Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have pressed them to make provisional payments where necessary , to ensure that students do not suffer hardship . |
| 2 | The spirit of the Lord God is upon me Because the Lord has anointed me To bring good tidings to the afflicted ; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted , To proclaim liberty to the captives And the opening of prison to those who are bound ; To proclaim the year of the Lord 's favour … |
| 3 | Working together on the floor had not constrained them to produce similar representations . |
| 4 | All parties to the April 1989 round-table agreements had already committed themselves to free multiparty elections at the end of the new National Assembly 's first four-year term — see p. 36578 . |
| 5 | The arrangements agreed and jointly administered by the Training and Enterprise Council and the local authority Careers Service , allow for the registration of over 200 companies , in the first year , which have committed themselves to offer high quality training for employees under 19 . |
| 6 | Cutbacks in the budget have done nothing to curb chronic overstaffing : any official above teaboy needs a full supporting cast . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ He vehemently opposes active regional policies , he has wound up a lot of the government 's aid to the North and during his term as Industry Secretary he has done nothing to create new technology and skills or back new firms and enterprise in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 8 | Nicholas I had put some order into 200 years of imperial legislation by publishing the Complete Collection and Digest of the Laws , but he had done nothing to alter judicial procedure . |
| 9 | We 've always taught you to give borrowed things back , have n't we ? |
| 10 | If you have any fresh ideas or schemes , which have helped you to enrol new members , please do let us know , so that we can spread the word . |
| 11 | Even his colleagues had been alarmed by James Harding 's confused state of mind , and had persuaded him to seek medical help . |
| 12 | Kapuscinski exercises a personal charm which must have helped him to establish friendly relations with the people he met , and to gather material , and which can seem to befriend the Western reader . |
| 13 | As Geoff Cooke opined only recently , England can currently rate no better than third best , whilst the exploits of Scotland , Ireland and England ‘ B ’ Down Under will , I hope , have helped us to keep domestic triumphs in perspective . |
| 14 | The new equipment has also enabled them to recover biological samples , including a crab holding eggs tucked under its tail and sponges that are being tested for medically active chemicals . |
| 15 | Teachers have made links that have enabled them to write entire modules for GCSE and to involve people from industry in the classroom . |
| 16 | Until now Turkish protection of the Crimean Tatars had enabled them to launch repeated slave raids on Russian territory , prevented settled cultivation of wide areas of the Ukraine , and blocked Russian access to the Black Sea . |
| 17 | But at least the money saved over the years by cycling has enabled me to afford early retirement , and escape the commuter rat-race ! |
| 18 | He says the expert tuition has enabled him to reach new notes — and opened up a whole new repertoire . |
| 19 | Close ties with a medical publisher had enabled us to monitor early attempts to move from a traditional print-based publishing enterprise to new technologies : laser-disc publication had proved wasteful and made too many demands of staff with no experience in editing or marketing such material , let alone its production ; on-line database publication drawing on the company 's range of printed publications , many of which were in electronic form anyway before imprisonment on paper , proved more compatible with existing operations and more amenable to the skills of existing staff . |
| 20 | The generous gift of a group of Former Pupils , ‘ The Class of ‘ 38 ’ , has enabled us to provide excellent furnishings and equipment in a pleasant environment . |
| 21 | They oppose the proposed changes for political reasons , believing that they form part of the task the prime minister , Michel Rocard , has set himself to reform public sector industry — reforms that many to the left of Mr Rocard believe to be inherently unsocialist . |
| 22 | This awareness has driven us to evolve new systems that can be tailored to local needs and which reflect current advances in auditing techniques . ’ |
| 23 | Rough told how his wife Michelle had taught him to keep fresh food away from detergents . |
| 24 | The social and cultural conditions under which Marryat and his successors have written , even up to the present , have led them to explore individual personality mainly in terms of officers and warrant officers rather than members of the lower deck . |
| 25 | Think of some of the actions which have led you to form instant opinions about others , either favourable or unfavourable , and you will realize bow quickly and easily it happens . |
| 26 | If Tom had asked her to give extra blood , then they were definitely planning to transfuse , but this told her nothing about whether the baby would be delivered that night . |
| 27 | Long-standing commercial interests in the Pacific and the Far East had led her to acquire naval bases in Hawaii and the Philippine Islands ( annexed in 1898 ) along with a stake in the China trade . |
| 28 | Now he acknowledged to himself that his admiration for Sarah had caused him to overlook young Martha 's attractions . |
| 29 | This has often led him to tighten monetary policy while everybody around was urging him to ease . |
| 30 | The Duke of Newcastle , an amiable obliging man whose sense of duty and failure to perceive his own inadequacies had led him to become Prime Minister in the last months of peace and to preside over the move to war , was now very well aware that things were falling apart . |