Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Lilian Hatton 's got more coats than a perishing film star but she has to go and spend thirty quid on a new outfit for Pertwee 's wedding . |
2 | Knowles suggests that a Liverpool speaker first has to choose whether to merge these classes or not , before further deciding whether to apply a number of lower-level optional rules . |
3 | The SERC also wants to identify and develop specific areas within physics , some involving collaboration with industry . |
4 | The project should get off the ground before the end of this year , when the final touches have been put to the package of financial backing that ACE needs to build and test two prototypes of a design it calls the ACE 3000 . |
5 | Now the CPS has to decide whether to press further charges or alternative charges after receiving a file from Cleveland Police following the death . |
6 | Also , due in part to increasing media attention , delinquent-prone youths who are more interested in fighting than football see the terrace ‘ ends ’ as places to maintain and improve tough reputations . |
7 | Broadly speaking , the bureau has to remove or correct any entry which then turns out to be incorrect . |
8 | ‘ When I think how much energy the TARDIS uses to create and maintain that simulacrum of a police box , ’ he murmured . |
9 | This is part of the ideological pedagogy which the institution uses to create and maintain defensive boundaries against the outsider or those who might produce a critical analysis of its systems ; it is one major strength of the organization . |
10 | If and when points come forward the group meets to discuss and decide appropriate action . |
11 | A person deals in securities , whether as principal or agent , if he buys , sells , or agrees to buy or sell any securities . |
12 | They describe a reality in which pressures to exclude and marginalise young people with disabilities or those categorised as having learning difficulties , are still very strong . |
13 | The Shell Better Britain Campaign exists to encourage and support such activity right across the United Kingdom . |
14 | It is between these two sectors that some of the sharpest demographic differentials are found , and I will argue that the unique nature of the British housing market tends to perpetuate and reinforce these differentials in terms of patterns of early marriage , high fertility and marital breakdown . |
15 | The children 's ward at Oxford 's John Radcliffe hospital waits to welcome and help 10 year old Arma Neviskya . |
16 | Of course one is teaching new material as well , but it 's the repetition of certain subjects which can be boring , so we 're trying to combine this with material which sees it in application , and in fact for engineers their whole orientation is towards applying ideas and not just to learning how and why nature works — that 's the question that science asks , but engineering aims to apply and harness natural phenomena . |
17 | It aims to identify and analyse those factors which affect a firm 's ability to compete , and to locate the role of intervention within this context . |
18 | Yet it still seems to consider that collecting threatened species is something worthy of admiration . " |
19 | This small-scale study aims to describe and evaluate one initiative in this field . |
20 | Co-sponsored by WACC , the seminar aims to document and highlight outstanding efforts in using alternative media for development programmes in the Asia-Pacific Region . |
21 | Co-sponsored by WACC , the seminar aims to document and highlight outstanding efforts in using alternative media for development programmes in the Asia-Pacific Region . |
22 | The research aims to uncover and examine Irish women 's migration to Britain in the post-War period . |
23 | We 'll take it in turns to eat and spell each other on the tiller . ’ |
24 | When we have those results we will really be able to sort out what is going on when a golfer tries to hit that wee white ball . |
25 | Tradition criticism tries to pin-point and explain such changes . |
26 | This story should not imply that there was not still a great deal of grief to be expressed by the children , but it serves to demonstrate that enforced anticipatory grief can do a great deal of harm if the timing of it is interfered with . |
27 | Inside , prize tokens swirl in currents of air and each person tries to touch and keep one token within the given time . |
28 | In practice they are those cases in which the plaintiff seeks to enforce or protect some right vested in him ( eg , an injunction to restrain a breach of contract ) rather than those where he merely invites the court to exercise its powers to grant him some statutory relief ( eg an application by a debtor for a " time order " under Consumer Credit Act 1974 , s 129(1) ( b ) ) . |
29 | The feeling of helplessness then continues to overshadow and influence later relationships . |
30 | Legislation is on the up , including the European Commission 's proposal for an eco-audit scheme which seeks to define and regulate environmental audits . |