Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the lack of precision and the subtlety of the overall vision of the city development strategy , as Holford outlined , was not all that easy to articulate either , or to communicate to others with conviction ( Cherry and Penny , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | In view of the importance of the stipulation to pay 75 per cent of the price , and the failure of the defenders to pay or to respond to demands for payment , the pursuers were entitled to infer that the defenders did not intend to fulfil their obligations and pursuers were entitled to rescind . |
| 3 | It is actually not necessary to add fat to bread or vegetables or to cook with fat in order to obtain enough for good health . |
| 4 | To work out quickly what your RC will indicate at the point where you arrive on track , use the following method : When you turn Left to intercept ( or to allow for drift on track ) consider Left as Minus |
| 5 | In any event , the education welfare service is frequently too busy and inadequately staffed to exercise the kind of supervision which enables the causes of truancy to be explored fully ( nor to work with schools in order to develop links with parents , as advocated by the Better Schools White Paper in 1985 ) . |
| 6 | Members of the House of Lords appear on the Electoral Register for local and European electoral purposes only : they are allowed neither to vote in parliamentary elections nor to serve as Members of Parliament . |
| 7 | That the Select Committee have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House , to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom and to report from day to day the Minutes of Evidence taken before it . |
| 8 | Educational establishments , through partnerships need to research into supportive evaluative procedures , to simplify lines of accountability and to attend to issues of quality in education . |
| 9 | Sacher stated that all StB agents and officers had been ordered to hand in all weapons and identity cards , and to remain at home on standby . |
| 10 | ‘ Some musicians find the constant changes and surprises inherent in Berlioz 's dramatic idiom disrupting , and find a logical development difficult to achieve and to sustain from beginning to end . |
| 11 | As your career develops you may also have the opportunity to gain the Certificate in Supervisory Studies for Stewarding Management , and to work towards membership of Cookery and Food Associations . |
| 12 | This afforded the opportunity for him both to become familiar with other music , and to come to grips with concerto movement forms unhampered by the need to create the thematic and harmonic material as well . |
| 13 | You would be expected to provide the committee with legal advice and to rule on matters of procedure in accordance with the authority 's standing orders . |
| 14 | In order to preserve confidence in the appraisal and promotion system , the management role and to guard against accusations of favouritism , you will not normally work in the same reporting line as a relative or someone with whom you have a close personal relationship . |
| 15 | For these to be useful to schools , teachers need to find economical ways of distinguishing authorised from unauthorised absence , of distinguishing ‘ real ’ from condoned absence and to look for patterns of absence taking actual pupils as the starting point rather than a more generalised attendance rate . |
| 16 | and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues . |
| 17 | There will always be the possibility that his spontaneous preferences will change with wider information or finer perceptiveness , and to retreat from awareness in order to cling to a highly-valued end will be one of the great offences against ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 18 | It enables them to avoid committing themselves and to retreat in front of danger ; and this is one of the major reasons why people speak indirectly . |
| 19 | This allows the Registry to meet requests from student societies for lists and labels in support of membership activities , and to respond to requests from project students for assistance with questionnaire sampling and distribution . |
| 20 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 21 | Much better as women to put our energies elsewhere and to think in terms of guerilla action — to redistribute resources to women wherever possible ; to asset-strip men 's buildings of their space and facilities and resources on behalf of women ; to expose male hypocrisy , corruption and oppression wherever it appears ; to reserve loyalty for principles and for women not for institutions ; and to concentrate on the subversion of men 's ideas about themselves and about women by behaving badly and with irreverence to their rules . |
| 22 | Banks were able to bid aggressively for wholesale deposits and to take in funds in return for the issue of certificates of deposit . |
| 23 | In the 1960s the oil boom made Venezuela the country to emigrate to , and it was a common occurrence for the emigrant who made good to hire a large American car ( Cadillac or similar ) and to return to Madeira by ship with the car . |
| 24 | It was in their interests to be " internationalist " and to move in search of work . |
| 25 | To be aware of how our past can affect our present and to pray with others for healing can be vital . |
| 26 | Scientists themselves have always been able to work in laboratories during the week , and to pray in places of worship at the week-end , by accepting the separation of the domains . |
| 27 | He moved to Birmingham for his early clinical experience and to research on aspects of hypertension in diabetes which formed his MD thesis . |
| 28 | So that 's the first rule of good negotiating : learn to master the art of listening and to feel at home with silence . |
| 29 | ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on . |
| 30 | Dry rot exhibits an almost uncanny knowledge of the presence of timber and is able to thrust through brickwork mortar joints and to travel across brickwork behind plaster over great distances in its search for fresh food . |