Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all know packaging is often superfluous … an excess to make people buy the product rather than just wrap it up and that must be recovered … so we want the industry to use minimum packaging and we want the industry to come forward with ideas on that — if they do n't then we 'll legislate . |
| 2 | The aim of Standard Modern Grade Studies is to help young people to understand the society in which they live and to prepare them to participate fully as members of that society . |
| 3 | ‘ We would need to look closely at allegations of this nature , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Jackie wondered how often he had eaten himself to sleep alone in rooms like this and if he had seen much more of Mr Harker than Evelyn , his supposed sister , had . |
| 5 | When a period of stable , anticyclonic weather arrives , the workers release a chemical into the air which stimulates the males and queens to emerge simultaneously from nests over many square kilometres . |
| 6 | ’ Discretionary ’ means what it says : it is not our policy to intervene or even to lean gently on authorities in this matter . |
| 7 | claimed that firms such as hi , with a team of relevant specialists , was able to respond quickly to requests of this kind , especially now that they were equipped with a computer-aided design system ( CAS ) . |
| 8 | Analysis can only reveal the presence of a pollutant for which tests are actually carried out and it adds to the costs and time required ( another constraint , of which field staff are well aware , against sampling too freely ) to analyse routinely for pollutants on more than the usual parameters — BOD , suspended solids , ammonia . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll have to convince him it 's the usual thing for girls to stay there in cases like this , ’ Tony said . |
| 10 | For example , if one were carrying out a survey of library users over six days and the analysis for the working week produced , let us say , 20 print-out sheets , then to ask also for sub-analyses for each of the six days could result in a further 120 sheets . |