Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , people from other walks of life may be invited to support or participate in In-service training sessions run by the education authority or by individual Compact schools . |
| 2 | The kind of information that the general manager normally receives also affects his or her ability to conceive or to commit to new strategic ideas . |
| 3 | But it 's difficult , who should you look after — your solicitors who are trying to increase or break into criminal work or should you look after the client 's interests by giving him only solicitors who are already tried and tested . |
| 4 | Editor , — Moira E O'Meara and J Gareth Jones state that a laryngeal mask may prove life saving when a patient is impossible to intubate or ventilate by traditional methods . |
| 5 | Editor , — Moira E O'Meara and J Gareth Jones mention the life saving potential of the laryngeal mask when the patient is impossible to intubate or ventilate by traditional methods . |
| 6 | Conversely , the assessment of insufficient performance points clearly to the sort of services necessary to redress or compensate for functional deficits . |
| 7 | For example , limitations on domestic heating during winter smogs could lead to the elderly suffering from hypothermia , and prohibitions on the use of private cars could increase exposure to outdoor pollution whilst walking to work or waiting for public transport . |
| 8 | There can be no doubt that the liabilities which the drafter might seek to exclude or restrict in standard terms of trading will be " business liabilities " and any exclusions in such standard terms are therefore potentially subject to the Act . |
| 9 | It is in this setting that I want to try and talk about Moral Re-Armament . |
| 10 | For a department within C U and er we 've done this design on it , and come up with a new system , that we want to try and sell to other departments within the company . |
| 11 | There has always been this tendency over here to try and save on public spending , ’ says Professor Greve . |
| 12 | I used to try and act in straight plays but I was so bad they made me act with my back to the audience . |
| 13 | However , if you take characters like Lysander and Demetrius in A Midsummer-Night 's Dream , it 's obvious , even to me , that it would be ridiculous to try and look for complex psychology and motivation in them , you know . |
| 14 | However , if you take characters like Lysander and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , it 's obvious , even to me , that it would be ridiculous to try and look for complex psychology and motivation in them . |
| 15 | The history of Judaism provides an example of how an organised religion can completely fail to live up to its promises and yet be stubbornly adhered to , its followers being prepared to accept and support with blind acceptance , whatever excuses or explanations are offered for those failures by the hierarchy . |
| 16 | He was aware that Members had to come and go at irregular intervals at the behest of their lords and masters when the House was in session , but he feared the worst . |
| 17 | In short , not only does the user have a better time , the support desk gets far fewer calls to come and deal with apparent equipment failures . |
| 18 | Given the substantial changes in the economic , political , and business environment of large firms over the past two decades , a critical factor affecting the relative competitive position of British firms must be the capability of firms to adjust and adapt to major changes in the environments and thereby improve their competitive performance . |
| 19 | The buffet provided at this year 's Meeting with the opportunity to meet and chat with other members does not seem to have had sufficient appeal to justify another evening out . |
| 20 | The international aims of the symposia are the following : To promote inter-institutional collaborative research ; To allow junior researchers to meet and discuss with established researchers ; To engender interest in , and enthusiasm for , infancy research ; To produce publications , with contributions from the symposium attenders ; To serve as a major focus for infancy research in this country . |
| 21 | The series is designed to inform and exemplify without mathematical wizardry , and is aimed at those who read scientific papers as well as those who write them . |
| 22 | 2.1 It is widely recognised that English law is defective in failing to provide satisfactory machinery for the imposition on freehold land of positive obligations ( such as obligations to repair and to contribute to communal maintenance costs ) which can then be enforced against successors in title to the original owner of the land . |
| 23 | As indicated in paras 1.1. 5 and 6 above , the developments in European Studies and American Studies are expected to consolidate and build on existing research strengths in these fields . |
| 24 | They reject the role of helplessness and attempt to re-engage and integrate into religious ritual the energy of the feminine psyche . |
| 25 | So , for example , Burns and Stalker ( 1961 ) were able to divide forms of management structure into mechanistic and organic , the former being appropriate for firms operating under relatively stable market conditions because routine decision-making handles unchanging tasks efficiently , and the latter being appropriate to rapidly changing product environments where there is a continuous need to innovate and deal with new and unpredictable problems . |
| 26 | The writer 's kitten is spending a lot of time , and not a little of his owner 's patience , in developing a set of skills specifically to enable him to find and to cope with living prey . |
| 27 | Each DHA would continue to be responsible to provide and pay for comprehensive care for its own resident population , but not for other people without current compensation . |
| 28 | Each DHA ( District Health Authority ) would continue to be responsible to provide and pay for comprehensive care for its own resident population . |
| 29 | Thicker films , while less liable to crinkle and curl on porous or high relief specimens , are much more difficult to mount flat , and give lower contrast and microscopic resolution . |
| 30 | Those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US transportation secretary , Federico Pena , laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |