Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they all have in common is that they are all attempts to go beyond appearances . |
| 2 | We should pay the coaches to go to tournaments and watch and perhaps they could put over to the kids how hard they have to work ’ |
| 3 | There are also carefully planned strategies to cope with emergencies and the victims of major travel accidents , wherever they may occur in the world . |
| 4 | Fowles takes from Marx his epigraph about emancipation , and , like Berger , uses textual strategies to enforce upon readers an unusually direct engagement with this wider theme in the novel . |
| 5 | To take another example , peasants often form reciprocal labour groups to cope with periods of particularly high labour demand ( e.g. paddy transplanting , or preparing plots for burning in the forest for shifting cultivation ) . |
| 6 | But they need all their skills to cope with conditions in Bosnia . |
| 7 | This week local Nature Trusts are asking volunteers to visit woods to search for hazlenuts that have been nibbled by dormice . |
| 8 | In Britain the Communist Party returned to its attempts to work with sections of the Labour Party . |
| 9 | The PRO 's attempts to work through DROs in order to gain control over computer records in government may be doomed to failure because of the latters ’ lack of clout and expertise . |
| 10 | And even Griffin ( 1984 : 196 ) is unenthusiastic about K. Pryor 's not dissimilar attempts to communicate with porpoises . |
| 11 | Local projects to work with women or members of ethnic minority groups , for example , have adopted new approaches to depression or other illnesses , many involving a self-help element . |
| 12 | Christian orthodoxies , he was making dogged attempts to come to terms with his sado-masochistic tendencies . |
| 13 | Furthermore , he made real attempts to come to terms with the Emperor , and it seemed likely that the papal imperial conflict would now be resolved . |
| 14 | On the other hand , virtually all the demands which the Anglicans had been pressing for in their attempts to come to terms with James , such as those made by the bishops in their meeting with the King on 3 October , did . |
| 15 | Earlier , permissive legislation had already enabled some authorities to innovate in services for the disabled . |
| 16 | One of the common threads that have emerged from my dicussions has been the necessity , when considering how the law might be reformed , of tackling the question of protecting employees from being obliged by their employers to work on Sundays , against their wishes , or incurring any penalty for not doing so . |
| 17 | The Count can call upon his knights to come to arms and fight as part of his army . |
| 18 | There was a project to get artists to work on panels for a long wall , concrete posts and lintels with a brick infill , that might be seen as a possible module for paintings or some other art form . |
| 19 | We see this in the increasing influence of the new Ecology Movement , in the power of the Gaia theory , in the efforts of established religions to come to terms with their part in dealing with these issues ; and much more humbly , but much more universally , we see it in the increased attention that so many of us are now paying to the ways we celebrate the beauty and diversity of life on Earth . |
| 20 | Overdrive , a company which offers hauliers the services of relief drivers to cope with peaks in their business , gives drivers specific job responsibilities under the 1974 Act ( see the extract from their Drivers ' Handbook below ) : |
| 21 | ‘ There is a country hike every summer , which has helped me to get to know the area better , and lots of opportunities to go on courses and outings to places of interest . |
| 22 | He spoke out as the development services committee was asked by Leech Homes to agree to changes in the types of houses to be built on land in Bankhead Street , Seaham . |
| 23 | The signalman went down the steps to search for signs of the visitor but there was no one about . |
| 24 | The driver had the good manners to signal with headlights that he was clear but he stayed in the overtaking lane , letting the twin turbos build up speed . |
| 25 | For smaller firms there will be exciting new opportunities to liaise with colleges whose training facilities are being restructured as realistic working environments for the purpose of assessment of competence . |
| 26 | In complete contrast to the Nemausus project ( see previous page ) , Nouvel teamed up with Philip Starck ( Nouvel frequently invites other artists and designers to work on projects ) to produce the sleekest of designs in 1986 for the Tokyo Opera House . |
| 27 | They believe that any newcomer would take months to come to grips with what has gone wrong at Ferranti and would as a consequence be worse placed to negotiate a rescue for the group . |
| 28 | Some mediums were found to be fraudulent but there seemed to be genuine phenomena underlying the whole business ; and it seemed to be the job of earnest doubters to come to grips with it despite its general slipperiness . |
| 29 | In my ordinary use of words to stand for sensations my words are ‘ tied up with my natural expressions of sensation ’ . |
| 30 | This generation , not having directly experienced large populations of immigrant , foreign-looking Jews , will abandon the preoccupations of former leaders and will encourage fascist parties to concentrate on prejudices for which there might be direct electoral advantage . |