Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some focus on a particular joint-venture subsidiary company ; some involve the sharing of research and development ; some are an alliance of production capacity with marketing strength ; some involve putting a foreign product under a domestic label ; some alliances are intended to promote a new standard or form of compatibility ( and to defeat a rival standard ) . |
| 2 | In a Commons statement , Mr Clarke said : ‘ We would very much prefer to see a full accident and emergency service provided by trained ambulancemen , but that is impossible while the unions continue to insist on the 14 conditions which they have imposed . |
| 3 | The Bank ceased to support the gilt-edged market but would sell gilt-edged when the market could absorb stock satisfactorily . |
| 4 | While Gorbachev called for superpower collaboration to " make [ the world ] more calm and reasonable " , Bush sought to assure the Soviet Union that " the West [ sought ] no advantage from the extraordinary changes under way in the East " . |
| 5 | There will , however , always be those who tend to see the negative side and may well suggest you ‘ do n't lose weight too quickly or you 'll look old ’ or ‘ you 'll only put it back on twice as fast if you lose it quickly ’ . |
| 6 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 7 | This ground-level opposition meant that the mining companies never got to prospect the total area that they wanted to investigate , as they would have needed to get court injunctions to get on each farmer 's land . |
| 8 | Under the terms of a final communiqué issued on June 26 all the factions agreed to implement an indefinite ceasefire and promised not to receive any further foreign military aid . |
| 9 | Are you struggling to find a particular product or feel you have a need which is n't being catered for ? |
| 10 | RE must endeavour to revive the natural awareness and sensitivity which most likely has been lost by middle junior school , and apply this recovered awareness to the religious vocabulary which pupils need to understand in order to make sense of religion . |
| 11 | THE Queen 's speech to the nation at the end of her ‘ annus horribilis ’ failed to attract a larger audience than normal yesterday . |
| 12 | The title is intended to indicate a wider scope than ‘ Community legislation ’ in this narrow sense , extending to all categories of Community legal texts . |
| 13 | Freddy Vasquez of the opposition party , the Gibraltar Social Democrats , is demanding to know the exact cost and who will pay . |
| 14 | It may be an absolutely true statement , but it does nothing whatsoever to give any guidance as to the ways in which performance may be improved and merely passes a message down the line that those at the top do not want to know the bad news and would like to dissociate themselves from it . |
| 15 | Professor Ferguson and I said that a routine clinical history and examination ( preferably in private ) were essential in helping to establish the correct diagnosis and treatment of all patients , particularly in people who might be under the mistaken impression that their symptoms were due to allergy . |
| 16 | For example , in the case of starting up a machine at a control panel the operator will be given the instructions and asked to provide a verbal commentary as he actuates the various controls and checks the various indications , this is a ‘ talk through ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ We want to see a working countryside and we do n't want to see it fossilised so it 's almost like a theme park . ’ |
| 18 | Only if you want to go the whole way and produce typeset quality data will you ever need to consider anything better than VGA . |
| 19 | The tone of the debate was set by Home Secretary William Whitelaw 's introductory statement in which he spoke of ( a ) the need to ‘ remove the scourge of criminal violence from our streets ’ , and ( b ) the urgency of developing ‘ policies designed to promote the mutual tolerance and understanding upon which the whole future of a free democratic society depends ’ ( Hansard , vol. 8 , 16 July 1981 : col. 1405 ) . |
| 20 | AN initiative designed to promote the Welsh language and culture in the Vale of Clwyd is to be discussed at a public meeting in Denbigh on June 16 . |
| 21 | This already small and still dwindling breed needs to acquire the comprehensive training that such a course provides . |
| 22 | Perhaps if it 's a bad case the patient has to wear a special boot or keep the leg held straight with iron braces . ’ |
| 23 | She has to wear an artificial arm and mask to protect the skin on her face . |
| 24 | The software also needs to support the various drawing and , if you 're desperate , paint packages . |
| 25 | The name is designed to emphasise the vital energy that comes from fresh fruit and vegetables . ’ |
| 26 | Neil Kinnock will be in his Islwyn constituency in South Wales where local Labour supporters expect to arrange a small party before he heads for London . |
| 27 | At the back of the hotel the army suddenly produced a generator designed to penetrate the deepest slumber and then added a searchlight which they shone , lighting up not only the surrounding countryside in their search for Red Brigade terrorists , but our hotel rooms as well . |
| 28 | The HMI survey of English as a second language in six LEAs ( published 1988 ) found that , on balance , the children in the survey made most progress where the programme to provide help with their English was designed to support the mainstream curriculum but with the oral component heightened . |
| 29 | in the process of revision one wants to see the semantic net and see the linear form repeatedly . |
| 30 | That 's jobs , that 's where you you say you want to support the private sector and the building trade to bring more jobs . |