Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun pl] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1943 he was seconded from the army to advise on how to reorganize the munitions factories . |
| 2 | Regulators like these restrictions because it makes it easier to monitor the risks banks are taking ; bankers object to the extra cost . |
| 3 | Environmentalists now say that a completely new transport policy is essential to curb the effects vehicles are having on our planet . |
| 4 | With many smiles , they were enticed to sample the sardinhas grelhadas from this smoking barbecue , to choose this table , to patronise this establishment which , it was winsomely claimed , provided the choicest view of the sparkling blue mouth of the Arade river . |
| 5 | We have tried to list the connections existing across contributions in this discourse fragment to emphasise the ways speakers make what they 're talking about fit into a framework which represents what we ( as discourse participants ) are talking about in conversational discourse . |
| 6 | We hate : The Blues Brothers ; people who like The Blues Brothers ; people who think it 's cool to like The Blues Brothers ; people to have seen The Blues Brothers 20 times ; people who know every word of The Blues Brothers ; people who quote The Blues Brothers ; fake cover versions of Seventies soul classics . |
| 7 | The houses claimed , however , that they had informed the Ministry of Finance of the payments in 1990 , and that the ministry had chosen not make the information public , preferring to instruct the securities houses to discipline those personnel responsible . |
| 8 | Black social workers claimed last week that some SSDs were failing to implement the complaints procedures under the Children Act , or even to tell young people about them . |
| 9 | Volleys of tear-gas shells were fired and an estimated 2,000 petrol bombs thrown throughout the day as the protesters attempted to breach the police lines . |
| 10 | If the House of Commons is not inclined to accept the Lords amendments , something has to give if the Bill is not to fail . |
| 11 | Gradually , however , she had grown into her role as wisewoman and witch , and come to accept the powers others attributed to her , and agree that she might be the special source and cause . |
| 12 | The problem with price discrimination in goods is that a secondary market is likely to be established in which low-price customers resell to higher-price customers , thus tending to equalize the prices customers actually pay . |
| 13 | She will therefore have to meet the police expenses in the case , estimated at between £15,000 and £20,000 . |
| 14 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |
| 15 | Ever dug up a bed of apparently flourishing potatoes , only to find the tubers riddles with holes where the slugs have been at them ? |
| 16 | But God still created the world to provide the materials things . |
| 17 | This is how wars are made : to serve the arms supermarkets . |
| 18 | Sir , Just to highlight the difficulties companies like ourselves have in non-English speaking markets , below is a copy of an enquiry from a client in Turkey . |
| 19 | In order to install the FMS Drivers shipped with LIFESPAN , you need to copy the driver files to the relevant VMS directories , as follows : |
| 20 | Instead of profiting from the enormous interest in gambling on football results through the ‘ pools ’ system , the FA 's puritanism led to a futile and absurd confrontation in 1936 , which involved the withholding of fixture lists to frustrate the pools companies . |
| 21 | In this case , the supply of arbitrage services is a step function , with a large increase in arbitrage supply occurring when the mispricing is just large enough to cover the transactions costs of a new group of arbitrageurs . |
| 22 | This week , the government decided to award the men payments , and the move is a coup for Mr Robinson and the firefighters , as they had no legal requirement to redundancy pay . |
| 23 | Finally , confirm that the details are correct and that you wish to reserve the modules names , and press the RETURN key . |
| 24 | But he warned supporters to avoid the tickets touts outside Croke Park in Dublin next Sunday . |
| 25 | Another RBAI player Ross McMillan takes the fourth cadet boy place to join Dominic McGreevy , Robert Robinson and Robert Fisher , but Ulster hopes will rest on the three girls sides for Gold medals with Leinster and Munster favourite to win the boys categories . |
| 26 | One can find examples of paper that has become so brittle that pages break away from their binding at a touch , and if anyone tries to handle the pages pieces break off . |
| 27 | Sometimes such advisers may act for companies to handle the securities issues needed to consummate another transaction , such as an acquisition . |
| 28 | Despite the overwhelming prosecution evidence , the defence dwelt upon King 's behaviour prior to the arrest — he was intoxicated and had failed to comply with police attempts to stop his speeding car — and sought to cast the police officers as a part of a " thin blue line " standing between law-abiding citizens and the " jungle " . |
| 29 | They did not waste time there but headed downhill , taking the shepherds ' road that slanted luminous green between clusters of birches , their shadows stretching ahead like gawky giants so that the children jigged to make the shadows jump and curved their fingers from their heads to give the giants silhouettes like devils . |
| 30 | On the eve of their presentation to the Women 's International Professional Council , a group of British tennis writers , plus two from France , were summoned to hear Gerry Smith suggest that all they really wanted to do was to give the women players the same sort of voice in the game as the men ; that they had no intention of tearing the women 's game apart and that if they had been able to carry on negotiations quietly and in confidence , there would have been no problems . |