ’ concept , whereby young people are given a place in a hostel if in exchange they give a commitment to train and look for work . |
| 15 | — Only that between you and your husband I see a conspiracy to force me to forfeit Artai 's favour . ’ |
| 16 | If you have an opinion you have a right to express it — if you want to . |
| 17 | If again we talk about the locality where thinking takes place we have a right to say that this locality is the paper on which we write or the mouth which speaks . |
| 18 | You will recall that during the last Executive Committee meeting we considered a proposal to create an index to help branches make use of the increasing amount of planning policy guidance which is now available . |
| 19 | You tend to find that you become accustomed to the timing on your local water and that when sailing in a different place it takes a while to learn the timing of a different wave pattern . |
| 20 | Barton worked a sixteen-hour day , which began with careful , detailed consideration of the trading figures and key ratios for every one of his forty-three major shops and the output of both factories , and continued , usually by helicopter , with a detailed aerial survey of a particular area as the quick way of identifying new sites , interspersed with unheralded descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit . |
| 21 | During a lecture to a lay group he asked a volunteer to come to the front and do a reading . |
| 22 | He recalled , ‘ I was under the pressure of being a family man with a daughter , and one day I accepted a job to act in a movie in the day-time and was writing another movie at night . |
| 23 | Not every day I get a chance to pick up that kind of money for doing practically nothing . ’ |
| 24 | At night you make a bunker to sleep in |
| 25 | At the Women 's Nutritional Advisory Service we conducted a survey to find out what people understood by the term " well balanced diet " . |
| 26 | In the Globe they paid a penny to stand . |
| 27 | Today at Aylesbury Crown Court they asked a judge to quash those convictions . |
| 28 | The service standards could have been just circulated internally , but making them public meant everyone would know what level of service they had a right to expect from the police . |
| 29 | In that case of Appleford ( Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 ) there was a mandamus brought , to restore him to his fellowship : it was returned , that by the statutes of the college , for misdemeanour they had a power to turn him out ; and that the Bishop of Winchester was visitor , and that he was turned out pro crimine enormi , and had appealed to the bishop , who confirmed the expulsion ; and the particular cause was not returned : I was of counsel for the college , and we omitted the cause in the return for that reason , because indeed it was not so true as it should have been . |
| 30 | If , by using the double-length button you require a needle to tuck or slip for eight rows , it probably wo n't . |