Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they all have in common is that they are all attempts to go beyond appearances . |
| 2 | Consider providing the participating member with the opportunity to report on results of contact directly to the client , in order to ensure effective communication . |
| 3 | This gives the Board an opportunity to report to shareholders and to obtain their approval for resolutions that are voted upon at the Meeting . |
| 4 | Karajan has always been famous for his willingness to breathe with players — wind players in particular — something that many conductors neglect to do . |
| 5 | In Reims during the early sixteenth century , visiting heads of state were often given wines of various growths from the Montagne de Reims and the Vallée de la Marne to compare with wines from the king 's own vineyards at Aÿ . |
| 6 | The deadlock was broken when a government-appointed conciliator persuaded the Peugeot chairman to agree to talks as soon as a 19-day sit-in at the Mulhouse plant was ended . |
| 7 | We should pay the coaches to go to tournaments and watch and perhaps they could put over to the kids how hard they have to work ’ |
| 8 | There are also carefully planned strategies to cope with emergencies and the victims of major travel accidents , wherever they may occur in the world . |
| 9 | We were getting more mileage out of an asset we already owned and it gave the business a wider base to cope with fluctuations in any part of it . |
| 10 | Fowles takes from Marx his epigraph about emancipation , and , like Berger , uses textual strategies to enforce upon readers an unusually direct engagement with this wider theme in the novel . |
| 11 | It would not be appropriate in a book of this kind to go into details over the clinical manifestations and classifications of mental disorder , although the booklist at the end of the chapter contains some introductory reading on the subject . |
| 12 | But at this meeting I went to , people there felt very strongly that services should not be awarded funding to go for investors in people . |
| 13 | To take another example , peasants often form reciprocal labour groups to cope with periods of particularly high labour demand ( e.g. paddy transplanting , or preparing plots for burning in the forest for shifting cultivation ) . |
| 14 | Charlie Francis said at the Canadian Enquiry that all the world 's top athletes were on drugs — that was his excuse for encouraging Ben to go on steroids . |
| 15 | This is the same waste that formed the cargo of the Syrian ship Zanoobia , which was denied permission to unload at ports all over the world in 1988 . |
| 16 | We recognize this by our willingness to go on courses , keep up with professional reading , and sometimes update our qualifications ; education authorities recognize this when they encourage us to do so by paying expenses , granting leave of absence , and sometimes secondment on full pay . |
| 17 | The bright sunlight had straightened the ball 's flight-path , and as Gower fed on the short balls and what he converted into half-volleys , there were fleeting thoughts of a century before lunch , such was his willingness to go after runs . |
| 18 | It can make provision to dovetail with schools or colleges for 16 to 19 year olds , but it also offers opportunities for students with special educational needs to continue their education when most schools and colleges no longer have courses for them . |
| 19 | Richard Roberts seized the opportunity to contract with landowners for the purchase of their wood and furze crop , which he sold at a handsome profit to the tinners . |
| 20 | While Laura unpacked the picnic , before joining Emma and Sophie to search for shells along the shore , Ross managed to find enough driftwood to build a small fire . |
| 21 | However , that does have its positive side — it gives my staff the opportunity to go to meetings and take responsibility when I 'm not there , so it can be used in quite a developmental way . |
| 22 | A man who was apparently brain damaged during an operation has been given permission to sue for damages … even though the operation took place twenty five years ago . |
| 23 | Some expressly did not want their money to go for weapons ; others were said to be so thrilled that they wanted their names on the missiles . |
| 24 | HSBC , which is expected to release good profits on Monday , still fell 38p to 603p , reflecting the 200-point drop in the Hang Seng index after the Hong Kong governor 's decision to proceed with plans for partial democracy in the colony in the teeth of Chinese hostility . |
| 25 | On Aug. 2 , 1989 , the CPI-M-led Left Democratic Front government in Kerala confirmed its decision to proceed with investigations into the former Congress ( I ) Chief Minister , K. Karunakaran , and his Education Minister , T. M. Jacob , after the report of a commission into irregularities surrounding the publication of pre-degree examination results in 1986 . |
| 26 | LAIRD Group , is making a £41.4m one-for-five rights issue at 220p to invest in acquisitions and the expansion of its motor components businesses . |
| 27 | One of the factors contributing to the disciplinary problems of young people is their inability to cope with conflicts involving authority figures — those interpersonal occasions in which the youth and an authority figure ( such as a parent or teacher ) have opposing desires . |
| 28 | But they need all their skills to cope with conditions in Bosnia . |
| 29 | This week local Nature Trusts are asking volunteers to visit woods to search for hazlenuts that have been nibbled by dormice . |
| 30 | Furthermore , most of the work to date has been a drive to demonstrate the technology rather than a response to demand from users . |