Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acorn says that major shareholder Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is wholly supportive of its strategy and the plans developed to implement it . |
| 2 | Several new types of homebuilt are on the way which will tax the minds of authorities expected to certify them . |
| 3 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 4 | This chapter is concerned with the ways in which the results of these techniques are reported and more particularly with the legal and professional attempts made to standardize them . |
| 5 | Though her outstanding achievement is undoubtedly the composition of the first original poetry by a woman to be published in the seventeenth century , a volume of religious verse entitled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ( 1611 ) , she has become notorious as a result of attempts made to identify her as the ‘ dark lady ’ of Shakespeare 's Sonnets ( 1609 ) , on the conjectural grounds of her racial colouring , musical ability , and promiscuity . |
| 6 | When in the late 1960s wages and unemployment began to move together and then to accelerate rapidly the Phillips curve became somewhat discredited , despite various theoretical attempts made to rescue it . |
| 7 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 8 | The awful truth of Penny 's childhood and young womanhood is that the abuse never ended — and someone with the right counselling skills has to help her to unburden herself . |
| 9 | He is one of nine players given winter contracts designed to prevent them seeking employment elsewhere during the close season . |
| 10 | The types of disturbances which could do this are sudden changes in investment , balance of payments crises , changes in the money supply , rapid inflation and the policies designed to curb it , population movements , industrial disputes , or even wars . |
| 11 | Reports such as the Newsom Report ( 1963 ) were concerned to find ways to encourage young people to aspire to better jobs and television programmes tried to encourage them to set their sights higher . |
| 12 | It is not merely a question of its vastness ( it is the second largest country in the world , measuring 9.2 million square kilometres ) , but its breathtaking grandeur : God 's own country , as the Canadians delight to call it . |
| 13 | Hard round metallic objects tried to crush her and a large cold tub with ice on its sides almost squashed her completely . |
| 14 | The actual title of the course matters a lot less than the content , but a word of caution is necessary here to help you differentiate between programmes designed to prepare you for re-entry to the profession , and those which may be open to nurses currently practising , namely ‘ refresher courses ’ . |
| 15 | He also had a computer at home with simple tailor-made programmes designed to help him find and match words . |
| 16 | It ought to be possible for the teacher at this stage to spot skill weaknesses , and to introduce activities designed to remedy them — activities of which the children can see the point . |
| 17 | Well it 's a place in Italy where the Germans tried to take it . |
| 18 | However , Richard Baxter had only preached in his new meeting house once , when the authorities moved to arrest him once more . |
| 19 | Reacher said : ‘ When Cloughie first came to Forest , several clubs tried to touch him up , but he honoured his contract . |
| 20 | Last year , as deputies tried to dislodge him , he counter-attacked by forcing through elections to the new post of President . |
| 21 | Rachel hunt cops helped to track him |
| 22 | You have a great deal of choice in the matter but there are also certain rules designed to protect you . |
| 23 | Crowds appearing to amass them . |
| 24 | You 've found the pot of gold , and your greedy little fingers want to scrape it out — ’ |
| 25 | The blokes tried to get us out with water — the firehoses . |
| 26 | RUSSIA 'S leaders vacillated between confrontation and compromise yesterday as President Boris Yeltsin softened his claim to special powers and parliament called an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to try to oust him . |
| 27 | Although you may be perfectly entitled to take others to task and even issue a number of ultimatums , you ought to be more concerned with plans designed to give you the kind of personal or professional recognition you seek and deserve . |
| 28 | Her lips parted to tell him that it did , but hesitation seemed to have become a periodic tendency , afflicting her like hiccoughs . |
| 29 | Her lips parted to tell him so , and then she heard herself say , to her own amazement , ‘ Take me to Les Hiboux , please . ’ |
| 30 | You ca n't put standards or Bosses with Squig units because the Squigs tend to eat them , or you have to put the Bosses at the back where they ca n't do anything . |