Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Paul Slay coming to Oxford to shop takes a lot of effort . |
| 2 | For Paul Slay coming to Oxford to shop takes a lot of effort . |
| 3 | For Paul Slay coming to Oxford to shop takes a lot of effort . |
| 4 | Simply to pass risks a sense of purposelessness ; but the purposefulness of approach requires delicacy and tact . |
| 5 | On the question of whether or not to grant immigrants the right to vote in local elections , Michel Rocard , the PS Prime Minister , stated that the " extension of the right to vote in local elections to immigrants must be the consequence of successful integration , not its prerequisite " . |
| 6 | He argued that rational people drawing up a just social contract would only be willing to grant governments the power to punish to the extent that was necessary to protect themselves from the crimes of others . |
| 7 | In a bid to encourage councillors the company has offered to increase Darlington 's commission to 12.5pc . |
| 8 | To launch proceedings a party for new members is being held in the boathouse at Lockview Road on October 6 , and most present members and coaches will be present . |
| 9 | Working , living and playing together in the knowledge that this may continue for many years to come increases the pressure to conform to the wishes of the group . |
| 10 | He stood up to indicate thai the conversation was at an end and that he had no wish to be involved as a partner in such blasphemous and heretical talk . |
| 11 | She has devoted much of her time to bringing up three children and is the only person to classify herselfas a housewife in her reply . |
| 12 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 13 | Even people who claim to remember dreams every morning only recall their most recent dream , and any dreams they may have had during the two or three REM periods earlier in the night , or even during REM sleep , are completely lost . |
| 14 | Pravda noted the heavy responsibilities that party papers had to accept in these difficult times , and charged that the Andreeva letter was in effect an attempt , ‘ little by little ’ , to reverse decisions the party had already taken . |
| 15 | If the language were extended to include vectors the situation would be more difficult , and some of our laws would have to include exception conditions . |
| 16 | You will , however , probably need to draw your own soft furnishings , since our colonial cousins seem to favour settees the size of a stuntman 's soft landing pad . |
| 17 | To avoid problems the drafter should make clear whether the reference in the terms is to the definition current at the time of drafting or to the version in force from time to time . |
| 18 | Where it is desired to afford members an opportunity of instructing the proxy how he shall act the instrument appointing a proxy shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : — |
| 19 | Where it is desired to afford members an opportunity of instructing the proxy how he shall act the instrument appointing a proxy shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : — |
| 20 | the extent of reliance which can be placed on the information to be included in the report : to avoid misunderstandings the client should be made aware that suitable caveats may need to be included in the report . |
| 21 | The US state of Louisiana defaulted on a nineteenth century loan and was still unwelcome to bond markets a century later . |
| 22 | When staff advisors are used to plan changes the business , they must be kept involved during the implementation , monitoring and review of the project , so that they share responsibility for outcomes . |
| 23 | I 'm beginning to see things a lot more in perspective . |
| 24 | And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life . |
| 25 | Absolutely no interest in politics whatsoever you know all they 'd done it 's you know it 's sad to see things the way they are but it seems to be that with the world over at the moment so . |
| 26 | Cash underwritten alternatives are used where the bidder wishes to give shareholders the option to take cash , but does not have sufficient cash resources of its own or prefers to offer shares for merger accounting or merger relief purposes . |
| 27 | THE Government whipped its supporters into the Lords last night to defeat a final attempt by Labour to give shareholders the right to decide on company donations to political parties . |
| 28 | The governing board included , as always , a representative from the Swiss government , to give operations a veneer of official approval . |
| 29 | There have certainly been criticisms of the relatively narrow view which private practitioners have taken of their work ( a failing which results partly from the type of legal education currently provided ) and it is true that the introduction of the legal advice and assistance scheme in 1973 was intended to give solicitors the opportunity to take a wider range of work . |
| 30 | On the surface the Government 's plan is reasonable because it aims to give employers the right to choose how they negotiate with staff . |