Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet there is striking evidence that carts and wagons had been much improved , and that bridges were being built in many parts to make it possible for them to go longer distances . |
| 2 | The success of their handhelds has not yet encouraged them to plan further developments . |
| 3 | We must also consider the opportunity that some occupations have for deliberately restricting access to the acquisition of the skills needed to do the job , thereby keeping down their distribution amongst the population , and enabling them to claim higher rewards in the market place . |
| 4 | You 'll find that many of your creditors , such as a building society , credit companies and so on , will be as helpful as they can if you ask them to accept smaller payments for a while . |
| 5 | And we will allow them to attract older students as well . |
| 6 | COLLEGE lecturers at Colchester Institute are to strike in protest over new contracts forcing them to work longer hours including weekends and bank holidays . |
| 7 | As we understand it , the Chancellor does not tax spirits more heavily because of their intrinsic properties nor because of the categories of persons who consume spirits , but because he considers that spirits face market circumstances which allow them to bear heavier taxes . |
| 8 | Children were given care and attention 24-hours a day in an environment which would encourage them to lead better lives , he said . |
| 9 | So if the offer is made to you to work shorter hours , think carefully about these aspects , and what it will do to your pension . |
| 10 | This page enables you to activate further DCs via the specified package . |
| 11 | You 're right to want more Conventional RAM as it will allow you to run bigger programs — some games wo n't run with less than 610Kb of free RAM . |
| 12 | Your PC will allow you to save larger designs than this , as it has a much larger memory capacity . |
| 13 | Some professions require you to seek further qualifications which entail another period of full-time study . |
| 14 | Of course , improving the facilities ought to allow you to charge higher prices . |
| 15 | It does seem a pity that no one has bothered to look at the actual behaviour of the children in question in relation to such practices as might lead them to encounter greater dangers of lead pollution ; the almost entire absence of psychologists among the medical and other experts engaged in this research may account for their overlooking a very obvious alternative hypothesis . |
| 16 | Just in case Lord Milton failed to appreciate his value , MacLachlan stressed that he had been approached by the rival interest in the county and had been offered sufficient to make him easy for life , and accordingly implied that Milton had an obligation to aid him with his creditors and enable him to arrange further loans . |
| 17 | He would never ask her why she was pulling faces , in case it encouraged her to pull worse ones . |
| 18 | She omitted to mention that , when they last made representations to the bookseller , Mr Pascall , he had said that he stocked the books he could sell ; and if the ladies wanted him to sell better books they should take to buying them and reading them , instead of watching television all day . |
| 19 | We need to remember that it is no more natural for women to live longer than men than it is for them to have lower incomes , to expect to give up work if their men wish it at marriage or in later life , to be the keepers of family memory , the main carers of those in need , the main sufferers from the empty nest as children leave home . |
| 20 | Both of the general SVQs in science are designed to provide students and trainees with a broad grounding in science , while allowing them to develop higher levels of competence in their chosen areas . |
| 21 | The longer that the muon sticks to the helium , the less time is left for it to catalyse further fusions . |
| 22 | Dr Alan Watkins , Hawker Siddeley 's chief executive , said the deal with GEC Alsthom would re-inforce its position in the fiercely competitive UK market and enable it to achieve greater exports than the two companies had separately . |
| 23 | Lotus is also used for creating quality printed output ; its WYSIWYG capabilities enable it to produce better prints than the current version of Ark , so Carello exports the data to Lotus prior to printing . |
| 24 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |
| 25 | FORMER transport minister Peter Bottomley today described as ‘ potentially murderous ’ a claim that wearing helmets gave cyclists a false sense of security and could encourage them to take greater risks . |
| 26 | The more able pupils often produce stereotypical work which may generate the ‘ right ’ answer but may not stimulate them to ask further questions . |
| 27 | Alan Eastwood believes the the answer is to lock up young offenders instead of releasing them to commit further crimes . |
| 28 | Because people are now living longer in developing countries — from 23 to 41 for average age expectancy since 1850 in India , and from 32 to 43 in Sri Lanka — it is more worthwhile for them to gain greater skills . |
| 29 | If it brings us closer together , and helps us to write better poems , I would be willing to trade some sex with you . |
| 30 | Instead , manufacturers are encouraging us to buy faster machines with more storage capacity and better displays . |