Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are saying to the council that they 've got to listen to how their employees and the public feel , and not to impose the cuts of central government on their workers and expect them to carry the consequences . ’ |
| 2 | I visited a one-man research station of the Cyprus Department of Agriculture who invited me to taste the products of many combinations of variety and soil . |
| 3 | Daniel son of Nicholas of Newcastle , husband of one of the co-heiresses , was appointed by them to perform the duties of Forest warden until he was succeeded in 1226 by Thomas of Stratton , husband of another co-heiress . |
| 4 | As a functioning mechanism a society must somehow distribute its members in social positions and induce them to perform the duties of these positions . |
| 5 | EDF has done everything it can to make all of the French understand how much is at stake and enable them to compare the advantages and drawbacks of the various possible sources of energy . |
| 6 | ‘ Can you arrange for me to see the parents ? ’ |
| 7 | It seemed queer to me to see the windows all dark and the curtains still not drawn … |
| 8 | There was enough light from the sky for me to see the padlocks . |
| 9 | The report concluded that the Fayed brothers , Mohamed and Ali , had ( i ) dishonestly misrepresented their background and wealth to the DTI for the purpose of persuading the Department in 1985 not to refer the acquisition to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) ; ( ii ) used their connection with the Sultan of Brunei to enable them to acquire the funds used in the acquisition ; ( iii ) repeated their lies to their advisers , who had accepted at face value what they were told and failed to check its accuracy ; and ( iv ) misrepresented the extent of their business assets to both the DTI and to the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 10 | The people who add value are all around us , we 've got to find them and empower them to drive the changes which will make ICI a stronger player in all its businesses . |
| 11 | So , the legs are responsible for starting the forward swing , but not by forcing them to drive the hips forward , but by creating a solid foundation from which the left side can pull against , compelling the legs to drive forward as the coil spring unwinds . |
| 12 | You want them to enjoy the books that imagination and curiosity thrive on . |
| 13 | it seems to me to perform the functions which we were er seeking through through the proposed Policy three . |
| 14 | was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down . |
| 15 | It will be interesting for me to compare the processes and to see if the two can benefit from each other 's experience . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It would beggar belief even more for me to attend a ladies ’ sewing circle , or a Bible reading for that matter , ’ she replied , hardly able to keep amusement out of her voice . |
| 17 | In 1952 I received a county grant , enabling me to attend a girls ' public school in the Home Counties . |
| 18 | ‘ In that case , we ask them to write the cards at the time of order , and we store them in here , ’ she explained a little breathlessly , but with obvious pride . |
| 19 | A better alternative is for the trust to borrow from an external source , with a guarantee provided by Newco , and Newco then makes tax-deductible payments to the trustees to enable them to meet the instalments on their borrowings . |
| 20 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 21 | I 've learnt so much from other families in the same situation and it 's helped me to accept the realities . |
| 22 | ‘ You do n't expect me to discover the secrets of Sakkrat dressed like a rescue ranger , do you ? |
| 23 | ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’ |
| 24 | Erm all he 's been doing here is getting me to find the sides . |
| 25 | A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ? |
| 26 | Do n't forget to contact your house insurance company , and ask them to increase the buildings cover accordingly to include the new building . |
| 27 | He managed to detain her long enough for them to tether the horses , because there would be no sense in coming out of the Workshops ( with , or without the prisoner ) and finding that the horses had turned their heads for Tara and that they had to walk the rest of the way to the Fire Court . |
| 28 | Savoy Hotel directors evidently have an awesome regard for the talents of Willy Bauer , the celebrated manager who left them to supervise the links at Wentworth . |
| 29 | And that produced a spin off effect , because the people who actually lived in properties or the shopkeepers in the properties , they could see that the outsides were improved , and that provided a spur for them to provide the insides . |
| 30 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |