Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That uncertainty will mean that the City of London will lose any aspirations that it has to accommodate the central European bank . |
| 2 | THE FFESTINIOG Railway wants to see the scenic Welsh Highland Railway ( WHR ) reopened in its entirely from Porthmadog across Snowdonia to Dinas and with an entirely new section running from there right up to the walls of Caernarfon Castle . |
| 3 | In addition to bringing down interest rates by another two per cent , he has to establish the right monetary policy after sticking to the wrong one for two years . |
| 4 | At present , a council has to set the same standard charge for all unoccupied second homes . |
| 5 | If each member of the legislature who votes for a checkerboard compromise does so not because he himself has no principles but because he wants to give the maximum possible effect to the principles he thinks right , then how has anyone behaved irresponsibly ? |
| 6 | But any approach to seeking more economic choice of credit by consumers ( probably from a wide range of competing options ) has to recognise the recurring weekly caller 's collection round as an obstacle . |
| 7 | Thus the Commission has to determine the relevant geographic market . |
| 8 | In historical terms , he wants to re-establish the late 18th century symbiosis of research and economy that led to the growth of Germany 's industrial giants such as AEG , Bosch and Siemens . |
| 9 | Now the fund-raising starts to redevelop the famous high-rise East Terrace , which housed so many of the 75,031 that saw Charlton 's Cup tie with Aston Villa in 1938 , and the temporary West Stand . |
| 10 | The artwork needs to offer the greatest possible contrast to the camera , so it is best to use a very black ink on a very white paper ( equally true , of course , for photocopying regardless of what colour paper you want to print on ) . |
| 11 | A US-led consortium wants to upgrade the antiquated Soviet phone network using optic fibre . |
| 12 | Now consider the effect of applying a load torque equal to the pull-out value , so that the motor has to produce the maximum available torque . |
| 13 | Renault plans to target the 1.4 RT version at long-distance travellers , reckoning that its spacious interior , high equipment and trim levels and supple ride will enable the top-spec Clio to rival bigger cars for commuting . |
| 14 | Future base station installation is to depend on the geographical location of customers , but the company says it plans to increase the current 175 base stations to 200 before the end of the year . |
| 15 | IBM Corp 's Digital Domain Inc special effects — FX as they are known in the trade — company , which brings the company together with writer , director and producer James Cameron , Academy Award winning character creator Stan Winston and special visual effects studio executive Scott Ross ( CI No 2,116 ) will locate its facilities in the Los Angeles area and plans to combine the latest digital technology with a unique ‘ creator interactive ’ philosophy , IBM says , offering a full range of special visual effects services for feature films , television , commercials and simulator attractions ; high resolution moving images will fundamentally change applications and their development as we know them today , IBM reckons . |
| 16 | Has he any plans to extend the free 0800 number to other taxes which could be reclaimed by pensioners and others ? |
| 17 | The C helix happens to have the 3 10 conformation ( hydrogen-bonding to the third residue along , rather than the fourth , as in the α-helix ) , and the answer is that the glutamate generates a bulge ; moreover the local helix geometry switches from 3 10 to α . |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he intends to meet the Scottish Constitutional Convention to discuss the future government of Scotland . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he next intends to visit the former Soviet Union to discuss matters relating to technology transfer and aid for the republics . |
| 20 | Parsytec intends to use the same basic design of a 1.6Gflop processing unit as a building block for systems executing up to 400Gflops. the largest computers on sale now can perform tens of Gflops . |
| 21 | He and his 14-year-old son David have joined St Mellion golf club , and the whole family intends to use the nearby equestrian centre . |
| 22 | On Monday evening he gave fair warning of an increase in taxes , and spending cuts to reduce the expanding federal budget deficit . |
| 23 | In general , one viewpoint leans towards a class or power analysis of child care , while the other tends to take the existing social structure as given and to construe child care issues in more individualistic terms . |
| 24 | Shop and office workers who miss out on the best of the day only have their lunch breaks to enjoy the brief British summer . |
| 25 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 26 | The library authority aims to provide the widest possible range of material commensurate with its objectives and the interests or its users . |
| 27 | Wright was absent on Saturday , but Souness now seems to prefer the central defensive pairing of Steve Nicol and Torben Piechnik . |
| 28 | The research aims to identify the present economic contribution of wildlife/nature conservation resources and to evaluate the potential for their further economic development . |
| 29 | ( As far as modern women are concerned , an analogous situation must exist in which the demands of civilization — principally incest-avoidance and respect for the paternal authority — represent a recent and indeed onerous imposition on an earlier instinctual nexus which knew nothing of this , indeed which perhaps was the foundation of that submissiveness to male aggressiveness which still seems to underlie the female sexual constitution . |
| 30 | This claim might not unreasonably be held to cover such examples as we see in the following subject phrases : ( 15 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars the line defective is the one to the outside a dose strong enough would put him out all night In all these cases , prenominal position would also be acceptable and appears to give the same cognitive meaning for the sentence as a whole , hence encouraging us to accept a solution to the first question , above , in terms of " emphasis " or " focus " . |