Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision depends on the introduction of a framework allowing owners to have their horses sponsored , and the payment of appearance money . |
| 2 | DARLINGTON Conservatives say they are pleased with election canvassing returns showing they have the support of half the townspeople they contacted . |
| 3 | Such cosseting made passengers feel they were very special and the airlines did all they could to encourage distinguished people to fly with them Imperial Airways carried HM King Feisal from Baghdad to Gaza in 1927 and later took to publishing monthly lists of their important passengers . |
| 4 | The fixation shift results make it clear that orienting behaviour can be evoked by stimuli that can not have been processed by any contralateral cortical structures . |
| 5 | Some bands who made their own recordings took the opportunity to encourage others to follow their example . |
| 6 | It enlisted the help of the Town Crier to encourage parishioners to empty their larders in time for Lent . |
| 7 | When he suspected a specific person , it was his responsibility to find witnesses to support his case . |
| 8 | In the 1760s Catherine II of Russia had in self-defence to issue decrees ordering her subjects to petition her only through the appropriate officials and not by the direct personal presentation to her of their grievances and requests . |
| 9 | The results of assessments and examinations have been a valuable source of feedback to enable teachers to evaluate their teaching material , curriculum , presentation and so on . |
| 10 | The programme of study encourages individuals to develop their ideas and design progression over a range of fashion , furnishing and domestic textiles , carpet , wallpaper , laminates and decorative papers . |
| 11 | On Dec. 18 , as part of the first round of the CFE talks , the US Defence Department announced proposals to cut US forces by 55,000 , an increase of 22,000 on Bush 's initial proposals in July 1989 . |
| 12 | Beth stood before him now , a dignified creature , her slim shapely figure taut with anger , her wild brown hair loose to her shoulders , and her dark flashing eyes daring him . |
| 13 | The former Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lane , has called for the abolition of automatic life sentences for murder allowing Judges to use their discretion in individual cases . |
| 14 | It is also a part of modern rehabilitation therapy to encourage offenders to express their feelings and experiences regarding their crimes . |
| 15 | This club wants youngsters to choose what we regard as a special game . ’ |
| 16 | Computerisation allows doctors to expand their largely reactive role of sitting in the surgery waiting for ill patients to come to them . |
| 17 | Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’ |
| 18 | In their heyday before 1973 , pyramid selling schemes worked something like this . |
| 19 | He continued also to thrive at North Marston , where the chapter took pains to market their investment with a modish development of the church . |
| 20 | The equipment leisure officers have in mind is mainly made of wood , treated against vandalism and decay , while its lay-out means children using it will at no time be more than one and a half feet off the ground . |
| 21 | In an attempt to get farms to sell their above-plan harvest to the republic , scarce consumer goods were earmarked for sale to farms in return for grain ( such as a television set for 30 tonnes of grain ) . |
| 22 | " There was a shipment of gelignite heading into the quarry at Soloheadbeg , and the Brigade had orders to capture it … " |
| 23 | SOMETIMES the intensity of a friendship makes parents fear their child could get hurt . |
| 24 | As her last teaching term ended Classes arranged their own forms of appreciation , complete with gifts and Marlow Class ( the first one in the Area ) laid on a surprise part in the 400–year old cottage of their Class Secretary . |
| 25 | This course allows students to extend their knowledge and understanding of the modern world , and to gain an appreciation of the elements which characterize the 19th and 20th centuries . |
| 26 | From Oct. 1 , Czech and Slovak citizens would have the opportunity to purchase coupons enabling them to buy shares . |
| 27 | The change caused agencies to re-think their attitude to TV commercials , and led to an increase in animation and product-based films using trick photography . |
| 28 | As a result , US employers were adamant in their determination to resist efforts to unionise their steel mills . |
| 29 | Such a plan allows schools to manage themselves more democratically and to keep the curriculum as the major focus . |
| 30 | The Payment of Wages Act allows employers to make it a condition of employment that new employees should be paid through a bank , but prohibits them from doing this with existing employees ( though of course individual existing employees can agree voluntarily to accept bank-account payment ) . |