Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had obviously not allowed his degree course to affect his view of what was and was not possible in the physical world . |
| 2 | The woman had earlier been refused permission to see her lover , a ’ life partner ’ , as the catholic hospital refused to recognise their relationship as having ’ family status ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Anderson has been using the case to support his argument for a change in the law to allow suppliers to recover goods supplied to a customer who goes out of business before paying for them . |
| 4 | Althusser uses this case to support his claim that Marx held a complex view of social change , and did not regard it as the outcome of a single contradiction between the forces and the relations of production . |
| 5 | Teachers looking for funding to support their research can apply to the Scottish Office Education Department for a grant under its sponsored research programme . |
| 6 | When the group comes together to discuss what might happen in the ensuing chapter , they return to the words of the text to support their evidence . |
| 7 | The Supergrid gave them more freedom to optimise their siting by these criteria . |
| 8 | On the fifth dawn we hurried on deck to confirm my certainty that at last we had rounded the south-western point of Sulawesi , and had a clear run north to Makassar . |
| 9 | Mr Lapointe says CITES needs at least $4m ( £2.4m ) to enlarge the role of the Convention and to bring in more money to support its policing work . |
| 10 | So William ran a school and continued shoe-making to make enough money to support his family . |
| 11 | Constable was a commercial artist who needed to paint visually stunning works to make enough money to support his family . |
| 12 | The Prince of Wales , he claimed , wanted money to support his horse racing ; the Duke of York to pay his bets and preserve his credit at Mucklow 's Tennis Court where he spent much of his time and lost a great deal of money estimated at £200,000 . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ You came as a blackmailer , to try and extort money to support your drug addiction . ’ |
| 14 | Inflation creates strife , as different groups in society struggle to restore their living standards . |
| 15 | Despite Wilkinson 's attempts to moderate criticism of the Area Board 's policies , and a trade unionist member 's introduction of some woolliness in the text to accommodate his dislike of any rationing by the purse , the committee 's report , submitted to Gaitskell in June , did make some strong proposals . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , Polly , ’ he whispered , and , sliding his fingers through her wet hair to support her head , he kissed her parted lips with infinite tenderness . |
| 17 | He made his way from the hilltop and down into the valley , this was an ideal opportunity to search his mother 's house . |
| 18 | On June 5 in Oslo , in a speech accepting the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize , Gorbachev said that " now that perestroika has entered its critical phase , the Soviet Union is entitled to expect large-scale support to assure its success " , and warned that " if perestroika fails the prospect of entering a new peaceful period in history will vanish " . |
| 19 | Michelle Collins says she was not warned about the dangers of becoming pregnant while she was taking a drug to treat her epilepsy . |
| 20 | Her thoughts were growing darker : occasionally one would cause her heart to quicken its beat and then quieten again . |
| 21 | I sent Kassimi with a letter to the Governor at Goba , and a few days later we received an apology for our treatment and permission to continue our journey . |
| 22 | With the stem in your left hand ( if you are right-handed ) snip off the leaf and make a shallow curving scooping cut , with your thumb against the stem to steady your hand and control the cut , and take out the bud with about an inch ( 2.5cm ) long scoop , as shown in Figure 15 . |
| 23 | A new station called Birkbeck , was built where it crossed Elmers End Road , but was not sufficiently near the tram route to affect their traffic . |
| 24 | The National Governing Bodies whose sports can be accommodated in the facilities have taken the opportunity to promote their sport to a potential audience of four million people and are organising displays , coaching clinics , tournaments and so on . |
| 25 | Yet if they are to fulfil their responsibility to monitor their population 's access to health care the authorities must have all of this information . |
| 26 | In turning the Polish armies back , the Red Army crossed the border and advanced on Warsaw , vainly expecting a Polish rising to support its advance . |
| 27 | Fortified by painkillers , he was at Lancaster Park to see his son help Canterbury win the Shell Cup and score 22 and 45 on his Test debut . |
| 28 | That was a time when the proudest moment of Denis 's young life had been being brought by his mother to Fitzgerald 's Park to see his father , brave and bold and handsome in his dress uniform , standing firmly to attention with his company as His Majesty King Edward VII — who seemed to Denis like a huge teapot with his cigar puffing steam like a spout — and Queen Alexandra moved sedately among the flower displays at the Great Cork Exhibition . |
| 29 | Ultimately , their efforts brought those ‘ Peace People ’ the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1977 , but controversy over that award added to the movement 's inability to sustain its momentum and it faded from the newspaper front pages . |
| 30 | Electronic News says Intel Corp 's deal with Digital Equipment Corp to resell its i860-based massively parallel processors and follow-on Paragon machines has died , apparently out of lack of interest . |