Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | During the Second World War he came to national notice as chairman of a Senate committee set up to check on war contracts and to prevent war profiteering . |
| 32 | A further 210 families have made appointments and a special helpline set up to deal with inquiries from worried parents has so far received 137 calls . |
| 33 | The article goes on to refer to whether hard scientific evidence about hypnosis as an aid to the recall of memory can ‘ help the police to use hypnosis safely ’ . |
| 34 | The article goes on to quote from Michael Polaryi who , I am sure , would have been horrified to see how intent these researchers are on isolating emotion as something to be ‘ switched on ’ and ‘ portrayed ’ . |
| 35 | Otherwise , the lawyers have to sort out things like what rights are retained by shareholders , access to new revisions , compensation plans , employment contracts , shared AT&T/USL patents , pension plans and whether USL employees still have a right to go back to work at AT&T , an enticement used to get them to go to USL in the first place . |
| 36 | you know , this woman that I , goes down the school that talks , who I talked to , she knew from Peterborough and I think she 's German , she 's got an accent , I 'm sure for certain she 's German , anyway she 's got twins in Robert 's class and she was talking to me today and she was telling me her husband moved out to move from Peterborough with his job so I said what does he do ? and she said he 's a scientist , so I said oh is he ? , |
| 37 | Now Great-Great-Grandmother Elizabeth must have been a very capable woman because circumstances demanded that her husband went out to work as a miner , so she was left to manage the farm . |
| 38 | After a tour of operations with the famous John Cats Eyes Cunningham , the Author went on to fly with the Fighter Interception Unit and was the Author of our Operational Flying Club series in the April , May and June 1992 issues . |
| 39 | Mr Lawrence chaired the steering group set up to look at life profit reporting and there is no doubt that he and the Prudential are the driving force behind the new proposals . |
| 40 | In January 1989 , the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities convened a meeting of a group set up to look at the effect of these centres on authority centres . |
| 41 | Hughie Smith , president of the National Gypsy Council , a body set up to fight for the rights of gypsies , said : ‘ The point is that York does have hundreds of acres of land . |
| 42 | The state of English teaching in schools had obviously , by the late 1980s , become a cause of such radical complaint and discontent that it was not surprising to find a committee of inquiry set up to look into its proper aims and methods ( The Kingham Committee , 1987 ) . |
| 43 | However , if a fast character turns round to help with spellcasting support after getting ( most of the way ) to the top of the hill , this just might work . |
| 44 | She smiled at the nurse , or rather , her own smile beamed out to glide over the nurse , over the island of light that hung above her bed , the box with the socket that jacked her into magic . |
| 45 | The frowning policeman bent down to stare into his face . |
| 46 | ‘ How old is the child ? ’ he asked , and Maureen 's head jerked round to look at him in amazement . |
| 47 | His head jerked round to look at her , and he missed a gear change . |
| 48 | He found he was walking as a dog walks , its head twisted round to gaze into its master 's face , waiting for a stick to be thrown , wagging its tail . |
| 49 | Zborowski said nothing but went into his room and changed into worn summer clothes and came out carrying his only winter suit parcelled up to take to the pawnbroker . |
| 50 | He slammed into a wall , his head snapping back to crack against the plaster , then he fell forward . |
| 51 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 52 | The sea lagoon turned out to vary in depth from a few inches to a couple of feet . |
| 53 | When he told her about the children at Dovercourt she and a friend went along to help in teaching English . |
| 54 | One night , when she was in her nineties , she failed to reappear and the labourer 's wife went out to look for her : |
| 55 | On the day of his first marriage , his wife went off to perform in a matinée and Burton listened to the International match . |
| 56 | Nevertheless the court went on to discuss in some detail what the position would have been if the appeal could properly have been entertained , expressing the opinion that ( i ) ( Silke V.-P. differing ) there was no ground to intervene in the Barclays ( Asia ) case ; and ( ii ) ( all members of the court concurring ) there was no ground to intervene as regards the order in which the cases should be decided . |
| 57 | The training of probation officers could continue and be included in the Certificate of Qualification in Social Work and the Diploma in Social Work courses , but if these do not measure up to required standards , they will be replaced with anew training syllabus put out to tender in the educational market place . |
| 58 | If the carer moves in to look after a couple ( eg elderly parents ) on the death of one spouse the tenancy goes to the surviving spouse . |
| 59 | The bid by what is now Braintree District Commercial Services , an organisation set up to comply with Government rules over competitive tendering for council jobs , is for £246,285.27 . |
| 60 | It began to run over the main deck and the crew hurried off to shelter in the accommodation . |