Example sentences of "[adj] [am/are] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories would like to repeat the mistakes of the 1950s , while Labour are determinted to repeat the mistake of renegotiation in the 1970s . |
| 2 | With this , during the period of the loan , you only pay interest while paying premiums into an endowment savings plan — at maturity the proceeds of this are used to repay the capital you have borrowed . |
| 3 | Theorists who reflect about the ways in which things might have been different are bound to consider the question of what might have made events take another course . |
| 4 | ( Where no explicit reference is made , below , to a course being available on a part-time basis , those interested are advised to consult the department concerned . ) |
| 5 | These are used to check the identification and validity of guest keycards before charges are made to the guest 's account . |
| 6 | These are used to change the output states as required . |
| 7 | On machines with automatic end needle selection cams , these are set to select the end needles to the selected position . |
| 8 | These are included to assist the reader and as a means of illustrating drafting techniques , but they should be used carefully with appropriate amendment . |
| 9 | Many other systems ( Riseman and Hanson , 1974 ; Ullman , 1977 ; Hull and Srihari , 1982 ) use similar methods with grams , but it should be noted that the majority of these are designed to check the spelling of typed input . |
| 10 | Oxford United are trying to bring the family back to football . |
| 11 | The existing 13 practices will be joined by 20 others by the start of next month and a further 25 are preparing to take the plunge in a year 's time . |
| 12 | Jonathan 's method looks at Field 13 and if it contains an entry , Fields 6 and 7 are amalgamated and the contents of Fields 13 to 8 are shuffled to fill the gap . |
| 13 | Sun 's German users in particular are said to favour the Motif option , and IXI has been out testing the waters on both sides of the Atlantic over the last couple of weeks . |
| 14 | The two are negotiating to resolve the dispute , but if they fail to reach agreement , Microsoft would have to develop its own technology for linking Windows clients to NetWare or license similar code from a third party . |
| 15 | Wellord ( 1979 ) suggests that work on the shop-floor is likely to peak in the thirties — those in their twenties lack experience and social skills , those in their forties are beginning to notice the effect of sensory changes and are less tolerant of fast or very heavy physical work . |
| 16 | Both are trying to present the disagreement as a storm in a teacup . |
| 17 | Both are hoping to develop the reading habit , to encourage the child to explore the many pleasures of reading ( and of the growing number of items in audio-visual format ) , and to gain practice in this essential skill as well as in discrimination . |
| 18 | Both are designed to convince the readership of the horror of the subject-matter . |
| 19 | To some extent , SCI has a rival in the Futurebus+ architecture , also an IEEE standard , born in the 1970s but only now gaining recognition : both are set to hit the market at the same time . |