Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 For example , in the MISLIP project teachers in different subjects ( biology , history , English ) found that the microcomputer helped pupils to plan projects better and improved the motivation of pupils ; while the school librarian at Bankhead Academy pointed to the use of a wider range of resources by pupils in the school library .
2 had actually taken him on that he used to know years ago and had finished the
3 Then the first company might decide to introduce the product at a price level below initial cost , such as P 1 , in order to frighten rivals off and gain the maximum possible accumulated production experience .
4 The quest for respectability was very much part of the drive to increase audiences generally and to ensure that motion-picture theatres were not confined to any down-town ghetto but it was also part of an even more fundamental question .
5 ‘ He 'll probably want to shake hands rather than kiss . ’
6 ‘ It 's less threatening for men to lump women together and deal with them as one , rather than pointing out the differences . ’
7 Well a lot of people out there think it 's a fitter 's job to clean chutes out and unblock screens .
8 A privately-agreed separation should give both parties what they want and allow them to lead lives apart while remaining Prince and Princess of Wales .
9 Then it would be possible to set matters right and return to the correct position of Clause 9 .
10 It 's good to have someone to bounce ideas off and talk to — it 's something men have known about and done for years .
11 This ( almost certainly unintended ) result is a consequence of the writer relying on other people to state ideas rather than trying to understand and restate them in her or his own voice .
12 The gyro has made it much easier to learn to fly but , once you overcome the basic hurdle , it merely serves to smooth things out and make your flying tidier .
13 And now particularly Ron Todd who 's of course the General Secretary of the biggest union in this country , is making a real effort to open things up and to try and get negotiations going , and we 're very hopeful that we 'll get some positive of response from that .
14 They have read it was proposed and seconded by the Reverends erm Mike and Gethwyn and if there any questions I am sure that they are to answer questions rather than ask them to speak to us .
15 It helps one understand how difficult it is just to eat , to pick things up or to dry your feet .
16 Likes to set things out and make them go you know
17 But a doctor , one of the doctors in the same hospital saying , that the , during the First World War , when they were so desperate , you know , so many casualties , they had to cut short treatment , and they had to bandage men up and leave them bandaged up a long length of , they found it was often better to leave a wound bandaged up in it 's own
18 Although it was originally intended to receive exhibitions rather than to devise and produce them , the new federal Kunsthalle is now setting its sights higher .
19 The development of the procedure from its origins in valuation to modern " expert " applications has led me to attempt to distinguish between these two types and to classify applications either as belonging to the traditional , valuation type , or as owing more to the concept of a technical expert , which I have labelled " industrial " .
20 If you can get hold of the rarer tritium you may liberate nearly 18 MeV through the reaction : A problem the problem in the attempts to fuse nuclei together and release their internal energy — is that all nuclei carry positive electrical charge .
21 ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do .
22 This may only serve to aggravate matters further and undermine your role as a neutral .
23 When Richie Lowell ignored late arriving , was prepared to discuss things reasonably and lowered his Australian voice to a coaxing murmur then suspicion loomed in her mind .
24 Trying to say the right thing to calm things down or protect people 's feelings only brings more upset and confusion .
25 learning to express feelings rather than suppress them through addictive processes .
26 ‘ It 's better to organise resources rather than sending experts . ’
27 You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do .
28 Up to now all has been plain sailing but at the third row you have a straight arrow indicating to select needles again and transfer with the lace carriage and you have only just transferred stitches the other way without working two knit rows between .
29 We are able to identify absentees immediately and use the extra time to tackle the problem with academic counselling .
30 Britons have stood successfully shoulder-to-shoulder in order to win battles abroad and to repel foreign invaders from their shores .
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