Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood transfixed , with one hand out , but her fingers failed to obey the command to take the proffered bag . |
| 2 | But the university authorities agreed to rearrange an examination to allow him to play in a Varsity rugby match at Twickenham . |
| 3 | Guatemala 's Minister of Energy and Mines has announced a plan to set up a series of solar generating stations in rural areas currently without electricity , and similar initiatives are being considered by the governments of El Salvador and Panama . |
| 4 | ( d ) details of existing shareholdings in the target which are owned or controlled by the offeror or its concert parties , or in respect of which the offeror has received irrevocable undertakings , or in respect of which the offeror or any member of its concert parties has obtained an option to purchase ; |
| 5 | These foxes seem to have no instinct to hunt and have little fear of man . |
| 6 | Chesney , also managing director of Meiko Ltd 's UK research and development operation in Bristol , says the placing aims to raise a ‘ significant ’ amount of funds to help finance the project to build a TeraFLOPS-peak massively parallel machine due for shipment next year , for a cost of around $50m . |
| 7 | The remedies seem to have the power to help harmonize the body 's metabolic processes and to correct imbalances in them . |
| 8 | A wide selection of cars are available , and all manufacturers try to include a range to suit varying disabilities . |
| 9 | Major international telecommunications service providers are teaming under the auspices of the Network Management Forum to agree purchasing specifications for an open , standardised computing environment to support their network , service and business management needs — and with annual spending of $20,000m a year on computer systems , the parties involved have the muscle to impose any standard they set . |
| 10 | It was with a certain sense of foreboding — as if we had seen an omen — that we descended from this mountain fastness to the domain of the Bugis , where we knew we had just two months left to find a prahu to carry us eastwards before the monsoon set in … |
| 11 | In experiments using British schoolchildren of the same age as Barron 's , selected according to similar criteria for being classified as " good " or " poor " readers , we have found that on a variety of tasks the poorer readers do show an ability to use the phonological codes for printed words ( Briggs and Underwood , 1982 ; Underwood and Briggs , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | Many of the PAN 's traditional supporters appeared to abandon the party to support Salinas for fear the left might win . |
| 13 | The Moldovan Defence Ministry claimed that army units had entered the town to defend Moldovan police from attack by Dnestr forces backed by the 14th Army , and denied the 1,000 deaths claimed by Dnestr sources . |
| 14 | Subsequent allegations of mishandling of funds had led the government to intervene through the socialist people 's prosecutor . |
| 15 | For example the National Concorde , launched by the millionaire Chief Abiola to support the NPN government , took to printing stories alleging that Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his UPN supporters had hatched a plot to subvert the constitution and were about to launch this plan over the radio by courtesy of a foreign radio station . |
| 16 | No significant section of the marchers had formed a determination to defy the police , and the RUC , for its part , seems to have behaved in a generally good-natured way . |
| 17 | But 60,000 shoppers have backed a campaign to give shops like VG , Mace , Spar and Londis , the right to sell papers . |
| 18 | MORE than 14,000 shoppers have backed a campaign to support Sunday trading but the issue will remain in deadlock for another three weeks , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 19 | For example , environmental considerations have prompted the company to embark upon a halon replacement programme resulting in a range of alternative systems . |
| 20 | ‘ Some schools have taken the opportunity to involve team members in pre-exclusion meetings and in general discussions about issues of race and racism . |
| 21 | Most readers have had a predilection to dismiss the arguments and speculations . |
| 22 | And both offices have identified the need to pay volunteers something for their work , or lose them altogether . |
| 23 | The pair have the support of the whole town … local traders have organised a petition to keep them on . |
| 24 | The present authors have expanded the range to produce a huge compendium of ill , mad , or bad leaders , some famous , many unknown . |
| 25 | These snakes have evolved the ability to rear up and squeeze their poison glands so forcibly that the venom inside them is propelled towards their enemy as a jet or spray of droplets . |
| 26 | TRAINERS have shunned the chance to take on the brilliant miler Zafonic at Royal Ascot next week . |
| 27 | However , official sources in Dublin have advised fans planning to make the trip to submit travel-document applications immediately . |
| 28 | Currents do flow through water , however , and many underwater animals have developed the ability to tune into body electricity , particularly that of prey . |
| 29 | If it is too strong , the soil will be dry before the animals have had a chance to move out of it and they will die in the soil . |
| 30 | Fujitsu Ltd 's threatened losses have caused the company to run afoul of Nippon Investors Service , one of the Japanese credit rating agencies — in Japan the rating agencies are rather less independent than their US counterparts — to review its Triple-A rating of Fujitsu 's long-term bonds and its A1-Plus domestic commercial paper rating for a possible downgrade . |