Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EC insists that carrots are classified a fruit to enable the Portuguese to continue using carrots to make their jam . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | If you have a room that is particularly dark , you should consider using mirrors to reflect what light there is . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But the council is defending its decision … it says it has to find savings to balance its budget . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A new pension environment has been created in recent years by legislation designed to encourage individuals to arrange their own pensions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They had expected game-birds to benefit from an increased food supply of insects as farmers stopped spraying pesticides to protect their cereal crops . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | THE GOVERNMENT has used intermediaries to discover what has caused the increase in loyalist violence . |
| 16 | Recognition of the benefits of ischaemic preconditioning has unleashed efforts to define its characteristics , study its mechanism , and apply the principles clinically . |
| 17 | The shock of decline has induced Britons to ask themselves a question first posed by Enoch Powell : What kind of people are we ? |
| 18 | Later this month , federal authorities are expected to announce plans to reduce their supplies of water to farmers by three-quarters . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They will seek to persuade journalists to support their client 's case in appropriate newspaper articles . |
| 21 | He has hired consultants to help him conduct his appeal . |
| 22 | He never missed an opportunity to criticise the new ruck/maul laws and he had an absolute right to do so — because it is he who has found ways to minimise their dreadful effect , because he was never one of those coaches who sought refuge under the old laws , and because he is the finest coach in the world by results , demeanour and inspiration . |
| 23 | She is concerned publicity and gossip in the dale has spurred others to take their lives . |
| 24 | Pat 's Jester 's defeat at Haydock yesterday has led Corals to take him out of the King George betting . |
| 25 | This has led companies to expand their in-house basic research efforts , and to devote more resources to monitoring scientific research trends world wide and tracking the R&D activities of their competitors . |
| 26 | In Guatemala , the Indian population has opposed attempts to seize their land by wealthy landowners and the army . |
| 27 | Determined not to be left behind as things begin to hot up in the Sparcstation 10 clone market , South Korean giant Hyundai Electronic has announced plans to release its first Sparc 10 effort in October , along with other Sparc-compatible products . |
| 28 | * Uganda has announced plans to promote its small population of mountain gorillas as a tourist attraction . |
| 29 | Meantime source code producer , Epilogue Technology Corp , which has its UK base in Marlborough , Wiltshire has announced plans to upgrade its entire line of SNMP products and services to support SNMP2 . |
| 30 | With its object-oriented NeXTstep environment , the NeXT Computer System from NeXT Computer Inc is an obvious early port of call for object database vendors and Versant Object Technology Corp has announced plans to put its database on the NeXT line . |