Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experts say they cause unseen damage to the environment and to people . |
| 2 | Now the authorities say she has little chance of getting them back . |
| 3 | These have sturdy telescopic aluminium legs which are well braced to provide good support , and are fitted with pan-and-tilt heads to enable you to make smooth camera moves . |
| 4 | If you are disabled , the Social Services Department can give you gadgets to enable you to operate various appliances . |
| 5 | Tim Hayward , head of corporate recovery at KPMG , said : ‘ Liquidation is the form of insolvency particularly common to smaller companies and many have simply not had the cash reserves to enable them to survive difficult trading conditions . |
| 6 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 7 | Date Number of homes Number of beds 1987 169 5000 1988 200 7000 Approximately half of those homes say they offer some provision for the elderly with mental impairment . |
| 8 | Feminist psychology is becoming conscious of its theories ' unadventurousness , their distance from other feminist debates , and the way their focus on individual subjects forces them to neglect social relations . |
| 9 | In fact , though , McGurk and MacDonald ( 1976 ) have shown the extent to which we use information about the position of a speaker 's lips to help us recognise spoken words . |
| 10 | ‘ We would also like to appeal for funds to help us finance this event . |
| 11 | During periods when the ruler was absent from Cetinje — often trying to persuade the Venetians to help him to resist Turkish pressure — the bishop took charge of the government . |
| 12 | HP claims that 7100-based business servers running it provide commercial users with the industry 's fastest uniprocessor server performance on TPS-A benchmarks . |
| 13 | As the Americans saw it , both goals required them to reassure those parties who felt nervous about what was going on . |
| 14 | Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens . |
| 15 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 16 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 17 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 18 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 19 | Which of the above tactics do you make most use of ? |
| 20 | Most of us at any age enjoy a good chat , but in how many Homes do you see small groups of residents talking to each other ? |
| 21 | Many retailing organizations said they gave fixed-term contracts to seasonal workers brought in to cope with the Christmas peak . |
| 22 | Clive Rowlands , the Welsh RU president , has written to member clubs urging them to follow this course . |
| 23 | In March 1886 Joseph Chamberlain , as President of the Local Government Board , responded by issuing a circular to local authorities urging them to schedule necessary public works for periods of depression , and to co-operate with the Poor Law by providing paid , non-pauperizing work for those who applied for poor relief due to temporary unemployment . |
| 24 | It also calls for increased aid to tropical countries to enable them to achieve sustainable forest management . |
| 25 | A special regime for international headquarters companies enabling them to pay foreign income dividends ( FIDs ) from foreign source income without paying ACT ‘ should bring benefits to the UK economy ’ , the Institute of Taxation said , but the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and wales said it was unlikely to attract many new companies . |
| 26 | As I said when answering the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) I have written individually to the chairmen of the 100 largest companies urging them to pay close attention to settling their debts on time . |
| 27 | I have personally written to the chairmen of the country 's 100 largest companies urging them to regard prompt payment as a matter of best practice . |
| 28 | The imperfections of our parents cause us to generate compensatory emotions that go on influencing us throughout life . |
| 29 | The general form of payoff functions allows us to address dynamic models with asymmetric information and to investigate the reputation effects in these models . |
| 30 | This information is also of interest to all engineers to help them encourage good practice approaches to the identification and assessment of risk issues . |