Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How would you apply the principles of horizontal and vertical equity in deciding how much to tax two people , each capable of doing the same work , but one of whom chooses to devote more time to sun-bathing and therefore has a lower income ? |
| 2 | International discussion of service of process is influenced — and often confused — by the differing assumptions of the participants , each of whom tends to project on to the international plane the familiar features of his own national system . |
| 3 | TWO GIRLS , FAT AND THIN Mary Gaitskill The fat girl is an obsessive devotee of popular novelist Anna Granite , the thin girl a New York writer who goes to interview her . |
| 4 | He makes ‘ Die Welt ’ and in it he tells of Zangwill who goes to make settlement in Uganda , but mostly he tells of your English government . |
| 5 | then it should be available to all , so anybody who goes to stand in when they 're off with er , broken legs ! |
| 6 | On one side is Martin Amis , the boy who hates to lose . |
| 7 | A ‘ nice guy ’ who hates to hurt people 's feelings ? |
| 8 | An officer who neglects to take a statutory sample which hindsight shows was necessary will find that his omission is more visible to senior staff than his taking a formal sample which is subsequently used in a prosecution by the authority . |
| 9 | At the end of the debriefing we are all still on speaking terms , and no one disagrees violently with the criticism of his performance , which is What you would expect from anyone Who aspires to take their profession seriously . |
| 10 | It concerns Nathaniel Pipkin , a parish clerk , who aspires to marry Maria , daughter of the local saddler , Old Lobbs , but whom she eschews in favour of Henry , brother of her friend Kate . |
| 11 | In the graphic image taken from contemporary devotion of the lord who aspires to kiss Christ 's mouth in spiritual devotions and in doing so neglects acts of charity and so treads on his feet , Hilton skilfully combines all the strands of thought on the roles of action and contemplation in the Christian life as the means by which the individual works out his full spiritual potential ( 25 – 6.273 – 88 ) . |
| 12 | Claiming that millions of people had had their lives damaged by the teachings of Roman Catholicism , one correspondent wrote , ‘ There should be no restraint in asking the most searching questions of a man … who aspires to bring people and their children into the Catholic fold . ’ |
| 13 | For he who thinks to remain neutral is above all a sceptic . |
| 14 | Who thinks to ride an angel down ! |
| 15 | A cat , of course , is a wild animal who agrees to live with you . |
| 16 | Also the Head discusses the problem with the School Nurse who agrees to do a home visit to the child in question . |
| 17 | Never did anything but harm to my way of thinking , ’ says George Kittlemann , a rancher who agrees to explain the ‘ for sale ’ sign posted by his fence . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( e ) ‘ member ’ means a person who agrees to become a member of a body corporate and whose name is entered in its register of members ; |
| 20 | According to this view , the woman who agrees to have sex with D only when he promises to marry her ( never intending to keep this promise ) — and because he has promised to marry her — is a victim not of rape but of the lesser offence of procuring sexual intercourse by false representations . |
| 21 | Whether this is acceptable to the vendor is a matter of commercial negotiation and depends on who agrees to bear the risk that a consent is refused or not forthcoming within a specified period . |
| 22 | It drives us home to the God who longs to turn our disasters into triumph . |
| 23 | We have a God who longs to answer prayer ; a God who listens to our words and answers them ; a God who knows our thoughts and answers the prayers that we can not express in words ; a God whose ability to answer prayer is not limited by the finite , but who can do infinitely more abundantly above all that we can ask for or think of asking . |
| 24 | or the man with a dog who turns to ask his friend |
| 25 | ‘ And just who dares to say that I do n't look after my son properly ? |
| 26 | Advertisements classified to put in newspaper/magazine for sale/wanted who dares to stay overnight in the Haunted House ? cards in shop window " Lost — one dragon ! " display advertisements/posters . |
| 27 | The full power of the Official Secrets Act and the threat of prosecution and loss of pension is ranged against any man who dares to speak out . |
| 28 | Norris , still clad in his white lab coat , was one of those medical students whom fate has seemingly marked out to spend the bulk of their studies and initial training suffering from quite stupendous hangovers incurred through the intake of near-fatal levels of alcohol the night before , and their subsequent professional careers sternly finger-wagging at any member of the general public who dares to consume over the course of a week what they themselves had been perfectly happy to sink during the average evening . |
| 29 | This new type of farmer is one who refuses to submit to nature , who rebels against passivity and fatalism and who dares to innovate . ’ |
| 30 | Who dares to question , let alone contradict , the verdict of time and a succession of prestigious critics ? |