Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manley claimed that it would provide training , marketing and financial advice to help " ambitious and disciplined young people " , but the benefits were expected to reach only a minority of the young unemployed . |
| 2 | As an organization , Stop Hinkley Expansion had initially expected to present only a handful of witnesses at the inquiry — people who would stand up on our behalf and defend their arguments against the assault of Lord Silsoe and his colleagues . |
| 3 | ‘ The cost of a vessel such as the Khan has described will be beyond a trader 's reach , Noyon , given that men are permitted to make only a profit from an enterprise which may be considered just . |
| 4 | Where a possession order is made in respect of a " regulated tenancy " of residential property in a mandatory case ( Cases 11 – 20 ) , the court is empowered to grant only a maximum of fourteen days and has no other discretion : Rent Act 1977 , Sched 15 , Pt II and s 89 of the Housing Act 1980 . |
| 5 | In 1924 it was decided to publish annually a Yearbook as a prospectus , and this continued until paper rationing caused its abandonment during the Second World War . |
| 6 | These can be said to represent only a development from earlier kinds of craft support , but the general situation was qualitatively new , in that work in this area became indispensable , in the advanced technologies , even though there could still be doubt whether such workers were truly part of the cultural production . |
| 7 | Che Guevara , Marx and Baudrillard himself are therefore destined to become merely a set of surfaces to play with as commodities which have lost the possibility of any further depth . |
| 8 | She is a bit upset that she has had to wait almost a year before receiving any income . |
| 9 | You 've got to know quite a lot about rhythm . |
| 10 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
| 11 | So he would have had to do quite a lot of work . |
| 12 | The patient was then randomized to receive either a course of Evans or Pasteur B G C. |
| 13 | In the meantime , the Government have attempted to pull together a solution to the dilemma that arises as a result of the different views that are held by various groups . |
| 14 | The Bishops ' Conferences of England and Wales , and of Scotland are asked to draw together a response to the Lineamenta after consultation with the Catholic community . |
| 15 | Dawn Groves had hoped to put together a production of Joseph and His Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat but the amateur rights have been withdrawn . |
| 16 | ‘ Once the rumour spread that we 'd been asked to put forward a campaign for a Danish-based company with worldwide interests , we suddenly became very popular . ’ |
| 17 | Defence is now allowed to carry forward a percentage of its vote into the next financial year . |
| 18 | Democracy is not always taken to signify only a form of government , or of choosing a government : it may be a term applied to a whole society . |
| 19 | In terms of sheer size they are sometimes bigger than the countries in which they operate ; they are estimated to control over a quarter of world output ; and their ‘ inter-firm ’ shipments of goods from one country to another account for nearly one-third of recorded trade ’ . |
| 20 | His challenger , Mr Edwin Eisendrath , a city alderman , had tried to stitch together a coalition of young apolitical professionals and ‘ reform ’ Democrats . |
| 21 | Chaovalit 's successor as Army C.-in-C. , Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon , was forced to cut short a visit to Singapore to return to Bangkok . |
| 22 | Questions are often worded to cover only a fragment of a particular subject ; in that case the examiner does not want the whole of it . |
| 23 | Habitual criminals were also required to report once a month to a police station after they were released . |
| 24 | Poppy had managed to gather quite a collection of workmen 's boots , so I went to the pet shop and bought her some toys , which she loved playing with . |
| 25 | Even so , this prediction was made before hostilities broke out , when the campaign was predicted to last only a matter of days , and his rival at BSkyB managing editor of Sky News , Lis Howell , is less sanguine : ‘ There is n't a bottomless pit of money in any news organisation , ’ she points out . |
| 26 | She scuttled over to the far side of the room and had managed to read quite a lot of the letter before Julius came charging after her , taking the paper back from her with such force that it almost ripped in half . |
| 27 | One of the issues that has inexplicably failed to get even a whisper of an airing in the campaign wars of words is whether a graphical interface is the preferred environment for a large proportion of desktop users . |
| 28 | BOC has chosen to take away a lot of the available functionality and choices available within FCRS to provide local operators with a completely menu-driven system for quick and simple data input . |