Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Best defied his own name and went from bad to worse , the former United star had pellets injected into his stomach in a failed bid to combat alcoholism ; he spent time in jail for drunk driving , police assault and jumping bail , and at his most desperate offered his services to any football team willing to pay £1,000 to include him in their team . |
| 32 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 33 | Since the kite has a lift component to enable it to accelerate at certain positions around the hemisphere it also has what is known as an ‘ apparent wind ’ and it is this which sustains the motion within the flight envelope . |
| 34 | " Eh , alors , when do you bring this Ben to see me ? " |
| 35 | She asks Ben to drive her home . |
| 36 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 37 | a Services Division to support them for a transitional period |
| 38 | On the other hand if you 've important business or vital meetings to attend you will be in for a tough time . |
| 39 | The 1977 white paper , Policy for the Inner Cities ( HMSO , 1977 ) , argued that additional powers should be granted to local authorities to enable them to assist industry . |
| 40 | There is no shortage of advice available to local authorities to enable them to decide whether , in uncertain circumstances , it is politic for them to seek to start proceedings , whether criminal or civil . |
| 41 | The hon. Gentleman will know that we have recently announced a £10 million programme to provide grants to local authorities to enable them to give priority to buses through the construction of bus lanes and by giving priority to buses at traffic lights . |
| 42 | was going out of this area to the providers of er of capital , for opportunities within this area we can go to London for example be many bankers there who will be being approached by companies within the northern region , north west region asking them for money to support them in their in their ventures . |
| 43 | How dare you make these offensive statements and then ask for money to support you . |
| 44 | Well anyway , whatever I I tried to get him to erm , cos I 've written again to the newspaper , I 've tried to get him to confess that , that the unions are the biggest because erm , even then I said to tell him well supposing that we could get , I said , erm you know the money to support you , I said just supposingly I said would be private vet , and he said what you dare say they would have to have there . |
| 45 | She would have to have some money to support it , and it was only right he should pay for the pleasure he 'd had . |
| 46 | But whatever it was , he did n't think twice about sending his heavies to see me . |
| 47 | First , those who come to the Park to enjoy it can not do so , because of all the traffic . |
| 48 | You have to get people out from behind their desks to see them clearly . |
| 49 | Where customary , the seller must give sufficient information to the buyer to enable him to insure the goods whilst in transit by sea , section 32(3) . |
| 50 | The seller will normally send by air to the buyer some documents : one will be the bill of lading transferred to the buyer to enable him to collect the goods at their port of destination ; another will be a bill of exchange which the buyer will normally sign and return thereby undertaking to pay for the goods on the date specified on the bill of exchange . |
| 51 | At midnight I took the decision to risk it . |
| 52 | Eventually , stirred by the preaching of Abbot Isambert of St Martial 's , the nobles and populace organized a militia to combat them . |
| 53 | That did not mean much , since Kursk was itself a drowsy centre with almost no factories and only the main railway line from Moscow to enliven it . |
| 54 | there is a serious side to community education and it is highly political in nature , that it should be directed towards equalising political power at local level , that communities should be learning skills to enable them to work with , and if necessary to confront local bureaucracy . |
| 55 | Effective Project Management — an intensive five-day residential course for executives needing professional management skills to enable them to meet their objectives successfully . |
| 56 | Oh it 's obvious that safety 's involved , I think that er it 's also er road use because er if people take a long time er going forwards and back trying to get into a space to park because they do n't have the basic skills to enable them to do it , then it 's frustrating for other motorists , and obviously accidents can be caused . |
| 57 | Develop skills to enable her ( the nurse ) , to assist in the implementation of nursing care under the direction of a first level nurse . |
| 58 | Being anxious is normal , the next stage though is to admit the anxiety and to ask for the faith to see it through . |
| 59 | She made it easier for Sarah to see him . |
| 60 | If these reports are correct , the idea led him nowhere ; in the end , weakened by the effects of his illness and , some have contended , with his personality affected by attempts to treat it , he lost his grip and abandoned the struggle . |