Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The company has been a wonderful part of my life , but I feel the time has come to permit a younger generation to take the reins . ’ |
| 2 | It is not clear how this issue could be resolved , other than by stipulation , and hence rather than attempt to reach a conclusion we will proceed to the more fundamental question of whether the shareholders should , in the first place , be considered to have a moral right to decide how companies should be run in virtue of their ownership of corporate property . |
| 3 | Moreover there were certain branches of the governmental machine and certain aspects of policy on which the king was considered to have a special right to make his views heard . |
| 4 | However , scarcely was the ink dry on the paper when , at the end of December 1981 , the Secretary of State announced in the House of Commons that , ‘ with the agreement of the local authority associations and after consultation with other interested parties ’ , he had decided to establish a new body to advise him on the distribution of the advanced further education pool and on academic provision in local authority institutions of higher education . |
| 5 | Prepared to suffer a little discomfort to save the life of another person . |
| 6 | prepared to suffer a little discomfort to save the life of another |
| 7 | In its new freedom , it can be seen to cause a new reality to come into being ’ ( Hawkes 's italics ) . |
| 8 | Where decisions could be made to use a fixed-term contract to cover a vacancy , the decision could instead be made to fill the post on a permanent basis . |
| 9 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 10 | A reward ‘ menu ’ is simply a list of interchangeable rewards which can be used to provide a varied diet to maintain interest . |
| 11 | The output of the oscillator is passed to the unknown capacitor and an integrating charge-pump detector arrangement is used to provide a direct current to operate the external multimeter ( switched to the 2mA d.c. current range ) . |
| 12 | Late last night they were also reported to have agreed to establish a supranational bank to finance the reconstruction of Eastern Europe — a strategy Mrs Thatcher has doubts about . |
| 13 | QC has agreed to chair a working party to consider how best we can provide for effective sanctions for the nonpayment of subscriptions . |
| 14 | The two leaders also agreed to negotiate a Soviet-German treaty to cover security , economic , technological and cultural matters . |
| 15 | After the last shop meeting ( 6 March 1991 ) it was agreed to hold a further meeting to discuss what further actions should be taken in pursuance of the Pay Campaign . |
| 16 | It was agreed to appoint a similar committee to investigate and report on the demarcation of the Orange River boundary , Namibia 's southern border with South Africa . |
| 17 | Canada 's provinces have agreed to appoint a three-man commission to investigate the efficiency , safety , and management of the country 's blood-supply system . |
| 18 | The problems faced by older workers must be used to develop a broad strategy to remove inequalities in working and safety conditions inside factories and offices . |
| 19 | You 've got to have a sharp brain to work out the tactics and you 've got to have a very good technique , so it 's a demanding sport . |
| 20 | If I 'd have gone to the to the social services or er the D H S S and says to them , my daughter 's got to have a new uniform to go to school with because her self respect is gon na suffer if she does n't , they would n't have given be nothing . |
| 21 | I ca n't understand it , they 've got to have a decent grade to go to university , but they seem to think that they can get in on D's and E's , if he gets D's and E's , he 's not going anywhere , except to work |
| 22 | TITLE can be used to add a descriptive comment to help identify the file at a later stage . |
| 23 | Anyway , I 'll I 'll put in the note anyway , because that 's the , thank you because I , I feel I 've got to get a few prices to find out |
| 24 | There a defendant , charged with drunken driving , had been induced to undergo a medical examination to see if he was ill on the understanding that the doctor would not test his fitness to drive . |
| 25 | Malaysia 's Agriculture Minister Sanusi Junid said ASEAN had agreed to take a common stand to discourage similar actions by other countries . |
| 26 | She had needed to make a real effort to get up today at all . |
| 27 | [ There was discrimination ] not directly , but in subtle ways , like when you 're choosing your options , no matter what you 're doing there 's always a group where you can do cookery or needlework , but if you 're doing physics you have to put that down , and that means that you ca n't do something else that you might want to do , like history or something ; you 've got to make a positive choice to do science whereas it 's quite easy to drift into doing history and things like that . |
| 28 | Smokers aged 18 or over were invited to enter a free competition to win ‘ one of five exclusive Camel Benetton Formula One team jackets . ’ |
| 29 | Harris has been known to cause a few directors to have sleepless nights . |
| 30 | The newspaper pointed out that , while Nicholas Ridley had created the National Rivers Authority to oversee the state of river water , he had refused to create a similar body to monitor tapwater and bring prosecution of polluters . |