Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They 're too glad to see me to worry about authenticity .
2 The race is also being used by Poland , Mexico , Norway and Denmark as their trials for the Olympic Games and though the field is not so strong at the front , it looks to be a proving ground for the visitors , in an effort to beat times already set by their countrymen to enable them to go to Barcelona .
3 She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service .
4 It is reported that they are being given Namibian identity cards to enable them to vote for pro-South African parties in the elections .
5 We should consider the supply of metal detectors and the regular retraining of police officers to enable them to deal with knife problems .
6 Likewise , voluntary bodies need funding to enable them to bid for contracts .
7 As is argued at length in the Kingman Report , substantial programmes of teacher training are required if teachers are themselves to know enough to enable them to design with confidence programmes of study about language .
8 Of those who take the tests , few score high enough marks to enable them to apply for assistance from their own government or overseas institutions .
9 ‘ If the groups do n't have the training facilities and infrastructure to enable them to tender for contracts , then local authorities have a clear responsibility to give information and provide training so they can ’ .
10 Or at best everybody could just come up to but nobody would be creating re er a surplus , nobody would have the resources to invest to enable them to come above subsistence
11 Lord Oliver described the relationship in the following way : ‘ … the purpose for which the auditors ’ certificate is made and published is that of providing those entitled to receive the report with information to enable them to exercise in conjunction [ with others ] those powers which their respective proprietary interests confer on them and not for the purposes of individual speculation with a view to profit . ’
12 ( At that time nobody had taught me how to preserve them to keep as specimens .
13 ‘ Not very much , just enough to enable me to come to Ireland . ’
14 It was too late to begin to take action when the war fever had maddened the blood of the people , but if the warmongers in Germany and in this country knew beforehand that the working class of the two countries had come to an understanding , and would stand by it , the influence of that knowledge upon their counsels would be such as to compel them to submit to arbitration the points which would otherwise have been submitted to war .
15 This money was to be handed out to things from athletic clubs and the poor of the South Teheran slums to encourage them to demonstrate in favour of the Shah .
16 Generous offers were also made to BT employees in order to encourage them to subscribe to shares in their own company .
17 To inform teachers and academics of the work of Amnesty International and in particular to encourage them to campaign on behalf of colleagues around the world who are victims of human rights abuses .
18 To inform teachers , lecturers and other academics of the work of AI and to encourage them to campaign on behalf of their colleagues around the world who have become the victims of human rights abuse .
19 To be honest it did n't do much to encourage me to live for Jesus and I do n't think it did anything at all for my non-Christian friends .
20 But he certainly was n't going to encourage her to indulge in nerves or old memories .
21 SUNDERLAND boss Malcolm Crosby has warned West Ham it will take an ‘ incredible offer ’ to tempt him to part with striker John Byrne .
22 Many families are used to having a cat , a dog or perhaps a budgie as a family pet but there are moves to encourage us to think of chickens as an alternative .
23 I refer to your fax of 24 May 1993 asking for comments/answers on various questions to enable you to reply on behalf of the Convener to correspondence he has received from Council Tax payers .
24 Certain cassette tapes can be bought which are supposed to enable you to experiment with regression yourself .
25 At the start you need very fine control over the board to enable you to manoeuvre into position whilst all the other competitors try to do exactly the same .
26 Well I work as a psychotherapist and it seems to me that for some people change is impossible and when that is the case then its my job to help them to come to terms with who they are and what they are and how there going to remain , but the other side of it is helping people to change and I have to say usually its to loose weight , that 's the biggest reason people want to change .
27 They not only have no obligation to take charge of the moral or spiritual education of their pupils , they have no obligation to help them to develop in aspects of life , such as drama or music , that are not strictly part of their own subject of expertise .
28 I , I need it to help me to get to Hanley or something like that and , and he does this all the time , and I look at him and I think well you know fancy being like that , surely we 're in a welfare state , there 's no need for that , I do n't know what his circumstances are , he may be homeless , I do n't know where he comes from and he just appears there and he carries on as if he loves the job , and that 's only in this country , but if you go abroad , many of you have been abroad have n't you ?
29 And he wanted to help me to get under way you see but I was n't long started farming .
30 He was arrogant enough to expect them to dance to music they had never heard .
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