Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change the patient 's position two hourly to encourage secretions to drain from the chest and to relieve pressure on the chest wall . |
| 2 | In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow . |
| 3 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 4 | It took four minutes to connect . |
| 5 | Last night television 's aristocracy came together to pay homage to his service … still unfinished by the way , attempts to retire have failed and he 's still running the Sunday evening programme Highway with Harry Secombe . |
| 6 | Suffice to say , whether Boogie , Bop or simply Blues , this set of Brothers , whatever they once were before they fell out and dispatched solicitors to sue their siblings , will be wearing dark glasses , pork pie hats , black side-burns and will be playing Stax/Atlantic type material . |
| 7 | IT systems are available now which can be trained by experts to perform decision making activities based on implicit information as well as , or even better than , the experts who have trained them . |
| 8 | If they have a common root , we test the remaining quadratics to see if they are satisfied by this common root . |
| 9 | Other Latin American producers will also be reluctant to cut recently expanded exports to restore Brazil 's earlier quota . |
| 10 | DAREDEVIL blind pensioner Joe Collier ( 74 ) is making plans to perform a charity bungee jump at a secret location outside his home area to beat local councils which blocked his spectacular leap . |
| 11 | DAREDEVIL blind pensioner Joe Collier ( 74 ) is making plans to perform a charity bungee jump at a secret location outside his home area to beat local councils which blocked his spectacular leap . |
| 12 | This led the Germans to emphasise their strengths in things other than politics , especially culture ( during the first half of the 19th century ) and industry ( during the second half ) , using these to build the German nation . |
| 13 | She hurried on into the high woods to see Kitty , her basket Wed with even more goodies than usual , a stock , indeed , which her father would ( rightly ) have called wasteful , far beyond alms . |
| 14 | Supporters of a no-confidence referendum had gathered 440,000 signatures to support their demand . |
| 15 | Work on the stand has already begun and the club are hoping to extend the plans to include seven executive boxes and a press box . |
| 16 | That could reinstate plans to include a centrifuge . |
| 17 | Western strategists will have to redraw their plans to include Iran as a key component in a new security structure , however , great Saudi resistance or United States distaste to this may be . |
| 18 | Link plans to include a series of ‘ Back in Time ’ type photographs in forthcoming issues — if you have any real gems , please send them in . |
| 19 | In a statement tonight , the Department of Transport says there are no plans to include motorway driving in the normal test . |
| 20 | Some builders on what began as prestigious estates in Britain had to compromise with the arrival of the recession , and alter their plans to include cheaper housing . |
| 21 | The chief purpose of the chapter is to outline how the two opposing groups in Ireland developed their dominant beliefs in the context of the new states of Ireland , and moulded the states to support them , strengthening antagonisms between the two groups . |
| 22 | The Non-Aligned also approved ‘ the efforts being made for the early establishment of a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality in the region ’ and called on all states to support these efforts . |
| 23 | Part A welcomed " the initiative taken by some Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties in promoting Antarctica as a nature reserve or world park " and urged all states to support efforts " to ban prospecting and mining in and around Antarctica " . |
| 24 | However , although the parliament on May 26 called on foreign states to support the demand for the withdrawal of the 14th Army , it hesitated to back Snegur 's demand . |
| 25 | This is an interesting perspective and reinforces the key challenge referred to earlier for the research library , namely the simultaneous access to and consultation of material in all forms to support research , particularly in the humanities , and the need for both ‘ ancient and modern ’ skills . |
| 26 | There never were 6,000 knights in England ; and it was rare in the twelfth century for more than a thousand knights to gather in answer to a feudal summons . |
| 27 | In the end , after allowing those proposals to go forward without us , we were forced to join after the terms had been fixed . |
| 28 | Kirov took only a few more minutes to search the small studio from top to bottom . |
| 29 | Taylor 's Level progressed very slowly and was thought to still have about 20 fathoms to go . |
| 30 | This initiative was designed to stimulate local authorities to mount full-time programmes which would be funded from central funds — to the extent of £400,000 per project — provided that they met certain centrally determined criteria relating to equal opportunities , progression , the specification of objectives , the balance between general , technical and vocational elements of programmes , planned work experience , and assessment . |