Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 2 | Within a few years of transfer to the South Metropolitan system , all these cars had the headlamps moved from the canopy front to the usual position on the dash , one reason being that it enabled them to carry advertisements in the same positions as the rest of the fleet . |
| 3 | Integrity expands and deepens the role individual citizens can play in developing the public standards of their community because it requires them to treat relations among themselves as characteristically , not just spasmodically , governed by these standards . |
| 4 | IT really annoyed me to see leaders of the public service unions on TV going on about how a pay freeze would be unacceptable to their members . |
| 5 | It was Peter who forced me to see things in a different light . ’ |
| 6 | I thinks the manufacturing experience I had was very important , because it enabled me to see things from the manufacturer 's point of view , which many retailers have n't done . |
| 7 | A council in rural Hampshire , where the uniform business rate averages £1,250 , is hoping to save village shops and sub post-offices by encouraging them to claim rebates of up to 80 per cent . |
| 8 | A recent study of long-term fraud in the United Kingdom ( Levi 1981 ) also documents how companies are set up with the deliberate intention of using them to obtain goods on credit for which payment is never intended to be made . |
| 9 | The nests are intricate structures beautifully woven by the male birds , who then display on them to attract females to the nest . |
| 10 | ( a ) it enables them to demand standards of quality , and ranges of goods which fit into their market strategy , rather than accepting what the manufacturer might prefer , |
| 11 | It was odds on that the cops had got to him by now , but in case they had n't it might pay me to square things with him . |
| 12 | If you are using a removal firm ask them to provide tea-chests for all the small items , and they will pack them for you . |
| 13 | The 1962 Act required LEAs in England and Wales to provide grants for all first-degree courses in accordance with national rules and income scales ( ‘ mandatory awards ’ ) , and allowed them to provide grants for further education ( ‘ discretionary awards ’ ) . |
| 14 | Section 17(1) imposes a general welfare duty on local authorities and obliges them to provide services for a particular group of children identified as children in need . |
| 15 | The scale of their operations and their expertise enable them to provide lenders with easily marketable paper claims , denominated in small units and with relatively low yield , whilst at the same time lending to borrowers on a long-term higher-yield basis ( e.g. Certificates of Deposit bought by companies with excess funds from the banks ) . |
| 16 | We grow them to provide jobs for poor Filipinos and to enable the Philippines government to export . |
| 17 | It was when , on their leader 's orders , they went to search the huts and hovels and woods beside and ahead of them to find signs of retreat or of ambush that the news they brought back seemed to unsettle their leader and the noblemen from Northumbria and from Fife whom he conferred with . |
| 18 | The events of this unit encouraged them to find answers to questions . |
| 19 | The restructuring would be supported by loans totalling between $500,000,000 and $600,000,000 from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank ( IADB ) to provide those dismissed with compensation , training and advice to enable them to find jobs in the private sector . |
| 20 | But this approach seems to me to contain difficulties of its own , not the least being that each object of knowledge is knowable in more than one of the different ways . |
| 21 | The author has asked us to point out that it is a desire of his to see opinions of restorations expressed by speakers at conferences thrown open to the floor for immediate debate this is not the prevailing state of affairs . |
| 22 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 23 | The PCR products were ethanol-precipitated and 1 µg of DNA was digested with DNase I to produce fragments of 200-500 bp . |
| 24 | " What business is it of yours to make insinuations against me , I 'd like to know , eh ? |
| 25 | Council tenants also receive an indirect subsidy as a result of the central government grants to local authorities for housing which enable them to set rents below the level that would otherwise have been needed . |
| 26 | The Chinese took a more practical line by using them to tip drills for perforating jade , anticipating their use in modern industry to fulfil a number of different roles from drilling steel components to drawing filaments . |
| 27 | I left them to sort things like that out . |
| 28 | On June 11 the Supreme Soviet passed mass privatization legislation under which vouchers worth between 5,000 and 10,000 roubles would be distributed to all citizens to enable them to purchase shares in state property . |
| 29 | Their English should be sufficiently accurate , specialised and idiomatic for them to detect subtleties of detail and meaning in English material presented to them , and to express such subtleties when they write . |
| 30 | You can begin to bring someone back to the present if you can gradually get them to remember events in their life nearer to the present day . |