Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who fled during the Cultural Revolution often did so alone , others carrying two children on their backs across the Himalayan mountains to join the 100,000 strong refugee communities in India , where today a committed group have devoted their lives to working for the Tibetan cause . |
| 2 | If you have your hearts set on a joint endowment , you have two alternatives to cashing in the present one . |
| 3 | How they went on from being carried and put in things to sitting in the front seat of cars , opening things for themselves , unlocking the tame mysteries of life . |
| 4 | And provision by the welfare state expanded until the 1970s with benefits increasing in real value , access to higher education and health care expanding , and rights to housing for the homeless being guaranteed by law for priority groups . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) spoke recently on the radio about his idea of paying , say , £100 a week to people joining a community task force , enabling them to obtain work experience and contribute to society , which does not simply mean filling in holes in the road but involves going in for a range of useful activities , from working on environmental improvements to caring for the vulnerable in society . |
| 6 | A few of the offers to made during the first trading session have already been publicised . |
| 7 | There are also many references to drinking in the Old Testament — ‘ There is joy for the heart and soul in wine without excess ’ ( Ecclesiastes ) . |
| 8 | Although Brind has indicated that there are substantial impediments to relying on the unimplemented European Convention before the English courts , it did not suggest that they were always insuperable . |
| 9 | A Trotskyist group , led by Reg Groves , was particularly afraid of " sacrificing the Socialist League 's position in the Labour Party " , thus repeating the objections to working in the United Front which had been made by leaders of the League in past years . |