Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may involve special categories of trader , such as the market maker , who is under an obligation ( by the exchange rules ) to quote a price in a given contract whenever asked ; the designated broker , who agrees to promote a particular contract without giving a binding commitment to deal ; and the " local " , who trades his personal account on the exchange floor . |
| 2 | Thriving under the feet of elephants Quentin Cowdry goes to see a giant-slaying small firm which is |
| 3 | Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes on the Lamont affair WHEN he goes to see a Shakespeare play he wants to know what happens at the end . |
| 4 | They will of course charge for doing the job , but if you appoint somebody else as an executor and that person goes to see a solicitor the solicitor will also be charging for the job . |
| 5 | With the ardour of his age Dick agrees to carry a vital message across the frontier into Flavonia : delighting in unexpected action , he is afraid only of being late and failing in his mission and it is the free resourcefulness of a boy that ensures that in spite of accidents the message does get through . |
| 6 | These new , relatively small , selective colleges are to be set up by private sponsors , with government grants to provide a free education with a technological emphasis for 11–16-year-olds . |
| 7 | This meeting agrees to provide a reasonable level of financial and logistical and other support to those students who wish to pursue legal action against the CLE , who are not eligible for legal aid . |
| 8 | Offices were established at the destination points to provide a service for the international traveller . |
| 9 | We accept that the Minister has honoured his commitment ; he has brought forward powers to establish a funding council . |
| 10 | Johnson claimed that whenever Montesquieu ‘ wants to support a strange opinion , he quotes you the practice of Japan or of some other distant country , of which he knows nothing ’ . |
| 11 | The machine does not need to know anything : it has to perform a task . |
| 12 | In competition a sailor has to perform a three minute routine , performing as many tricks as he can and linking them together with a smooth flowing act . |
| 13 | The underthread for the lockstitch is provided by the bobbin , and the needle thread has to perform a loop to go around the bobbin which is held in a bobbin case under a slide plate . |
| 14 | Feminism , as I have said , needs to preserve a critical distance from all theories of self . |
| 15 | However there are a number of important controlling factors : firstly , the subject fixates centrally ( usually he has to report a digit which is presented in order to confirm this central fixation ) ; secondly , the stimulus is exposed for less than 200 milliseconds to avoid eye movement ; thirdly , the visual angle of the stimuli from the fixation point should be between 2.5° and 5° ( otherwise , confounding effects occur ) . |
| 16 | I CAN sympathise with the businessman who stands to lose a Pounds 30 million contract because BR delays repeatedly made him late for meetings . |
| 17 | Whether Mr Coleridge wants to crown a successful career by pulling down the edifice in which he has enjoyably spent his working life is another matter entirely . |
| 18 | And now the man who yearned with all his heart for all his life to be a woman and who is just months away from radical surgery wants to remain a man . |
| 19 | I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record . |
| 20 | It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way . |
| 21 | ‘ He has to see a man , ’ I reminded her tonelessly . |
| 22 | Perhaps it 's enough to be Scarlet , who has to see a therapist and dreams only of early retirement and death . |
| 23 | Craig 's father Robert says his son is still suffering from nightmares , and has to see a psychiatrist weekly for counselling . |
| 24 | They believe that the student first needs to acquire a perception of the analogies involved in the patterns of the language , and to be drilled until a considerable body of material has been learned , since analysis of the language is considered by them to be an advanced study . |
| 25 | Nurses training needs to include a brief session on the effects of adoption on health and family relationships so nurses working in hospitals and the community can assume an active role with adoption participants . |
| 26 | This is great as far as it goes , but it needs to go a lot farther ! |
| 27 | Monika said yesterday : ‘ He needs to go a lot further for me to be happy — but these letters are certainly a start . ’ |
| 28 | In this case , the agent only needs to see a ticket manifest ( a government-stamped document showing how many tickets are printed for the venue ) and a box office statement from the hall ( stating how many tickets were sold ) when checking the promoter 's expenses . |
| 29 | In a new age of philistinism , when everything has to wear a price tag , the beauty and wonder of the world of nature have low value in the market place . |
| 30 | She now has to wear a neck brace , keep her left arm still with a sling and use a walking stick . |