Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A suspicious customs man asked to see Melms swing his 6-iron when he arrived in Britain for a ‘ golfing holiday . ’ |
| 2 | EC insists that carrots are classified a fruit to enable the Portuguese to continue using carrots to make their jam . |
| 3 | ‘ It is intended to enable parents to dovetail their career and family commitments and thereby to ease recruitment problems which are already being felt in all areas of commerce as a result of the steadily falling number of school leavers and graduates . ’ |
| 4 | If you have a room that is particularly dark , you should consider using mirrors to reflect what light there is . |
| 5 | At various points in the early 1980s consideration was given by the Conservatives to the idea of introducing a ‘ voucher ’ system , designed to enable parents to exercise their choice by ‘ buying ’ a place at a particular school . |
| 6 | BREWER and retailer Whitbread has begun advising more than 1,000 of its tenants that it has arranged deals to lease their pubs to a string of brewers and pub groups as part of a move to comply with the Government 's beer orders . |
| 7 | But the council is defending its decision … it says it has to find savings to balance its budget . |
| 8 | For each of the three clusters of industries shown on the map , suggest what has attracted managers to concentrate their factories together in these places . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Brayton has come ti ask us ti tea next Sunday , ’ Annie explained . |
| 10 | ‘ Anything that can be come to encourage companies to increase their efforts or to consider exporting as a viable means of increasing profitability has to be seen as a most worthwhile and objective exercise . ’ |
| 11 | Vets , like all those involved in promoting responsible ownership , want to encourage owners to have their pets neutered and , while many charities talk about trying to set up discount neutering schemes , vets have been running their own for years . |
| 12 | A new pension environment has been created in recent years by legislation designed to encourage individuals to arrange their own pensions . |
| 13 | The woman has phoned friends saying she 's in London , but the police have no record of her flying home from Turkey she 's already been questioned by fraud squad detectives . |
| 14 | That respect has been earned over the space of a 39- year career with the firm which has seen Grants take its Glenfiddich brand and turn it from a regional tipple in the north-east of Scotland into Britain 's and the world 's leading single malt . |
| 15 | But from Lang 's point of view , a decade which has seen councils take their spending protests to the brink of illegal action appears to have drawn to a close . |
| 16 | Islamabad has said reports linking it to the explosions and ‘ wild and unfounded ’ . |
| 17 | It is this quality which has moved writers to describe her work as mythic : she speaks for us all through an interpretation of her personal experience that makes use of the universal image of the naked human body . |
| 18 | A joint venture company of Mitsubishi Electric Corp and IBM Japan Ltd , AST Co — no connection with AST Research Inc — has made moves to improve its standing in the open systems world , with the opening last month of an Open Systems Technology Centre , which will be a showcase for its multivendor and systems integration strategy . |
| 19 | They had expected game-birds to benefit from an increased food supply of insects as farmers stopped spraying pesticides to protect their cereal crops . |
| 20 | In theory , these criticisms are designed to help researchers to improve their work by pointing out ( for instance ) poor techniques , illogical conclusions or misanalysed data . |
| 21 | Comprised of Brian Dunning of Nightnoise , Tommy Hayes ( ex- Stocktons Wing ) , Jimmy Faulkner ( ex-Fleadh Cowboys ) and Robbie Overson of Scullion , the band 's fusion of trad , jazz and folkedup rock has had critics singing their praises on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 22 | The section of the Manifesto entitled The Institute and Professional Success does list a number of detailed objectives that might be expected to help firms increase their profitability , the most important of which is that ‘ unless required by public interest , the Institute should not seek to impose regulations which have the effect of restricting the freedom of members to succeed professionally and commercially ’ . |
| 23 | THE GOVERNMENT has used intermediaries to discover what has caused the increase in loyalist violence . |
| 24 | so you want to play Cats do you ? |
| 25 | Recognition of the benefits of ischaemic preconditioning has unleashed efforts to define its characteristics , study its mechanism , and apply the principles clinically . |
| 26 | The shock of decline has induced Britons to ask themselves a question first posed by Enoch Powell : What kind of people are we ? |
| 27 | Later this month , federal authorities are expected to announce plans to reduce their supplies of water to farmers by three-quarters . |
| 28 | This book needs an explicit account of aspects of foregrounding to help readers focus their investigations . |
| 29 | She became a mediator between the authorities and student leaders , and on a number of occasions tried to persuade students to end their hunger strike , leave Tiananmen Square and return to campus . |
| 30 | After all , who wants to let rivals steal their recipes while diners are still calling for more ? |