Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At meetings of the European Parliament 's Human Rights Committee ( at which even the French Communists stayed silent ) , Newens compared Ceauşescu 's plan to demolish half the villages in Romania and to relocate millions of people into standardized concrete blocks with the effects of redevelopment around Kings Cross on his own constituents . |
| 2 | To combat this the regulations stipulated that compensation would be paid in full to landowners , including any lost profit , should their land be taken away from them . |
| 3 | To try to combat this the police have organised an educational play warning of the dangers of talking to strangers . |
| 4 | NACAB increasingly deals with clients who have run up large bills on their credit cards only to find that the repayments crippling . |
| 5 | NACAB increasingly deals with clients who have run up large bills on their credit cards only to find that the repayments crippling . |
| 6 | The county court will be able to grant all the remedies now available in the High Court . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Williams agreed to get someone from Grand Met to meet all the landlords affected . |
| 8 | If our concern is health , widely defined , not merely medical care , it is probably inevitable in our present society that resources do not exist to meet all the demands that the pursuit of health for all may make . |
| 9 | Pressure for places in the navy was so great that it could prove a difficult tool for politicians able to supply such appointments , for there was never enough to meet all the demands for it , and the obligement of one could offend other freeholders less fortunate . |
| 10 | Are you going to put Council Tax up two hundred pounds , because to , to , to meet all the demands of Council , well that 's the sort of thing you 're asking me to do . |
| 11 | In order to meet all the requirements of the payroll a large amount of support was necessary , particularly from the Computer Services Division , even after the system had gone " live " . |
| 12 | Unfortunately we were not able to meet all the requirements for County support and it was decided some time ago that we would go ahead with an experimental opening without it . |
| 13 | As regards choosing between special services , one response may be to argue that if , as will always be the case , there is not enough money to meet all the needs for special care , then the simple answer is to make more available . |
| 14 | Secondly , it was recognised that existing services were often vital but that they were unable to meet all the needs of this special group of elderly people and that different types of service might be required ; it was never intended that the project should deprive people of existing services and substitute others for them , but that it should bridge gaps between those already available , whether statutory , voluntary or private . |
| 15 | We do not have the legislation we feel to be necessary nor is the provision adequate to meet all the needs of people with disabilities . |
| 16 | There is no one social service designed to meet all the needs of old people . |
| 17 | Where , after exploring the available alternatives , it is not possible to meet all the needs , the nature and extent of unmet needs should be recorded and information fed into the authority 's community care planning process … |
| 18 | I calculated finally that my savings would be able to meet all the costs I might incur , and in addition , might stretch to the purchase of a new costume . |
| 19 | Similar sort of thing , with the other , various other items , we did n't actually have an opportunity to , to rewrite all the bits . |
| 20 | The producer must provide a description , checking that it is accurate ( no identifiable solvent residues ) , prepare a transfer note , ensure that the skip is secure , check that the waste transfer site is appropriately licensed to accept all the wastes in the skip , transfer the waste to the site suitably contained ( in this case by sheeting over the skip ) — and finally retain the transfer document for two years . |
| 21 | Governments have issued ordinances and decrees ; they have announced plans and established missions ; Parliament has voted laws , sometimes heavily amending bills laid before them by ministers ; ministers have been told to revise their draft-bill by the President ; the Constitutional Council has refused to accept all the terms of laws voted by Parliament . |
| 22 | That is happening all over the country and the tenants will be required to accept all the costs of repairs . |
| 23 | I got them to try all the recipes in the book — even a mouthful of chitterlings . |
| 24 | A deficit of isolated teeth may indicate preferential loss of teeth , but in most cases it is more likely to be due to sampling error , by the failure to extract all the teeth from the pellets . |
| 25 | Provided you are careful to extract all the nails and cut around woodworm and any other defects , reclaimed floorboards can provide excellent timber for pine furniture . |
| 26 | Just as those who at the pre-school stage help children to learn to read know that a structured effort to consolidate all the skills connected with reading will be made in the primary school itself , so teachers in primary schools need to know what will be built on the skills , knowledge , interests and attitudes of the children whom they will pass on to the next stage . |
| 27 | Bicester Friends of the Earth who describe themselves as politically neutral are trying to encourage all the parties to improve their green records . |
| 28 | Get ready with your calculator to tot all the points up for my team : - ) ) ) ) |
| 29 | ‘ It must be very useful , ’ James said with utter sincerity , ‘ to know all the rules of cricket by heart . ’ |
| 30 | To watch them pretending not to know all the things about me which I take not the least trouble to conceal . |