Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While females are reproducing and suckling , males remain programmed to hunt and to defend their patch against predators . |
| 2 | ‘ I see you 've come to know me well , ’ responded Antony . |
| 3 | In May I 've come to stay . |
| 4 | It helped if you got caught to know as little as possible . |
| 5 | They 're the side of Freud , that has tended to be ignored , even by the people you would 've expected to take the greatest notice of them . |
| 6 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 7 | Perceived discrepancy between behaviour and standard triggers change designed to reduce such discrepancy . |
| 8 | Place the sensor in the centre of the Helmholtz coils with one pickup winding aligned to pick up maximum flux . |
| 9 | It is common for a Member who has asked a question on an important matter but who is dissatisfied with the answer that he has received to give notice that he wishes to raise the matter again on the adjournment and to do so . |
| 10 | Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others , faithfully administering God 's grace in its various forms . |
| 11 | Amid the raging debate around the asylum law , which the CDU has manipulated to account for Germany 's plight , voters also pinned the source of their frustrations and fears on the presence of ‘ too many ’ foreigners in Germany . |
| 12 | Practice with ‘ sticks ’ ( miniature kites on the end of a I metre ( 39in ) dowel ) forms a good start for understanding both the figures and the jargon which has developed to describe the shapes . |
| 13 | This role has developed to include giving counselling to individual sufferers , co-facilitating a support group , training other professionals and co-running a therapy group for women with bulimia . |
| 14 | Although many builders continue to use directly employed labour , a pronounced tendency has developed to employ labour on a sub-contract basis , particularly in southern England . |
| 15 | Furthermore , to the extent that a tendency has developed to disbelieve policemen , who are after all officers of the law , it marks a serious deterioration in the quality of the administration of justice . |
| 16 | The language that has developed to express these ideas is becoming increasingly more difficult for those outside the immediate discussion to understand . |
| 17 | This approach emphasises that abuse is rare simply because the idea of a fiduciary relationship ( a relationship where there is a special duty of trust and care ) , and the consequent fiduciary law that has developed to protect this sort of relationship , would neither have evolved nor survived until today . |
| 18 | A law of international organisations has developed to make effective the actions of international organisations , and has displaced the classic rule of treaties and third parties in this context . |
| 19 | A branch of mathematics called network analysis has developed to provide the answers to the type of problem just cited , and network analysis algorithms are incorporated into comprehensive Geographical Information Systems as well as being available for stand-alone PCs . |
| 20 | Fraud is defined in the New Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus as ‘ deliberate deception , trickery , or cheating intended to gain an advantage . ’ |
| 21 | Little has altered to make finance in America and Britain suddenly different from the way it was 10 , 20 or even 30 years ago . |
| 22 | With this in mind , it may be prudent if the wife has remarried to recite details of that marriage ( as in Precedent 34 ) . |
| 23 | There still seems to be a lot to be discovered quantitatively about the physical nature of wave damage or erosion and its precise causes , although Komar ( 1976 ) has pointed to work being done in Japan relating wave height and frequency , together with rock properties , to rates of cliff recession . |
| 24 | Hereford MP Colin Shepherd has lobbied to keep the base open . |
| 25 | Parliament has intervened to give special protection to press reports of statements made on significant public occasions , and there are hints — no more — that in certain cases the courts may be prepared to extend protection of qualified privilege to media investigations of major public scandals . |
| 26 | Interestingly , during the same conversation , discussion switches to Merseyside , when Hounam makes it quite clear he believes someone in the Conservative government has intervened to prevent an investigation into a serious instance of corruption . |
| 27 | As in the opening stages of the civil war in Croatia , the army says it has intervened to protect its soldiers and facilities and act as a buffer between warring sides . |
| 28 | The significant point is that the LDDC has intervened to help out developers of retail , housing and office projects , but has done little for existing local firms and businesses . |
| 29 | To understand this , it is necessary to distinguish between the areas of defence , law and order , and social policy — where the motive of government policy appears to be the concentration of authority to build a ‘ strong state ’ — and full employment , incomes policy , industrial policy , and public ownership from which the government has withdrawn to create ‘ a free economy ’ . |
| 30 | It is like Hegel 's notion of the beautiful soul which denounces the world from which it has withdrawn to avoid having to recognise the extent of its participation in its disorder . |