Example sentences of "to [noun pl] [coord] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the team 's first tasks was to identify which maintenance craftsmen would transfer from day working to shifts and also to establish the means for allocating routine maintenance to be undertaken by the shift teams . |
| 2 | Jane is an abductee , someone who believes they have been forcibly abducted by aliens , spirited up to spaceships and physically experimented on in various alarming ways ( rectal probing , artificial insemination , induced premature births ) . |
| 3 | In the event that the trustee is able to pay 100p in the pound to creditors and still has funds available , creditors are not under any duty then to seek to claim , in addition , the VAT so as to pay it over the HM Customs and Excise ( Re TH Knitwear ( Wholesale ) Ltd ( 1988 ) 4 BCC 102 ) . |
| 4 | Few attempts have been made to set these earliest of monuments into any sort of context , but stimulating ideas of their contemporary landscapes have been proposed both by Colin Renfrew , who has argued that the tombs belonged to groups and therefore represent ‘ territories ’ , very much as the medieval church related to parish communities , and Graeme Barker and Derrick Webley , who have argued for the inhabitants of causewayed enclosures exploiting a variety of different landscapes , much as Bronze Age and later Iron Age communities did . |
| 5 | The Praemium Imperiale , one of the largest awards to artists and boastfully described by its Japanese initiators as ‘ the Nobel Prize of the arts ’ , is very much a cynic 's hoot . |
| 6 | As we shall see in Chapter 6 , trading in existing stocks helps to maintain their liquidity , makes them attractive to savers and thereby lowers the cost to borrowers of raising new capital in this way . |
| 7 | The measures of family background and ability can then be used to control the different intakes to schools and thus to estimate differences in the effectiveness of schools with respect to the outcome measures listed above . |
| 8 | Documents must not be handed to drivers or otherwise issued with blank spaces for recording particulars of tare weights or net weights . |
| 9 | Some large international banks offer their customers export factoring services whereby the bank despatches debtor statements to importers and ultimately collects payment . |
| 10 | Likewise , Newton 's ‘ established ’ groups built up a ‘ close set ’ of relationships with public officials in Birmingham ( 1976 , p. 85 ) , while his poorly established groups found it difficult to gain access to decision-makers and thereby had to resort to demonstrations , petitions and so on which only served to make them even more unacceptable . |
| 11 | I enjoy a night out and drink every week and I love going to restaurants and generally enjoying myself . |
| 12 | ‘ Tutors will begin with simple introductions to computers and also explain how the equipment can be used in everyday life . ’ |
| 13 | These methods are well suited to computers and often have the advantage that , should an error occur , at worst it lengthens the computations a little . |
| 14 | We 'd go on to gigs or to parties or out to eat . |
| 15 | Swayze , 38 , star of Dirty Dancing and Ghost , was a carpenter before he turned to films and still owns a building firm . |
| 16 | Then chaotic behaviour recurs , with the phase space trajectories being initially confined to bands and subsequently filling a whole region . |
| 17 | If the function is seen as the delivery of a service to carers and hence taking on the role of respite care rather than that of aiming for functional improvement then this could have import for the type of staff , ie specifically trained , ratio of staff and the drawing of expertise from other fields , ie occupational therapists . |
| 18 | I mean , you do n't get down to things and then break off for refreshments , do you ? ’ |
| 19 | But the ethos of professionalism with which police authorities are imbued has led to a recognition that social research can bring valuable results , so they have opened up their leviathan to strangers and specially commissioned specific pieces of research . |
| 20 | The brewers are moving over to leases not to improve the running of their pubs or to offer better service to customers but simply to avoid new government legislation aimed at giving tenants greater protection . |
| 21 | Sales Desk staff would be able to talk to customers and simultaneously operate a VDU obtaining instant information . |
| 22 | If the seller commits any breach ( even a minor one ) of a term which is clearly a condition , the buyer will be entitled not only to damages but also to reject the goods and treat himself as discharged from his obligations . |
| 23 | For instance in the context of the law relating to sale of goods , a warranty is usually understood to be a representation relating to the subject matter of the contract , which is of secondary importance , and whose breach therefore entitles the injured party to damages but not to terminate the contract . |
| 24 | Eurobonds may either be public issues or private placements — issues sold direct to investors and not traded . |
| 25 | his pennies till they grow to pounds and then invests in |
| 26 | They appoint advisers to assist them to help with the choice of witnesses , the preparation of questions to put to witnesses and perhaps to help the clerk of the committee to frame the draft of a report . |
| 27 | Note that , in the model , all profits are assumed to be distributed to households and not retained by the firms . |
| 28 | Top management must devote time to communications and also show that it has a real commitment to improving communications |
| 29 | We take it to extremes and wilfully avoid anything which has even a faint tinge of the ‘ essential ’ viewing of any tourist with cultural pretensions . |
| 30 | The House ought to be given the opportunity to see another document : the document that sets out Labour 's programme , and presents the alternative that Labour Members are well able to encapsulate in amendments to motions but always fight shy of actually producing . |