Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like expecting them to see distant stars without the help of any binoculars or telescopes but just with their own native eyesight . |
| 2 | It aims to protect women by allowing them to SEE potential partners from the safety of their own telephone . |
| 3 | Agents are notified of performances by the schools , and they also receive hundreds of letters from students inviting them to see particular performances . |
| 4 | They can also use them to accommodate overseas staff home on leave , or to entertain business associates , or even as retirement gifts for long service staff . |
| 5 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 6 | After the second assessment , social workers were asked whether participation in the research had encouraged them to include other people more fully in decision-making . |
| 7 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 8 | It is a wise precaution for them to carry conventional insulins and have a regimen organised should they be troubled by pump failure . |
| 9 | Delegates are regarded as mandated by those who elect them to support specific policies and to return to explain their subsequent decisions . |
| 10 | Peasant enclosures , however , were not so likely to do this as those by greater men , whose lands were sufficiently extensive for them to support large flocks and who would therefore have found such a conversion of land usage economically worth while . |
| 11 | " You asked me to report preliminary findings as soon as I could , so I 'm giving you a ring , " he said . |
| 12 | As late as the eighteenth century some of the most renowned painters of France , Boucher , Lancret and Watteau among them , found it no more beneath them to paint gallant scenes on the artificial eggs presented by the king to members of his court at Easter than Cellini did to be called on to unpick the precious stones from Clement VII 's tiara as the Imperial troops advanced to sack Rome in 1527 . |
| 13 | ‘ Nerina 's always on at me to wear western clothes , ’ confided Mrs Khalid , ‘ but I like to be comfortable . |
| 14 | Granted to LIFESPAN users to enable them to perform various functions . |
| 15 | Reuter says that with the help of General Media International Inc , the Penthouse magazine empire has just launched a dial-up service in the US where for a monthly fee plus usage , lechers can view their favourite Pets from their personal computer , ask them to perform various acts — and play photographer , taking shots with the mouse while the model performs … |
| 16 | Sometimes an Orc or Goblin will capture a few Snotlings and train them to perform entertaining tricks , or to perform simple tasks . |
| 17 | These accounts are also used to settle banks ' foreign exchange transactions and to enable them to conduct normal correspondent banking relationships ( see Chapter 3 , Foreign Exchange Market : Correspondent Banks ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Allow me to weave coloured strands into a ribbon to bind your hair . ’ |
| 19 | OPENING up your excellent Have a Rattle page , it continually sickens me to see so-called Glentoran supporters giving their manager the verbals in the press . |
| 20 | Professional television crews , in fact , bring their own power generators with them to enable them to light large areas . |
| 21 | Hoffmann J. declared that in each case the beneficial interest in the property was owned by the bankrupt and his wife in equal shares and he made orders for possession and sale but , after considering the circumstances of the two wives and their children and , in particular , that the half shares to which they would be entitled would be insufficient for them to acquire other accommodation in the area and the educational problems of the children , imposed a provision for postponement until the youngest child in each case attained the age of sixteen . |
| 22 | However , the standing of their occupations — the fact that a programmer or analyst is regarded as a " professional " in a way in which a typist or word processor operator is not , also makes it easier for them to acquire self-employed status . |
| 23 | Putting your name on their housing list also enables them to plan new buildings suitable for disabled people . |
| 24 | Given the excellence of the cause which benefits from the sales of ‘ Ruby Trax ’ and the generosity of the artists etc , etc , it would be churlish of me to rubbish individual tracks — although there are one or two here which have tempted me sorely — so I will pick out some highlights for you . |
| 25 | He did not , as I had feared , ask me to perform covert assassinations on his behalf and nor did he insist on my using my eidetic capabilities to project myself into the noumenal world that he inhabited with such terrifying ease . |
| 26 | This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender . |
| 27 | 12.20 : Another Social Worker asks me to arrange half-day visit to the School . |
| 28 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 29 | While he may not be collecting as actively as he was a few years ago , his name still inspires sufficient awe in most art world people for them to request complete anonymity when discussing him . |
| 30 | Spenser certainly found ready contemporary imitators , most noticeably among fellow poets such as Barnabe Rich or Sir John Davies whose interest in Irish affairs also provoked them to write political tracts . |