Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this , the researcher has to remain detached from the group at the same time as becoming a member of it . |
| 2 | First , the buyer has to make known to the seller , expressly or by implication , the purpose for which he intends to use the goods . |
| 3 | What do they do when their child refuses to get dressed in the morning ? |
| 4 | He appears to have maintained in the Court of Session that the provisions of that Act should not be applied because it had been passed without his having had notice as required by Standing Orders … |
| 5 | Now it appears to have gone off the boil . |
| 6 | As Maurice Sunkin says , the decision in Puhlhofer ‘ appears to have led to the introduction of a more stringent test than previously existed ’ . |
| 7 | The one-time diplomat who 's served in the Gulf says concern appears to have grown about the way things are developing . |
| 8 | Some 12,500 tonnes appears to have settled on the seabed 30 miles south-east of Fair Isle , an important spawning ground for herring , with a further 10,500 tonnes in sediments to the west of Shetland , the spawning ground for the sandeels on which many of the islands ' seabirds depend . |
| 9 | Substantial quantities of oil spilled from the wrecked Braer tanker in January [ see ED 67 ] appears to have sunk to the seabed , according to surveys by Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Office . |
| 10 | The province of Surrey , most recently under the control of King Ecgberht appears to have passed under the domination of Wulfhere at this time . |
| 11 | Nigel Worthington appears to have got over the disappointment of losing in last week 's FA Cup final replay to Arsenal and will play what is believed to be his 67th game of the season tomorrow . |
| 12 | However , the origin of this rule appears to have lain in the fact that , since the Crown was not liable in damages in the ordinary way , a requirement for an undertaking in damages would be inconsistent with the Crown 's immunity from liability ; and it was concluded that the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 had removed the justification for the rule . |
| 13 | The strong recovery in manufacturing comes at a time when it appears to have stalled in the rest of the UK . |
| 14 | For a period of the late 16th century it appears to have come into the possession of the Earls of Leicester but eventually came back into the full possession of Trinity College , which remained lord of the manor until quite recent times . |
| 15 | The third defendant appears to have come onto the scene in about 1982 as a financial adviser in connection with the proposal to acquire and develop the bakery for the purposes of the centre . |
| 16 | A fallacy of composition , involving the illegitimate transfer of microeconomic methods of analysis to macroeconomics , also appears to have added to the confusion . |
| 17 | This is the only company whose entire membership appears to have figured in the loan ; in the case of such as the Goldsmiths and the Ironmongers it seems clear that only the livery was assessed . |
| 18 | ’ Maria only seems to get married for the sake of being free . |
| 19 | Currently , the balance of power over these decisions seems to have swung in the artist 's favour . |
| 20 | But will they be able to break the marriage curse that seems to have fallen on the House of Windsor ? |
| 21 | As she seems to have stayed on the island for only three weeks , however , being moved back to Stirling when the English army left Scotland at the end of September , we can only conclude that these are testimony not to Mary as an infant prodigy , but to her fascination as a source of romance and legend . |
| 22 | Subsidy ‘ in a party interest — and particularly by parties — seems to have stopped by the outbreak of World War 2 ’ . |
| 23 | The main thrust of colonial development seems to have followed in the wake of this major rebuilding programme , in the period between 1650 and 1500 BC . |
| 24 | Team meetings and management reviews have already become a way of life and a new breath of fresh air seems to have blown through the company . |
| 25 | Total output seems to have increased in the course of the reign ; the issuing of a larger proportion of half-pennies after 864 implies a growing demand for a smaller denomination of coin , usable for smaller transactions . |
| 26 | Mel Pyatt , the Volvo spokesman said : ‘ It is all very sad ; loyalty seems to have gone by the board . |
| 27 | At Theodore 's urging in 686 , Aldfrith also made an attempt to resolve the outstanding quarrel with Wilfrid and Theodore certainly seems to have prevailed on the king to restore Wilfrid first of all to Hexham ( during a vacancy there , Eata having died , though in 687 John of Beverley , a monk of Whitby , was appointed bishop ) ; then to York ( from which see Bosa , who was still alive in 704 ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 54 ) , was removed ) and Ripon ( from where Eadhaed was also removed ) ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 44 ) . |
| 28 | Subsequently Sidonius seems to have retired from the limelight until the fall of Majorian , and the elevation of Anthemius , for whose first consulship in 468 he also delivered a panegyric . |
| 29 | North wanted the Monimbo seized or sunk ; Poindexter wanted ‘ measures taken to make sure ship does not arrive in Nicaragua ’ ; McFarlane seems to have choked over the legality of piracy , and the ship and the rifles got through . |
| 30 | It seems to have arisen from the report of Levy-Agresti and Sperry ( 1968 ) that in a visuo-tactile matching task the two hemispheres of split-brain patients solved the problems in characteristically different ways . |