Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English winegrowers are about to harvest a record crop of grapes — but it could lead to them facing new restrictions on production in the future . |
| 2 | In contrast to Mallet and Naville , they do not appear to believe that there is any fundamental conflict of interests between capital and labour which would lead to them expressing opposing preferences with regard to the taking up of the job design principles they advocate . |
| 3 | ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely . |
| 4 | However , when the trial judge came to deal with the case against the second appellant , the trial judge directed the jury that it would be open to them to interpret alleged statements by the second appellant as a confession by him that he was one of a group who assaulted the deceased , and that accordingly he would be responsible for everything done by every other member of the group that he knew was being done or was likely to be done . |
| 5 | In a clear sense , people apparently do not use all the information available to them to interpret these sentences , at least in certain contexts . |
| 6 | This assumes that social worker has the information available to them to make correct decisions . |
| 7 | Our investigation reveals that we 're continuing to ask the armed forces to meet a series of commitments and all the time we 're reducing the resources available to them to meet these commitments . |
| 8 | Due to unforeseen problems , they became so heavily involved in the project that both found it necessary to develop new skills which led to them becoming competent programmers in their own right . |
| 9 | CIBSE plans to make CPD mandatory for all except fellows , and ICE has well structured continuing education requirements for its members prior to them becoming chartered engineers . |
| 10 | Woman-centred psychology reminds feminist psychologists of the power of psychological concepts of gender , and acts as a strong inducement to them to challenge these concepts . |
| 11 | This seems to me to represent good grounds for believing that functionalism itself may well be true . |
| 12 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 13 | There are several other crops which may be of use to you to suit particular conditions . |
| 14 | It did n't occur to you to let sleeping dogs lie , if you 'll forgive the cliché ? ’ |
| 15 | Just brainstorm as many ideas as possible , including ideas which seem to you like obvious truths . |
| 16 | I just want to you know modern days was just confusing me and er , all this sort of thing . |
| 17 | Much really depends on the quality of opportunities open to you to refresh old skills , and to introduce new ones on a sensible timescale and with proper supervision and support . |
| 18 | Man works far below his capacity ; some writers have put a figure on the deficiency but it is of little value to you to make quantitative estimates . |
| 19 | If you 're the earner , and she 's looking after the children , it 's usually down to you to make regular payments for the children 's upkeep at least until they reach the age of seventeen — and longer if they 're still in education . |
| 20 | But it is up to you to make some decisions , however small , and to put them into action . |
| 21 | But , but , BUT … it is entirely up to you to find these faults , if they exist , and to report them before the particular guarantee periods expire — and how can you do this without a structural survey ? |
| 22 | So if the offer is made to you to work shorter hours , think carefully about these aspects , and what it will do to your pension . |
| 23 | Those close to him rejected official claims ( later confirmed by a post-morten requested by the Justice Ministry ) that he had died from high blood pressure , alleging instead that he had been tortured . |
| 24 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 25 | He called on civil servants loyal to him to denounce subversive colleagues . |
| 26 | Representation of shires and boroughs had also been determined : the King no longer had discretion to decide which communities might send up M.P.s , although it was of course open to him to make new enfranchisements by royal charter . |
| 27 | It was her present delight , this business with the wax , and Dowd cursed it , given that it fell to him to unpack these treasures . |
| 28 | Stewart , who is retiring after guiding England for six years , watched four players who owe much to him play key roles . |
| 29 | So I wrote to her to recall pleasant memories of the old prairie days . |
| 30 | a big str , a bit strong fellow to he had good legs on him , he did a lot of cycling you know |