Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to what extent will top management have to accept as its top priority making and maintaining a common vision across professional specialties ? |
| 2 | Mr Christie said that he had accepted the invitation to join the board only ‘ while the manager and the team seek to recover from their present dangerous position in the Premier League ’ . |
| 3 | Er I was at Portugal , we had fancied going to America but er my husband 's young brother and his wife want to come with us this year and they 've got two young kids so they felt it was far enough for them . |
| 4 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 5 | I think in the long view it is all to the good that the government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared before we come in . |
| 6 | As soon as he got to Aix he wrote to Chamberlain : ‘ I think in the long view it is all to the good that the Government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared up before we come in . ’ |
| 7 | Only after the entry of the skeleton-forming cells do the group of cells that will form the gut begin to pulsate on their inner surfaces and a small inward indentation of the wall occurs . |
| 8 | Most people who need community care prefer to live in their own homes . |
| 9 | Most people who need community care prefer to live in their own homes with practical help for themselves and their carers when it is needed . |
| 10 | The schoolmaster skittishly slid his feet out of the way , lest a meatball come to rest against his glossy brogues . |