Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PROPERTY group Brixton Estates today called on shareholders for £100.7m to help buy and develop land as the market picks up . |
| 2 | Bowater yesterday asked its shareholders for £333.5m to help fund the purchase of two packaging firms . |
| 3 | But he maintained the government would not be providing extra money for SSDs to help establish a provision system for these young people , who are technically still children . |
| 4 | Last night , Cheshire police began a detailed examination of shop security video films in the search for clues to help trace the bombers . |
| 5 | And , of course , all sorts of things do happen to us as we grow . |
| 6 | U unfortunately it 's not a perfect system because in relation to mineral applications , whilst as you would expect the largest fees are associated with the largest areas of er application for new mineral working and whilst it has to be admitted that those sorts of applications do take a lot of time in order to process them . |
| 7 | A great deal of money does go to preserving those companies like the National , the Royal Shakespeare , etc. , and even in this region we have three regional repertory theatres who generally present very establishment shows , very middle of the road productions . |
| 8 | PLANS to create a 30-strong force of wardens to help combat petty crime in Glasgow city centre have run into opposition from the Scottish Police Federation . |
| 9 | In this year the course was back to full length and the closure of Peppard helped swell the membership , especially of the Artisans . |
| 10 | On this occasion , in fact , a reply of sorts did occur to me as I stood up there on the ladder ; a reply to the effect that those of our profession , although we did not see a great deal of the country in the sense of touring the countryside and visiting picturesque sites , did actually see more of England than most , placed as we were in houses where the greatest ladies and gentlemen of the land gathered . |
| 11 | Durham solicitor David Keating has just returned from Albania where he led a delegation of lawyers to help establish the legal profession there . |
| 12 | In the Cox Report we repeated the belief of many teachers of English that the study of literature does foster intelligence and sensibility , as Leavis so passionately argued . |
| 13 | Many polytechnics of course do have user education written into the overall aims of the library service ( eg Hatfield Polytechnic Library ) . |
| 14 | But whatever the theory , outside the ground , isolated outbreaks of violence did happen yesterday , which the police could n't predict or prevent . |
| 15 | THE creation of a new group has triggered an appeal for people from all walks of life to help protect local wildlife . |
| 16 | It was also decided that the burning of rubbish did constitute a ‘ process ’ within the meaning of s.1(5) of that Act , despite the argument that there was insufficient continuity of activity in the burning of rubbish to constitute a ‘ process ’ , . |
| 17 | And yet , of course , that derogatory , throw-away term of abuse does sum up a position that some people choose to adopt in defence of the natural world and its species . |
| 18 | It is of course true that the coming of Jesus did bring a fire upon the earth , a fire of judgment ; men judged themselves by their response to him . |
| 19 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 20 | Recent research on adolescent girls in South Wales indicates that patterns of social relationships in girls do differ from those of boys ; in particular , the ‘ best friend ’ phenomenon seems more important . |
| 21 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |
| 22 | It is clear that some variables in English do function in a very general way : for example , variation between the alveolar and velar nasal in the present participle ending ( ing ) is universal and can be said to mark the whole English-speaking world as a single speech community . |
| 23 | Labour in Japan does tend to work for fewer employers over a typical career and does therefore tend to stay longer in each firm than in the West , but there are very significant variations depending on age , firm size and gender . |
| 24 | As George would be the one who would work most closely with the new shepherd , he went with his father to the Hirings in Kirkbymoorside to help choose a man . |
| 25 | As one critic caustically observed , these early armchair anthropologists , who seldom had any direct acquaintance with the tribal customs that so intrigued them , appeared to be only interested in the living in order to better understand the dead . |
| 26 | The authority took the action in order to help generate a convention . |
| 27 | The court in Malone also held , however , that even if an action in confidence does apply to telephone conversations , in this case the circumstances would be governed by Gartside v. Outram , where it was held that ‘ there is no confidence in the disclosure of an iniquity ’ , observations subsequently explained by Lord Denning as merely an instance of just cause or excuse for breaking a confidence . |
| 28 | He pointed out that peasant opposition to government did exist , but on account of Russia 's huge distances it expressed itself more by evasion than through open fighting . |
| 29 | The fact is that parties to contracts do use expert determination for dispute resolution , and not only for certain types of disputes thought more suitable for experts : clauses referring all disputes , both technical and otherwise , are beginning to be found in contracts as a substitute for litigation or arbitration ( see 6.9 ) . |
| 30 | But the value of UFO research to science does seem clear . |