Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An emergency congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party yesterday elected the former prime minister , Mr Ladislav Adamec , as chairman to guide it through free elections due within six months . |
| 2 | You needed government for defence to protect you against external enemies and to engage in foreign relations and diplomacy , and you needed government internally to regulate conflicts between states er and to ensure a , a sound economic platform so that you needed er a single authoritative source of currency for example er and a single source of er er tariffs and trade controls . |
| 3 | The birds are stocked at a rate of 5,000 per hectare in a fenced off pasture to protect them from foxes and other predators . |
| 4 | Instead , gipsies will be encouraged to BUY land and apply for permission to turn it into a site . |
| 5 | The brewers to whom it belonged , having ideas , like all brewers in the 1960s , of reviving the supposed jollity of the eighteenth century , had applied for permission to turn it into a fashionable beer garden . |
| 6 | Detectives are applying to magistrates for permission to hold them for a further 24 hours . |
| 7 | Hearing Ginsberg 's tumultuous reading of Howl spurred Lawrence Ferlinghetti to ask for permission to publish it under his City Lights imprint in San Francisco . |
| 8 | If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours . |
| 9 | Affirmations are positive statements that you repeat regularly to yourself — for instance to help you with self-esteem . |
| 10 | was going out of this area to the providers of er of capital , for opportunities within this area we can go to London for example be many bankers there who will be being approached by companies within the northern region , north west region asking them for money to support them in their in their ventures . |
| 11 | Although everyone was a bit wary of an undeserved Soton equaliser , Beeney mopped up any semblance of an attack , and after good work by Strachan in not letting Benali shepherd the ball out for a goal kick , he dispossessed him , took it past another defender and played it across the goal for Speed to slot it into the bottom left corner . |
| 12 | had about half a day about there , waiting for boat to take us across to France . |
| 13 | Sharaf Rashidov , the former party boss , would lie about the cotton crop year after year to ingratiate himself with Moscow . |
| 14 | Ana had loved the carving and Maggie had not been able to wait until after dinner to give it to her . |
| 15 | However , when the researchers reached the shop floor they discovered that robots were far too expensive for management to waste them on unskilled jobs . |
| 16 | Surround crowns with straw during winter to protect them from frost — in colder areas you may need to earth up the stems first . |
| 17 | Its hard , tight-fitting husks act as armour to protect it from pests and diseases — a boon to farmers who do not want to use pesticides . |
| 18 | This reformulation shows why it was necessary for Foucault to free himself from what he later termed ‘ the repressive hypothesis ’ of liberation . |
| 19 | Graham was supported by Manchester City boss Peter Reid who said : ‘ Wright 's a quality player , the sort of striker to keep you on your toes . ’ |
| 20 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 21 | For example , what , if any , knowledge is required on the part of a payer at the time of payment to entitle him to recovery at a later date ? |
| 22 | But it is still too early to be certain , and the jury must remain out until there is sufficient evidence of a true change of heart to distinguish it from the earnest gestures of political expediency . |
| 23 | Carnelian , spying through the eye-screen from wherever , had immediately begun withdrawing the hydra into the warp of Chaos to save it from extinction . |
| 24 | Would he also look to a change of driver to help him with the draw he will want at Augusta ? |
| 25 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 26 | Those writers collaborating with the bourgeoisie , intent on defending a " classical " position , produce an irresponsible literature of resistance to change which in a variety of forms seeks to mask the reality of existence . |
| 27 | A decision was taken in principle to require agencies with independent sources of income to transfer them to the central treasury . |
| 28 | For Foucault , the tendency of theories of ideology to entrammel themselves in the categories of psychoanalysis , even with the eternal in Althusser 's case , means that they themselves begin to utilize the very procedures of individuation that they ought to have been analysing . |
| 29 | Oldfield 's marriage lasted for just two weeks , requiring lawyers and a large sum of money to bring it to a conclusion satisfactory to the bride . |
| 30 | When nest building , he will return to his nest with bits of weed to cement it into place , even when the diver is only a few inches away . |