Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] and [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 | The SERC also wants to identify and develop specific areas within physics , some involving collaboration with industry . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ When I think how much energy the TARDIS uses to create and maintain that simulacrum of a police box , ’ he murmured . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If and when points come forward the group meets to discuss and decide appropriate action . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Shell Better Britain Campaign exists to encourage and support such activity right across the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The children 's ward at Oxford 's John Radcliffe hospital waits to welcome and help 10 year old Arma Neviskya . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This small-scale study aims to describe and evaluate one initiative in this field . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The research aims to uncover and examine Irish women 's migration to Britain in the post-War period . |
| 18 | We 'll take it in turns to eat and spell each other on the tiller . ’ |
| 19 | Tradition criticism tries to pin-point and explain such changes . |
| 20 | Inside , prize tokens swirl in currents of air and each person tries to touch and keep one token within the given time . |
| 21 | The feeling of helplessness then continues to overshadow and influence later relationships . |
| 22 | Legislation is on the up , including the European Commission 's proposal for an eco-audit scheme which seeks to define and regulate environmental audits . |
| 23 | The Committee ( Chairman , Professor Martin Symes ) continues to consider and evaluate new books for the annual RIBA list of recommended books . |
| 24 | He learns to analyse and recognise possible danger points . |
| 25 | This paper seeks to describe and explain observed grade differences in sickness absence . |
| 26 | There is also a growing sense of dismay that attempts to contain and control corporate crime are largely absent or ineffectual . |
| 27 | An incompetent head is one who fails to master the task of reconciling a management plan with a financial plan , who fails to communicate and to ensure enough understanding for the financial plan with his or her teacher colleagues and who is unable to engage with governors at a level where there is both trust and understanding . |
| 28 | In Histoire , the narrator is engaged in the elaboration of descriptions which are suggested by a set of postcards : he attempts to evoke and organize these fragments of the past , aware that it is ultimately unknowable and that reconstructions are inevitably incomplete and distorted by the passage of time . |
| 29 | With further autonomization and the advent of modernism , culture becomes either inaccessible and thus no longer can function positively to construct such a stable identity , or more commonly , as argued above , modernist culture comes to undermine and destabilize bourgeois identity . |
| 30 | ONCE UPON A TIME the Universities had representatives in parliament ; it is only now through the Conference of University Convocations and Graduate Associations ( CUCGA , a national body in which Salford has a high profile , that works to protect and enhance higher education ) that we seem to be getting some clout back . |