Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When confronted by The People she said : ‘ I 've been instructed by my employers to refer all matters to them . |
| 2 | ‘ I am calling on my officers to give extra attention to temples and mosques in the area and people must be urged to be vigilant to protect their property , ’ he said . |
| 3 | But I can not , and I do n't think you 'd be right to expect my officers to prepare detailed rebuttals . |
| 4 | At that point , Benn had to admit , ‘ my aims to encourage further trade with Russia [ as well as Romania ] and to break through this whole strategic nonsense have come unstuck . ’ |
| 5 | How could I expect my friends to understand that training a bird was virtually a twenty-four-hour-a-day job ? |
| 6 | I 'd like my children to have red hair , actually . |
| 7 | I am trying to teach my children to have some respect for the place in which they live and play , but if the so-called adults in the controlling Liberal Party are vandals , what chance do the children have with that example ? |
| 8 | They were permitted by their superiors to take personal booty back with them . |
| 9 | Answer guide : ‘ these allow the partners to adjust their returns to reflect uneven inputs as between the partners whether they are in terms of money invested , skills , labour or whatever . |
| 10 | Most of them know enough about their swings to make minor compensations and can work the ball around the course quite adequately since they can all revert to a ‘ bread and butter ’ swing , usually with ‘ bread and butter ’ results . |
| 11 | Herak calmly narrates how he and other Serb soldiers were encouraged by their commanders to take Muslim women from the Vogosca motel , rape and then murder them . |
| 12 | Their very presence , however , unsettled the enemy and forced their commanders to detach valuable troops to round up the raiding parties . |
| 13 | The Republic also pointed the way to the future in its attempts to regulate English trade in a way that would help English shipping though its efforts were not immediately successful ; the monarchy took the same legislative approach , but was able to make its laws effective and on this basis set up a system of control of trade in the empire that survived until the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | But the association was frustrated in its attempts to build larger schemes in the Waterside and in the North ward on the site of the old Birmingham Sound Reproducers factory . |
| 15 | The new trains were ordered long before the Government drew up its plans to put some routes out to private tender . |
| 16 | Leicestershire SSD has revised its plans to warn other authorities about workers connected with the Frank Beck case . |
| 17 | The government has suffered another defeat in the House of Lords , over its plans to privatize British Rail . |
| 18 | The party yesterday unveiled its plans to attract new members with less bureaucracy and more political education , campaigning and fun . |
| 19 | Despite the powerful case which it put forward , the Polytechnic failed to persuade the government to change its mind and the Welsh Office went ahead with its plans to remove teacher-training courses from the Polytechnic . |
| 20 | What will happen to the most vulnerable , who can not even complain because they can not communicate — even though they pay their taxes to support these services ? |
| 21 | We 're not dealing with an old dying structure industry like the steel industry or coal , we 're dealing with a mass consumer industry with high technology and in the middle ; in our town we have British Rover closing a company which was financed for 14 years by public money ; by public of this town paying their taxes to keep that company going and now in the middle of a massive boom for cars they want to propose closure and that point was dramatically highlighted this afternoon . |
| 22 | Some builders on what began as prestigious estates in Britain had to compromise with the arrival of the recession , and alter their plans to include cheaper housing . |
| 23 | Opposition Members have persistently evaded questions about their plans to repeal that legislation , but they have been more forthcoming about the new powers that they have promised the trade unions , including powers to force employers to recognise and negotiate with trade unions |
| 24 | Zaza and Fiona were discussing their plans to visit Top Shop in their lunch break . |
| 25 | In the US , Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola announced their plans to use recycled plastics in drinks bottles within half an hour of each other . |
| 26 | On Sept. 23 , 1989 , Menem urged the two factions to abandon their plans to hold separate congresses and elect parallel leaderships , and instead to convene a single congress for October . |
| 27 | Coun. Mrs Norma Town ( Lab ) said she could not agree with their plans to ban all traffic from High Row and Skinnergate including vehicles used by the disabled between 10.30am and 4pm . |
| 28 | They say they now want their employers to take immediate action . |
| 29 | People approaching retirement should be aware of the possibilities of putting pressure on their employers to provide such courses for their staff in association with these bodies . |
| 30 | DAB had been concerned that insufficient time was available at its meetings to give detailed consideration to the many conferences for which it was responsible . |