Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool . |
| 2 | I think the reason he dresses as an Edwardian is because he wants to see himself as a dashing young stage door Johnny . ’ |
| 3 | To that extent , the EC does not seem to have accepted the ramifications of the post-communist years and has not decided whether it wants to consolidate itself as a rich man 's club at the western end of the continent of Europe , to which the east Europeans can apply for associate membership , or to widen its institutions , starting with freer trade . |
| 4 | CCW wants to manage it as a National Nature Reserve , but this is being blocked by the IDO claim . |
| 5 | Nobody in particular , and I s I use the word him , nobody particularly wants to question him , nobody particularly wants to get him in a bad mood . |
| 6 | — JON Gittens , a key figure in Middlesbrough clinching a place in the new Premier League next season , wants to join them on a permanent basis from Southampton . |
| 7 | 3 ) In the instruction manual for the BOSS ME-5 it says to take it to a recognised dealer to get the back-up memory battery replaced . |
| 8 | ‘ In addition I 'll give you whatever it costs to equip you with a suitable outfit to attend inter-views . |
| 9 | The colour of his face always reddens just as it does when fat Margot , the launderess , who keeps me supplied with cups of sack , bends and dips to provide me with a generous view of the most famous cleavage in all of Surrey . ) |
| 10 | The drop of a hat , or anything else , is all it takes to turn you into a passion-packed romantic day . |
| 11 | There 's a strange , almost forced intimacy that can be a burden when it 's so much harder to surprise that same audience and , in Katell 's case , it seems to express itself in a cheery whimsy that masks insecurity . |
| 12 | A typical set up costs less than £1000 and MK aims to price itself into a new market between simple time switches and expensive custom-built computer-based energy management systems . |
| 13 | The ‘ Dust in the air suspended ’ seems to present us with a barren desert of death . |
| 14 | Usually the word is applied at the immature stage before the eye swells with rising sap , often changing colour a little — which helps to identify it on a leafless stem . |
| 15 | The vessels ' hulls are completely intact , and the team hopes to raise them within a few years . |
| 16 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 17 | Likewise , sending British or Eurocheques can cause problems , delay and heavy charges for the recipient when he or she tries to cash them at a foreign bank . |
| 18 | Likewise , sending British or Eurocheques can cause problems , delay and heavy charges for the recipient when he or she tries to cash them at a foreign bank . |
| 19 | Likewise , sending British or Eurocheques can cause problems , delay and heavy charges for the recipient when he or she tries to cash them at a foreign bank . |
| 20 | Similarly , an element which has been mentioned before may be presented as new because it is unexpected or because the speaker wishes to present it in a contrastive light . |
| 21 | There was no reason at all why these councils should have been regarded as above criticism , but in the context of that period when local government was under renewed attack from Thatcherism , the publication of sectarian , ill-researched articles in the magazine that likes to see itself as a broad-based forum of progressive ideas , was nothing less than destructive . |
| 22 | Unless the EC decides to treat them as a special case , it seems the only way out for them will be to give the toys away . |
| 23 | Eurowoman may have a baggy bottom , but she always manages to salvage it with a sensational pair of legs . |
| 24 | The county Health Authority proposes to turn it into a mere residential home , removing hospital facilities . |
| 25 | In both cases the ego seeks to defend itself against a passive relation to the superego and , in its manic symptoms , succeeds in convincing itself that it has been successful . |
| 26 | ( II.iv.42 ) — but proceeds to proposition her with a debased contract , that she should exchange her chastity for her brother 's life . |
| 27 | Kinnock fails to meet them by a huge margin . |
| 28 | 11.1.1 either party commits any material breach of this Agreement and fails to remedy it within a reasonable period ( which , where the breach consists of non-payment of sums due under clause 5 , shall be construed as a period of one ( 1 ) calendar month ) after receiving written notice from the other party , |