Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They require fairly rich soil , and , after planting , all the branches will be cut back to within a few inches of ground level to encourage them to produce more branches for berry production next year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Tarbes is a busy , professional plant with a big enough workload to enable it to adopt modern manufacturing techniques . |
| 4 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 5 | The convention laid down provisions for Third World states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and , most controversially , it provided for compensation payments to Third World states in return for extraction of genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
| 6 | It laid down provisions for third world states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and for compensation payments in return for extraction of their genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
| 7 | In the Netherlands , Wolters-Kluwer Bookshops are extending their range of book stocks with up to 100 CD-ROM titles and have appointed a new media adviser to help them plan future developments . |
| 8 | Magazine articles , in an attempt to help us improve that image , advise us to stand sideways on , without our clothes , before a long mirror , and check up honestly on our general shape . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | After the near-fatal accident to the young Celia Carrow , Freddie Nash went back to London , managed to persuade the girl at the local off-licence to let him have some bottles on account , and got drunk . |
| 11 | Communes would receive a proportion of the fines levied in connection with the violence to allow them to meet increased expenditures . |
| 12 | The bill , which makes it an offence to carry a knife and puts the onus on the carrier to prove he had good reason to carry the knife , will have its third reading on Friday and could now become law before summer after the Scottish Office accepted a Labour amendment that the act should come into force on the day it is passed rather than at the end of a two month period . |
| 13 | The exhibition not only demonstrated many old ideas , but also at least one new one — Mr Preshous ' original idea of hiring a light aeroplane to enable him to take aerial photographs of the route . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | In other words , the payment of high dividends depresses the security 's price which means that investors require a higher income rate of return to induce them to hold those securities paying high dividends . |
| 16 | The pupils who come to Learning Support are encouraged to look openly and realistically at their problems and to use departmental resources , staff , accommodation and equipment to help them resolve these problems . |
| 17 | Both they and the Labour party are calling for an immediate change in the law to allow them to sell second-hand toys as before . |
| 18 | Both authors have the skill to make you feel great empathy with their heroines . |
| 19 | SunPro , Sun Microsystems Inc 's software development operation , is bringing in Russian software expertise to help it develop compiler-level products which will improve the performance of applications running on Sparc RISC-based systems . |
| 20 | It is clear that practitioners need a framework to help them manage this process , to produce a degree of consistency of purpose , scope , and content of assessment across different practitioners , whilst also enabling the assessment process to be adapted flexibly to individual people and their circumstances . |
| 21 | The computer regulates thread tension ( it 's also possible to make adjustments manually ) , and there 's an automatic sensor to help you sew perfect buttonholes . |
| 22 | You will also be able to come and go without anyone feeling the need to see you receiving direct orders from me . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A steely ascetic renunciation marked his character , and Eusebius of Caesarea reports a tradition that in the zeal of youth he had subjected himself to castration to free him to instruct female pupils without scandal . |
| 25 | But the good news is , that it 's possible to arrange insurance which can provide cash to help you avoid these problems . |
| 26 | He saw nothing political about inviting an ex-priest to publicly denounce the mass as a blasphemy , and took the council 's refusal to let him use public property for this purpose as the state interfering in valid religious activity . |
| 27 | We believe we have the policies in place to ensure we maintain that progress in the future . |
| 28 | We believe we have the policies in place to ensure we maintain that progress in the future . |
| 29 | You should eat plenty of meat and fish while on the diet to ensure you get enough protein , and a vitamin and mineral supplement ( see p 330 ) may be necessary . |
| 30 | Royal agents were equipped with letters of credit to enable them to use these services . |