Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is claiming that Imperial Tobacco failed to issue warnings about the health hazards when he started smoking 30 years ago . |
| 2 | Staff working in centres in which facilities for attempted suicide patients are developed should endeavour to monitor trends in the behaviour in their area . |
| 3 | The Whole Curriculum ( 1975 ) and The Practical Curriculum ( 1981 ) both sought to alert teachers to the complex issues that have to be taken into account in whole curriculum planning , but both eschewed the provision of ready-made answers . |
| 4 | About 10 per cent of solicitors — around 6,000 — might want to conduct cases in the higher courts , Mr David Ward , president of the Law Society , has estimated . |
| 5 | So far I have written of the individual in relation to his , or her , environment of other people and have pointed to object relationships as the key connections between the inner world of the individual and his outer world . |
| 6 | On Thursday 24 February a provisional committee was formed to support Raybestos in the Ballincollig/Ovens area . |
| 7 | These are intended to alert users to the wide range of material available in the library and have covered such topics as Aids , Anatomy and Art , Business and 1992 , Fractals , The Metric System and the Tulip . |
| 8 | Chairman I will endeavour to arrange discussions as a matter of extreme urgency and report back to January ninety three meeting of this Committee hopefully with problems resolved . |
| 9 | ‘ In Europe we tend to hit our irons better than the average American but we tend to lose shots around the greens . |
| 10 | As taxpayers we are entitled to know why intelligence services failed to spot signs of an end to the Cold War . |
| 11 | The advice is often given to see roses at the shows , and make your selection there . |
| 12 | Open gun positions were located in the bow , midships and extreme tail and provision made to carry bombs beneath the lower wings . |
| 13 | Most of the journalists expected to see children near the line . |
| 14 | The 51-country Asian Development Bank 's annual meeting in Vancouver , Canada , on April 24-26 failed to agree terms for a controversial replenishment of its soft loan window , the Asian Development Fund [ see p. 35206 for last replenishment in 1986 ] . |
| 15 | Darlington council yesterday agreed to demolish sheds at the motive diesel works east of Melland Street and landscape the site as part of the Railside Revival scheme . |
| 16 | It is a matter of deep regret that the Department of Social Security failed to provide copies of the instruments in time for the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments to consider them and report to the House . |
| 17 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 18 | They saw the sense of the plan and agreed to find refuges for the boys in the thick forest between Bolfracks and Kenmore . |
| 19 | They agreed to tighten targets under the 1987 Montreal Protocol [ see p. 35678 ] by bringing forward the phasing-out of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) by four years to 1996 . |
| 20 | Finally , the Disclosure Directive contains a transitional provision which is intended to inform companies of the up-to-date position when the Directive is implemented . |
| 21 | MTM 's bankers have agreed to continue to provide funds for the deeply troubled chemicals group until the end of the month . |
| 22 | If your book is a success , you will want to write others with the same setting . |
| 23 | As this severely restricted the scope of what the agencies had been directed to search for , Shaughnessy felt confirmed in his suspicions that the government had something to hide and sought to obtain depositions from the officials who had signed the declarations . |
| 24 | Pierburg then sought to obtain photographs of a car which was situated in California , and it was held ( plainly correctly ) that this was not a case of evidence being obtained ‘ abroad ’ and so the Convention was inapplicable . |
| 25 | Semple and Logan ( Un ) failed to attract transfers on the same scale as Smyth and Dunlop ( DUP ) . |
| 26 | As an indication of the partnership involved the Group agreed to accept invitations from the individual members to accommodate meetings . |
| 27 | However , in Re Cadbury Schweppes Ltd 's Agreement [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 307 a parent company and a subsidiary were not treated as a single person where two companies agreed to accept restrictions on the supply of goods to a third which was a subsidiary of one of them . |
| 28 | And Esther , now , suddenly tired of the Italian economy , dismissed it and Charles ( 'You do n't seem to realize , Charles , that I live below the reach of the economy , as an economic unit I simply do n't exist' ) , and peremptorily turned on Liz , demanding to know details of the guest list . |
| 29 | The keys cover eleven types of payment and eight miscellaneous keys cover the major credit cards , all with programmable limitations to alert the operator when management authorisation must be given to accept vouchers over a certain limit . |
| 30 | This is the man behind it all , Ralph Reader , a successful composer in the thirties who agreed to write songs for the scouts to perform and his material is still used today . |