Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Regina station Mr Murray insisted on climbing up into the engine tender to shake hands with and thank the engineer and fireman who had brought us through the storm on this far-from-ordinary journey . |
| 2 | An electric drill is essential for plumbing work : there are a lot of holes that need to be made in walls either to pass pipes through or to secure pipe clips or to support fittings such as basins , central heating boilers and so on — and making these is much easier with an electric drill fitted with a masonry drill bit . |
| 3 | Much of the legislation governing public intervention in family life is in fact concerned with laying a duty on public authorities to ‘ diminish the need to receive children into or keep them in care ’ ( Child Care Act 1980 , S. 1 ) , while the terminology of the law emphasises the reception of children into care , rather than the popular phrase ‘ taking them into care ’ . |
| 4 | Under this Act they were given responsibility ‘ to make available such advice , guidance and assistance as may promote the welfare of children by diminishing the need to receive children into or keep them in care ’ . |
| 5 | In 1619 William joined Pavier in an attempt to publish plays by and attributed to Shakespeare , apparently intending to sell them in sets of nine volumes . |
| 6 | Into the discussions of partnership in validation , the ‘ blue book ’ and the possibility of new validation arrangements with ‘ mature ’ institutions were fed the varied attempts to draw lessons from and conduct dialogue around the specific difficulties encountered over the Teesside visit . |
| 7 | I would n't try to put records on and start dancing , not until they was ready . |
| 8 | It will house a nucleus family of gorillas in its other half and we hope to be able to start a breeding programme and also to collect funds for and publicise the Digit Fund , set up to conserve gorillas in the wild . |
| 9 | So the women were n't staying at home in the itched to make things for or to back or anything ? |
| 10 | Every scientific paper , be it ever so short and its subject ever so tiny , is nevertheless supposed , at least in principle , to make claims about and build upon , in a logical and verifiable fashion , our knowledge of the rest of the entire natural and social world ; an ambitious aim . |