Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers tend to use a range of recruitment strategies employing a number of devices . |
| 2 | Despite their differences , both views tend to support a tightening of the law on pornography . |
| 3 | The Efta states agreed to make a contribution to the Community budget in return for participation in the market . |
| 4 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 5 | The sessions involve boys that Spurs want to have a look at and among the 16 taking part tomorrow will be two already signed — Paul McVeigh and Jason Carlisle . |
| 6 | Concern swung away from programmes designed to reschedule a reduction of service costs , back towards the earlier aspiration of redemption . |
| 7 | The TVEI was set up in 1983 as a series of pilot projects designed to test a variety of different methods and approaches , and was extended in 1987 , becoming a national scheme intended , eventually , to be available to all 14–18-year-olds , irrespective of ability . |
| 8 | At present the new authorities appear to display a mixture of helplessness within the Russian Federal democracy and cynical enjoyment of a position of power . |
| 9 | Again and again in the fifth and fourth centuries the other Greek states tried to get a hold on Thessaly . |
| 10 | In other words , if a majority of member states want to adopt a piece of legislation which has the effect of transferring sovereign powers from national governments to the European Community institutions , that is at one and the same time an expression of national interest . ’ |
| 11 | Will Compact employers expect to have a role in the management and curriculum of the school ? |
| 12 | Johnny Miller is one of a handful of cricket fanzines struggling to find a readership on the fringe of the mainstream of cricket consciousness . |
| 13 | Linguistic units tend to form a hierarchy of extent . |
| 14 | Overconstrained designs tend to become a compromise between these well defined parameters , which generally leads to low-risk , slow product development . |
| 15 | In the weeks preceding her dismissal , she was beset by rumours of dissent within her own party and on Aug 5 it was announced that the Combined Opposition Parties intended to table a motion of no confidence against her government . |
| 16 | Typical questions relating to this need would be : has the education authority enough funds to continue to provide a place for all school-age pupils ? |
| 17 | While the mechanics were setting up the cars , she thought she 'd go outside into one of the empty stands to try to find a breath of wind , anything rather than standing in the back of the pits in the high humidity which made her skin glow . |
| 18 | Those financing the advertising of parties expect to receive a return on their outlay . |
| 19 | The project leader in many of these roles has to face a number of ambiguities ( Wilemon and Cicero , 1970 ) . |
| 20 | Yeah I think they had their own little meetings in various pubs or whatever after our meetings , and certainly the management in one of the quarries seemed to have a lot of information about what went on in our lodge meetings because of various members of this clique , I think we were all fairly sure that they would be returning to work , it was just when that was the crunch . |
| 21 | A number of owners have noticed , to their dismay , that their feline pets seem to have a passion for drinking from puddles and pools of water in the garden . |
| 22 | The agreement also provided that the two sides would within 12 months negotiate to establish a list of 17 sectors in which minimum services had to be maintained during strikes . |
| 23 | The IMF 's new country weights seem to suggest a GDP of almost $1,000 billion for China in 1992 ( $1,700 per head ) . |
| 24 | The words , ideas or questions in a pupils mind — the words used to express a need for information — are derived from classroom discussion , introductory materials , worksheets and the language used by the teacher . |
| 25 | ‘ We all know that XR3s and Cossies seem to attract a lot of unwanted attention , but I feel I 'm paying too much insurance on what is a Plain Jane family saloon , ’ he says . |
| 26 | In Reardon Smith Line Ltd v Hansen Tangen [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 989 , shipbuilders contracted to build a vessel to a certain specification at Yard No 354 at Osaka Zosen , but the ship was in fact built at a different yard , the House of Lords did not consider these words of location as being part of the identity of the vessel . |
| 27 | Subjects began to feel a loss of control of the course of their thinking . |
| 28 | 10 years ago The game show 3–2–1 had a Spinechillers theme , which was hardly surprising when you consider that the guests included Mike Read and Dave Lee Travis , two DJs guaranteed to send a shiver of shock up anyone 's spine . |
| 29 | A number of modern pub designers attempt to rescue a sense of intimacy and defensible space by dividing these open-plan arenas into token drinking areas . |
| 30 | ‘ Last year Donegal was allocated 9,000 tickets for the final , but 18,000 supporters managed to get a place at the match , ’ he said . |