Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young male and female geladas begin to differentiate their preferences in this way well before the male separates to join an all-male group . |
| 2 | Because the Milk Marketing Board agrees to pay a fixed price regularly every month , most farmers keep a herd of dairy cows . |
| 3 | Three quarters of the money goes to maintain the national organisation and to provide central services for Bureaux . |
| 4 | Considerations of finance are important in relation to that , because I do not believe that British Rail has to build an underground station in order to achieve its purpose . |
| 5 | The new Christian has to learn the old hymns and to appreciate them . |
| 6 | In university libraries the organization of staff for book provision has to resolve a major difficulty — the respective roles of university departments vis-à-vis the library staff . |
| 7 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |
| 8 | In order to breathe during this operation , the young waxbill has to adopt a particular posture ; young whydahs and indigo birds adopt this too . |
| 9 | Mica is an ionically bonded mineral in which , because of the arithmetic of the electrical charges in the molecule , every so often there is a layer of metal atoms in the crystal in which each atom has to share a single electron 's worth of charge with several near neighbours , so that this layer in the crystal is a weak one . |
| 10 | This is useful if the retailer wants to introduce a new product , or line of products . |
| 11 | ( b ) Taking instructions As noted above , the drafter needs to have a clear understanding of the nature of the client 's business , in order to ensure that the terms meet the needs of the client 's business , taking account of its products , customers and problems . |
| 12 | First , while parliament has to vote the annual Estimates , the party system in the House of Commons is such that it is virtually unknown for Parliament to amend the Estimates put to it by the government . |
| 13 | The user has to judge the exact moment to stop . |
| 14 | On the other hand there are those who would argue that even if the academic course has to have a vocational purpose — and most students themselves would agree with this — the variety of vocational destinations requires a degree of generality to achieve commonality of interests and this can not provide for the specific needs of future language teachers . |
| 15 | A taxpayer making a lease or buy decision needs to determine the after-tax cash flow of each option and evaluate the cash flow using the after-tax discount rate . |
| 16 | When selecting other census counts to profile a local market , it is important to choose the most useful of the 10,000 or so available counts . |
| 17 | Any major player in this field has to take the imminent MPEG standard very seriously . |
| 18 | Locke of course wants to argue a strong case to the contrary , he wants to argue that membership of a civil society is voluntary . |
| 19 | The regime of course wants to keep the old order the A N C and freedom-loving people want a new order and a quick change but how do you mo move to that situation when you also have the right wing and the security forces and elsewhere not wanting change ? |
| 20 | The flash has to have a manual override to be useful , as it will serve only to tell the operator when a photograph has been taken . |
| 21 | The field needs to have a good supply of water . |
| 22 | The head porter needs to have an exceptional memory for names and faces , and be a fountain of knowledge in order to deal with the numerous enquiries of the guests . |
| 23 | When Jakobson asserted that ‘ If the science of literature wants to become a real science it will have to recognize ‘ the device ’ as its sole ‘ hero ’ ’ ( O'Toole and Shukman 1977 : 37 ) , it was because he was concerned with the differential nature of literariness . |
| 24 | A nasty dictatorship wants to grab a neighbouring country . |
| 25 | To receive protection under the 1976 Act , an agricultural employee has to achieve the legal status of ‘ qualifying worker ’ , which requires that the person has worked at least 91 out of the preceding 104 weeks whole-time in agriculture . |
| 26 | For example , if the engineering department wants to introduce a new item of equipment into Service , they might give biased information about likely ‘ teething troubles ’ with the equipment 's technology or the expected costs of maintenance , or breakdown times . |
| 27 | Though not used by homoeopathic pharmacies in this country for potencies below the 1M , it is used commercially in Belgium for all potencies , and is also used when a practitioner has to make a specific potency for a particular patient , such as a potency of chloroform for a case of chloroform allergy . |
| 28 | If all of this is totally untrue , football needs to appoint a top class public relations officer to try and paint the game in a better light . |
| 29 | 88OPEN SUPPORTERS CLUB PLANS TO FORM A SEPARATE COMPANY TO MARKET THE TESTING SERVICES IT HAS DEVELOPED |
| 30 | ( in fact , far from being considered inappropriate , the word ‘ bin ’ is now thought highly suitable among people who work with the mentally handicapped to describe large hospitals , but the irony tends to elude the general public ) . |