Example sentences of "of [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1981 the DoE Advisory Group investigated the use of s.52 agreements , and expressed the view that , with some exceptions , the practice of using them to bargain for planning gain was unacceptable . |
| 2 | Most elderly parents who are living alone will be widows or widowers , and the understanding of their feelings of loss , and ways of helping them to cope with bereavement , were discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 3 | It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective . |
| 4 | For the rest of us , coming to terms with our grey hair and living with it may be a practical way of encouraging us to come to terms with our chronological age and of easing ourselves into a new age group . |
| 5 | The same must be said of the two sets of Images , for although there is no shortage of incidental felicities , I feel that the pianist is apt to over- project this music instead of allowing it to speak for itself . |
| 6 | Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine . |
| 7 | On July 31 the rebels released Robinson after Abu Bakr accused the security forces of wanting him to die in order to justify a military solution to the stalemate . |
| 8 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 9 | ( Yes , readers can read : it is only a matter of getting them to want to . ) |
| 10 | How , then , can we go about defining our strategy in the hope of getting them to react in the right way — the way we want them to ? |
| 11 | Just when you are alerted to one con trick , it seems someone else is waiting around the corner with another devious way of getting you to part with your money . |
| 12 | Enraged by the wine bar 's policy of forbidding them to stand with their male colleagues to drink at the bar , Hall and her cohorts decided to stage a protest . |
| 13 | And if Angel did not want to become a priest , what was the use of sending him to study at Cambridge ? |
| 14 | Quite possibly the ulterior motive was to convince the EEC states of the virtues of EFTA 's low tariffs , with the end objective of persuading them to return to the conference table to negotiate a multilateral trading agreement that would hold the two parts of Western Europe together . |
| 15 | The other sister , Mary , was four years younger than Eleanor , and Froissart tells the story that Thomas took responsibility for educating Mary in the hope of persuading her to go into a nunnery , so that he would receive the entire Bohun inheritance . |
| 16 | Müller had offered to help in the hope of persuading him to invest in something less fantastic . |
| 17 | Having decided to improve our kitchen floor by laying ceramic floor tiles , I was faced with the problem of cutting them to shape around door architraves , etc . |
| 18 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 19 | Nenna would never have dreamed before this of asking them to look after the girls . |
| 20 | cos you know he was that shattered he was falling asleep downstairs before I put him in his cot , so it was a case then of putting him to sleep in his cot |
| 21 | Handsets will be have to offered at about £300 — way below the cost of making them to start with , until volumes bring the cost down — in order to make the service competitive with the cellular duopoly.The company insists that analysts ' worries that there will be a shortage of handsets is unfounded . |