Example sentences of "[vb base] [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 | Perceived discrepancy between behaviour and standard triggers change designed to reduce such discrepancy . |
| 3 | Certain administrative changes at this time appear designed to effect a stricter supervision by the Exchequer over the collection of the Forest revenues , and to lessen the temptation to extortion by the Forest officers . |
| 4 | Murrayfield Racers , with just a point from three games , appear destined to miss Wembley for only the second time in nine years , but were unlucky to lose 5-4 at Durham . |
| 5 | It was there Chant wanted to go now , but there were new signs of atrophy in his body with every heart-beat . |
| 6 | But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ . |
| 7 | He decided to dispense with the goodlooking , personable high-achiever destined to succeed and instead back the incumbent of this space . |
| 8 | PAVILION RECORDS ( PEARL ) — I am , I hope allowed to cheat here because , Pearl comes just above mid-price at £10.50 . |
| 9 | A lot of Emo 's gags seem calculated to make you retch and he 's not averse to teasing his audience with routines based on taboo subjects like child abuse and necrophilia . |
| 10 | With this performance , the Hagen Quarter seem resolved to provide argument refuting facile suggestions of Op. 135 as ‘ a reversion to Haydn ’ , suggestions which do no credit to either composer . |
| 11 | But others seem designed to confuse , such as the curious vanupied — formerly va-nu-pieds , meaning ragamuffin . |
| 12 | Procedures for obtaining funding , however , seem designed to stifle any enterprise and initiative . |
| 13 | They seem designed to tap into an audience desire to atone for something and resolve it with a bumper sticker morality and a mushy climax . |
| 14 | But his policy positions , as far as they can be pinned down , seem designed to offend almost everybody . |
| 15 | Your comments on royalty in NI 211 ( Classic ) seem designed to reduce respect for our monarchy . |
| 16 | The attacks , all using an explosive base of fertiliser rather than Semtex , seem designed to prove the IRA 's ability to infiltrate even the most protected areas . |
| 17 | That most of these songs seem designed to soothe a troubled soul is down to Lanegan 's croon , a remarkable vocal instrument that posits Leonard Cohen as stadium rock god . |
| 18 | Some government policies seem designed to achieve greater income equality by redistributing income from more affluent to poorer groups . |
| 19 | Now both sides seem destined to join Motherwell in a three-way struggle to avoid relegation . |
| 20 | Moreover , the looming rises in direct taxation ( coupled with a drastically-increased cost of motoring ) seem destined to hit the middle-earner particularly hard , and that is surely where ministers should be looking for any significant rise in consumer demand . |
| 21 | But the 5ft 9ins open-side is bitter his pace and all-action game seem destined to take his ambitions no further than the England B side , for whom he excelled in New Zealand this summer . |
| 22 | ‘ We seem destined to keep crossing paths , as though our lives are linked in some mysterious plan . ’ |
| 23 | Their action seems to licence immorality in the city , setting an example which others seem destined to follow . |
| 24 | Two and a half years ago Camel Laird started a campaign to gain access to the intervention funding and because of the total lack of any sort of industrial policy by this government , and their refusal to support the Camel Laird application to the E E C , next month will see the closure of Camel Lairds which will lead to a loss of skills that amounts almost to a criminal act on the part of this government , who seem prepared to allow this country to become a skill-free zone in order to drive down wages and conditions to a rate comparable with some Third World countries . |
| 25 | Which none of my colleagues seem prepared to direct to . |
| 26 | The Palisade units produced by Forest Fencing are individually machine turned to give a very neat appearance . |
| 27 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 28 | In A Days Work , Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat erm we know come to a |
| 29 | That congregations lie helped to explore and experiment with new music ( 550–554 ) . |
| 30 | O you little rogue , you seem born to undo or to be undone ! |