Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police have mounted a series of operations to try to catch the rustling gangs , some of whom are thought to travel from various parts of the country . |
| 2 | The editors revelled in the honour , ate their lunches and went back to their offices to continue publishing every last tit-bit they could find . |
| 3 | We have two principles of political integrity : a legislative principle , which asks lawmakers to try to make the total set of laws morally coherent , and an adjudicative principle , which instructs that the law be seen as coherent in that way , so far as possible . |
| 4 | Bachelor Dr Smith , of Northampton , said he and his father had remortgaged their homes to help meet the growing bills . |
| 5 | Buckinghamshire County Council 's Draft Structure plan earmarks the area for the building of 4,000 homes to help meet the expected housing needs of Milton Keynes by the year 2011 . |
| 6 | Pictures to help obliterate the hideous truth : that suddenly , one night before another Christmas , in 1992 , their child was savagely beaten , then dumped , half-naked , in a water-filled gravel pit , a mile from her home . |
| 7 | Ears to Hear has a broader scope which encompasses radio and television journalism . |
| 8 | The Publicity Sub-Committee is hoping to produce a souvenir magazine as part of our 30th Anniversary and they are looking for likely candidates to help form a working party . |
| 9 | He has taken steps to help resolve the financial difficulties and hopes to return to a normal trading position in due course . |
| 10 | The first neutrons to arrive had the highest energy and the later ones had lower energies . |
| 11 | Young designers to have suffered a similar fate to Ronay include Val Piriou , Joe Casely-Hayford and John Galliano , although Galliano is one of the luckier ones . |
| 12 | Lancaster College of Technology was the first of the future polytechnics to have established an Academic Board , in 1962 . |
| 13 | Just told the older kids to stop frightening the younger ones . ’ |
| 14 | He warned parents to continue to keep a close eye on their children until the rapist is caught . |
| 15 | ‘ We have worked extremely hard in developing this , we have talked to the EC , the Government , the legal profession , and we have looked at all the practices developed in other countries to try to develop a sensible method . |
| 16 | ‘ As travel becomes more international , chains are moving across country lines to try to win a loyal customer base , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Tunnard ( 1989 ) makes some excellent suggestions about ways this can be achieved , including : improving ways of providing emergency protection for children at times of crisis by drawing upon the support of the extended family and local community ; involving parents in decision making , providing parents ' representatives and encouraging the development of local support groups ; improving what happens after separation by offering children and families choices about what can be done , and ensuring contact is promoted and maintained ; dealing with sexual abuse cases in ways that help non-abusing parents to avoid taking a defensive position and that give them the resources and support they need to be able to protect their children . |
| 18 | In 1984 a Company was formed , Steamport 1984 Ltd. , to acquire the site from British Rail , with the support of a large group of members , who took a deep breath , and dug into their pockets to help finance a substantial portion of the initial costs , and with the aid of a bank loan , which is now well over half way repaid , the premises became truly home to the exhibits , both privately and society owned . |
| 19 | This calls for high levels of skill in design and production and the necessity for the two functions to co-operate to produce an optimum result . |
| 20 | This calls for high levels of skill in design and production and the necessity for the two functions to co-operate to produce an optimum result . |
| 21 | It is also important for building companies to attempt to assess the correct allocation of overheads in the management accounts against each project to ascertain the true profit . |
| 22 | For example , in areas of the South Pacific it is not uncommon for parents to have to relinquish a new baby to admiring kin who have claimed it ( Sahlins 1976b ; Silk 1980 ) . |
| 23 | It is obviously to the husband 's advantage in such circumstances to seek to persuade the first mortgagee to offer the wife a further advance of sufficient amount to repay the second charge . |
| 24 | Dixon J ( one of the most powerful judges to have graced the Australian bench ) , however , regarded s.4 bluntly as ‘ a restriction upon British parliamentary supremacy of the law ’ , ( ‘ The Law and the Constitution ’ , ( 1935 ) 51 LQR 611 ) , and there is much to be said for preferring his view . |
| 25 | Admissions tutors are criticised for failing to use CNAA regulations more flexibly and allowing A-levels to continue to play a dominant role in regulating entry to higher education . |
| 26 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 27 | He been with people who had lain on the tracks to try to stop the special trains bringing out 7,600 refugees from Prague and climb on board . |
| 28 | I used to record the bass , rhythm guitar and drums on three tracks and then bounce them down on to one ; then I 'd do two more guitar tracks to try to make a richer texture , then I 'd do one more main overdub on guitar , and finally two vocal tracks . |
| 29 | The village rector asked the mourners to try to show the same love that brought them to the service … |
| 30 | But the Supreme Soviet deputies rejected calls from hardliners to try to remove the 62-year-old president from office immediately and observers said Mr Yeltsin appeared to have won this round in his battle with the conservative-dominated parliament . |