Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Supreme Electoral Tribunal ( TSE ) announced on Nov. 13 that the parties of the eight remaining candidates , all of whom failed to secure a required minimum of 4 per cent of the votes , would lose their legal status . |
| 2 | He approached the Broads Authority and the Countryside Commission , who agreed to fund the whole project , and the first showing was held in Norwich last year . |
| 3 | Thus , the girl in Geneva who continually mixed ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes with her own , and the girl in Paris who agreed to wear a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shirt , but left off her bra , must have known that their futures with the company were blighted . |
| 4 | I got in touch with my French and German colleagues who agreed to support a UK proposal to place the matter on the agenda when it was presented for approval at the first meeting . |
| 5 | Funding was received from one Norwich newspaper , the Eastern Daily Press , who agreed to support the project over a three year period . |
| 6 | ‘ Then I was contacted over the phone by a company in Rufford who agreed to sell the car for £50 . |
| 7 | Next came talks with Hedlunds who agreed to do a turnkey operation , using a three-man team to erect the structure and local builders , plumbers , plasterers and electricians to complete the work . |
| 8 | In desperation Mr Gresty turned to soldiers at nearby Catterick Garrison who agreed to recover the truck stuck in the River Skerne , on the outskirts of Darlington . |
| 9 | On this ground the proceedings of the licensing court were either reduced , or the pursuer 's averments were held relevant , in the following circumstances : when two of the members of the court had been employed by the applicant as part-time barmen for a number of years , without remuneration apart from money gifts at holiday periods : McDonald v. Fin lay ( supra ) ; when three of the members of the court were shareholders , and one was a director , of the company owning the property for which the certificate was sought , and when that company was closely allied with another company , the officials and directors of both being the same persons , on whose behalf the certificate was applied for : Blaik v. Anderson ( 1899 ) 7 S.L.T. 299 ; when a member of the court had recently been a shareholder of the company on whose behalf the certificate was applied for , and he had on previous occasions himself been the applicant on the company 's behalf , he being an avowed and pledged advocate of the company : Ower v. Crichton ( 1902 ) 10 S.L.T. 271 ; when members of a court had , in their capacity as members of a local authority , and with a view to street improvement , taken an active part in negotiating the purchase of licensed premises from brewers , who agreed to pay a sum of money to the local authority if a new licence were obtained for other premises , such as the subject of the application : R. v. Sunderland JJ. [ 1901 ] 2 K.B . |
| 10 | ‘ They got in touch with the Northern Ireland Livestock Marketing Commission who agreed to become a joint sponsor , allowing our butchers to compete , ’ he said . |
| 11 | In this case , the defendant ordered a Rolls Royce chassis from the plaintiffs who agreed to build a body on it by 20 March . |
| 12 | But Roe , who qualified to join the line-up featuring 28 of the world 's best players courtesy of his victory in the Lancome Trophy , was delighted with his . |
| 13 | There will , however , always be those who tend to see the negative side and may well suggest you ‘ do n't lose weight too quickly or you 'll look old ’ or ‘ you 'll only put it back on twice as fast if you lose it quickly ’ . |
| 14 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 15 | However , it is sadly the case that it is still true that there are er a number of landlords around who tend to control a lot of property , who er are charging er absurdly and unreasonably high rents in return for an appalling service . |
| 16 | Since Cisco first appeared in shops last year , local hospitals have reported an unusual number of teenagers ( who tend to like the relatively weak ‘ wine coolers ’ ) checking in with alcohol poisoning after drinking the stuff . |
| 17 | Good meadow ha is ideal for sheep , who tend to waste the coarser fibres in ‘ see ’ hay . |
| 18 | In December 1990 Bob Haboldt gave his rationale behind choosing a large gallery as stemming from the different approach of Continental buyers , who like to stroll in and look , as opposed to clients who tend to make an appointment to visit his New York gallery in order to see a specific work . |
| 19 | ( Curiously enough , it is often those who accept a belief system that the majority of the population considers bizarre or incredible who tend to have the most internally consistent systems of belief . ) |
| 20 | I therefore decline to don the straitjacket of those scientists ( not all ) who can only accept such facts as they reach via their own limited , analytic logic ; who tend to study the parts in ever narrowing detail but too seldom consider the whole . |
| 21 | In addition there is the charge that the ownership of British companies has now passed to the large institutions — insurance companies , pension funds , unit trusts and investment trusts — who tend to adopt a rather passive approach to those companies whose equity they hold because they are more concerned with their own role as financial intermediaries . |
| 22 | Five students , aged about 20 , were filming the public for a project when they were approached by a man who asked to borrow the Ferguson Videostar camcorder . |
| 23 | An officer who neglects to take a statutory sample which hindsight shows was necessary will find that his omission is more visible to senior staff than his taking a formal sample which is subsequently used in a prosecution by the authority . |
| 24 | In that year Mrs Shaw and Mrs Whipp led a petition of sixty midwives of the City in opposition to Peter Chamberlen the elder [ q.v. ] , a man-midwife who planned to incorporate the midwives under his governorship . |
| 25 | That was music to the ears of Tory Euro-rebels who planned to back the Labour amendment . |
| 26 | Who planned to eat the whole world bit by bit , |
| 27 | There was the chemist who toyed with the possibilities of making synthetic gas for a balloon , the aerodynamic expert who planned to construct a glider out of bed boards , and the dog-lover who wanted to make himself a dog-skin out of an Irvin flying suit and crawl out as one of the guards ' Alsatians . |
| 28 | They were supposed to leave the guns and the car to be collected by gunmen who planned to attack a nearby bar used regularly by soldiers . |
| 29 | It was the latter 's son Joseph , now about 55 , who lived to see the whole enterprise brought to a halt by the hostilities . |
| 30 | Every one of those men who went in the forces , who lived to tell the tale , was given their jobs back when they came back , because their jobs were replaced by women during the war , drivers and conductors , they were replaced by women and as the men came back , so the women were paid off , so everybody who came back from the war was given their job back . |