Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A party leader who hopes to reach 10 Downing Street has to devote much time to party management , and policies and appointments have to be made with an eye on the reactions of party factions . |
| 2 | By spreading total daily consumption more evenly , society reduces peak demand and has to devote less resources to building power stations whose number is determined by peak usage . |
| 3 | The biggest worry on Wall Street , where priorities tend to be narrowly focused , is over the dividend : if the company has to take another $1,000m to $2,000m of charges this quarter to cover further closures , it is unlikely to be able to meet the dividend out of cash flow . |
| 4 | A composer is haunted by certain themes , subjects or moods , and he must look around for the stories or dramatic vehicles he needs to bring these themes to life as musical theatre . |
| 5 | The incident was seen as reflecting growing white concern over government plans to return some land to blacks under proposals expected to be debated in parliament during June and July . |
| 6 | How would you apply the principles of horizontal and vertical equity in deciding how much to tax two people , each capable of doing the same work , but one of whom chooses to devote more time to sun-bathing and therefore has a lower income ? |
| 7 | The group — which intends to donate all proceeds to Cancer Research , the MacMillan Nurses and the Special Baby Care Unit — is looking for sponsors , and are more than willing to wear sweatshirts with logos on them . |
| 8 | But it deliberately avoids making them : 80% of its manufacturing work is subcontracted , and the company 's president , Takemitsu Takizaki , says he aims to raise that figure to 85% . |
| 9 | They are drawn in a pictorial style which not only does away with the need to use abstract symbols , but seems to bring each incident to life in a most convincing way , especially when studied alongside the text ( see two examples form the book accompanying this article ) . |
| 10 | Separately , Advanced Micro Devices Inc said it expects to sell some 8m to 10m Am386 chips in 1993 , on par with the 9.5m sold last year . |
| 11 | It attempts to give some meaning to notions of relative autonomy at local level and encourages the consideration of actual political processes in determining what is possible . |
| 12 | Field describes the increase in the number of junior doctors as temporary but fails to offer any mechanism to phase out these posts in the absence of appreciable expansion in the number of consultants . |