Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He introduced new boilers in the boilerhouse under the main galleries ; he installed a completely new steel structure in the ceiling above the entrance hall — without harming the ceiling paintings by Benjamin West and Angelica Kauffmann ; he rebuilt the goods lift to carry loads of up to three tonnes into the galleries ; he refurbished the public cloakrooms . |
| 2 | Finance Ministers and central bank governors ( i ) commented that the United Kingdom was moving towards economic recovery , that recovery was under way in the United States , that growth was projected to pick up in Italy and France , and that in Japan and Germany growth had slowed from the rapid pace in 1990 to a more sustainable rate ; ( ii ) noted the importance of strengthening global savings ; ( iii ) reaffirmed the need for effective measures to avoid the recurrence of " recent irregularities that were revealed in some financial markets " ( a reference in particular to scandals in Japan — see pp. 38529 — and to the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International — see pp. 38396-37 ; 38355 ; 38545 ) ; ( iv ) called on the Paris Club to continue discussions on how best to implement promptly additional debt relief measures , on a case-by-case basis , which went well beyond the relief already granted under the " Toronto terms " [ see pp. 36123-24 ] ; and ( v ) noted that it was essential for developing countries to encourage private capital flows . |
| 3 | Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient . |
| 4 | I intended to resign at the A.G.M. due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area before the next A.G.M. but since no-one else wanted the job I agreed to remain chairman for as long as I could . |
| 5 | And just when they are beginning to see a potent combination developing with Mark Bright — with Chris Waddle to provide the crosses and John Sheridan to scheme openings from behind . |
| 6 | When Lucio goes to prompt Isabella on how to persuade Angelo — a scene in which persuasion has much of the ambivalence that Shakespeare commonly associated with rhetoric — he moves up to verse ( Measure for Measure , 1 . |
| 7 | Ingratiators in low power positions use favours , self-promotion and flattery to induce superiors at least to listen to the ‘ rational ’ case . |
| 8 | Campaign chairman Lord Elis-Thomas has already called on Mr Redwood to postpone the plans by his predecessor , David Hunt , to amalgamate Meirionnydd with both Arfon and Dwyfor . |
| 9 | But future Landsat craft can be expected to carry sensors at least as sensitive as the thematic mapper . |
| 10 | There was something of that to be sure , but his tours were soon extended to include speeches to more discriminating audiences . |
| 11 | Estimates that the plant is likely to sustain losses of more than £3 billion in its first ten years have been published by an energy consultant , Colin Sweet , on behalf of the lobby group , Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment . |
| 12 | Well I think that we have shown that we 're prepared to support Gorbachev in so far as er peace reform in the Soviet Union , but I think we 've got to look towards our own security in the West and we 've done very well with NATO , with the defensive block NATO over the last 40 years or so , and until we can have cast iron guarantees that Gorbachev is going to be secure and that he 's actually going to carry out his promises we 've got to keep our guard up . |
| 13 | Your heart beats faster to carry blood to where it 's needed . |
| 14 | At the lower levels their aim was to promote aid from less unfortunate households to the poor and the starving . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's horrible being able to see Hametabad from here , ’ said Steve . |
| 16 | That means that we are locked into issuing fire certificates since we rely on the and it imposes a marked official erm , performance target on us , we ca n't afford to let the numbers of inspections of supported defences drop , so that means that we 've got to find money from elsewhere in the budget . |
| 17 | But Richard Wilson says he regrets the fact that units like the Ritchie Russell have to find money from outside the NHS . |
| 18 | I have been told that in these circumstances it is permissible from an audit point of view to write back debts that are over two years old , notwithstanding the provisions of the Statute of Limitations , giving the creditor the right to demand payment for up to six years . |
| 19 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 20 | What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above . |
| 21 | If you have a home recording setup , the Quad-FX will expand the number of insert points on 4- or 8-track recorders ; add extra inputs to your mixer ( 4 in stereo , 8 in mono ) ; act as a DI box for bass and guitar or anything else that requires a high impedance input section ; work as a 4-way distribution amp and an 8-mono or 4-stereo into 2-line mixer ( both at the same time ! ) ; match analogue effects pedals to mixer insert points ; convert your hi-fi into a 4-stereo-input monitor system ; and even expand a power amp 's inputs to accept signals from up to four separate stereo sources . |
| 22 | They will enable us to keep our promises to provide funds to over 500 development projects with poor communities throughout Africa , Asia and Latin America . |
| 23 | No party was permitted to accept funds from abroad . |
| 24 | We certainly will , we also launched today our er campaign for two million pounds , our General Election campaign for , for the money that we 're going to need to stand candidates in as many constituencies as possible , so we 're certainly gearing up for it , yes . |
| 25 | Ana seemed to find pleasure in simply listening , though . |
| 26 | Now the poly is now appealing to townspeople to join the hunt to find homes for around 100 students expected to need bedsits or flats in September . |
| 27 | HIV and drug targeted services in the region have concentrated on a ‘ harm reduction ’ approach , one aspect of which is to encourage injectors at least to use a safe injecting technique but preferably to switch to oral use . |
| 28 | These provide an opportunity for ward staff to obtain guidance on how best to pass on their clinical expertise in an effective way . |
| 29 | As such the concept of social representation will necessarily be some son of general , background concept , and it will be difficult to find elements of socially shared consciousness , which are not social representations and which can be used for contrastive purposes . |
| 30 | Their starting point is , of course , the Republic 's inability from late July 1936 to obtain help from elsewhere . |