Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although you may be perfectly entitled to take others to task and even issue a number of ultimatums , you ought to be more concerned with plans designed to give you the kind of personal or professional recognition you seek and deserve . |
| 2 | The Government 's invited bids to save the Vulcan , but no one 's come up with the money needed to give it the necessary overhaul . |
| 3 | However , if you now have the determination to become a bigger fish in a bigger pool , then you will take what occurred around the lunar eclipse on August 6th as a signal to put the past behind you and devote all your energy to plants designed to give you a greater degree of freedom . |
| 4 | where a special area in one housing estate has been set aside for problem families , where they are given daily supervision combined with training and instruction designed to teach them the elements of home craft and mothercraft so that in due course , when they have proved they can manage their affairs , domestic , financial or otherwise , they can return to a better house in a more desirable neighbourhood . |
| 5 | There 's actually been a gig pulled to give everybody a day off to recover . |
| 6 | The headmaster had a large store of quotations designed to show what a nice , easygoing bloke Muhammad was . |
| 7 | He was just one of these players prepared to try something a bit different every now and again — which is laudable . |
| 8 | His politics and cultural interests combined to make him a nationalist of an unusually rounded kind . |
| 9 | Has a salesperson tried to offer you a free sample in a shop without asking if you smoke first ? |
| 10 | Has the company appeared to escort him the rest of the way ? |
| 11 | It was a great way to start any round and the bright sunshine and colourfully dressed spectators lining the fairways and ringing the greens combined to give everyone a lift — Jack included . |
| 12 | The two complaints combined to earn him the nickname ‘ teapot ’ among the girls in the brothel where he lived . |
| 13 | And divided it by the number of samples taken to give us a mean average . |