Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Playing in the biggest entry of the day in Grade Three , Ballynahinch Pipe Band with Pipe Major Ian Jess , had 2 3/4 points to spare to take first place . |
| 2 | Yes , because the inspector who goes has to pay that price . |
| 3 | Adopting the ‘ method of science ’ involves resolving to use whatever rules can be justified by reference to the hypothesis of reality . |
| 4 | As the weeks pass , fermentation and the heat it produces starts to dwindle . |
| 5 | It generally aids understanding to use short rather than long words . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others , faithfully administering God 's grace in its various forms . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The language that has developed to express these ideas is becoming increasingly more difficult for those outside the immediate discussion to understand . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And then she starts demanding to know what they 're going to do and he keeps saying they 're gon na write , they 're gon na write , they 're gon na write . |
| 18 | Chris only has to go to see his wife once a week in that cottage hospital and we 're able to meet quite often now . ’ |
| 19 | Two : who has to go to make way for him ? |
| 20 | Before such Big Events , the horse needs handling to increase its tolerance and confidence for such an occasion . |
| 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 | OK , so it eventually becomes an obsession , and someone has to kill to get the key , but it keeps the audience alert , particularly when there 's a late night knock at the door . |
| 24 | The ordinary shares held by management , which may confer control of Newco , will be a small proportion of the total share and loan capital of Newco , so that the amount management needs to borrow to acquire their stake in Newco is affordable , and can be serviced by dividends and earnings , with , it is to be hoped , the additional benefit of interest relief on their borrowings ( see 4.4 above ) . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend has made it clear that no willing volunteer will be turned away and that anybody who wants to continue to serve with the TA will be able to do so , maybe not with the unit in which he is now serving , but with another unit . |
| 26 | But of course if one wants to continue to have the capability into the next century , which the present er range of aircraft provides , er then Eurofighter two thousand may be the only available platform for those purposes . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's all very well nominating a person to be a governor of a school , but then a company has to continue to give its support , ’ she pointed out . |
| 28 | If SR is to remain a relevant magazine it has to continue to attract new young readers — with outlets for feminist and particularly lesbian thought being cut back on all sides SR could well be a first line in this battle for the foreseeable future . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Hereford MP Colin Shepherd has lobbied to keep the base open . |