Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | needs to sit in the printer and things like that erm so you do n't you know |
| 2 | The matter still has to go before the committee and the county council . |
| 3 | If you are the sort of person who needs to go to the lavatory when you are nervous make sure you know where it is . |
| 4 | A separate toilet is ideal because , if you do have people to stay , it is less of a problem if one wants to go to the toilet while someone else is having a bath . |
| 5 | What happens here is that if a white lady wants to go to the toilet and she 's working on a line , she does n't ask anyone 's permission , she just gets up — out she goes , powders her nose , has a cigarette , whatever they do — then comes back . |
| 6 | Anyone trying to free a seated victim also has to cope with the fact that the faces sculpted on the chair start gibbering and screeching , radiating a Cause Cowardly Flight effect in a 3-yard radius . |
| 7 | A kitchen timer that rings to indicate to the child when they have managed to sit for a specific length of time can be linked to the reward chart . |
| 8 | The interest in question has to relate to the land or building covered by the application so that , for example , an application for a change of use for a third floor does not require notice to be served on anyone with an interest in any of the other floors . |
| 9 | For now the point is that the drafter needs to know at the outset whether any of the business 's customers will fall within the definition of " consumer " : if so , care must be taken in drafting clauses excluding or limiting liability . |
| 10 | Technical apparatus of some sort has to come between the record and our ears , and , of course , between the original performance and the record . |
| 11 | But somewhere along the line the input of those on the other side of the ropes , many there for the price of $800 ( £500 ) , has to come into the account and the argument is faulted . |
| 12 | Once a child is maturationally ready to toilet train the process usually only takes one or two weeks , but the teaching still has to come from the mother and she may be very uncertain about when to do it . |
| 13 | I got a bit carried away with Martha and dallied in the Arran Heritage centre over long — ‘ Everyone wants to know about the past and it is too late . ’ |
| 14 | Government needs to listen to the public and respond accordingly . |
| 15 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 16 | He wants sex , she wants to look around the place and make condescending remarks . |
| 17 | Er at the moment there are no savings identified and it seems to me that this Committee needs to deal with the budget as it finds . |
| 18 | The ‘ tangent … in the hand 's cup ’ has to do with the legend that the shapes of the finest Greek vases were replicated from the contour of the divinely beautiful woman 's breast , as cupped in her lover 's hand and thereafter imprinted on his mind — obviously a powerful emblem of how the impulse to artistic manufacture is erotic . |
| 19 | ‘ I have that to tell you that I should have told before this , since it has to do with the issue that is now in dispute among all here . |
| 20 | Sometimes the difference has to do with the length and scope of the course : Open University pass degrees require six credits , while an honours degree requires eight . |
| 21 | No , the difficulty I have with Dennett 's excellent paper , and the reason I have brought it into discussion here , has to do with the fact that he never actually says which parts of the diagram are in consciousness and his view is consistent with consciousness being ( a ) the ‘ control box ’ , ( b ) sometimes one box and sometimes another ( very like the ‘ heterarchical aspect ’ of Minsky 's views , which I earlier called a ‘ pinball machine ’ theory of consciousness ) , or ( c ) some elements of what passed down the communication channels , that is to say , the lines between the boxes . |
| 22 | In terms of the example it has to do with the fact that if in the situation there existed only the one circumstance for the starting of the wipers , then , even if certain other events or conditions had occurred or existed , the wipers would not have started . |
| 23 | If it is claimed that reasons are needed for this verdict , which might be doubted , one has to do with the fact that we do not take all the causes of behaviour to be other behaviour . |
| 24 | One has to do with the fact that many theories in social science are not so much theories susceptible to straightforward empirical confirmation or refutation , but are more like points of view . |
| 25 | Anyone who has to deal with the public or who is in continual contact with other people as part of their job must always be aware that attention to their appearance and personal hygiene is of the utmost importance . |
| 26 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |
| 27 | RMI needs to ensure in the way that it tackles the information aspect that it can incorporate properly the ‘ user-led ’ aspect of information specification . |
| 28 | In other words , the executive has to propose to the House that reforms should be instituted and why should any executive wish to make rods for its own back ? |
| 29 | That is not Mr Lawson 's fault , of course , but he has to live with the danger that while the world 's capital markets will duly bridge the gap between Britain 's domestic savings and investment , they will only do so at a lower price for sterling . |
| 30 | The proper scientist sees reality through a glass darkly — and believeth all facts , heareth all facts and seeth all facts , but still has to reckon with the fact that he is part of the experiment and may be seeing the reflection of his own opinions . |