Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whether or not the contract has anything to say on this subject , an employer should at least explore the possible alternatives to dismissal , such as allowing you to make other transport arrangements or seeing if you can be fitted in elsewhere within the organisation . |
| 2 | " The Meeting Considering that the Island is in a backward state of Cultivation , have Resolved as an Improvement that each occupier of a 4d. land in Tillage over the whole Island shall sow in the ensuing Spring 2 pecks of Peas & Beans , and for enabling them to have proper Seed they now request that Shawfield will take the trouble of sending a Cargo of Peas & Beans to the Island in proper time … " |
| 3 | Thirdly , official labour market intermediaries in the job centres are an important source of information about employment prospects and a crucial part of the process of discouraging older workers from searching for work and , indirectly , of encouraging them to take early retirement . |
| 4 | Creating the form , content and tone of the messages to relevant publics , and the method of selling them to ensure maximum impact . |
| 5 | Judging by the latest letter he had received from New York , care of Isobel Dawson , it was going to go up with a bang — there had been sufficient talk of banning it to make sure that everybody bought it , without any real danger that it would be banned from the bookstores . |
| 6 | It is like expecting them to see distant stars without the help of any binoculars or telescopes but just with their own native eyesight . |
| 7 | James I did , on the specious excuse of the ransom due to England for his release ; James V blackmailed the papacy into allowing him to extort vast amounts of taxation from the church . |
| 8 | medicines prescribed by your family doctor are an important part of your treatment in helping you to get well , in helping you to cope with your illness or in preventing serious illness . |
| 9 | Thereafter , as Chief of Staff under the new government and then Defence Secretary , Ramos had given unswerving loyalty to Aquino , the single most important factor in enabling her to defeat numerous coup attempts . |
| 10 | This model has been extremely successful in enabling us to understand acquired dyslexia . |
| 11 | While confident of the benefit of mefenamic acid , the authors advise more evaluation of its risks before recommending it to prevent pre-term labour . |
| 12 | I have had my glassfish about 18 months , and have never had any trouble in getting them to take dried food as opposed to live . |
| 13 | ‘ Please check your bonfire before lighting it to make sure no hedgehogs have hibernated there . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Please check the bonfire before lighting it to make sure no hedgehogs have hibernated there . ’ |
| 15 | And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it . |
| 16 | Until recently , demand for organic produce has been insufficient to spur most farmers to make the change — but Stephenson & Co , by encouraging us to buy organic whenever possible , badgering supermarkets and greengrocers to offer a wider range of organic produce , aim to encourage more to make the switch . |
| 17 | Small producers have provided larger companies with an important cushion against fluctuations in demand by allowing them to use outside suppliers as shock absorbers . |
| 18 | It aims to protect women by allowing them to SEE potential partners from the safety of their own telephone . |
| 19 | Our loved ones will often be people we have known over many lifetimes , who have agreed to play a role which will help us to learn and grow — perhaps by recreating a childhood pattern , by rousing our hidden emotions , by challenging us to remain open , honest and loving , or by modelling qualities which we need to develop . |
| 20 | Again , the Conservative government tried to encourage such activity by enabling them to make one-off tax deductible donations of up to 3 per cent of annual dividends . |
| 21 | These add to his feelings by causing him to feel unwelcome and unsafe in such a dirty , disused place . |
| 22 | The inadequacy of this part of English law was signalled recently in Kowalski ( 1988 ) , where the Court of Appeal upheld an estranged husband 's conviction for indecently assaulting his wife by forcing her to have oral sex with him . |
| 23 | You can apply it to language learning by getting it to produce selected and sorted check lists or lists of words containing a particular sound/symbol you wish to drill . |
| 24 | But now biologists have charted some of their movements by persuading them to swallow tiny radio transmitters or inserting such devices beneath their skin . |
| 25 | But another charity , The Knights of St Columba , has stepped in to put unsold stock to good use by sending it to help needy families in Poland . |
| 26 | Equally , no purpose would have been served by asking him to approach total strangers in the street , as the mere thought of this would have been so terrifying to the young man that he would probably have given up there and then . |
| 27 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
| 28 | ‘ It is not difficult ’ , he would say later , ‘ to produce sophisticated men and women by collecting them to learn certain subjects . |
| 29 | Some of the authors who have dared adopt Joyce 's methods , have done so neither by duplicating nor by radically reshaping them , but by adapting them to reflect heightened or malfunctioning consciousnesses rather than relatively normal ones . |
| 30 | The venturi-tube type of total energy system can be dried out by venting it to cockpit static to allow the venturi to suck out the water in flight . |