Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading Welsh players , too , are concerned about having to play important league fixtures between internationals and a meeting will take place this week between Welsh team manager Robert Norster and coach Alan Davies and representatives of the 48 Heineken League clubs to try to come to a compromise . |
| 2 | Unless those eight masked High Masters were sufficiently confident in their associates to try to journey to the next galaxy and back — in some incredible megaship — to take advantage of time-compression ! |
| 3 | Dealers often advised pet clients to demand to speak to the chairman . |
| 4 | Collectively known as ‘ Power Kites ’ , the Flexifoils have a wide repertoire , from individual and team ballet performances to sprint flying through a speed trap , man-lifting power-kiting , beach skiing , buggy towing , cable riding and establishing a world sailing speed record of 25.03 knots ( 46km/h or 29mph ) with fifteen Super-10s towing a catamaran . |
| 5 | Sobibor was the scene of the biggest prison escape of the Second World War when six hundred Jews rose against their guards to try to escape to the surrounding forest . |
| 6 | The players will form part of a six man committee set up to oversee the Subscription Scheme which chairman Wallace Mercer hopes will entice fans to help pay for the renovations . |
| 7 | The advent of GCSE and the more widespread development of continuous assessment of coursework in all English examination syllabuses have provided opportunities for pupils in secondary schools to use writing for a much wider range of purposes and audiences . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course I will , ’ and she smiled at Mrs Langley and held out her hand and smiled at Rose and Grace , and then she went swiftly from the room and across the hall and down the steps to collapse shaking into the carriage . |
| 9 | Among the wild animals to have died during the course of 1990 as a result of pesticide poisoning were foxes ( 12 dead ) , crows ( 20 ) and birds of prey ( 36 ) . |
| 10 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 11 | hDC has been active in the Windows add-on market for some time , producing excellent utilities to make working in the PC 's most popular GUI even easier than it is already . |
| 12 | In the first quarter of this year we 've seen more moderate growth in those geographical areas but in nineteen eighty nine nearly forty percent of Pearson 's trading ca profit came from economies outside the U K and North America and we expect our activities in these other areas to continue to grow at a satisfactory rate . |
| 13 | The Netherlands government 's proposed carbon tax and associated " eco-energy " levies has provoked a number of large companies to consider withdrawing from the country , according to industrial sources . |
| 14 | UK electricity generating companies PowerGen and National Power have received the licences to pollute required by the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 15 | Consents to pollute come in the form of emission or effluent standards which prescribe the temperature , amount , and kind of polluting matter which may be discharged from a particular source . |
| 16 | Even those of which we have evidence are very daunting creatures — and the most surprising descendants to have sprung from the simple little shells that first appeared 600 million years ago . |
| 17 | The answer to our Lords And Commons Cricket Competition is as follows : the three England Captains to have played for the LCC are Lord Harris , Sir Stanley Jackson MP and Lord Tennyson . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) The said duty is owed if the landlord knows ( whether as the result of being notified by the tenant or otherwise ) or if he ought in all the circumstances to have known of the relevant defect . |
| 19 | Dalton proposed to introduce a Bill to give financial help to local authorities to carry out major town expansion in their own areas to relieve overcrowding in the areas of other authorities . |
| 20 | So I would advise visitors to telephone to check on the availability of fuel . |
| 21 | First Edition MANILA ( Reuter ) — President Aquino , admitting that the death of Ferdinand Marcos had sparked a wave of sympathy for the late dictator , urged Filipinos to stop weeping for the man who had ‘ laughed all the way to the bank . ’ |
| 22 | Ice motion causes the meteorites to become concentrated in the same sort of way that mountain streams concentrate deposits of gold or other heavy minerals in ‘ lenses ’ or into layered structures . |
| 23 | The infrastructure of a modern state — for example , transport , post , banks — was created , and a variety of methods used to promote the building of a modern industrial sector and the exports to help pay for the undertaking . |
| 24 | The Government is therefore relying on the institutions to help guard against the problems that would be caused by any variations in regional demand from the small investor . |
| 25 | Intramural physician monitors adjusted the cyclosporin doses to maintain cyclosporin trough levels between 80 and 120 ng/ml thus allowing the investigators to remain blinded to the study treatment . |
| 26 | Members of the public are expressly asked not to gather on Albert Road or Russell Street , or to climb on buildings to try to see inside the Mayor 's parlour . |
| 27 | This beautifully illustrated book provides information on some of the best garden plants to grow based on the experience of these two renowned gardeners . |
| 28 | America is likely to have a current-account surplus in the first or second quarter of this year , thanks to the $40 billion-50 billion promised by foreign governments to help pay for the cost of the Gulf war . |
| 29 | There developed a scrabble amongst dealers to avoid going to the bottom of the heap . |
| 30 | The first will be shipped out over the next few weeks to start competing with the conventional hydrofoils , Boeing Jetfoil and high-speed catamarans that vie for business on the 78 km route to Macau . |