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 .
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