Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time the festival of Christmas had arrived , and both papal and royal courts joined together to celebrate in St Peter 's basilica . |
| 2 | Their meanings change continually to suit the circumstances in which they are used . |
| 3 | The projects failed both to protect natural forest , and to improve prospects for the poorest people in the area , according to the report 's author , consultant Michael Flint . |
| 4 | Staff from our businesses and Estates met recently to see how networking works and how it could increase our share of business in the water industry . |
| 5 | Because of properties that we can think of as their ‘ shape ’ , atoms and small molecules tend naturally to pack themselves together in a fixed and orderly manner . |
| 6 | And how two cultures failed entirely to understand each other . |
| 7 | Gerald Sterling neatly summed up the Conservative case : ‘ Voting Labour means high taxes , high taxes mean less to spend , less to spend means fewer things bought , fewer things bought means fewer things produced , and fewer things produced means less work for everyone . ’ |
| 8 | In trying to provide answers to the questions why have social policies failed significantly to reduce social class inequalities , it is best to look at each of the three steps in the process separately — access , use and outcome . |
| 9 | They then drew up rules , based on the data , showing how these acts combine together to form moves and how moves combine to form various kinds of exchange — rather as grammarians formulate rules describing how words combine into phrases , or phrases into clauses . |
| 10 | Several students told me of their plans to go abroad to live because the party would never release its tight grip over people 's lives . |
| 11 | TWO-YEAR jail sentences and unlimited fines will face Scottish knife-carriers under Scottish Office plans announced yesterday to toughen up the proposed law . |
| 12 | Her teeth gritted together to stop herself screaming , she rocked backwards and forwards like a child , oblivious to the drizzle that had begun while she 'd been in the kitchen with Gwen as disjointed sentences jostled in her brain for supremacy . |
| 13 | They 're especially keen for young men and people from ethnic groups to come forward to add a wider selection of tissue types to the register . |
| 14 | She is one of the successful new generation of country artists brave enough to stretch the genre , and talented enough to take its audience along for the ride . |
| 15 | UN engineers were still trying to repair the road to Gorazde , and there were plans to try again to get a convoy to the Cerska district as soon as possible . |
| 16 | Through casual meetings at cafés , the artists drew together to form a movement in protest against the waste of war , against nationalism and against everything pompous , conventional or boring in the art of the Western world . |
| 17 | Her fingers tried uselessly to stem the flow of flaming tresses , and Benedict , mesmerised , stood with the tray stupidly clasped in his hands , staring at the mass of struggling copper , bright and flickering like fire in the glow from outside . |
| 18 | Despite unsuitable premises , lack of funding and a dearth of promised support from the council , many groups tried hard to accommodate children 's needs . |
| 19 | Foreign artists tried hopelessly to find work , dig trenches , look after the four cows in the Bois de Boulogne , anything to earn a few francs . |
| 20 | County planning and transport officers are setting up a public consultation exercise in the village to discuss proposals designed ultimately to rid Greatham of through traffic . |
| 21 | The new breed of shareholders has yet to show its skills of actually trading shares for long term appreciation and has tended to sell out at the most lucrative time . |
| 22 | These aptly named whirligig beetles spin round continually , creating a dizzy display which confuses potential predators , and yet the beetles appear never to collide . |
| 23 | Her lips parted eagerly to receive his kiss , and she clung to his shoulders as the world quavered and shook around her . |
| 24 | The event which followed this restriction on instinctual action was the brothers banding together to kill their father , and the consequent guilt they experienced . |
| 25 | ‘ In these circumstances it is not fair and reasonable for building societies and valuers to agree together to impose on purchasers the risk of loss arising as a result of incompetence or carelessness on the part of valuers ’ , he said . |
| 26 | In May 1916 all the main peace organizations joined together to launch a petition calling for peace by negotiation . |
| 27 | Thirty-three years on , his fans gathered there to mark the occasion , and Aileen Taylor was with them . |
| 28 | There was no Christian architecture before A.D. 200 ; believers gathered together to meet in each others ' homes and used the courtyard fountain for baptism . |
| 29 | As traders met today to assess the damage , Local businessman , Declan Cosgrove , estimated damage to his premises to amount to between £75,000 and £100,000 . |
| 30 | Local traders met today to assess the damage . |