Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There never were 6,000 knights in England ; and it was rare in the twelfth century for more than a thousand knights to gather in answer to a feudal summons . |
| 2 | ‘ My son has just passed his exams to go to St Francis Xavier . |
| 3 | What they all have in common is that they are all attempts to go beyond appearances . |
| 4 | ( b ) Exemption clauses affected by UCTA 1977 The ambit of UCTA 1977 to exclusion clauses includes attempts to disclaim by notice , liability in tort for negligence . |
| 5 | … at least one pair of walking shoes to wear with tweeds , another to wear with washing frocks , a smart pair of shoes for afternoon , several pairs of sandals for morning , several pairs to go with evening dresses , bedroom slippers and shoes for sports . |
| 6 | There were two meetings to attend in Ghent , the second one lasting into the evening , and Merrill 's notebook filled rapidly , predicting several busy days when she got back . |
| 7 | The Commission is multi-disciplinary and it exists to provide independent medical opinions to consent to treatment ; to keep the powers of detention under review ; to prepare a Code of Practice ; and to visit and interview detained patients and investigate individual complaints . |
| 8 | 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 ’ |
| 9 | A MOSCOW dating agency claims couples need three minutes to fall in love . |
| 10 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 11 | Rule 7(6) of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 has been amended so as to allow solicitors to go into partnership with registered foreign lawyers . |
| 12 | The general , whose appointment as prime minister a year ago is disputed by a rival Muslim government in west Beirut , did not want Christian deputies to go to Taif in the first place . |
| 13 | Particular emphasis is placed upon longitudinal investigations of changes at the work-place or of the development of personal strategies to cope with stress in jobs or during unemployment . |
| 14 | There are also carefully planned strategies to cope with emergencies and the victims of major travel accidents , wherever they may occur in the world . |
| 15 | 5000 American pros to gather for C.A.A . |
| 16 | It 's ( more or less ) official : Ken Olsen was pushed into resigning by the board : the Wall Street Journal hears of a meeting with employees at which Olsen discussed how he was unable to make the necessary organisational changes at DEC , in particular failing to get engineering groups to report to marketing , and then said ‘ that 's why I was fired ’ . |
| 17 | US satellites to go to China . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Thousands went on the rampage , ripping up paving slabs , trees and street signs to hurl at riot police who responded with teargas . |
| 20 | In Strasbourg , thousands of protesting farmers ripped up paving slabs , trees and street signs to hurl at riot police who responded with teargas . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 23 | Although justifiably most famous for the coast path there are plenty of other outdoor activities to enjoy in Pembrokeshire . |
| 24 | Brian Deane conjured up a Leeds winner with five minutes to spare after crisis club Manchester City had staged a spirited fightback at Elland Road . |
| 25 | Earning a very large salary , Laura was quite used to buying expensive clothes — primarily , of course , smart and severely cut suits to wear at work . |
| 26 | They travel in large concentrated groups to search for food , particularly when herding shoaling pelagic ( open sea ) fish . |
| 27 | On the facts of Modupe the accused was guilty of inducing his creditors to wait for payment when he had obtained credit by stating that he owned property when he did not and by exaggerating his employment status . |
| 28 | Also the Personal Equity Plans ( PEPs ) introduced initially in 1986 have encouraged small savers to invest in UK companies through unit and investment trusts . |
| 29 | The libel laws should be changed to provide a ‘ fast track ’ system allowing victims of media falsehoods to correct them quickly without having to wait a long time for their cases to go to court and gamble on the result . |
| 30 | Under Chilean law a 15-year deadline for such cases to go to court would expire on Sept. 21 . |