Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supporters of a no-confidence referendum had gathered 440,000 signatures to support their demand . |
| 2 | The case could interfere with Annie Murphy 's plans to promote her book ‘ Forbidden Fruit ’ , which gives intimate details about her affair with the bishop . |
| 3 | Greenpeace has criticised ICI 's plans for not revealing exactly how much pollution and waste each plant produced in order to enable environmental groups to monitor its progress in reducing them . |
| 4 | This process and this work represent my own attempts to acknowledge my position as a feminist artist and seriously to consider my responsibility and accountability as such . |
| 5 | In the 1890s purists began to make headway at a local level by persuading the police and the courts to support their programme . |
| 6 | She has since returned 11 times to continue her research on the long-term environmental effects of the US/Vietnam war , and last year published the book The regreening of Vietnam ( The Women 's Press , £17.95hb ) . |
| 7 | Employees who work in areas where exposure to ionising radiation is possible are issued with personal film badges or other dosimeters to monitor their exposure . |
| 8 | Cut down on salt and use more herbs to flavour your food . |
| 9 | The Tudors also turned to the common law courts to enforce their Forest rights . |
| 10 | Practically the two extremes may be reconciled through more initial effort in training to ensure user understanding of the range of information sources , combined with more indepth support from ‘ database or information surfers ’ ( navigators ) , targeting particular subject groups to optimise their exploitation of this increasingly complex information environment . |
| 11 | The collusion is ‘ implicit ’ ( or ‘ tacit ’ ) in that the firms would not need to enter into binding contracts to enforce their co-operation ( p. 280 ) |
| 12 | By underwriting some of the heavy costs of development , Philips reasoned , they would break the confidence barrier and get the right levels of preliminary investment to secure a healthy catalogue of titles to support their launch . |
| 13 | Nonpublication of Liberal Democrat Press releases by your paper seems to be a common event , my colleagues inform me , despite repeated attempts to prompt your Editor . |
| 14 | Give reasons to support your argument . |
| 15 | Bibles ceased to have illustrations to enliven their text , and the small number of mystery plays , which had been allowed to continue at centres such as Coventry , Chester , Wakefield , and York , were suppressed . |
| 16 | " It was one of my bitterest hours to see our leader , only just home , having to throw up the sponge in front of the men he lived for " . |
| 17 | Nuclear industry employees who work in areas where exposure to radiation is possible are given film badges to monitor their exposure to external penetrating ionising radiation . |
| 18 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 19 | Just as the pilgrim who travels to the earthly Jerusalem leaves behind him all his possessions to enable his journey , so Hilton teaches that that which propels the inner journey is a balancing of the will and the mind in the simultaneous awareness that nothing is possible without God who must therefore be desired above all else . |
| 20 | Newcastle 's attempts to bolster their midfield foundered yesterday when their manager , Jim Smith , failed to reach agreement with Chelsea 's Micky Hazard . |
| 21 | There has been an assumption that young visually impaired children have little or no ability to use tactile maps to find their way around , and it has been argued that there is little to be gained from introducing visually impaired children to maps at an early age . |
| 22 | The DGM felt quite comfortable about this and also tolerant about the trusts ' sometimes misplaced attempts to establish their autonomy : " After escaping from the nest they go around flapping their wings and hissing at people " . |
| 23 | The package also proposed reducing the escalating cost of health care — which was expected to rise by an average of 12-13 per cent per annum for the next five years — by increasing the efficiency of the government 's Medicare and Medicaid health programmes , reforming the laws covering medical malpractice in order to give increased protection to doctors , and encouraging employers to pool their buying power into " health insurance networks " . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'll have to look for hours to find our spaceship . ’ |
| 25 | In the corresponding Republican primary the incumbent governor , Bob Martinez , defeated four opponents to secure his party 's nomination for the second time . |
| 26 | Miles called to the hunters to increase their speed . |
| 27 | SCOTVEC 's audit criteria , by building on existing good practice in centres , will make it easier for centre personnel to find their way through the maze . |
| 28 | And in terms of unity there is n't a very good chance of unity with British feminists right now in this country because whenever we start discussing our issues , out comes the racism , out comes the attempts to monopolise our struggle . |
| 29 | Terry nodded and looked away to one of the machines , twiddling the knobs to hide his nervousness . |
| 30 | In an effort to market Leapor 's poetry as that of a natural genius , the note to the first volume attempts to minimize her reading : ‘ Mrs. Leapor from a Child delighted in reading , and particularly Poetry , but had few Opportunities of procuring any Books of that kind ’ [ ML , 1 , p.i ] . |