Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may involve special categories of trader , such as the market maker , who is under an obligation ( by the exchange rules ) to quote a price in a given contract whenever asked ; the designated broker , who agrees to promote a particular contract without giving a binding commitment to deal ; and the " local " , who trades his personal account on the exchange floor . |
| 2 | With the ardour of his age Dick agrees to carry a vital message across the frontier into Flavonia : delighting in unexpected action , he is afraid only of being late and failing in his mission and it is the free resourcefulness of a boy that ensures that in spite of accidents the message does get through . |
| 3 | These new , relatively small , selective colleges are to be set up by private sponsors , with government grants to provide a free education with a technological emphasis for 11–16-year-olds . |
| 4 | This meeting agrees to provide a reasonable level of financial and logistical and other support to those students who wish to pursue legal action against the CLE , who are not eligible for legal aid . |
| 5 | Feminism , as I have said , needs to preserve a critical distance from all theories of self . |
| 6 | Whether Mr Coleridge wants to crown a successful career by pulling down the edifice in which he has enjoyably spent his working life is another matter entirely . |
| 7 | I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record . |
| 8 | Nurses training needs to include a brief session on the effects of adoption on health and family relationships so nurses working in hospitals and the community can assume an active role with adoption participants . |
| 9 | And their bride has to wear er , all in red and er the bridegroo er groom has to wear a long costume with a red big flowers in front i aha and then they get married and there 's erm band , the Chinese traditional band with drums and trumpets blowing all the time and er , all the guests have a very nice time . |
| 10 | Anyone who wants to see a Labour government in action should look at Derbyshire . |
| 11 | The EC Council of Ministers needs to establish a general mechanism for negotiating with Switzerland now that it is the only country in Europe that has neither EC nor EEA status . |
| 12 | I still regret it , but I 'm afraid the Prime Minister has to appear a great deal on the media . |
| 13 | Each brothel has to obtain a special licence from the police and the names of the women must also be registered . |
| 14 | The skilled interviewer has to establish a fine balance between being receptive — allowing the client to relax and talk freely — and being in control — so that the client is guided into talking about fruitful areas , and also that the interview is closed on time . |
| 15 | Steve Cram , the Olympic 1500 metres silver medallist in 1984 , still has to launch a serious challenge for his place in the team but took another solid step on the road to Barcelona with an encouraging relay leg at Sheffield . |
| 16 | Accordingly , the researcher needs to know a great deal about likely extraneous factors so that they can be controlled . |
| 17 | The homoeopathic doctor needs to obtain a large amount of information from the patient which requires a longer consultation time . |
| 18 | As an example , take a spider in which each individual needs to find a good place in which to put its web , but good places for making webs are in short supply . |
| 19 | Alongside this , one has to set a high degree of tolerance , dependency , held by unskilled workers [ whom we interviewed ] . |
| 20 | If instead it wants to sell a standard part on the open market , it will be $1.75m up-front plus 10% of the chips ' average selling price . |
| 21 | If instead it wants to sell a standard part on the open market , it will be $1.75m up-front plus 10% of the chips ' average selling price . |
| 22 | The support worker has to create a delicate balance between giving advisers the ‘ answer ’ for a client and directing them to the relevant part of the information system . |
| 23 | The decoder has to create a cognitive space in which the deictic elements and terms can be realised indexically . |
| 24 | Management has to create a workable structure for collaboration , taking into account the objectives of all the various interest groups or ‘ stakeholders ’ in the organisation . |
| 25 | A manufacturer wants to design a new casing for , say a radio-paging device . |
| 26 | It is not merely that the speaker wants to create a good impression in the sight of others , who might have a different set of values . |
| 27 | He also wants to create a safe haven for the Serbs ' Moslem victims and is prepared to offer increased UN troops to safeguard relief supplies . |
| 28 | Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment . |
| 29 | Increasing the number of reactive components in the filter stage to two , as in the simple low-pass L-C filter of figure 8.7(a) , causes to reach a maximum rate of fall-off outside the pass band of 40 dB per decade of frequency . |
| 30 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |