Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was further agreed that Joe McGhee be asked to write to the association of Chaplains to invite them to send a representative . |
| 2 | They are doving around Kuwait with a ring of minefields to protect them . |
| 3 | I assumed there that you can say either ‘ The organism works to propagate all its genes ’ or ‘ The genes work to force a succession of organisms to propagate them . ’ |
| 4 | Then from the sealed camp at Fairford — ‘ The Cage ’ , where members of the S.A.S. were confined after they had been briefed — there was released the batch of letters to overwhelm me anew with love and foreboding . |
| 5 | When this is the case , pre-meeting briefing of supporters to get them to ask the right questions ( ones that you can answer well ) and to t ring in relevant information and viewpoints is essential . |
| 6 | She found the finest clay , built a web of wires to spread it on , and sat breathless at her bench . |
| 7 | Broadly speaking , 1858 witnessed commitment to emancipation with land , 1859 the preparation of statutes to bring it about , 1860 and 1861 the modification of the draft legislation and 1861 its implementation . |
| 8 | When someone who was a protégé of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna , a close friend of Nikolai Miliutin , and the tutor to the heir to the throne decided to run the risk of going into print , conservatives realized that they were being subjected to a deliberate attempt on the part of reformers to prevent them from treating serfs harshly . |
| 9 | Clinical work with prisoners depends partly on demand and partly on the willingness of psychologists to undertake it , for none are trained as clinical specialists . |
| 10 | It was felt by many politicians and officials that local government , in its recent form , was slow and inept so that the departments dealing with local authorities either developed a mass of controls to enable them to watch over local authorities or actually withdrew services from the local authorities . |
| 11 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 12 | As the house committee was unwilling to dismiss the porter , the master asked the Board of Guardians to fine him , to deliver a severe reprimand to the nurse for her conduct , and ‘ give her plainly to understand that I am the Master of this house , and all lawful orders are to be obeyed ’ . |
| 13 | It is an established fact that copyholders regularly sublet their tenements either whole or in part ; the manor of Rodley , Gloucs. , evolved a complex framework of rules to govern it . |
| 14 | Students are often uncertain whether they are taking the right kind of notes to help them survive and succeed at college . |
| 15 | First , he advises the user of accounts to read them backwards . |
| 16 | I meant to pop the enclosed in a drawer of the chest of drawers to thank you for its removal — better late than never , and the card early to save a stamp . |
| 17 | If , however , the Chancellor was hoping for a variety of opinions to give him maximum freedom of manoeuvre in next month 's Budget , he will be only too happy with the report . |
| 18 | Again it is important for children to experience these ideas practically in a variety of ways to enable them eventually to achieve full understanding . |
| 19 | The designer 's problem is to devise sufficient variety of ways to knock him down , revive him and weave a pattern of rests between the peaks of conflict . |
| 20 | I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way . |
| 21 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 22 | But if the worst did happen , the necessary conditions for a depression — a dramatic collapse of economic confidence , and the inability of governments to restore it — might well be met . |
| 23 | But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it . |
| 24 | The variation in people 's need for support , and in the capacity of relatives to provide it , is not simply a matter of demography or the force of economic circumstances . |
| 25 | The Arkansas Governor , Bill ‘ Slick Willie ’ Clinton , has outpandered California 's ex-Governor Jerry ‘ Moonbeam ’ Brown by a whisker , has spoken a bit more sense with a bit less pizzazz and conviction , and looks set to scoop a big enough bundle of votes to guarantee him the nomination — unless he falls victim to further scandal or Democratic Party fixers impose a ‘ brokered convention ’ to find a last-ditch candidate . |
| 26 | But what has outraged all of us is the spectacle of attempts to make you the scapegoat for failures of the criminal justice system , the cause of which , however defined , lay outside your control or responsibility . ’ |
| 27 | And , do n't forget that at all our branches we offer an unrivalled range of services to help you plan your finances over the years ahead . |
| 28 | Additionally , a horse that enjoys eating a wider range of foodstuffs — alfalfa , oats , horse mixes , apples , carrots , and so on — provides us with a larger range of inducements to motivate it to do what we want as well as rewards for when it does do what we ask . |
| 29 | Fleet Street journalists require a modest range of incentives to make them feel agreeably disposed towards something , and the maiden flight ( on a plane which had been named the Maiden Voyager ) was warmly and comprehensively reported in almost every national daily and Sunday newspaper . |
| 30 | We turn the spotlight on a wide range of binoculars to help you see more clearly |