Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |
| 2 | The capitalist state has to perform two essential but often contradictory functions . |
| 3 | He can ask the school , the major motoring associations , his social worker or his general practitioner whether he needs to attend one of the recognized centres for handicapped drivers . |
| 4 | With Gilleece crashing out of third place on the last stage , Greer leapfrogged to the top of the championship table for the first time and now heads to round six in Cavan next Sunday with a 14-point advantage over the Belfast dentist . |
| 5 | Overland , it needs to see 4 satellites at any one time to give a three dimensional ‘ fix ’ including altitude . |
| 6 | Only two outsiders are permitted to eat from the kitchen — the governor , who has to sample one meal every day to be able to answer any complaints the following day , and the doctor , who tastes the food two or three times a week to ensure that it is balanced and nutritious . |
| 7 | Each truck has to carry 26 of them , together weighing over a ton . |
| 8 | Great difficulties arise if an aged person , who has probably just been released from hospital and who is very ill , can not manage in what is usually a two-storey house where the facilities are upstairs , and has to wait 13 months before the application for downstairs facilities is even sanctioned . |
| 9 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 10 | Robinson has a daughter who has to wait 12 months for an operation , it is no use telling her that 10 , 20 , or 25 years ago the situation was similar or much worse , because Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Robinson will still consider that the NHS is unsatisfactory today , and will naturally blame the Government . |
| 11 | Noticeable notice that our our growth er , items er six and seven additional enforcement officer er officers for countryside protection , er we can actually like to do that and I 'll just come on to that in a moment when I get to two B but also in terms of growth er this group wants to see ten er whole time fire fighters , additional whole time fire fighters erm we wo n't get better in terms of confidence though fire engine survey this year but we we 'd rather sort of form |
| 12 | Tim Jarvis says it 's always been his ambition to ride in the National and now he wants to go one step further . |
| 13 | ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society . |
| 14 | Corresponding to taste 1 , smell 1 and feel 1 , French has a single item sentir 1 , which is non-specific with respect to the three perceptual modes ; there is , however , a distinct sentir 2 , which corresponds to smell 2 . |
| 15 | If a single advert produces 500 replies — the example of construction recruitment in The Sun , again — the recruitment team has to write 1500 letters . |
| 16 | According to the latter system each country is given a number of votes in relation to its size and to gain a majority a proposal has to obtain fifty-four votes out of a total of seventy-six and be approved by at least eight member states . |
| 17 | In the Sahel a couple has to bear 10 children to be 95% certain of producing a son who will survive to the age of 38 . |
| 18 | This has to work two ways of course . |
| 19 | Every man jack has to work ten days each year for nothing as a kind of tax . |
| 20 | But this hero wo n't be quiet , and when our Leader wants to pass thousands of new laws in a matter of half an hour or so , he jumps to his feet and objects . |
| 21 | Use mole grips to secure one end of the wire to the foot while the rest is being looped round . |
| 22 | The meal needs to contain 1000 kCal or more and have a relatively high fat contant ( <40% ) . |
| 23 | In making this judgement , I have assumed that an encyclopedia has to meet three essential criteria : it should be easy to use ; have a wide coverage ; and be both accurate and up-to-date . |
| 24 | After fourteen dry nights the child has to drink two pints of fluid during the hour before bed in order to stress their bladders and test the children 's ability to wake up during the night . |
| 25 | Eric 's at Ilkeston , and wants to sell thirty home brew bottles for five pounds . |
| 26 | Now the government wants to sell two big oil refineries , the National Tourist Organisation , and up to 49% of the shares in the vast state telecoms company . |
| 27 | Alistair Campbell will be chasing the 25 runs he needs to reach 500 for the season with club delighted by his contribution on and off the field . |
| 28 | That 's why , even today , Man at Dartington has to sweat ten years in front of the furnace before he 's considered a Masterblower . |
| 29 | It has interfaces to a number of products such as Cadam , I-DEAS and Unigraphics and is from $13,000 ; Fujitsu looks to sell 3,000 systems over three years . |
| 30 | Fujitsu looks to sell 35,000 units of the new models over the next two years . |