Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] [noun pl] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Summer of 1958 the Home Secretary served notice to his Ministerial colleagues that he would be making demands on the Government 's expenditure programme to finance his plans for a wholesale prison rebuilding scheme . |
| 2 | If a man was workshy and mutinous I would put him in a cell to cool his heels for a while . |
| 3 | ‘ Those people — and thousands of them went through the proper procedure — will be contacted later this month and given the opportunity to purchase their tickets for the next home game . ’ |
| 4 | Notwithstanding that position , the Council clearly had a number of reservations about the design , alignment and environmental impact of of a western relief road and we 've asked the County Council to pursue its proposals for a western relief road on the basis of a single carriageway all-purpose road , and to give further consideration to ways in which environmental concerns can be ameliorated . |
| 5 | But there were others who , despite their disaffection to Hanover , had little desire to risk their necks for the positive alternative the Pretender represented . |
| 6 | University students were particularly angered by the government 's refusal to meet their demands for a minimum monthly grant in line with the country 's average wage . |
| 7 | These commonly give optionholders the right to exercise their options for a fixed period following a scheme of arrangement becoming effective . |
| 8 | Inconvenience — the trials are liable to require the teacher to distort his plans for the course in order to accommodate the new material when asked . |
| 9 | Dane Jacobsen was one of the best known and most accomplished actors of his generation , so it had been a real coup for the tiny television station to secure his services for a drama serial on the Vikings , to be shot in Cumbria . |
| 10 | We had rehearsals in the morning , and by lunch-time people were already coming across the river to get their places for the play . |
| 11 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 12 | We do n't want to have every last stop pulled out on our behalves in a last , heroic effort to extend our lives for a few more days or weeks or months . |
| 13 | Can I just say to you that that 's already been developed and worked out we 're intending in the next cycle to bring you proposals for a housing strategy , er on social housing , and within that we 're intending to run a series of short seminars for members to give members , all members , not just members of this committee but members of all area committees until everybody has that information background information on things like , social housing , partnerships , housing association grant so that everybody 's in a position to actually er , see and make a decision on what this council wants out of social housing , but all of that will take place in the next cycle Chair . |
| 14 | The conditions must be appropriate from a planning point of view : the planning authority are not at liberty to use their powers for an ulterior object , however desirable that object may seem to them to be in the public interest . |
| 15 | Changes relevant to the LFAs proposed in the EEC Review of agricultural structures are assessed in order to predict their implications for the UK situation . |
| 16 | KATHLEEN MACK , a 74-year-old stud owner , has forced a development company to amend its plans for a new overspill village for Cambridge by turning down a £6m offer and chasing the company 's surveyors off her land with a shotgun , writes Christian Wolmar . |
| 17 | I washed them trainers our Johnny given me and I cleaned them for him to try and save and then them black shoes for school to save his boots for the |