Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like expecting them to see distant stars without the help of any binoculars or telescopes but just with their own native eyesight . |
| 2 | It aims to protect women by allowing them to SEE potential partners from the safety of their own telephone . |
| 3 | Bamber blames glamorised media portrayals of nurses for contributing to the problem in that they ‘ do nothing to support realistic expectations of working in a hospital , but only seem to strengthen the ‘ angel ’ stereotype ’ . |
| 4 | And they used to send orders is n't it It was nothing to see fifty items on an order . |
| 5 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 6 | As late as the eighteenth century some of the most renowned painters of France , Boucher , Lancret and Watteau among them , found it no more beneath them to paint gallant scenes on the artificial eggs presented by the king to members of his court at Easter than Cellini did to be called on to unpick the precious stones from Clement VII 's tiara as the Imperial troops advanced to sack Rome in 1527 . |
| 7 | ‘ Allow me to weave coloured strands into a ribbon to bind your hair . ’ |
| 8 | We must also consider the opportunity that some occupations have for deliberately restricting access to the acquisition of the skills needed to do the job , thereby keeping down their distribution amongst the population , and enabling them to claim higher rewards in the market place . |
| 9 | He did not , as I had feared , ask me to perform covert assassinations on his behalf and nor did he insist on my using my eidetic capabilities to project myself into the noumenal world that he inhabited with such terrifying ease . |
| 10 | This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender . |
| 11 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 12 | Teachers have made links that have enabled them to write entire modules for GCSE and to involve people from industry in the classroom . |
| 13 | Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that he is setting an obstacle course for the courts which will make it more difficult for them to pass tough sentences in serious cases ? |
| 14 | You 'll find that many of your creditors , such as a building society , credit companies and so on , will be as helpful as they can if you ask them to accept smaller payments for a while . |
| 15 | Sainteny tried to persuade them to accept French fighters in their advance , but he was given a brush-off . |
| 16 | It is largely up to the banks themselves to decide on the ratio that they consider to be ‘ prudent ’ : i.e. the ratio that provides them with enough liquid assets to enable them to meet any demands for cash . |
| 17 | The agricultural working class , deprived of a subsistence on the land by the enclosures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , thronged to the cities of the Midlands and the North where the economics of laissez-faire forced them to work long hours in wretched conditions for miserable wages , and threw them out of employment altogether as soon as there was a downturn in the market . |
| 18 | COLLEGE lecturers at Colchester Institute are to strike in protest over new contracts forcing them to work longer hours including weekends and bank holidays . |
| 19 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 20 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
| 21 | Two months before his departure he wrote to twelve or fifteen poets , requesting their public support for Pound and asking them to provide private testimonials in the event that he should be tried and sentenced for his crime : there was , at this stage , a strong possibility that Pound would be condemned to death . |
| 22 | We have welcomed what the Board are doing , and we 've encouraged them to find new ways of doing so more in meeting the needs of the elderly who increase in numbers here in Scotland . |
| 23 | At some point it is necessary for someone to provide clear guidelines regarding how others should interact with that child in order to promote learning and developmental changes most effectively . |
| 24 | A certain amount of your pension or allowance is yours to buy personal items like clothes , shoes and toiletries . |
| 25 | Actually he wanted someone to give some orders to and to deal with the press for him . |
| 26 | The requirement that a candidate must get the support of 20 per cent of the Parliamentary Labour Party in order to stand is like asking someone to collect 13,000 nominations in a constituency before they can stand for parliament . |
| 27 | Catriona liked having someone to trade silly remarks with at the staff table , and to say ‘ safe home ’ when she walked back to her bedsitter after the evening shift . |
| 28 | This is because prayer is simply allowing ourselves to become new persons in Christ , reshaped in our attitudes and emotions . |
| 29 | The advice on page 11 , number 6 , is helpful : most people devise mnemonics which help them to remember particular words by saying them in special ways . |
| 30 | They give both psychological and physiological evidence for the primacy of these notions , and they use them to define object-recognizing routines of increasing power . |