Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well managed and financially sound , it is well placed to continue to outperform . ’ |
| 2 | Doctor Ryding 's passport bears witness to the thousands of miles he 's travelled helping to save lives for the red cross . |
| 3 | ‘ I was taken to see the vaults and was fascinated to try to lift a gold bar , ’ he says . |
| 4 | The items listed appear to cover most projects . |
| 5 | However , since this is not a prerequisite for acceptance on the Minor Project , some schools did not form one , and several of those which were formed appear to have lapsed following the completion of the school 's spending phase . |
| 6 | But a mathematician should be taught to try to take me with him , so that I may have some appreciation of what he is doing , and why he enjoys doing it . |
| 7 | Before the anniversary I had intended to try to mark every hundred days of John 's captivity in some way , but the prospect of battling through another summer of silence seemed impossible . |
| 8 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 9 | Normal plasma membranes were exposed to TAGH to investigate its effects on membrane phosphorylation . |
| 10 | An international committee was formed to try to overcome this the Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique or CCITT . |
| 11 | Some of our business sectors , notably nitrogen and solvents , are expected to continue to perform well and will be operated to generate cash to help fund growth sectors elsewhere . |
| 12 | While the seven sectors examined were expected to continue to create jobs until the end of the decade , that rate of increase is predicted to be lower than in the recent past , as new technology and industrial concentration increase productivity . |
| 13 | The growth rate in 1990 was expected to continue to decline as it did in 1989 , partly because of a predicted economic slowdown in the USA which was the destination of 30 per cent of Singapore 's exports . |
| 14 | The electronics division of EMI was expected to continue to generate cash , initially at a higher level than the scanner operation and ending up at about the same amount . |
| 15 | The great motive power behind information technology is ever-diminishing unit costs , so that the application of computers can be expected to continue to proliferate . |
| 16 | Relations with Taiwan were expected to be downgraded to " representative " status , but Taiwan 's state-run Chinese Petroleum Corporation was expected to continue to buy the bulk of its crude oil from Saudi Arabia . |
| 17 | The contribution made by occupational pensions is expected to continue to grow . |
| 18 | Stuart Gee , National Sales Manager of Tarmac Bricks and Tiles is equally buoyant about long-term prospects : ‘ Although the market is currently sluggish , the popularity of natural clay products is expected to continue to grow , stimulated by an expansion in pitched roof construction . |
| 19 | In the managers ' view , now is a good time to invest in European bonds as returns remain high , inflation is low , and the Bundesbank and other central banks are expected to continue to lower interest rates . |
| 20 | He added that as much as a third of BP 's oil production was expected to continue to come from the North Sea until the turn of the century . |
| 21 | Thereafter Trusts will be expected to continue to provide such services subject to review at the request of either party to the contract and , in the event of disagreement , the approval of the Secretary of State . ’ |
| 22 | Despite the publicity given to deforestation of the tropics , such land-use changes are expected to continue to contribute less to annual carbon emissions than those from fossil-fuel burning . |
| 23 | He was expected to continue to pursue the broad objectives of the outgoing government , including regional peace in accordance with President Arias 's 1987 peace plan ( Esquipulas II — see p. 35441-42 ) , to which he had initially been opposed . |
| 24 | THE jury in the trial of a man accused of attempting to murder walker Josephine Chandler is expected to retire to reach a verdict today . |
| 25 | The jury at the trial of former Swindon Town manager Lou Macari is expected to retire to consider its verdict tomorrow . |
| 26 | Branson understood media manipulation as well as anybody , and had much enjoyed helping to orchestrate the on-going controversy around the Sex Pistols once they had signed to Virgin . |
| 27 | THREE hundred Liverpool football fans are expected to gather to pay tribute to supporter Dennis Corbett , who died while on a trip to watch his team play in Moscow . |
| 28 | A clearinghouse must be highly visible , and the librarian actively reminded to continue to contribute . |
| 29 | It was not designed to continue to seek closer economic unification . |
| 30 | Hence the prices the established firm sets for the vector of products supplied may be expected to fall to average costs ( on average ) across the range , if the established firm is to remain in control . |