Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading Welsh players , too , are concerned about having to play important league fixtures between internationals and a meeting will take place this week between Welsh team manager Robert Norster and coach Alan Davies and representatives of the 48 Heineken League clubs to try to come to a compromise . |
| 2 | Many of the cases appear to turn upon a consideration of whether the payment was voluntary or involuntary . |
| 3 | Cut off from her , with his father and stepmother both dying while he was still a young man , John several times tried to live with a man he loved , but it always ended in disappointment . |
| 4 | The agent has to fill in the financial returns has to send in a report of financial expenditure . |
| 5 | Mr Paddy Ashdown issued his starkest warning yet that he would be prepared to force a second election if either of the two main parties sought to govern on a minority basis . |
| 6 | So , if the clients want to invest in a fund , they can do . |
| 7 | My kids want to go for a visit and my daughter wants a picture of our home … |
| 8 | Alexei 's eyes seemed to stare for a moment into the middle distance . |
| 9 | These ratings seemed to vary in a way which was related to variables such as the amount of traffic present in the situation and estimated risk . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've come to find you ! ’ he cried , struggling back to his feet ; but the words seemed to blur into a shout that was almost meaningless . |
| 11 | He was deep in an armchair , naked from the shower , heels lofted to rest on a mahogany writing desk . |
| 12 | It is the basis for a range of ocean-going ferries and cargo vessels that Japanese shipbuilders hope to sell in a decade 's time . |
| 13 | Erm , we called a lodge meeting before the annual leave , annual shutdown , and in that lodge meeting all three quarries agreed to go on a work to rule as from the resumption of work , which is second week of August . |
| 14 | When such a clear target has been voiced and accepted , ideas for units begin to flow at a rate which the technology and the programmer find difficult to cope with . |
| 15 | She smiled up at him valiantly , the smile fading as his eyes began to darken in a way she recognised . |
| 16 | Of particular interest were the methods employed to land in a crosswind approaching crabbed with the nose as far into-wind as possible while maintaining the centreline of the runway . |
| 17 | Much difficulty could be avoided if the only candidates permitted to work for a PhD were those who were virtually certain to obtain it , but that is not a feasible option in the modern university . |
| 18 | But some examinees fail to search for a connection between the book-work question and the rider , thus missing the point intended by the examiner , while other examinees , finding no connection between the two ( in fact there being none ) , avoid the question altogether . |
| 19 | Dads had to jump into a lake from a rope-bridge just above the surface . |
| 20 | Both parties wish to enter into an agreement whereby category ‘ A ’ and ‘ B+ ’ paintings which include the most significant paintings of the Collection be loaned to a Spanish Foundation for their maintenance and public exhibition for a period of up to ten years . |
| 21 | Our evaluation identified some of these shared features , and showed how primary schools tended to cluster towards a number of broad types in respect of certain issues bearing on the management of PNP : for example , the roles undertaken by support staff and coordinators , and by deputy heads ; the managerial styles of senior staff ; the management structures which framed the defining and implementing of school policy ; the policies themselves ; heads ' stances on the ideas and practices which have constituted mainstream primary thinking since Plowden ; and heads ' leadership styles . |
| 22 | Geraci seemed to hesitate for a moment . |
| 23 | Official inertia and resistance to change have at times seemed to spring from a sense of hopelessness . |
| 24 | Both countries agreed to work towards a peace treaty to replace the 1953 armistice agreement [ for which see pp. 13077-79 ] . |
| 25 | The defendants sought to rely on an exclusion clause which stated that liability for terms implied by statute was excluded ; one of these terms was that goods must comply with their description . |
| 26 | Anderson said on March 25 that he would not deploy UNTAC troops in the area until the factions agreed to abide by a ceasefire . |
| 27 | It will issue CDs with a maturity expected to coincide with a liquidity surplus and hold CDs expected to mature at a time of shortage . |
| 28 | Local Conservatives want to sell to a property developer so he can erect two shops , but lovers of Elgar 's music say the builders would be destroying the peaceful haven where the composer wrote his Enigma Variations . |
| 29 | Its products are aimed at companies wanting to move from a mainframe environment to mid-range open systems networks . |
| 30 | ‘ We therefore expect widespread interest from a variety of types of companies looking to relocate in a town with the high quality of life Southport has to offer particularly to the golf enthusiast . ’ |