Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There never were 6,000 knights in England ; and it was rare in the twelfth century for more than a thousand knights to gather in answer to a feudal summons . |
| 2 | Rule 7(6) of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 has been amended so as to allow solicitors to go into partnership with registered foreign lawyers . |
| 3 | The general , whose appointment as prime minister a year ago is disputed by a rival Muslim government in west Beirut , did not want Christian deputies to go to Taif in the first place . |
| 4 | Particular emphasis is placed upon longitudinal investigations of changes at the work-place or of the development of personal strategies to cope with stress in jobs or during unemployment . |
| 5 | To take another example , peasants often form reciprocal labour groups to cope with periods of particularly high labour demand ( e.g. paddy transplanting , or preparing plots for burning in the forest for shifting cultivation ) . |
| 6 | It had taken Sabrina forty minutes to drive from Lausanne to Fribourg and another fifteen minutes to find the isolated goods yard where Teufel , the porter at Lausanne , had said she would find the freight cars . |
| 7 | I disregard Labour 's attempts to agree with part of this . |
| 8 | wishes to retire as Editor after the May issue of Medau News , and our thanks go to her for a long and excellent Editorship . |
| 9 | But they need all their skills to cope with conditions in Bosnia . |
| 10 | Given the inability of the government and local authorities to agree on funding for community care , the report , not surprisingly , puts great emphasis on monitoring the progress of the reforms . |
| 11 | In Britain the Communist Party returned to its attempts to work with sections of the Labour Party . |
| 12 | The PRO 's attempts to work through DROs in order to gain control over computer records in government may be doomed to failure because of the latters ’ lack of clout and expertise . |
| 13 | Christian orthodoxies , he was making dogged attempts to come to terms with his sado-masochistic tendencies . |
| 14 | Furthermore , he made real attempts to come to terms with the Emperor , and it seemed likely that the papal imperial conflict would now be resolved . |
| 15 | On the other hand , virtually all the demands which the Anglicans had been pressing for in their attempts to come to terms with James , such as those made by the bishops in their meeting with the King on 3 October , did . |
| 16 | Earlier , permissive legislation had already enabled some authorities to innovate in services for the disabled . |
| 17 | There was a project to get artists to work on panels for a long wall , concrete posts and lintels with a brick infill , that might be seen as a possible module for paintings or some other art form . |
| 18 | We see this in the increasing influence of the new Ecology Movement , in the power of the Gaia theory , in the efforts of established religions to come to terms with their part in dealing with these issues ; and much more humbly , but much more universally , we see it in the increased attention that so many of us are now paying to the ways we celebrate the beauty and diversity of life on Earth . |
| 19 | The complainant considered that the advertisement was likely to encourage drivers to drive in excess of the legal speed limit . |
| 20 | Overdrive , a company which offers hauliers the services of relief drivers to cope with peaks in their business , gives drivers specific job responsibilities under the 1974 Act ( see the extract from their Drivers ' Handbook below ) : |
| 21 | He spoke out as the development services committee was asked by Leech Homes to agree to changes in the types of houses to be built on land in Bankhead Street , Seaham . |
| 22 | The signalman went down the steps to search for signs of the visitor but there was no one about . |
| 23 | Arbitan persuades the time-travellers to go in search of the keys . |
| 24 | Their vows were received by the General Moderator of the Congregation , Sr. Ellen Gielty , who was herself one of the first three Notre Dame missionaries to go to Nigeria in 1963 . |
| 25 | ‘ We have a lot of demons to nail as part of our creative process . ’ |
| 26 | They believe that any newcomer would take months to come to grips with what has gone wrong at Ferranti and would as a consequence be worse placed to negotiate a rescue for the group . |
| 27 | The public knowledge that such discussion was taking place was damaging enough for Mrs Thatcher ; it was accentuated by signs that there was an active campaign to line up alternative candidates to stand against Heseltine in the second ballot . |
| 28 | Some mediums were found to be fraudulent but there seemed to be genuine phenomena underlying the whole business ; and it seemed to be the job of earnest doubters to come to grips with it despite its general slipperiness . |
| 29 | She summoned the Protestant preachers to come to Stirling on 10 May , and outlawed them when they refused . |
| 30 | This generation , not having directly experienced large populations of immigrant , foreign-looking Jews , will abandon the preoccupations of former leaders and will encourage fascist parties to concentrate on prejudices for which there might be direct electoral advantage . |