Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I can hassle for business contacts in these areas at conferences as soon as I get to a conference .
2 Mr Baker also said three MPs would act as campaign co-ordinators in London , Birmingham and Leeds for next May 's council elections .
3 Mr Baker also said three MPs would act as campaign co-ordinators in London , Birmingham and Leeds for next May 's council elections .
4 The Conservatives , Winston Churchill predicted , with rather more prescience than Asquith , would not ‘ act as bottle holders to those who kicked us into the street three months ago and deliberately erected this Socialist monstrosity ’ .
5 In the next few days you will be briefed by your managers who will be picking up issues specific to your particular part of the organisation and who will act as feedback channels for your questions and concerns .
6 These higher social classes may themselves act as opinion leaders for the other social classes , who , over a period of time , may adopt the change .
7 And what do we know about childhood determinants of adult disorder which might be amenable to preventive intervention ?
8 tt right , yeah , incomes have risen throughout the world and that impacts both on the demand for agricultural products and also the demand for manufactured products but what do we know about demand elasticities for those two products , income elasticities what 's the income elasticity of manufactured goods ?
9 IF Mr Deaves can not sell his mansion , he could qualify for state handouts for even longer than a year .
10 I do not approve of animal pets in my properties . ’
11 International House can also assist with hotel reservations in London .
12 There is also a view that sexual crimes against men are regarded with more gravity than sexual crimes against women and that if men as well as women could be the legal victims of rape , this might assist in changing attitudes towards the offence .
13 In spite of her title , she does not pursue in detail questions about the language in which men and women reason .
14 At least one company does specialise in aviation communications on the PC and that is Hart Technology ( 020622 3185 , fax 020622 5328 ) .
15 They were alright , big glass things which you could surround and pack in tea chests with bits and pieces and equipment in .
16 Finally , attention will focus on island communities in the developing world where land-use has created specific environmental problems that are frequently related to watershed abuse .
17 We can think of radar signals as a series of pulses , but each pulse has a so-called carrier frequency .
18 Despite the elevation of chef to artisan cook to fine artist , it is still rare to find a British restaurant where food is served without a main eye on fashion and where home-grown ingredients do no appear as mutant clones of other cuisines .
19 In the face of such pain , does it really matter about crime figures in Scotland coming down ?
20 Even in the early '50's of this century , people of the Ambleside area would show with pride prints by William Green of Ambleside .
21 I will refrain from horror stories of Burleigh 's past , but I assure you , Corbett is right .
22 You 're just looking to see if there are any aspects of a person 's drive where , you know , one or two habits might have crept in which could possibly encroach upon safety margins to some extent .
23 If , for example , banks refuse overdrafts , people may well borrow from building societies by extending their house mortgages .
24 His name does not appear in university records of the time , but in September 1775 he was ordained in London , and appointed to curacies first at Tideswell , and in the following year at Wirksworth , also in Derbyshire , but at double the stipend , £60 p.a .
25 Some practitioners , especially singlehanded ones , may benefit from training initiatives for doctors to reduce ‘ sympathetic prescribing ’ under pressure from patients .
26 The Policy Studies Institute preliminary report Credit and Debt in Britain ( February 1990 ) emphasized that mortgages did not result in problem debts for the vast majority of borrowers .
27 Any error and it could result in lorry loads of the wrong colour .
28 The Commission estimated that the tax would result in price rises of 6 per cent in petrol and 11 per cent in diesel .
29 The Commission estimated that the tax would result in price rises of 6 per cent in petrol , 11 per cent in diesel , 14 per cent in domestic natural gas and 16 per cent in light fuel oil .
30 On April 9 , 1991 , Michelin , the world 's largest tyre company , announced that it would be cutting its French workforce by 4,900 by the end of 1992 as part of a 15 per cent overall reduction in its 130,000-strong world-wide workforce , which would also result in job losses of 2,230 in the United States , 2,000 in Spain , and 800 in the United Kingdom .
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