Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that basis , the male is programmed to go from nightclub to nightclub and bed to bed , scattering his seed about the place to produce as many new disco-dancing Lotharios as possible . |
| 2 | He was expected to slip into management with ease , but instead Moore moved into business , running a pub . |
| 3 | The professor will be qualified for election as an official member of the board of the faculty ( which has final authority over the proceedings of its sub-faculties ) , and will be expected to serve from time to time on the various standing and ad hoc committees appointed by the board . |
| 4 | This book is not designed to engage with exposition of doctrine though it will inevitably point to its importance ; rather it attempts a mode of appreciation of these texts to help readers , whether or not they have prior knowledge of the subject , to respond to them as literary witnesses to a life of faith understood as a game . |
| 5 | An example of a clause providing for the payment of a participating dividend is : The Company shall after making all necessary provisions for payment of the Preference Dividend ( including any Arrears ) and the redemption of the Preference Shares but in priority to payment of any dividend to the holders of Ordinary Shares , pay to the holders of the Preferred Ordinary Shares as from ( and inclusive of ) the accounting period ending … , subject to payment in full of the Preferred Dividend ( including any Arrears of the same ) pay to the holders of Preferred Ordinary Shares a cumulative cash dividend ( " the Participating Dividend " ) of a sum ( net of any advance corporation tax payable by the Company ) equal to … % of the Profit After Tax for each accounting period of the Company ; the Participating Dividend shall be deemed to accrue from day to day throughout each accounting period and shall become payable and be paid not later than four months immediately following the end of the accounting period to which it relates . |
| 6 | If you can not reasonably be expected to vote in person on polling day you can apply for an absent vote . |
| 7 | Salvage work is expected to start in earnest in spring 1990 , when , by lucky chance , I shall be spending the whole of June on South Uist . |
| 8 | However , as it was found to be the lack of care which followed the loss of a parent , rather than the loss itself , which explained the child 's increased risk of depression in adulthood , the same vulnerability can be expected to result from lack of care in intact family homes ( Harris et al. , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | The principle of orality was considered to contribute to unanimity in decision making because of the thorough sifting and testing of argument in unrestricted oral argument . |
| 10 | P appealed to the High Court , contending that no part of his interest ‘ came to an end ’ within para 4(2) ; he had merely disposed of shares in Q. Similarly , para 4(2) was not deemed to operate by virtue of para 4(1) , which provided that a disposal of an interest in possession of any property was not a transfer of value , but should be treated as the coming to the end of an interest in possession , bringing into play para 4(2) . |
| 11 | People are n't made to go to college at night , people go because they want to . |
| 12 | ‘ the manufacturer had known that the fuel tank on its subcompact Pinto was defectively designed and had consciously decided to proceed with production in spite of the potential hazards . |
| 13 | The potential for change is therefore always present in variation , and may appear as a progressively greater or lesser favouring by the speech community of particular linguistic variants from among the variants that are available in the community at some particular time : to that extent change can be said to consist of change in community norms . |
| 14 | The present store area within the Exhibition Hall should be freed to allow for conversion to classroom use . |
| 15 | Second , why are the meanings of words often felt to change from context to context , and how is successful communication possible if such instability exists ? |
| 16 | A conviction ensued where the supervisor had been drinking with the driver who was seen to swerve from side to side ( Crampton v Fish ( 1969 ) , 113 SJ 1003 ) . |
| 17 | Equal quantities of purified GST or GST-protein A ( GST-PA ) were applied to nitrocellulose from left to right as 5 µl drops in four-fold dilutions ( in NT buffer — 150 mM NaCl , 50 mM Tris-HCl , pH 7.5 ) from 1 µg to 1 ng . |
| 18 | Most attempts at theory and empirical work have , however , tended to concentrate on investment in plant and machinery , particularly in the manufacturing sector . |
| 19 | Yeah , but er , this is usually you 've got to work on top of course you 've got ta |
| 20 | However , none of the available approaches has been shown to lead to transfection of growth arrested cells in culture at an appreciable level . |
| 21 | Richard at once agreed to help in return for assistance in his immediate design , the conquest of Cyprus . |
| 22 | In Swade 's view , if software is material culture then museums could offer it a better home because museum curators are equipped to deal with software as object . |
| 23 | What , what has niceness got to do with confidence for goodness sake . |
| 24 | Dragon is thought to draw on technology from Sun 's collaboration with Cray Research Inc to develop the non-massively parallel Sparc technology that Cray adopted with Floating Point Systems Inc ( UX No 369 ) , and may use Fujitsu Ltd CPUs . |
| 25 | This has provided coca growers with the training and tools needed to switch from coca to tea , bananas and livestock . |
| 26 | He is determined to lead his injury-stricken outfit to victory in France for the first time in 22 years and last night insisted : ‘ I 've had to fight for respect in rugby league . |
| 27 | No member of the family has to give up work before the allowance can be claimed and this extra income can sometimes enable a caring daughter to continue in her job if it is used to pay for help at home . |
| 28 | Clusters of related genes are thought to arise during evolution through duplication events , but clustering can also be exploited for coordinated regulation of the gene group , with the β-globin genes being the mammalian paradigm ( 48 ) . |
| 29 | Abnormality of the electrical control activity has been shown to occur in association with motion sickness , in patients with idiopathic gastroparesis , unexplained nausea and vomiting , and anorexia nervosa , and in response to vagotomy and to administration of glucagon . |
| 30 | He referred me to President of India v. La Pintada Compania Navigacion S.A. [ 1985 ] A.C. 104 where , in declining to extend the common law so as to enable a plaintiff to recover interest by way of general damages , the House of Lords were influenced by the fact that the legislature had twice intervened to deal with entitlement to interest . |