Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gentleman sees the working papers he will discover that no hospital will be able to ask for trust status unless it agrees to carry out the whole range of services that must be undertaken in that area . |
| 2 | ‘ Anyone who is concerned that environmental issues are not getting sufficient hearing in the campaign and wants to know where the main candidates stand is welcome to attend . ’ |
| 3 | However , the diplomats said that neither Unita , enjoying success on the battlefield , or the Angolan government , which wants to win back the lost ground , appeared ready for serious peace negotiations . |
| 4 | The agent has to fill in the financial returns has to send in a report of financial expenditure . |
| 5 | I has taken me a while to figure out that ‘ we ai n't got Windows , we got DOS ’ so I would appreciate any advice in your columns on the basics — what sorts of programs are suitable for a simple soul like me who needs to knock out the odd poster , magazine or newsletter and something that will look more professional , from time to time . |
| 6 | While Africa wants to prohibit totally the cross-border movement of wastes , the West seeks only to control it . |
| 7 | Annual General Meetings are attended by several thousand employee shareholders and ( in contrast to the normally sedate company AGM in some discreet City hall ) NFC has to take over the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham or the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 8 | To defend this view one has to explain why the causal power of individuals is thus limited . |
| 9 | Continue until just after it starts to take up the steep fellside again , where a small path branches off left . |
| 10 | The sexton is complaining that he has to scrub away the unbearable smell every day , and that the church has already had to undergo several repair jobs because of the problem . |
| 11 | No.9 Johansson scrags his opposite number while his opposite number while Ahlgren , Sweden 's wild and woolly warrior , looks to cut down the Taiwanese options in his side 's 20–12 Sicily Trophy quarter-final defeat . |
| 12 | Working in conjunction with the British Mountaineering Council and the Ramblers ' Association , COLA plans to set up the British Uplands Footpath Trust . |
| 13 | Like most firms selling arms to Argentina , it refuses to discuss even the commercial aspects involved . |
| 14 | Q plans to put out the final part of his novel on video with the narration over Super 8 footage shot by Don Letts , before issuing a DEADMEAT ‘ remix ’ mass-market edition , and then moving on to a new book to be called Supermodel and concerned with , well , supermodels . |
| 15 | On the £15 million acquisition costs to buy out the private Rover shareholders , Lord Young writes : ‘ I have had further discussions with Commissioner Sutherland [ Sir Leon Brittan 's predecessor in charge of competition policy ] . |
| 16 | It took Robyn ages to peel away the sodden material from her frigid skin . |
| 17 | The water hyacinth grows in profusion and tends to choke up the local rivers . |
| 18 | To the layman they all look pretty similar : crisp emerald weed buoyed up in the stream and then , in July , a snow in summer of glistening white flowers , which spill over the water in a way that seems to spell out the brief abundance of midsummer . |
| 19 | This seems to reflect primarily the increasing cost of school fees , combined with rises in the cost of living . |
| 20 | The Rome Treaty aims to open up the Common Market to competition in respect of services as well as goods . |
| 21 | The next stage entailed methodically working through the species lists to check out the unfamiliar plants and look up if ( on distribution maps ) , where ( specific localities and when ( flowering seasons ) , they might be found . |
| 22 | Overall , the project aims to investigate how the public position of men affects private and subjective self-images and self-perceptions , and to incorporate a psychological dimension into studies of men 's lives found sociology and cultural studies . |
| 23 | This helps to tone down the bodily reactions to mental stress , and can therefore moderate a symptom such as diarrhoea , even though the primary cause of that diarrhoea is a reaction to food . |
| 24 | This is because some weight is given to the cash flows in early years of the bond 's life and this helps to bring forward the average time at which cash flows are received . |
| 25 | It helps to melt away the human spirit of arrogance and wilfulness , replacing them with gratitude for God 's love and mercy . |
| 26 | She looks around her , dazed and sluggish , while her brain tries to piece together the blurred details and recollections that will tell her where she is , and — which she would rather forget-what brought her here . |
| 27 | Now let's keep reminding you about the time situation , sixty five minutes gone , Shrewsbury have another twenty five minutes in which to hang on here , it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers two , it 's gon na be a nervous evening here for the normally placid Shropshire folk at as that ball is headed forward by and here 's , again in field to , clipped forward for Mike , here comes advancing towards the edge of the penalty area , he 's got ta try and get past the brick wall of , and it 's now who tries to release down the right hand side , he 's got ta get past , he does so , he gets the ball across and that one is cleared importantly by only as far as who tries to hook it back in and that the ball would n't reach him and it would n't reach either and it 's gone out for a goal kick to Shrewsbury . |
| 28 | The 1992 programme seeks to tighten up the public purchasing process so as to provide businesses with the prospect that in practice , rather than theory , the whole of the EC market is truly open to their competitive offers . |
| 29 | It may be enough for an investment trust to tempt investors by describing the opportunity area in broad terms , and inasmuch as this temptation continues to work then the early investors can sell out at a profit to the later ones . |
| 30 | The research seeks to assess how the present police policy-making process compares with the 1964 Act , and in particular , the extent of democratic involvement in that process . |