Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as students of the star signs will verify , the cuspate divisions help explain his ability to carve the characters he plays into different personality fragments to give them added depth . |
| 2 | By night , Kos really comes to life and boasts two of the best discos in Greece and lots of bars and tavernas to keep you happy well into the early hours of the morning . |
| 3 | These Goblin are known as Doom Divers , although it is usual for other ( saner ) Goblins to call them bat-winged loonies . |
| 4 | In anomie theory the impetus that pushes people into crime is that the ambitions for status and pecuniary success that they share with everyone else are thwarted by the restrictions on the opportunities to achieve them that result from low socio-economic status . |
| 5 | ‘ Snodgrass , ’ Oliver remarked , picking up Angela 's quotation , when at last they reached the safety of the gardens far below , ‘ do not let me be baulked in this matter — do not obtain the assistance of several stalwart Lionisers to carry me prostrate back to Broadstairs , do not listen to me when I say never , never again shall I visit a sight connected to the late great Mr Charles Dickens . |
| 6 | We would support any moves to increase the powers of the regulators to give them stronger teeth . |
| 7 | Once documented the data can be rearranged in a way that reveals how you can reorganize matters to give you more time . |
| 8 | The final stage was to roll her hair with Tech Ni Pli velcro rollers to give it extra fullness and shape . |
| 9 | The former employee , who was the plaintiff and who sued for the payment to him of commission under the first part of the clause argued that the proviso could be severed and that therefore the obligation of the defendants to pay him such sums remained . |
| 10 | With the lack of repeated high crosses to test him last saturday , though , it remains to be seen ; but the signs are good . |
| 11 | Places to eat , places to drink , places to watch a show , places to put on a show , place to smoke or sniff or inject or otherwise absorb any of the various ecstatic drugs , places to find a partner or several , places to lose a partner , places to gamble , places to indulge you smallest whim no matter how illegal or depraved , places where if you wished you could simply stand and scream . |
| 12 | Those who depend solely on their licensed dealers to find them another Polly Peck ( probably the most spectacular penny share success ever ) are probably doomed to disappointment If they are lucky , they will be the blind led by the blind . |
| 13 | In Selfoss the assistant in the chemist 's tries to sell us surgical spirit when we ask for meths and there is a pantomime while Tony explains to her , in best sign language , that what he wants is spirit for a Trangia . |
| 14 | Hey and listen , Pat , I do n't want to see or hear any reference to that part of the plan which shows that we can save up to a billion dollars a year by supplying components from the European plants to fit US manufactured vehicles . |
| 15 | The shaft needed to come through two bearings to give it that stability . |
| 16 | Women make up one million of the new union 's members and will be guaranteed two-thirds of its executive seats to give them effective control , although the three top salaried posts will be filled by men . |
| 17 | In fact , the chances are you 'll have to go back and pare down your heroes to give you enough points for Shamans . |
| 18 | The week-long camps are sponsored by Digital Equipment Company , and are open to students aged from 14 to 17 years to give them practical experience of the computer applications they will come across when they take up their careers . |
| 19 | With your monthly premiums invested in the GRE Life Fund , your level of benefits can increase over the years to give you rock-solid protection and a handsome double cash payout . |
| 20 | The club continues to occupy the ground under a protected tenancy requiring Butters to give them six months notice to quit but he has changed the locks and was ‘ too busy ’ to allow committee members access to check the pitch on Sunday . |
| 21 | He persuaded creditors to give him three years to make a go of the garden . |
| 22 | Lineker and Paul Gascoigne have both been in touch with Spurs to wish them good luck for the new season . |
| 23 | If , however , the Chancellor was hoping for a variety of opinions to give him maximum freedom of manoeuvre in next month 's Budget , he will be only too happy with the report . |
| 24 | Train personnel to give them appropriate skills and knowledge ( includes all engineers and technicians in risk awareness training ) . |
| 25 | To summarise , the problem was to build a machine that could examine enough positions in three minutes to give it some protection against the clumsiness of its evaluation functions . |
| 26 | Similarly organisations that find themselves in difficulty ; where the profits are not coming through , where there is pressure from shareholders for a significant improvement in profit performance ; here again , the chairman and the Board are likely to reach out to executive search consultants to find them new talent . |
| 27 | From the script it tells you that after this nuclear war the creatures are supposed to have decayed into these horrible shapes , almost armless and legless , dependent on machines to give them any mobility . |
| 28 | There are behind-the-scenes flurries as the sheet-covered frock is brought out of storage — by ladies dressed in white coats and white gloves so that the masterpiece is n't stained — and the model changes to give us another twirl . |
| 29 | We would be most encouraged by your efforts to join us this year — whether in wheelchair , pushchair or on foot ! |
| 30 | Nevertheless , enough weight had been given by several sources to make it worthwhile checking . |