Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the payment of high dividends depresses the security 's price which means that investors require a higher income rate of return to induce them to hold those securities paying high dividends . |
| 2 | He believed that the Great Powers would be ‘ in a position to exert the pressure on their clients necessary to induce them to accept such arrangements ’ . |
| 3 | FRED 1 's proposals in respect of extraordinary items were generally well received , although several commentators wanted to see them taken one stage further and recommended banning the use of the category of extraordinary items . |
| 4 | Herr Schikenader , the former proprietor , chanced to see me perform one evening . |
| 5 | When I was out of the room , he told Margaret that he wanted to see me write weightier books than that . |
| 6 | Professional television crews , in fact , bring their own power generators with them to enable them to light large areas . |
| 7 | I believe that many visitors would like to have available a short paper about the early history to enable them to derive greater enjoyment from their stay and I hope those who want to know more will be stimulated to consult the Inventory . |
| 8 | Training is needed to enable them to derive greater value and information from the source . |
| 9 | To enable them to take all client groups , accommodation standards will be higher than those set down in the registration criteria . |
| 10 | These accounts are also used to settle banks ' foreign exchange transactions and to enable them to conduct normal correspondent banking relationships ( see Chapter 3 , Foreign Exchange Market : Correspondent Banks ) . |
| 11 | Royal agents were equipped with letters of credit to enable them to use these services . |
| 12 | Moreover , this lever is strengthened by electoral democracy , which legitimates the promotion of locally preferred policies , and in this way local states , and especially electoral local government , are not only used by those dominant at the centre to enable them to manage uneven development , but can also represent specifically local interests . |
| 13 | The banks financing the huge project have given Eurotunnel until the end of the year to come up with an agreed costing for completion of the tunnel sufficient to enable them to release fresh loans . |
| 14 | Granted to LIFESPAN users to enable them to perform various functions . |
| 15 | The fact that most practices ' referral rates had increased in the second phase of the study provides no support for the view that first wave fundholders had artificially increased their rates of referral in the preparatory year to enable them to make budgetary savings in the subsequent year , although their rates were higher than those of the controls in phase 1 . |
| 16 | In such circumstances , Mr Cruickshank said it is ‘ crucial that up-to-the-minute information is readily available for NHS managers to enable them to make informed decisions on pay and staffing ’ . |
| 17 | At Level Three students will identify personal development goals and devise and arrange enterprise activity to enable them to meet these goals . |
| 18 | It is largely up to the banks themselves to decide on the ratio that they consider to be ‘ prudent ’ : i.e. the ratio that provides them with enough liquid assets to enable them to meet any demands for cash . |
| 19 | The aims of the workshop are to help young people in the South Pacific to understand and respond to the mass media ( TV , video , radio and print ) and to enable them to recognise better quality media programmes . |
| 20 | to enable them to have more management time , like we 're looking at trying to get them to reduce their work their case loads |
| 21 | Does the Oxford Forestry Institute have a programme of education for the ordinary members of the public to enable them to have this vision of their assets . |
| 22 | Tim Hayward , head of corporate recovery at KPMG , said : ‘ Liquidation is the form of insolvency particularly common to smaller companies and many have simply not had the cash reserves to enable them to survive difficult trading conditions . |
| 23 | To enable them to fulfil these tasks UDCs have been granted extensive financial , planning and land acquisition powers . |
| 24 | It also calls for increased aid to tropical countries to enable them to achieve sustainable forest management . |
| 25 | I want to progress to a 386 or 486 chip to enable me to take full advantage of Windows 3.1 and DOS 5 and of the increasing amount of software that requires this minimum . |
| 26 | Other males appear to be able to tell when females are near to laying , and try their best to seduce them using prolonged bouts of song and courtship display : sometimes they succeed and the female allows a strange male to mate with her . |
| 27 | I 'm going I get to go I get another go ! |
| 28 | One way of improving this situation is to encourage them to formulate specific questions to which they wish to find answers . |
| 29 | Part of his role was to encourage them to define these skills then present them as qualifications , and transfer them into the business context . |
| 30 | For example , back injury is common among nurses and there is growing concern about the need to instruct nurses in proper lifting techniques ( p. 252 ) and to encourage them to use mechanical lifting devices as much as possible . |