Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Previous reports on diet and health have told us we need to eat fruit and vegetables only to provide roughage , ’ says Professor James . |
| 2 | Ferry companies need to get their acts together to make ferries safe . |
| 3 | We will bring private sector skills in to enhance efficiency and increase value for money . |
| 4 | The track was inspired by a documentary about an American woman who has ground her teeth down to gum level . |
| 5 | The prouder and more articulate seaman had seen his pay and status in continuous decline from 1815 when , at the , end of the Napoleonic wars , " the government , without the least consideration for those who had battled on the ocean in defence of their king and country , disbanded the Fleets and cast adrift some thousands of Seamen suddenly to find employment in the merchant service " . |
| 6 | But a curious deterrence this , which aims to restrain states only to unleash peoples , to intensify rather than mitigate conflict and make the world safe for revolution rather than order . |
| 7 | Many years ago scientists tried to develop machines that produced speech from a vocabulary of pre-recorded words ; the machines were designed to join these words together to form sentences . |
| 8 | This restricted freedom revolted Steven Morrissey , and his passion turned to the sixties when the ‘ George Best set ’ particularly liberated the city by proving that escapism is there for all who had eyes enough to avoid entrapment . |
| 9 | All contemporary accounts suggest that eighteenth century seamen , brutal and violent as they could be under provocation , were hardly lacking in the capacity to organise in support of their claims , and by the standards of the day , to do so peaceably whenever the authorities kept their heads sufficiently to allow mediation to proceed . |
| 10 | The unit does nothing this turn while the Bosses crack heads together to restore order . |
| 11 | While they chased the business of a few gambling councils , some City lawyers were already arguing that councils could enter into swaps only to hedge interest-rate payments on normal borrowings . |
| 12 | There is strong lobbying pressure for the governments that control portions of the polar ice caps not to build settlements there . |
| 13 | It has taken Fraud Squad officers months just to obtain clearance from the Egyptian authorities for an evidence-gathering trip . |
| 14 | Joshua Dogonyaro , reported that Monrovia free port was now open for the delivery of urgently needed relief supplies , but he warned relief organizations not to use Buchanan port , 75 km to the south-east . |
| 15 | The prospect of their victory has prompted the federal judge overseeing the school-desegregation plan publicly to warn the candidates not to make promises he will not allow them to keep . |
| 16 | Store chiefs at the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield saw a record 150,000 people turn up , 12,000 more than on the same day last year and in Hull police had to appeal to drivers not to take cars into the city because it was full by midday . |
| 17 | Durham County Council has warned school bus drivers not to use Roundhill Road when travelling into or out of the village . |
| 18 | CLIVE Brittain warned User Friendly supporters not to put heart before head when his star filly goes for the world 's richest race , the Japan Cup in Tokyo , early tomorrow morning . |
| 19 | But the researchers also reported ‘ an irritating tendency for some Ugandan subjects not to answer questions directly . |
| 20 | Julius Baer recently announced that its profits fell by nearly a fifth last year , to SFr35m ( $28m ) , thanks largely to lower commissions on share deals . |
| 21 | Moreover , he urges his readers not to join sects that make their adherents abandon their families , give up their money and worldly interests , and lead restricted lives that are ordered entirely by the rulers of the sect . |
| 22 | I would advise such readers not to lose heart : there is nothing in this book which can not be grasped by an 11-year-old who employs a little application : I know , because I 've tested it on an 11-year-old . |
| 23 | What does seem likely is that MASSMoCA 's commissioners will petition the governor to release funds incrementally to allow construction to begin . |
| 24 | The Elton Committee urged schools not to stereotype pupils from certain racial groups as troublemakers . |
| 25 | They have advised schools not to make copies available to parents . |
| 26 | They also utilize low-valued , passive , social , and subjective methods disproportionately to study subjects of low social status . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it is unrealistic to expect clients always to seek advice on these matters from sources other than the building designer , and a basic knowledge of planning law , compensation and the individual vagaries in attitudes of planning authorities is often the basis of releasing latent development value which is of tangible benefit and for which the client is prepared to pay high rewards . |
| 28 | At Christmas we went around houses singing carols but the best thing of all was when on Christmas eve we went to the local old peoples home to sing carols . |
| 29 | Two of the most famous cars ever to take part in the TT races , Kaye Don 's Lea Francis and Freddie Dixon 's Riley , will be among those taking part . |
| 30 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |