Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 2 | But the highest value was put on just being there , the willingness to sit by a bedside and to do more listening than talking , the patience with inconsistencies and sudden reversals of mood and the readiness to come back , week after week . |
| 3 | Mount Charlotte Investments , the hotel group , offers the opportunity to invest in a stockbroker . |
| 4 | Passion offers schools , colleges and community venues the opportunity to invest in a vast wealth of information about our work during the 80 's and then draw from that information in a more creative and challenging way . |
| 5 | However , the theoretical advances that these views represent do not seem to have significantly affected statements about literacy , which appear at times to remain in a pre-Saussurian world . |
| 6 | The decision to search for a partner has been taken ‘ in the context of competing investment requirements ’ across the broad sweep of BAe 's business interests . |
| 7 | And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) . |
| 8 | He said the 51 people flown back from Hong Kong early yesterday had been removed ‘ in line with procedures used worldwide to remove people refused permission to remain in a territory . |
| 9 | Deportations had been , he said , ‘ in line with procedures used worldwide to remove people refused permission to remain in a territory ’ . |
| 10 | One imagines that not a few may actually have seized the opportunity to indulge in a quiet sleep in preparation for the evening stint , for the dinner was formal and the occasion for full ceremonial . |
| 11 | Status would allow operators to see at a glance which items of safety-related equipment were in proper working order . |
| 12 | Weddings were an excuse to indulge in a complexity of symbols , some of which look like vestiges of atavistic and pagan ceremonies — a whiff of Pan , a nuance of Sleeping Beauty . |
| 13 | Broadly speaking , their best strategies to cope with a Labour win would be to ensure they make the most of allowances created through the independent taxation of husbands and wives , and — where possible — to take income on a self-employed basis rather than as employees . |
| 14 | Whenever I saw her , she always smiled at me , It was as if she 'd got me confused with someone else , someone important Once I had half an hour to wait for a transport . |
| 15 | Perhaps instead of competing with each other to sell their wares , Third World countries could get together and force the West to agree to a standard minimum price for commodity prices , like oil-producing countries did with OPEC . |
| 16 | One fox was caught , too far away for the riders to see in a day of little incident . |
| 17 | The pattern recognition technique enables the computer to cope with a certain amount of operator error , minor misspellings make no difference . |
| 18 | ‘ The decision to go for a greenfield site was taken in June , 1992 , and the countdown to Highbridge — a site within reach of all employees , with good motorway links — began soon afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Services at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury have been saved by a decision to invest in a new maternity unit . |
| 20 | Mark Robins bamboozled two defenders to whip in a cross which make-shift striker Rob Newman headed past England keeper Chris Woods . |
| 21 | Under the new system , we want an increasing proportion of the budget to go into a pot of cash , which local authorities will be able to give out . |
| 22 | AN HOUR to spare on a recent visit to London gave me the opportunity to visit the famous Science Museum 's well-advertised new gallery ‘ Physics and Nuclear Power ’ . |
| 23 | The practice of ‘ back-door ’ rights issues enabled companies to evade the requirements of pre-emptive rights by getting shareholders to agree to a paper issue ( an expansion of the authorized capital which , if not being sold to raise additional capital , may be used in a share swap ) for the purpose of taking over an investment trust . |
| 24 | In practice , this is unlikely to prove a problem for directors of private companies who are probably also the shareholders , but directors of public companies do have to consider whether it is in the interests of the company and the shareholders to agree to a lock-out clause at a figure which may not be the highest obtainable . |
| 25 | We will allow British Rail to proceed with a leasing scheme of 188 new Networker trains on the North Kent line — the first step in securing private investment to help modernise Britain 's railways and protect our environment . |
| 26 | He slipped his arm around her and they walked through the park to sit on a secluded seat there . |
| 27 | It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers . |
| 28 | The facts are : Lady Eleanor kept to herself , put on her cloak to go for a walk and , in the half-light , slipped on the staircase at Godstowe , fell and broke her neck . ’ |
| 29 | The establishment of the West German state in the latter part of 1948 , enabled plans to proceed for a general election there , in August 1949 , resulting , in 139 Christian Democrats ; 131 Social Democrats and 52 Free Democrats being elected , with extreme parties winning very few seats . |
| 30 | Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate . |