Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — Only that between you and your husband I see a conspiracy to force me to forfeit Artai 's favour . ’ |
| 2 | These pupils were not necessarily involving their parents in a conspiracy to allow them to avoid school for its own sake ; they were more likely to agree with their parents in putting home values before school values as the following quotations from two headteachers illustrate : |
| 3 | I do typically , however , have a need to describe it to total strangers . |
| 4 | ‘ And after all , every player wants to be in a winning team and they know how much influence Gazza can have on a game to enable them to achieve victory . |
| 5 | On the other hand , it is my opinion that when a decision-making body is called upon to reach a decision which arises out of the relationship between two persons or firms , only one of whom is directly under the control of the decision-making body , and it is apparent that the decision will be likely to affect the second person adversely , then as a general proposition the decision-making body does owe some duty of fairness to that second person , which , in appropriate circumstances , may well include a duty to allow him to make representations before reaching the decision . |
| 6 | Compliance with new legislation might , however , be more costly for firms that are dominant in UK markets alone , and do not currently regard the powers of the OFT and MMC as sufficient of a threat to require them to take competition policy particularly seriously . |
| 7 | It is procedural only : we used it in Belfast as a guideline to help us to select variables that would represent broader and narrower patterns of lexical coverage . |
| 8 | He wo n't stand back and negotiate a time to allow us to summon help . |