Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm how types of craftsmen were employed there to do things ? |
| 2 | Polls suggested that up to one in four Conservative MPs wanted her to go before the next general election : growing numbers of backbenchers were prepared openly to declare that the time had come for her to call it a day . |
| 3 | But few Labour MPs privately believed Mr Kinnock had the appetite to continue , and a number of backbenchers were prepared publicly to call for his resignation . |
| 4 | In fact , the intelligence of ficers were ordered afterwards to forget the thing had ever happened . |
| 5 | In Devon wheat removed from the granaries of farmers was carried directly to market and " sold openly from four to five shillings a bushel " after which the crowd returned both the money and the empty sacks to the farmers . |
| 6 | The opening sentence of the above list of objectives was included advisedly to indicate the contributive nature of the marketing department 's efforts to corporate aims . |
| 7 | By 1590 , however , the number of new plays was such that this was no longer practicable and companies of players were required instead to submit manuscripts before the play was acted . |
| 8 | But , assuming we do incorporate such considerations , the tendency is to interpret such mobility as again largely the result of capital 's needs , with workers being uprooted simply to increase their monetary rewards , and capital benefiting as a result . |
| 9 | My encounters with girls were destined always to end in rejection until I 'd left my teens behind me . |
| 10 | The Government 's education policies in schools are designed entirely to raise standards , to increase choice and to improve information to parents . |
| 11 | The milk ration for children was increased specifically to compensate for the nutritional shortfall in school meals that would otherwise have occurred ; civil servants realised there would be a public outcry if the meat reduction took place and nothing was done to make up for it . |