Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The well-tested welfare organisation swung into gear , as the Welfare Officer once again climbed into her car to go and speak to the wife and assure her that temporary accommodation had been arranged for her and the family , and that the move from one house to another would be made as smooth as possible . |
| 2 | This allows the flapper valve to open and close with the air pressure . |
| 3 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 4 | Before picking out a few of the research findings , which highlight short-comings , I should say that there was a great deal to commend and admire about the response to the Act from individual schools and authorities in very difficult circumstances , not the least of which was the failure of central government to provide any additional resources . |
| 5 | Mr Attwooll said Gregory was driving John Wright when Gregory said he had an errand to run and stopped at a house in Billingham . |
| 6 | Dissatisfied with the quality of many land availability studies , the DoE commissioned Coopers and Lybrand to carry out a study to assess and report on the varying assessments and assumptions about new housing made by the planning authorities and house builders , and to assess the extent to which both the provision in plans and land which is made available for housing takes account of the requirements of the market for new private sector housing' . |
| 7 | While Auntie Lou set out the food , he sat on a flat rock to recover and talked about the old days . |
| 8 | There is then an attempt to generalize and move towards a universal ‘ myth ’ that can stand for all the utterances of a similar type in their various discursive contexts . |
| 9 | After completing the AEC , participants were interviewed to provide them with an opportunity to reflect and comment on the course . |
| 10 | He therefore ordered Plehve 's Fifth Army to turn west to overlap and cut off the intruding and , so he supposed , insignificant Austrian thrust . |
| 11 | Worksheets could be distributed in the second half of the visit , once the group has had an opportunity to explore and react to the site . |
| 12 | However , physical restraint is not a solution to accident prevention and , indeed , excessive over protection will only deny a child the opportunity to explore and learn about the environment . |
| 13 | A Service of Reconciliation is an opportunity to remember and to respond to the fact that we are individually and as a body loved by God . |
| 14 | Ahmed : What I found really exciting and stimulating about our Working Party was that there was a great deal of openness , a willingness to listen and learn on the part of all the people . |
| 15 | All will be disturbed and unhappy to some extent at the loss of familiar surroundings and some will be deeply hurt in their capacity to trust and respond to the people who endeavour to provide substitute homes . |
| 16 | You 've come to the wrong committee to try and get like a cash handout , but er we do appreciate the problems of putting on entertainments , and bops on campus . |
| 17 | It was agreed to appoint a similar committee to investigate and report on the demarcation of the Orange River boundary , Namibia 's southern border with South Africa . |
| 18 | Hazel determined then and there to bring the rabbits up to the beanfield to shelter and rest until the evening . |
| 19 | In April 1954 , the government announced that it was proposing to appoint a Departmental Committee to examine and report on the law on homosexual offences and the ‘ parallel ’ problem of the law relating to prostitution . |
| 20 | The crucial step began with a determination to rise and pray in the middle of the night ; he continued in prayer the following morning , and took for spiritual nutriment the Bible and the Wesleyan hymn-book . |
| 21 | But they admit that these babies had not achieved complete and independent toileting as they could only hold on to their eliminations for a few minutes and needed help to undress and get on the potty . |
| 22 | Students should take every opportunity to discuss and read about the subjects they are interested in , before they come to the University . |
| 23 | The answer must be that , in the sense in which we have used the term ‘ competition ’ ( a sense which , although sharply divergent from the terminology of the dominant theory of price , is entirely consistent with everyday business usage ) , the market process is indeed always competitive , so long as there is freedom to buy and sell in the market . |
| 24 | He said , however , that he wished the meeting to debate and vote on a revised resolution , as follows : |
| 25 | So it seemed a fairly straightforward move to go and work for the family firm . |
| 26 | Between them they expressed the opposing feelings so often displayed by young children in the peak age of attachment : on the one hand , the protest and fury about being left — cries of rage — and then a sullen refusal to acknowledge and come to the mother ; on the other hand , the desperate yearning for the loved one and a need to cling and not let go . |
| 27 | And Gill gave her job to go and work in the shop and he would n't let her go and work in it . |
| 28 | One view of play ( this spontaneous activity found in the immature animal and in most humans of any age ) is that it prepares the organism to meet and to cope with a wide range of situations . |
| 29 | Millions of Europeans still worked on the land , and the absolute numbers of those dependent on agriculture for a livelihood did not begin to fall until very recently , yet the tendency for population to increase and to accumulate in a few densely populated and highly urbanized regions had already begun to alter the patterns of earlier centuries . |
| 30 | However , events have only moved to the present position as a result of the intransigence of the school 's management , and the reluctance to listen and respond to the concerns of a large number of parents . |