Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anxiety management training is about helping clients to understand what is going on , then teaching them skills to cope with anxiety , then encouraging them to put themselves deliberately into situations which create anxiety but with which they cope successfully . |
| 2 | They take them to museums ; they give them cars to drive around town ; they introduce them to everyone worth knowing in Texas . |
| 3 | Do n't you remember , she used to make me wear them in my shoes to go to school when it was raining ? |
| 4 | But the problem is that the government wo n't allow my children to go to school . |
| 5 | The libel laws should be changed to provide a ‘ fast track ’ system allowing victims of media falsehoods to correct them quickly without having to wait a long time for their cases to go to court and gamble on the result . |
| 6 | Koreans expect their statesmen to behave with calmness , even when questioned closely . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the government published a report from its radioactive waste management advisory committee saying that BNFL had failed to supply it with sufficient information on its proposals to deal with waste arising from work carried out at THORP for foreign customers . |
| 8 | She has put she 's put herself down for one day at the end of her accounts to learn about accountancy and as Ian pointed out , it 's it 's it 's not a lot . |
| 9 | Virgin may now have to reconsider its plans to move into rail . |
| 10 | The recession has meant that the group has had to put its plans to float on hold . |
| 11 | The traders from West Promenade and Queen Street called on the Rhuddlan Borough Council to amend their plans to allow for pedestrian links between West Parade and the beach . |
| 12 | Aerospace firms are rewriting their plans to cope with growth . |
| 13 | There 'll be no more work on the site until their plans to replace to hotel have been passed . |
| 14 | In May 1688 Ken was urgently summoned to London by Sancroft , the Archbishop of Canterbury , to consult with his fellow bishops in response to an Order in Council requiring them to instruct their clergy to read in Church a Declaration of Indulgence ; under this , Roman Catholics and Dissenters would no longer be required to subscribe to oaths under the Test Acts . |
| 15 | The council would like anyone who feels they can make a regular committment to visit their homes to get in touch with its social services department . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland had legalised Sinn Fein in order to allow the Provisional wing to take part in the election but in spite of efforts to persuade them to do so they declined to take part and urged their supporters to stay at home on polling day . |
| 17 | Many others would not allow their animals to suffer from lack of feed or , in the case of cows , the cessation of milking . |
| 18 | Also in November China imposed controls on facsimile machines following a drive by European and US magazines , in concert with exiled Chinese dissidents , to get their readers to send by facsimile material in support of the democracy movement into China . |
| 19 | The theory of ideology offers an account of the role of knowledge in society that enables its analyses to operate as critique . |
| 20 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 21 | An RSPCA inspector was hailed a hero after the River Teifi broke its banks to pour through farmland near Newcastle Emlyn , Dyfed . |
| 22 | Does this reflect a real difference in perceptions or the reluctance of patients and their carers to criticize in case their respite care arrangements were jeopardized ? |
| 23 | Smith and Hogan , Criminal Law , 6th edn , Butterworth , 1988 , 559 n6 , comment : " [ T ] his seems a surprising decision as it would surely astonish bankers to learn that by issuing such cards they are allowing their customers to borrow by way of overdraft to an unspecified amount " ( their emphasis ) . |
| 24 | Of those extending additional credit , 55 per cent attributed it to the failure of their customers to pay on time . |
| 25 | In consequence , the Committee is forced back upon the classical model , despite the consistent tendency elsewhere in its pages to accord to English an educational validity independent from and at least equal to classics . |
| 26 | It is an offence to obstruct the police in their efforts to search for evidence of a drug offence . |
| 27 | Conscious that British audiences were almost wholly uninterested in British films , some members of the industry increased their efforts to secure through persuasion and publicity what the films so patently could not . |
| 28 | However , individuals tend to exaggerate their positions to allow for compromise , and compromise itself is seen to weaken the value of the decision , perhaps reducing commitment . |
| 29 | They were , almost without exception , young scions of old notable families of the towns they now represented , persuaded by their families to stand for election in order to maintain the family interest . |
| 30 | Assuming a special relationship towards central and east European countries , the Council expressed support for economic reforms and democratic developments in Yugoslavia and promised to support Hungary in its efforts to move towards democracy , stability and economic development in the framework of the Group of 24 , particularly as regards energy problems , and promising the immediate disbursement of the second tranche of an EC loan ( of US$1,000 million ) . |