Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [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 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Communes would receive a proportion of the fines levied in connection with the violence to allow them to meet increased expenditures . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Royal agents were equipped with letters of credit to enable them to use these services . |
| 13 | Others , and particularly the teachers , may seem too busy with their classes for the head to ask them to share this part of the school work-load , there is a shortage of clerical support , the heads want to be seen as in charge of everything as far as possible , and so on . |
| 14 | The University has in place a funding strategy to enable it to achieve this objective ; the funds , however , which it would hope to raise for that purpose would not be available to meet the costs of relocating the medical departments ( see para. 3.1 above ) . |
| 15 | One way to test your call to this work is to ask the Lord to help you to lead another person to Christ where you are . |
| 16 | The Council would consider seeking modifications to its Charter to allow it to delegate added powers . |
| 17 | Moreover , this lever is strengthened by electoral democracy , which legitimates the promotion of locally preferred policies , and in this way local states , and especially electoral local government , are not only used by those dominant at the centre to enable them to manage uneven development , but can also represent specifically local interests . |
| 18 | And mainframe sales still generate enough profit to enable it to do other things . |
| 19 | In all cases there are simple rights of appeal to the secretary of state to enable him to resolve any disputes between a district and a region . |
| 20 | The committee , which represents 26 local council airports , will urge the new Transport Secretary to allow them to offer more flights to Heathrow . |
| 21 | I want to progress to a 386 or 486 chip to enable me to take full advantage of Windows 3.1 and DOS 5 and of the increasing amount of software that requires this minimum . |
| 22 | Whatever had happened up on the moor to cause him to feel this way about Sarah , she wondered . |
| 23 | Paramedics have extra training to help them to administer on-the-spot treatment to patients . |
| 24 | We should add that after the hearing was completed we received a letter from Mr. Persaud inviting us to reopen the hearing to allow him to address additional points to us which he had not mentioned at all in his opening submissions to us or in his reply . |
| 25 | Tong ordered the pilot to circle Ho Chi Minh City to allow him to unload anti-communist leaflets over the city . |
| 26 | Staff from senior management and those involved in caring for patients should be given training to assist them to make public presentations about the activity of the health service and the staff who work in it . |
| 27 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 May 1992 the health authority appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the court had no jurisdiction to grant a mandatory injunction requiring a health authority to cause specified medical treatment to be given , alternatively , no jurisdiction to order it to cause such treatment to be given against the professional judgment of its servants or agents ; ( 2 ) the judge had erred in holding that he was not bound by the decision in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 to hold that there was no such jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) there had been no material before the court to justify the judge granting a mandatory interlocutory injunction since ( a ) there was no evidence that the health authority owed J. any enforceable duty to provide the ordered treatment , or that such treatment would be in his best interests ; ( b ) there was uncontradicted evidence before the court that the treatment ordered would be painful and ineffective to give J. a prospect of long term survival and ( c ) there was no material establishing that there was a reasonable or any prospect of a final order being granted in the terms of the interlocutory order ; ( 4 ) if the court had jurisdiction to make the order the judge erred in the exercise of his discretion in that ( a ) he had failed to give sufficient weight to the uncontradicted medical evidence or to the undesirability of seeking to force a doctor to act against his professional judgment and/or requiring the employer of the doctor to do so , ( b ) he had failed to consider that the order was capable of interfering with the health authority 's duty to care for other patients , and ( c ) by its terms the order was too imprecise to enable the health authority to be able to ascertain how it should be complied with . |
| 28 | Does the Oxford Forestry Institute have a programme of education for the ordinary members of the public to enable them to have this vision of their assets . |
| 29 | The fact that most practices ' referral rates had increased in the second phase of the study provides no support for the view that first wave fundholders had artificially increased their rates of referral in the preparatory year to enable them to make budgetary savings in the subsequent year , although their rates were higher than those of the controls in phase 1 . |
| 30 | I believe that many visitors would like to have available a short paper about the early history to enable them to derive greater enjoyment from their stay and I hope those who want to know more will be stimulated to consult the Inventory . |