Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like to think that one can make provision to eat almost anywhere in the home , just as one should be able to move small tables about to different parts of the garden It is obviously nice to be able to eat in the kitchen or in the living room . |
| 2 | An American controller on duty when we requested permission to land later took us to a hotel at 10 pm . |
| 3 | I do n't want Matt to struggle alone with the barbecue — and that 's precisely what he 'll do if I 'm not there . ’ |
| 4 | A Thai Army official admitted on Jan. 2 , 1990 , that Myanma soldiers had crossed the Moei river but denied that they had been given permission to do so . |
| 5 | At a meeting soon afterwards , and having laid out its draft proposal for Newton , it had been given permission to go ahead with detailed planning although it did not offer the same safety provisions . |
| 6 | To avoid the prospect of local authorities , whose rate fund becomes overdrawn within a year , from ‘ going bankrupt ’ , the Act provides that authorities concerned may be given permission to borrow temporarily on revenue account , but only on such terms as the Secretary of State may impose . |
| 7 | Nesbitt had met the Sultan on the outskirts of Aussa and been given permission to continue northwards across the lava desert to Eritrea , but was forbidden to enter Aussa , which remained unexplored . |
| 8 | Between January and October 1989 171,000 Soviet citizens were allowed to emigrate ( only 0.4 per cent of requests were refused ) and more than 1,700,000 were given permission to travel abroad or invite foreigners into the country . |
| 9 | Yeah about time you got skills to pay really is n't it ? |
| 10 | She also asked Pamela to try again during the next week to draw up a list of ways she would like her parents to change . |
| 11 | In fact , as we now make plans to go home , we are sad at the thought of leaving this country and the people we 've met . |
| 12 | Farmers should be given money to take more conservation measures . |
| 13 | The new move , announced by Mr Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Education , means over-subscribed schools will be given money to expand even if empty places exist in nearby schools . |
| 14 | Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties ! |
| 15 | The French-owned Sunderland & South Shields Water and Newcastle & Gateshead Water companies announced proposals to bring forward their merger target date by two years to this March . |
| 16 | Now , we got permission to go ahead with a , a ballot for industrial action , which took place and although it was a majority for industrial action , it was n't the required two thirds majority . |
| 17 | David Gear hit the ball over the defence and Spence immediately changed direction and chased ; for some unknown reason , no flag appeared , allowing Spence to slot home past the helpless Warner to the annoyance of the home players . |
| 18 | Goldthorpe and others ( Goldthorpe 1984a ) have argued that these reactions express forms of political accommodations and alliances between social classes , allowing states to construct widely differing political strategies for confronting the crisis . |
| 19 | It has now been completely integrated with Sage 's existing £2.5m stationery and supplies division to generate about £6.5m turnover in total , a 12% increase on last year . |
| 20 | In the British Isles the best examples are found off the Norfolk coast , as will be described below : although this coast is one of submergence , the offshore profile , composed largely of glacial deposits , is extremely gentle , thus allowing waves to break long before they reach the coast . |
| 21 | Hatchards in Piccadilly was crammed to bursting with authors last Wednesday for its Authors of the Year reception , the annual event the bookshop stages to enable authors to get together with each other , and not a publisher in sight . |
| 22 | I do n't want Marie to go away . |
| 23 | They 're thought to be from an old church , and are helping archeologists to piece together a picture of life in medieval times . |
| 24 | Donchin , Kutas and McCarthy , ( 1977 ) asked subjects to perform either a " functional " match or a " structural " match between items presented tachistoscopically . |
| 25 | Various proposals have been made aimed at creating a legal framework to enable Afghanistan to revert essentially to its pre-1978 international status . |
| 26 | a way of allowing readers to focus just on the appearance of logical objects , but authors to be aware of them as structural entities . |
| 27 | We are applying to list LASMO 's shares on the New York Stock Exchange in American Depositary Receipt [ ADR ] form , to facilitate dealing by US shareholders and to enable LASMO to access more readily a variety of capital market opportunities available to US listed companies . |
| 28 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 29 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |
| 30 | Chapter 11 will consider proposals to extend further the list of groups whose interests management should consider in running the company with a view to limiting the harmful effect of corporate activities on them . |