Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Farmers should be given money to take more conservation measures . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | In return BP want permission to sink only five boreholes in the area . |
| 14 | Mr Jack Straw , the shadow education secretary , said a Commons written answer from Mr MacGregor disclosed that England 's 96 LEAs want permission to spend about £1.1 billion next year on state schools and £150 million on voluntary-aided schools . |
| 15 | Foreigners ( especially businesspeople ) were to get visas more quickly and the 150,000 Soviet citizens living abroad would no longer need permission to travel home . |
| 16 | Labour mobility programmes are in an important sense different for they provide aid to labour rather than to industry . |
| 17 | By the end of the period , however , the tighter labour market forced product wages to rise as fast as productivity to ensure sufficient scrapping to provide labour to operate newly installed equipment . |
| 18 | He said that he was particularly interested in the use of combined heat and power technology and suggested that the industry could install equipment to generate about 2000 MW more energy using this method . |
| 19 | Everyone has work to do here and the effect is unsettling . |
| 20 | She has work to do indoors and out , and her life is eminently prosaic . |
| 21 | The new association has four main aims : to encourage business to get more involved in helping to address environmental problems , to promote the exchange of experience , to establish action plans , and to defend the business point of view relating to environmental issues . |
| 22 | Soon a new strain of oxygen-mediating species arose , enabling evolution to proceed as fast as carbon could be buried in the sediment . |
| 23 | If a parent wants behaviour to stop there should be something to take its place . |
| 24 | It was stated in the March Buyer 's guide about acrylic colours that their residual tack causes dirt to accumulate progressively on finished paintings . |
| 25 | Numerous senior rebels and injured Moderati had committed suicide to avoid just such an outcome … |
| 26 | Impersonal consent sentences are quantified sentences of the kind described : ‘ You consented to your dismissal ’ means ‘ You consented to being dismissed by whoever has authority to do so . ’ |
| 27 | Though people expect illness to become more frequent in old age , you should not assume that nothing can be done , but should consult your doctor if you think you have a health problem . |
| 28 | Though people expect illness to become more frequent in old age , you should not assume that nothing can be done , but should consult your doctor if you think you have a health problem . |
| 29 | The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 , in force from 1 January 1987 , waives the need to obtain leave to serve abroad where defendants are resident in the EEC , Scotland or Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | The group , along with the NIH chapter of Blacks in Government ( BIG ) , wants the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help solve the break-in and wants NIH to act promptly to resolve the complaints of discrimination and to punish those responsible . |