Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A key objective is to make it easier for our Centres to communicate and do business with us . |
| 2 | As with any technique , direct mail has basic principles which must be obeyed if the programme is to communicate and raise money over a long period : * It must be regular ( a minimum of eight times a year ) * It must be personal , relevant and informal * It must be good quality * It must ask for and offer something * It must appeal to emotion first and reason second |
| 3 | Their bodies are streamlined for maximum efficiency in moving through water , and they have evolved a highly sophisticated sonar system to communicate and receive information through water and over long distances . |
| 4 | ‘ Many simple activities were started to try and make life worth living , ’ said Mr Franks , a painter whose career has included five years in theatre in London and two years with BBC TV in its infancy . |
| 5 | On second thoughts , if he was to try and make sense of the puzzle , he would need them for reference . |
| 6 | But Moira says no it 's paperbacks only , insisted on lending us some of those Virgo Books and Woman 's Press and that , you know ‘ I Stand Here Ironing ’ and so on , could n't be bothered to try and make sense of them . |
| 7 | Gilbert , with the edge of terror still in his voice , was talking to keep himself sane ; and the others were listening to try and make sense of the nightmare in which they found themselves . |
| 8 | In the absence of more sophisticated software , and taking account of the desirability of direct client involvement , it was decided to try and make use of the same programme for record-keeping and analysis . |
| 9 | Tony Curtis was standing next to me so I said I was there to try and collect money from Mr Curtis . |
| 10 | Accordingly , particularly in claims which on full liability have very limited value , it is sound economic sense to try and achieve settlement at least two weeks before the Proof and preferably more than that . |
| 11 | Conditions were so bad that emergency crews were told it was too dangerous to try and restore power before daybreak . |
| 12 | Erm I think my answer to the to the questions being thrown out by by the Senior Inspector is is that surely Government policy is to protect the countryside for its own sake , and and why is it therefore wrong for a county with erm areas of acknowledged environmental importance to try and give expression to that in in its structure plan . |
| 13 | BMC national officer Roger Payne explained that the policy at the BMC is to try and give funding to experienced groups of British climbers attempting the sort of peaks which provide a strong technical challenge but are unlikely to get commercial sponsorship , simply because no-one apart from climbers has ever heard of them . |
| 14 | Addressing the conference , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Supreme Soviet Chairman , attacked recent government criticism of both central and local legislatures , accusing the government of " constant provocative actions … perhaps to try and avoid responsibility for the existing failures in the economic reforms " . |
| 15 | The committee held that a direct approach should be made to Moscow to try and secure progress in the Joint Committee . |
| 16 | But the volunteers could only pledge to try and improve life for them . |
| 17 | But the volunteers could only pledge to try and improve life for them . |
| 18 | And it occu It seemed to me therefore that really one could only consider this level o at a strategic issue by looking at the quality of the existing landscape and it seems to me , if the proposition is that you should locate a new settlement to the erm North in the Ryedale sector , er of Greater York , then you 're effectively turning planning on its head because I think the usual approach is to try and steer development to less attractive areas rather than put them in better quality areas . |
| 19 | During counterinsurgency operations government forces sometimes used rape and sexual abuse to try and extract information from women suspected of involvement with the armed opposition , or even to punish women merely for living in areas known to be sympathetic to insurgents . |
| 20 | The only described white man is a police man from Brooklyn who works with his black partner to try and extract information from a black boy , Imamu , after the daughter of the family he is living with goes missing . |
| 21 | Well this is part of a one million er £ er campaign to try and raise money for a lot of projects that we run in eight countries in southern Africa , from Angola to Mozambique , where our , the problems are absolutely horrendous er civil war in Mozambique for example , in Malawi , one in ten of the population are refugees , principally from Mozambiquan civil war , arriving at refugee camps in Bark and absolutely nothing er at all in terms of possessions . |
| 22 | On 22 May 1986 Palmer built their first electrochemical cell to try and force hydrogen into metals . |
| 23 | And I know I mean er people who just went round jumble sales erm to try and get clothing for themselves |
| 24 | Erm , it might be an idea to try and get hold of him whoever took the message cos it might be something important , but anyway I 'm glad you phoned . |
| 25 | if you want to try and get hold of them again |
| 26 | However , spies continued to attend Richard Baxter 's preaching services to try and gain evidence against him . |
| 27 | I wondered why he should bother to try and establish contact with me . |
| 28 | Very often it 's to try and take advantage of price deals , but also it 's because we now know there perhaps is n't the urgency to buy a holiday in February because we know there 'll be plenty around still in June or July . |
| 29 | Once the first and crucial step has been taken of recognising that everyone needs help to handle what are very distressing events , the next step is to request and take advantage of all the support available . |
| 30 | A determination born recently of Paul 's excessive zeal to cosset and take care of her … |