Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [conj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no rule of the charity that the accused had to hand over the notes and coins received or to maintain a separate fund . |
| 2 | ‘ While I respectfully agree that recommendations of a committee may not help much when there is a possibility that Parliament may have decided to do something different , where there is no such possibility , as where the draft Bill has been enacted without alteration , in my opinion it can safely be assumed that it was Parliament 's intention to do what the committee recommended and to achieve the object the committee had in mind . |
| 3 | Cash flows should be managed to optimize the return from cash received and to minimize the cost of finance . |
| 4 | Two problems intervened though to prevent a compromise , both in the secret negotiations of 1913 and the Buckingham Palace talks of July 1914 . |
| 5 | They were also more likely in task behaviours to use social events to get things done and to check the quality of group output than would American managers . |
| 6 | ‘ In these circumstances the Prime Minister is happy to accept the apologies offered and to take no further action against them , ’ said Mr Caldecott . |
| 7 | Sometimes he tried to catch her style in scraps of speech that he wrote in a notebook , because she had often told him to listen to the way strangers talked and to keep a record of conversations overheard in the Underground . |
| 8 | According to Dirk Bauer , Chairman of the new co-operative , ‘ British Organic Milk Producers has been formed to keep organic dairy farmers informed and to form a stronger hand to open new , or widen existing markets ’ . |
| 9 | It was not only to meet the argument of demographic decline if the trade stopped but to avoid the embarrassingly radical charge that they wanted rapid emancipation that antislavery reformers argued the consequence of abolition would be virtually automatic improvement in the conditions of slaves . |
| 10 | The use of interpersonal skills will be emphasised and the student will be asked to express their personal feelings and reactions to the learning gained and to review the value of the learning gained in relation to personal and social development . |
| 11 | It was held that as he had only paid to avoid seizure of his goods and never voluntarily nor intending to give up his rights to the sums paid nor to close the transactions , he was entitled to recover those payments which were not barred by the Statute of Limitation . |
| 12 | While this is a considerable improvement on the former method , it does nothing to reduce the paper-work involved or to shorten the time before a buyer is entered on the company 's register and receives his share certificate — which will take weeks and sometimes months . |
| 13 | The project therefore attempts to devise a more general descriptive framework for the intonation of the languages investigated and to establish a general theory of intonation structure which takes account of the different role of intonation in languages of different types . |
| 14 | Yeltsin appeared to be moving towards a rapprochement with the centrist Civic Union opposition [ see pp. 38974 ; 39058 ; 39108 ] , in an attempt to gain its support before the Congress met and to avert the danger of his government and its economic reforms being overturned by the Congress ( elected in 1990 and dominated by conservative forces ) . |
| 15 | They subsequently won the right to start moves to have the inquest verdict quashed and to have a judicial review . |
| 16 | More specifically , the seminars are intended to identify the nature and effectiveness of the public policy response in terms of the broad strategy and detailed instruments used and to debate the alternatives for the 1990s . |
| 17 | If it is likely to be sizeable , it might be a good idea to hire a consultancy actuary to analyse the scheme involved and to pinpoint the relevant facts . |
| 18 | In 1825 , however , he badly needed money to finance his Italian armies and had few options left but to convene the long-neglected Hungarian parliament . |
| 19 | Four marine diesel engines provide the power to lift fans that keep the air cushion inflated and to drive the twin underwater propellers . |
| 20 | With block contracts , which specify the number of cases to be treated , the provider has an incentive to select the cheaper cases within the categories specified and to minimise the level of service per patient . |