Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By April he had recovered sufficiently to travel to America once more , to see his sisters ; this visit is perhaps most remarkable for the fact that he addressed the largest assembly ever gathered to attend a literary lecture ( he also received what was then the largest fee for such an event , some two thousand dollars ) . |
| 2 | It is intended to monitor the economic relations between these Republics collectively or singly to provide a basis for future studies in greater depth . |
| 3 | A new role was then established , that of coordinator , which bypassed the head and was intended to carry the new vision of good practice directly from Merrion House ( the Education Department 's offices ) to the classroom . |
| 4 | The doctor asked to see the fallen member . |
| 5 | Thus scientists in many fields tend to emphasise the practical pay-off of their research . |
| 6 | When YOU go there you wo n't want to miss the world-famous Pleasure Beach amusement park which teems with fun and excitement for everyone . |
| 7 | Despite this major problem , banks must endeavour to monitor the external debt position of countries . |
| 8 | The intention was always to develop the College as a learning community , which deliberately sought to emphasise the common experiences of working-class people through the full use of the residential setting by |
| 9 | Radio in the 1940S and television under the Fifth Republic enabled de Gaulle to ‘ commune ’ with the French people : circumstances frequently conspired to dramatize the stark alternatives associated with his name ; in 1940 the rejection of collaboration and defeat ; from 1946 to 1958 , when out of power and largely absent from the radio , he slowly became ‘ le recours ’ , the possible saviour from the ‘ regime des parties ’ , party factions and divisions ; when President ( 1958–69 ) , and master of the airwaves , the recurrent implicit or explicit message was ‘ but for me , France faces chaos ’ — ‘ moi ou le chaos ’ — the twentieth-century equivalent of Louis XIV 's celebrated ‘ l'état c'est moi ’ — ‘ I am the state ’ . |
| 10 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |
| 11 | At the Second Congress of the RSDWP those who opposed Lenin — the Mensheviks — sought to dilute the revolutionary purity of the party and weaken its discipline . |
| 12 | The Training Guide was developed to support the one-to-one training relationship between the recent graduate , the trainee , and the experienced general practitioner who had assumed the role of trainer . |
| 13 | Some focus on a particular joint-venture subsidiary company ; some involve the sharing of research and development ; some are an alliance of production capacity with marketing strength ; some involve putting a foreign product under a domestic label ; some alliances are intended to promote a new standard or form of compatibility ( and to defeat a rival standard ) . |
| 14 | As well as raising money for the National Trust for the Homeless , the event was intended to promote a National Sleepout next month . |
| 15 | Nkrumah was undecided ; was he really intended to promote the political interests of the intelligentsia ? |
| 16 | In addition , this company also contributed to the Association 's efforts on behalf of the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal by helping to arrange a Royal Film Gala night at their Shaftsbury Avenue cinema . |
| 17 | To start with , Alison planned to wear a white evening dress . |
| 18 | I I find this quite extraordinary Chairman after two years of consistently arguing and voting in committee and at council , they appear to have been bought off by the Labour group and now intend to support a fudged half merger , half federation option . |
| 19 | As long as man eats unhealthy food ( the product of unhealthy soil ) , even in the right proportions , the medical profession will perforce have to continue to treat the inevitable results . |
| 20 | At a meeting of its environmental committee yesterday , Dunfermline District Council agreed to issue a public health notice against Fife Regional Council . |
| 21 | Within lesson structures of this kind , teachers do not , in fact , orientate themselves so much to the needs of individual students , but tend to treat the whole class as a kind of ‘ collective student ’ . |
| 22 | The Government intend to conduct a full review of the assisted areas — for all of Great Britain — early in the next Parliament . |
| 23 | The most militant fan of Sixties architecture would be hard pressed to support a last-minute appeal for the Bull Ring , although crocodile tears will be shed over the probable demolition of the Rotunda , a monumental steel and glass phallus , that , in the absence of a sky-piercing cathedral , acts as the city 's one instantly recognisable focal point . |
| 24 | In view of the commitment expressed by the US President , George Bush , to withdraw all US invasion forces from Panama by the end of February 1990 [ see p. 37177 ] , García agreed to attend the international drugs summit in Cartagena ( Colombia ) on Feb. 15 [ for which see pp. 37243-44 ] . |
| 25 | Family routines are adjusted to accommodate the worsening disease . |
| 26 | Now all is quite clear in the consultations , certainly the one we have with the , the heads , whilst that they did n't want to continue the previous policy of expanding their tradition by increasing class sizes . |
| 27 | The rations given to Parnaka were surely intended to support a large household , of a feudal type ; in fact a household of what Herakleides called ‘ fellow-diners ’ . |
| 28 | These standards are intended to support the business-like approach of the ES . |
| 29 | It is also intended to support the occupational SVQs . |
| 30 | He continued to serve on commissions and committees , notably helping to draft the New Model Army ordinance ( 1645 ) , chairing the committee on church government ( 1645–6 ) , and agreeing to try the king , although he did not sit on the trial commission ( 1648 ) . |