Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a member of parliament was considered to be in a position to influence senior officers ' careers , he might , however , find himself offered minor patronage posts to use as he saw fit , without having to do much to seek them . |
| 2 | Surely it is up to boards of directors , executives and investment managers to decide whether they wish to invest in the short or long term . |
| 3 | The secretary of the local tennis club telephones to say that he wants to make a booking for their annual dinner and dance . |
| 4 | By this , structuralists ( Miliband and Poulantzas alike ) mean that short-term concessions might be given to , or seized by , interests antithetical to capitalism , but once these interests pushed their demands beyond what was safe for the continuity of the capitalist mode of production and accumulation , then economic crisis would arise to constrain choice and force policy-makers to recognise that they operated within a capitalist world economic system . |
| 5 | This is for senior management groups to test if they know where they are going and the processes they use as well as the factors against which success can be judged . |
| 6 | There were Russian soldiers with guns on every bridge with their binoculars scanning the river and dashing to their guard boxes to report once they located us . |
| 7 | All offerors will invariably ask the selling shareholders to represent that they own the shares ( or can transfer title ) free from encumbrances . |
| 8 | Finally , Rowdies have always had the more manly and mature equivalent of the Town Boys to join once they had proved their worth and their masculinity . |
| 9 | Large companies ca n't afford unnecessary stockholding or paperwork , and they are going to press their trading partners to ensure that they do n't have to . |
| 10 | and I 've got three phone numbers to ring but I thought I 'd wait till the end of the week until I 'm about eleven and a half |
| 11 | Benefits calculation packages are especially popular with inexperienced advice workers to ensure that they have followed every avenue of enquiry . |
| 12 | Beating the bounds , when the parishioners walked round the parish boundaries to ensure that everyone knew where they were in case of dispute , was associated with the Rogationtide crop blessing . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't mind more work , ’ Anna said , ‘ but I have to confess that my heart does rather quail and fail at the thought of three times as much French jacquard-weaving machinery specifications to translate as I have already . ’ |
| 14 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 15 | That you can easily lose your concentration and go off to sleep and so it is in the truth , so we need to stay awake , stand firm for almighty , be vigilant and again in the scriptures we could look up half a dozen scriptures in the Christian Greek scriptures to show that we need to keep spiritually awake and it uses different terminology you 've heard me use some already , remember the one in verse Peter four , verse seven ? |
| 16 | This happened to our Corporal Jane , who arrived back in camp after a brief visit to one of the neighbouring air fields to find that she had been posted to the Met Office at Group Headquarters , Huntingdon , and the corporal there , Rosemary Hilton , had received a reciprocal posting to Bourn . |
| 17 | Subsequently , at a speech to UNICE on 22 July , Gillian Shephard , the British employment secretary and current chair of the EC Council of Social Affairs Ministers , stated that the Government will be reviewing European Community legislation on social and employment matters to ensure that it conforms with the principle of ‘ subsidiarity ’ . |
| 18 | We will work closely with Infolink Decision Services to ensure that we provide solutions to all our customers ’ risk assessment needs in the future . |
| 19 | Or they can board one of the famous San Francisco trams to shop till they drop at Ghiradelli Square . |
| 20 | ( 1982 ) have used old Ordnance Survey maps to show that there has been extensive reclamation of moorland on the plateau uplands of the North York Moors , Exmoor , Dartmoor and the Brecon Beacons . |
| 21 | Now you do n't get tetanus cards to carry because you 've not had the horse serum . |
| 22 | Bill , 76 , asked Street chiefs to investigate and they discovered that episodes of the popular show screened in Britain five years ago are now topping the ratings in Thailand and they have made Percy a national hero . |
| 23 | We audit our production processes to ensure that we fulfil our environmental responsibilities . |