Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ This is all beautifully rosy but he has not mentioned his plans to tax companies by half a per cent on the payroll for a training tax or plans to enforce a minimum wage on small and medium sized companies which will be particularly badly hit . ’ |
| 2 | I would place Aspen Pittman 's article in the same league as time share selling , or book clubs or something equally hazy with the truth that happens to make a good profit . |
| 3 | Lazzlo Kalmar , the director general of Hungary 's National Labour Organisation , meanwhile , appeared to confirm that plans to introduce a nationwide computer network to automate the payment of benefits to Hungary 's 663,000 unemployed was on hold . |
| 4 | When touched by an adult mouse , a young mouse emits a special ultrasonic call that seems to have a soothing effect on the adult . |
| 5 | LABOUR will restore to NHS control any hospital that opts to become a self-governing trust under the Government 's controversial health service changes , the party 's social services spokesman said yesterday . |
| 6 | I think anything that helps to deliver a healthy child is to be welcomed , not feared . |
| 7 | If the matter that collapses to form a black hole has a net electric charge , the resulting black hole will carry the same charge . |
| 8 | A straight bond is a security that promises to pay a fixed interest or coupon payment every half-year , together with the return of principal or par value of the bond at maturity . |
| 9 | Much of the work that claims to follow a notional/functional line of approach leaves grammar as an implied presence : in sight , perhaps , but not in mind . |
| 10 | Apple Computer Inc has already declared its interest in the chip and plans to introduce a 68060-based machine in the second quarter next year . |
| 11 | Rumours that he is to host a new programme for Janet Street-Porter 's Defecate II , featuring MC Wormski , have been strenuously denied , and plans to front a relaunched Top Of The Plops or join Katie Muckrik on The Turd were pooh-poohed . |
| 12 | Virgin retail was among the top three record-shop chains in Britain , with shops in almost every major town and plans to develop a new concept in record retailing , a ‘ megastore ’ , in Oxford Street , close by the site of the first ever Virgin shop . |
| 13 | He remains on the board , representing employee shareholders , and intends to take a thirty-day breather before looking for what to do next . |
| 14 | Apparently she likes it in Hochhauser and intends to take a little holiday here — as we have already paid her fare from London . ’ |
| 15 | This is the Olympic class and tends to have a higher standard with a limited following . |
| 16 | The bulk of this chapter has been taken up with a discussion of the relationship between the undergraduate curriculum and just two of Lawton 's eight ‘ cultural sub-systems ’ — the social and the economic although the latter has led us into areas which are a long way from the purely economic , and seems to yield a useful typology of undergraduate courses . |
| 17 | ( One might argue against the concept of ‘ right-minded persons ’ , which moves away from a statistical concept such as ‘ most people ’ or ‘ the ordinary citizen ’ and seems to seek a moral plane which is ‘ right-minded ’ , a question-begging approach in this context . ) |
| 18 | This latest edition incorporates the changes introduced by the NHS reforms , and aims to provide a comprehensive description of the new organisation and structure of the NHS . |
| 19 | Unlike many ‘ new ’ advances clozapine has had a slow acceptance and appears to represent a real improvement . |
| 20 | He notes in passing that RISC has completely taken over the workstation and midrange server markets , is closing in on mainframes and minisupercomputers and is in process of displacing the second-ranking CISC chip , Motorola 's 68k from the high-end embedded market and appears to have a good shot at the emerging personal digital appliance market . |
| 21 | Although it stands as an important account of new anthropological theory and purports to throw a revealing light on the social organisation of Balinese society , its carefully organised narrative is also a good story arranged so the shifts between Geertz 's account of his gradual development as an aficionado of cockfighting and the development of his theory of the social significance of this sport merge . |
| 22 | Visual communication , via graphics terminals , is an exciting activity , and J. D. Foley and A. Van Dam 's Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics presents a mathematically difficult subject in an exciting way and deserves to become a major undergraduate text . |
| 23 | This exercise is very good for the abdomen muscles and helps to flatten a flabby stomach . |
| 24 | The time spent getting to know other Berlin servicemen away from the more common disciplined environment is good for both sides , and helps to generate a good relationship between the police and the military community . |
| 25 | The council plans to revitalise Pallister Park as part of its City Challenge programme and hopes to introduce a new lake and extra facilities to Albert Park . |
| 26 | Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc , Cambridge , Massachusetts is to sell substantially all the assets of its Advanced Simulation business to Loral Corp for $6m in cash and assumption of some lease obligations , and expects to report a small gain on the transaction in its fourth quarter ending June 30 . |
| 27 | The company is looking for a comprehensive data management system for its database and expects to develop a third party relationship to meet its requirements . |
| 28 | The individual who becomes a tax exile and wishes to make a thorough job of it will not only cease to be UK resident ; he or she will wish to lose a UK domicile of origin . |
| 29 | As soon as the ‘ framed ’ person laughs , the next one takes over and tries to keep a straight face . |
| 30 | A second-league cast of Faye Dunaway , Jerry Lewis and Johnny Depp stumble through a meaningless directorial mish-mash that takes an American context and tries to make a European art film . |