Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 2 | These were also powerfully promoted by domestic service at a time when even the meanest clerk expected to employ at least a resident maid-of-all-work . |
| 3 | In addition , young Christians often face a crisis in their faith , because employers tend to discriminate against the country 's Christian minority . |
| 4 | Employers agreed to pay on December 1st nearly the full wage hike they promised to give on April 1st . |
| 5 | Deaf dogs can manage surprisingly well , with their eyesight and sense of smell helping to compensate for their lack of hearing . |
| 6 | But the court did not accept the legal conclusion which the defence sought to draw from that fact , since Megaw L.J . |
| 7 | NEC is to develop a special version of its UP 4800 server series for Control Data , with shipments expected to begin in the second half of 1993 . |
| 8 | As we went to press , the OMG expected to have in hand eight submissions representing some 25 companies . |
| 9 | However , when the opportunity arose to participate in the Programme as a SCOTVEC National Development Officer , the changes began again to figure fairly prominently . |
| 10 | Shortly after graduating in 1987 , the opportunity arose to work with former Napier student , Tom Kidd . |
| 11 | There were significant age effects in both tasks on these items , and many of the children in the two younger age groups failed to distinguish between deductive and empirical items and treated them all as if they were empirical items . |
| 12 | Tragically , Jim failed to recover from the stroke he had suffered on the Saturday morning ( 28th May ) and died the following morning . |
| 13 | To raise the enormous sums required , the government learned to float long-term loans , which Parliament agreed to underwrite by appropriating the yield of specific taxes for the payment of interest . |
| 14 | Even before the pathologist had finished at the scene and the head was wrapped , the hands mittened in their plastic bags , even before Doc Kynaston got to work with his scalpels , the corpse would be an exhibit , more important , more cumbersome and more difficult to preserve than other exhibits in the case , but still an exhibit , tagged , documented , dehumanized , invoking only interest , curiosity or disgust . |
| 15 | The erm draft of or the advice that the local planning authorities intend to give to the secretary of state is currently out for consultation , we hope that it will be submitted by the end of the year . |
| 16 | Earthtrust agreed to assist in caring for nine of the dolphins , if agreement could be reached to release three dolphins and the five remaining false killer whales . |
| 17 | After a meeting in Ljubljana between Markovic , Kucan and Peterle , the JNA agreed to withdraw from Slovenia on July 1 . |
| 18 | The JNA agreed to withdraw from Slovenia by Oct. 25 , and to hand over military hardware to the Slovenian authorities . |
| 19 | EXTENSIVE damage expected to run into hundreds of thousands of pounds was caused by floodwater to properties in the West Wales market town of Cardigan following Thursday night 's heavy rain . |
| 20 | Mrs Totteridge ceased to murmur into Bedford 's ear . |
| 21 | I left the University fired with enthusiasm to go to live in Moscow to practise the language . |
| 22 | A good illustration of this point is provided by a case in which the London Borough of Greenwich sought to challenge by judicial review the distribution by the Government of a leaflet explaining the poll tax : the Borough argued that the leaflet was inaccurate and , therefore , that its distribution was illegal . |
| 23 | Ramani Leathard agreed to work with them . |
| 24 | Also , natural fibre such as bran products tend to bind to calcium , making it difficult for the body to use the calcium , making supplements more necessary than ever . |
| 25 | The Scotsman reported on I September that " members of the Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union intend to remain at work in the event of a strike " . |
| 26 | But James 's great houses are rarely inhabited by ancestral families : Lord Mark is an exception , and Lord Warburton offers to move from Lockleigh if Isabel ( however mistakenly ) argues damp from its moat ; in any event , his family 's hold on the house is so frail that his sisters seem no more than faded chintz figures among the faded chintz of their drawing-room . |
| 27 | Their problem is their flower buds tend to swell in the winter and can be damaged by frost or winds . |
| 28 | MPs who on the whole tend to be rather casual about going to meetings organised for their benefit by pressure groups tend to go to the nuclear forum , because it is always well-structured and organised , and because they can then say to constituents who work in either the nuclear industry or the nuclear supply industry that they have been , and still are , taking an interest in the decisions that affect those particular electors . |
| 29 | Groups tend to move through four different stages on their way to becoming effective in the sense described . |
| 30 | In rural areas the school frequently serves as a focal point for the local community — its removal can have a detrimental effect in that it may become increasingly difficult to attract new families to settle , the younger age groups tend to drift towards the neighbouring towns and the average age of the remaining inhabitants goes on rising . |