Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believe me , it is far harder at such times to sit and look on than to be in the middle , ’ he told Sunday Express readers . |
| 2 | It is all too easy to spend a back-breaking couple of hours weeding the garden and never take ten minutes to sit and look at the flowers . |
| 3 | I put my Knights to work and drift into sleep . |
| 4 | The international aims of the symposia are the following : To promote inter-institutional collaborative research ; To allow junior researchers to meet and discuss with established researchers ; To engender interest in , and enthusiasm for , infancy research ; To produce publications , with contributions from the symposium attenders ; To serve as a major focus for infancy research in this country . |
| 5 | In short , not only does the user have a better time , the support desk gets far fewer calls to come and deal with apparent equipment failures . |
| 6 | It is like the tiny mustard seed which grows into a sizeable bush that provides sufficient shade for the birds to come and shelter in its branches ( Matt. |
| 7 | If we can persuade birds to come and perch on it in a row fairly close together we have obviously made it much easier to see the wire . |
| 8 | If we can now persuade more birds to come and perch on top of the first lot we can in principle build up the wire to any thickness we choose . |
| 9 | By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain . |
| 10 | When the venture was launched in 1970 , Elaine Moss had a ‘ mere ’ 2,000 titles to sift and select from . |
| 11 | But in the nature of things … " and here he twisted his red lips to signal and to share with them the perspectives of this operation " certain approaches have to be tentative and even apparently , ad hoc . |
| 12 | Their sports scholarships are excellent , because they allow the athletes tremendous opportunities to train and compete against the best . |
| 13 | Even so , I was rather surprised that a family must pay 3.50 for adults and 2.50 for kids to visit and listen to the BBC 's exhibition of favourite old radio programmes at Broadcasting House . |
| 14 | A large part of El Al 's business comes from bringing Jews to visit and live in Israel . |
| 15 | Just as " every clerk 's " unanimity of opinion directs the laughter of " " every wight " " at the end of the Miller 's Tale ( 3847 – 9 ) , the text of the Reeve 's Tale brings its readers to view and laugh at the miller and his family through the clerks ' perceptions , their attitudes and their frame of reference : We may particularly note , for instance , how the incongruous " " par compaignye " " that Nicholas and Alison put in the mouth of the unfortunate John recurs in this urbane rendering of the family 's vulgar cacophany , and how the somewhat different " " melodye " " recalls the " " revel " " and the " " melodye " " that Alison and Nicholas enjoy . |
| 16 | When planted in threes or fives they make good clumps to grow and flower above other plantings . |
| 17 | Tasks which require subjects to read and respond to sentences and which furnish precise data on the time course of their reading , are able to reveal much more about sentence processing . |
| 18 | The result of this ‘ softly softly ’ approach was that sentencers were effectively allowed to shape policy through their own sentencing practice , leaving official policymakers to respond and adapt to an agenda over which they had but limited control . |
| 19 | Dolphins have developed many adaptations to survive and succeed in a marine and , to a lesser extent , freshwater environment . |
| 20 | Finally , it should be pointed out that one of the grounds on which under section 432 the Secretary of State may appoint inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs of a company is that ‘ the company 's members have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs which they might reasonably expect ’ — whether or not that information is such that they have an express statutory right to be told it . |
| 21 | Two months ago Amnesty submitted testimony to the UN which noted that the de Klerk government ‘ was failing to take adequate steps to investigate and bring to justice members of the security forces implicated in the torture and killing of government opponents ’ . |
| 22 | When used correctly they assist traffic flow at busy road junctions by allowing drivers to enter and leave by different roads with the minimum of inconvenience or danger . |
| 23 | You may find that she will need to lean on you a little for several months to speak and act for her in matters she can not give her full attention to , because she will be quite rightly absorbed for the time being in grieving , which is mentally and emotionally very hard work indeed . |
| 24 | This meant that it was open to the Revenue to select one or more of the beneficiaries to tax and to pass over the others . |
| 25 | When master-manufacturers talked of the danger of communism which lurked behind any limitation of the absolute right of employers to hire and fire at will , they meant not social revolution but merely that the right of property and the right of domination were indistinguishable , and a bourgeois society must go to the dogs once interference with property rights was permitted . |
| 26 | Despite what brewers ' architects often allege , the life expectancy of such plastic window units is proving remarkably short — as little as five years for the fittings , and twenty years for the plastic itself , which is exhibiting distinct tendencies to warp and discolour with age . |
| 27 | Gosh ! that toffee was hard , took ages to chew and stuck to the teeth . |
| 28 | The Reverend Dr. John Walker was sent by the Commissioners of Annexed Estates to visit and report on the state of the Hebrides , and , being a prominent naturalist to examine the natural histories of these countries . |
| 29 | The Reverend Dr. John Walker was sent by the Commissioners of Annexed Estates to visit and report on the state of the Hebrides , and , being a prominent naturalist to examine the natural histories of these countries . |
| 30 | The hostel also became a focal point for refugees to gather and socialise at weekends . |