Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advising fans to sit tight for an eleventh hour opportunity to snap up tickets , Mr Mullan said he was ‘ reasonably confident ’ that a few hundred tickets would be sent back to Derry from other county boards unable to use them . |
| 2 | In the higher primates these possibilities can already be seen emerging as actualities when chimpanzees use twigs to get at the occupants of a termite-mound , or wave branches to scare off leopards . |
| 3 | During July 1690 , demonstrating the French command of the Narrow Seas , small landing parties were put ashore on the Sussex coast to put up posters urging local residents , and especially army and navy officers , to support their former king , a somewhat pointless propaganda exercise , but a much more serious incursion followed . |
| 4 | The new party leadership appealed on television for unity and national support and pledged its co-operation with opposition groups to draw up changes in the constitution and electoral law . |
| 5 | We want infinite variety of curricula , to develop the infinitely various capacities of children … ; we want teachers to experiment freely , research workers to carry out investigations , and the general public to make suggestions . |
| 6 | Many trade union leaders and ordinary workers want a repeat dose to wipe out fortunes accumulated on the black market and through high-priced co-operatives of ‘ rouble millionaires ’ . |
| 7 | Overall , use of search is now widespread enough to enable search firms to ride out storms in specific sectors . |
| 8 | Quota trading to back up claims made in 1994 was not expected to begin until after 15 September . |
| 9 | Encourage ICU staff to follow up patients in the ward |
| 10 | The Jordanian government had been under heavy United States pressure to carry out sanctions . |
| 11 | A used car dealer is offering a ten thousand pound reward to track down arsonists who 've attacked his premises for the second time in two weeks . |
| 12 | Health authorities complained that they could not afford expensive drugs , but failed to use their buying power to drive down prices from all their suppliers . |
| 13 | Demolition work to wipe out decades of decay from the once thriving highway is nearing completion , leaving a bleak and forlorn landscape . |
| 14 | It 's compact and has a shortwave capacity to pick up stations around the globe . |
| 15 | Each would require a portable bedstead , an air mattress and a pillow ; they would take some Oxley 's essence of ginger , some good opium , quinine and Seidlitz powders ; a portable inkstand , a match-box and supply of German tinder ; umbrellas against the sun and flannel belts to ward off cramps of the stomach during the night . |
| 16 | There were other diners at other tables , but he was alone , using his lunch break to fill in papers laid out on the cloth . |
| 17 | France , the United Kingdom and the USA issued a joint statement on Nov. 27 warning that international sanctions would be made " even more effective " unless Libya complied with UN Security Council demands to hand over suspects in the UTA and Lockerbie cases [ see p. 38839 ] . |
| 18 | Four Hartlepool men alleged to have travelled to North Yorkshire to carry out burglaries at the Malt Shovel pub at Hovingham and the Castle Howard Caravan Park were remanded in custody by Scarborough magistrates yesterday . |
| 19 | On March 1 the Popular Liberation Army ( EPL ) , after 23 years of clandestine struggle , became the second major guerrilla group to lay down arms and enter political life as a party , formally changing its name to the Hope , Peace and Liberty party ( with the same Spanish acronym , EPL ) . |
| 20 | Some of these contacts are conspired in order to facilitate crime prevention , this being particularly evident in visiting young offenders in local authority homes or shopping centres to ward off shoplifters . |
| 21 | Lastly , there seems to be growing general acceptance that improvements in the quality of service to clients , to say nothing of reductions in the cost of indemnity insurance , require the Law Society to lay down standards of practice , practice management and client service for the profession . |
| 22 | Leading in with a Simon Templar-style '60s intro , it rips into a raw guitar riff part nicked from old punk chestnut ‘ Jet Boy Jet Girl ’ , Jim Bob ranting eloquently about the state of pop and the industry 's gratuitous use of glamour girl sex to prop up videos by losers like Lionel Richie and Robert Palmer . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Abdel Ghani on Feb. 27 confirmed that more foreign workers were expected to come to North Yemen to carry out jobs including refuse collection and disposal , in which Somali , Sudanese and Filipino workers were already employed . |
| 24 | First it 'll stop off at Brize Norton to pick up supplies for the Tornadoes operating the air exclusion zone . |
| 25 | After the war , Rudd had little to do with Rolls-Royce 's automotive activities other than occasionally borrowing prototype Bentleys to clock up miles for durability programmes . |
| 26 | A GOVERNMENT minister yesterday promised emergency cash aid to bail out areas of North Wales devastated by last week 's ‘ storm of the century . ’ |
| 27 | In solos you often find them used to thicken up and to add depth to single note lines ; in rhythm parts they are commonly used instead of large chord voicings to lighten up parts . |
| 28 | However Mr Stevens ' visit to Belfast and his trip to see Nelson has prompted speculation that he was asked by Sir Hugh to go over details of the Finucane murder again with Nelson in case something was overlooked in the original investigation . |
| 29 | Major in war zone to cheer up troops |
| 30 | Does the Secretary of State recall a speech that he made several months ago in which he encouraged the business community to take on racketeers ? |