Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [to-vb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if he wants you to go tonight Bev ? |
| 2 | In other words , the very fact that we do not consider we are worth loving causes us to put up barriers that ensure people will not have the opportunity to love us . |
| 3 | It forces them to tease out information from inanimate objects . |
| 4 | It uses them to turn over stones when it is looking for food . |
| 5 | This is a convenient fiction that allows us to carry out research on non-human species , but it is by no means clear that it is true . |
| 6 | It helps you to build up speed and keeps your fingers from getting so tired , as well as prolonging the life of the keyboard . |
| 7 | If the Fuhrer asks you to build only concentration camps , where can you win any campaign medals except by inventing them ? |
| 8 | He helps us to set up talks like those at the Victoria Falls and then says ‘ Get on with it . ’ ’ |
| 9 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 10 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 11 | The advantage to the supplier is that this enables him to build up links with a number of regular customers . |
| 12 | What the law does it to lay down priorities . |