Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a lot of reading material to get through and absorb , and there are cases to attend as an observer before a new Panel Member finally makes up one of the three actually hearing a case . |
| 2 | Furthermore , pollinators are directed to suitable target sites for deposition of pollen by a series of rewards at those sites , whereas dispersers are not and indeed , jettisoning of the ‘ ballast ’ from their food as rapidly as possible is to their advantage : food may take 10 to 20 minutes to pass through a bat or small bird , though up to several months in animals like the rhinoceros . |
| 3 | Second , nine steps to use as a guide when introducing parents to an intervention were detailed . |
| 4 | ‘ We learnt that it is hard to build models to scale from a drawing as they are not very accurate in size . |
| 5 | For you must really endeavour to get ahead with your composition , and that you can do if you have in readiness copies of symphonies and divertimenti to present to a Prince or to some other patron … the divertimenti can be copied very quickly , even though it is true that yours have a number of parts and are rather long … |
| 6 | This would help attract passing visitors to stop for a drink or meal and would visually soften the rather bleak appearance of the exterior brickwork . |
| 7 | It proved a remarkable race for Naali who had been paid by the promoters to act as a pacemaker and drop out at the halfway stage . |
| 8 | Vaquero offers the city-bound reader a few minutes to escape to a time and place that we are losing ’ . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , pressure groups are variously encouraging retailers to open on a Sunday or urging local authorities to prosecute the law breakers , and labour MP Ray Powell 's Private Member 's Bill ( supported by the Keep Sunday Special Campaign ) is due for its second reading on 22nd January . |
| 10 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 11 | But instead of gaining , we stand to lose such workers to pay for a reorganisation that only Ian Lang ( the Scottish Secretary ) and a few of his supporters want . ’ |
| 12 | For history reveals , time and again , that while vertical thinking can bring our full intellectual powers to bear upon a problem and thus to consolidate a position , it is chance that causes us to stumble upon it ( both the problem and its possible solution ) in the first place . |
| 13 | It feels the unit would be better off in a company willing to invest in and grow that line of business — it says it does not have the resources to devote to an operation that is outside its core business . |
| 14 | Feed the sitting tenants to act as a diversion when adding new fish to an aquarium . |
| 15 | There may sometimes be a tendency for a few of the structures to occur in a group or with a temporary periodicity , but , in general , the random aspect of turbulence is manifested in when and where coherent structures are to be found . |
| 16 | It may allow the airbrakes to open during a launch if the lever is knocked or if one side is unlocking a little before the other . |
| 17 | In other words , many mentally ill people were defined as ill because of a breakdown in their social relationships ; drugs might relieve some of the symptomatic tension but help was needed to remedy the causes by encouraging patients to participate in a community that improved the capacity of all its members — patients and therapists — to relate in a meaningful way to one another . |
| 18 | The Liberal Democrats are such past masters at riding out scandals that they are remaining calm , simply instructing all cabinet members to report within a week whether they have received any donations from the pachinko industry . |
| 19 | In desperation the king and his advisers persuaded the Archbishops of Canterbury and Dublin and six other bishops to subscribe to a declaration that the article of the Great Charter regarding ‘ evil customs ’ was not to be construed as abolishing any customary laws essential to the continued existence of the forest . |
| 20 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 21 | ‘ Education is much more difficult than many industrial and commercial processes to measure in a way that makes comparison possible , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Ask the children to sit in a circle and explain that the aim of the game is to toss the beanbag ( bomb ) to a child in the circle who may not be expecting it , possibly by looking one way and throwing the other . |
| 23 | I think this system of getting all the children to sit round a table and be taught as a group is wrong , I think they should be taught individually , should have a desk of their own and , and the teacher should stand there and deliver the lesson er to each person but that 's , that 's the way it goes |
| 24 | We want our children to come to a love and respect of all God 's people . |
| 25 | Such a figure would not suggest that a serious attempt was being made by underwriters to deal with a problem that could undermine the stability of the world 's pre-eminent insurance market . |
| 26 | What , then , of the oft-repeated claim that the STV enables voters to vote for a coalition or an alliance ? |
| 27 | This is not the easiest selection of flowers to use in a design as they all look the same , and apart from turning some of the rose petals into buds , it is hard to introduce any interesting variations into the shapes in the picture . |
| 28 | Each curricular area has a carefully planned programme of work designed to enable pupils to develop at a pace and at a level suited to their age and ability as we feel it is imperative that children experience success in whatever they do . |
| 29 | Yet she , thought Vi , was as free as the air , with no home to worry about , no children to rear on a pittance as Mam had done . |
| 30 | Take the footpath between the hedge and the gravestones to go through a gate and along a grassy path . |