Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes it very easy for climbers not to take responsibility for the rubbish they create . |
| 2 | Instead , they are preparing for opportunities specifically to win concessions for those hardest hit by the VAT rises . |
| 3 | Some of the tragic child-abuse cases publicly investigated in the 1970s and 1980s highlighted the need for schools both to record information about possible child abuse and to share it with other agencies . |
| 4 | Specific instructions of this type are unlikely to provide material for challenge because of : ( 1 ) the policy of the court in allowing final determination by experts on all matters including construction of documents ( see 13.9 ) and ( 2 ) the practice of experts not to issue decisions accompanied by reasons ( see 14.7.7 ) . |
| 5 | I was surprised how things had changed — as I walked in I was given a big plastic number 33 ( shame I did n't turn up later as I could have stolen the number 38 to replace my house number which has seen better days ) and was given a list of reasons not to give blood . |
| 6 | The prouder and more articulate seaman had seen his pay and status in continuous decline from 1815 when , at the , end of the Napoleonic wars , " the government , without the least consideration for those who had battled on the ocean in defence of their king and country , disbanded the Fleets and cast adrift some thousands of Seamen suddenly to find employment in the merchant service " . |
| 7 | The invention of goods only to extend luxury 's definition , |
| 8 | The object is to build a picture of standards not to catch people out and if the expectation of an inspection causes staff to be that much more diligent so much the better . |
| 9 | British Rail has decided to have a dedicated , high-quality link between the stations and is examining a number of options effectively to make Euston part of the international terminal complex . |
| 10 | The constant impact against the field 's rim , of everything from showers of meteors down to stray molecules of gas , resulted in a cosmic fireworks display of spectacular proportions : a long tail of deteriorating matter stretched out along the path which the ship had taken . |
| 11 | Plenty of sun and well-drained soil are essential ; water well at midday in dry weather , pinch out tips of shoots regularly to prevent flowering . |
| 12 | The object would be to use them to develop learning procedures which would provide the basis for learners subsequently to process language and acquire the packaged units for themselves . |
| 13 | While they chased the business of a few gambling councils , some City lawyers were already arguing that councils could enter into swaps only to hedge interest-rate payments on normal borrowings . |
| 14 | Or you could line the walls with bookshelves from waist-level , with cupboards underneath to provide storage and serving space . |
| 15 | Head office managers often rely on obtaining information in face-to-face discussions with subordinates , and will happily assign large sums of money to travel budgets in order for meetings with executives abroad to take place . |
| 16 | Hewlett-Packard 's KGB claims DEC/Europe is under orders not to sell Unix and move Vax 4000s and 6000s instead even though Europe is hot for Unix : It 's the margins , you see . |
| 17 | Out of kindness to me , the army had allowed them to travel without permission from the Algerians , though we were under orders not to enter Niger without confirmation of clearance . |
| 18 | Limitations on missions and targeting , including commitments not to use weapons above a certain yield , or not to use nuclear weapons against centres of population , or in certain geographical areas , may also have an increasing part to play ( Collier , 1979 , p. 41 ) . |
| 19 | The articles themselves have buttons with arrows on to indicate words that have a separate entry in the Encyclopedia , these are accessed by clicking on the button . |
| 20 | What we have in mind is instead a much smaller team which could give a national focus to the work of local or regional money management education associations , help to harmonise educational material with the needs of school curricula , spot gaps in research knowledge and seek ways of filling these , and follow its concern through into the adult world — tackling the credit information gap from both sides , by looking for ways both to spread knowledge ( for instance through the media , not forgetting — see chapter 3 — those catching the attention of women ) and to make credit use itself easier to understand . |
| 21 | This train , like every other one , was packed to the doors , and when it was left in sidings periodically to allow trains of troops , and ammunition and essential war materials to plod by , the hum of conversation hung about the carriages almost tangibly . |
| 22 | In addition , Cambridgeshire ( £10 ) , Hertfordshire ( £45 ) , Norfolk ( £40 ) and Northamptonshire ( £30 ) contributed the sums within brackets exclusively to aid District administration of classes and courses . |
| 23 | There neither is , nor can be , any general responsibility in managements not to alter prices , or if they alter them , only to lower them . |
| 24 | This discovery has recently led to the development of a system for measuring the heart-rate of the human foetus before and during labour in women about to give birth . |
| 25 | An electric drill is essential for plumbing work : there are a lot of holes that need to be made in walls either to pass pipes through or to secure pipe clips or to support fittings such as basins , central heating boilers and so on — and making these is much easier with an electric drill fitted with a masonry drill bit . |
| 26 | It was common for disasters about to strike stocks to be revealed as late as possible . |
| 27 | Store chiefs at the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield saw a record 150,000 people turn up , 12,000 more than on the same day last year and in Hull police had to appeal to drivers not to take cars into the city because it was full by midday . |
| 28 | Here they were presented with a new interpretation of world events from the Kremlin which saw the world as divided into ‘ two camps ’ and called on Communists everywhere to resist US ‘ imperialism ’ . |
| 29 | One of the things I worry about considerably is that I feel a lot of well-meaning people bring pressure to bear on companies not to take decisions . |
| 30 | You could offer mock interviews to pupils about to leave school , or a problem-solving activity based on a real life difficulty you have encountered at work . |