Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Menlo Park-based Objectivity also announced a partners programme for vendors of object information technology to promote provision of application development tools that increase software development productivity for object database applications . |
| 2 | Television in every home may be a blessing for the old and infirm , indeed for all of us at times , but that , the motor car , foreign travel and umpteen other things have all combined to affect attitudes towards sport and leisure . |
| 3 | Stirling 's decision not to continue writer in residence is ill-advised |
| 4 | We will also seek to promote forms of accountability which go beyond dinner parties at Stormont for selected priests and other notables . |
| 5 | At the same time Amersham is to issue $30m of loan notes and will make a cash payment of $12m from its own resources . |
| 6 | Work is beginning on a geotechnical database , extending the current holding of shear-strength measurements to include values of moisture content , liquid limit and a variety of further data . |
| 7 | The WaterAid committee tends to support projects in traditionally-English speaking areas as it is likely to have more effect where it can be better understood . |
| 8 | Norris made a much greater impact than Keegan had done earlier , and his speech was followed by an appeal by Cardinal Frings for a concerted effort on the Church 's part to support projects in relief of poverty . |
| 9 | Speaking in a debate on the food question , J. R. Clynes , Minister of Food in the Coalition Government , used the apparent progress on the international front to preach patience at home : |
| 10 | A Labour government might then choose to sacrifice defence for welfare . |
| 11 | She expected to see signs of fury in his eyes at that stab but she saw nothing to indicate any such irritation . |
| 12 | It is not surprising , therefore , that incomes have dropped severely during the last few years , with the result that we are now beginning to see signs of dereliction . |
| 13 | Of course it is good to see artists at work and artists discussing their work on TV , but so many of the programmes have been disappointing . |
| 14 | Nor was he the only one to see hope amid chaos . |
| 15 | The business world is one of constant change , and your business to be successful must be able to accommodate change without penalty . |
| 16 | The primary purpose of these data is to record assessment decisions , to support decision-making by management , or to enable monitoring of quality to occur . |
| 17 | EC environment ministers recently supported the commission 's proposed tax , which is designed to persuade energy-intensive sectors such as the chemical industry to curb emissions of carbon dioxide . |
| 18 | You got to go look for work tomorrow . |
| 19 | MacQuillan was n't only talking about getting the British out of Northern Ireland , he was using HM Supplies to channel money to terrorist groups . |
| 20 | One man explained that he was unable to continue payment in support of his mother because he had joined the Navy , and he was given exemption . |
| 21 | The need to preserve experience for knowledge based systems , the need for verification in case of dispute over contract or other liabilities , legal requirements and citizens data access rights will ensure the preservation of wide ranges of data . |
| 22 | I would also like to see skills of writing and arguing developed and tested . |
| 23 | Chamden performed like men possessed and even had the audacity to mount wave after wave of attacks . |
| 24 | BAeSEMA 's work varies from design contracts for equipment and services to support contracts for equipment the navy has had in service for many years . |
| 25 | Its purpose was to perform acts of sabotage and to organise raids far behind the enemy lines , and ( later , in Europe ) to sustain local guerrilla groups , and send back to Britain intelligence regarding any situation with which S.A.S. troops themselves were incapable of dealing in the small numbers in which they operated . |
| 26 | The military authorities in the nominally independent homeland of Ciskei declared a state of emergency on Oct. 28 " to combat activities of arson and terrorism " by the ANC . |
| 27 | A $5 million joint American-Brazilian venture to monitor emissions from forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon has been launched in an attempt to measure the role of the emissions in the global climate and their possible threat to human health in Brazil . |
| 28 | I think I think it is a good idea though to erm oh right er to y'know kind of break it up a bit er particularly if at an early stage you 're intending to y'know kind of go through erm and get people to go through quite a lot of questions erm as a by way of er y'know kind of the first stages in in er developing this thing . |
| 29 | For example , since women are the main socializers of children , they have an enormous capacity to affect patterns of personality and behaviour . |
| 30 | Coordinators had to acquire skills in leadership and in handling people and ideas which the majority of them had not developed in their previous jobs . |