Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Three quarters of the money goes to maintain the national organisation and to provide central services for Bureaux .
2 The new Christian has to learn the old hymns and to appreciate them .
3 The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise seasonal goods — eg camping equipment will be promoted in the spring , ready for the summer .
4 The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise … goods .
5 But I 'm not blaming the journalists , they 're under a lot of pressure ; the CBS or the BBC correspondent has to do the one report for the day .
6 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 .
7 The user has to judge the exact moment to stop .
8 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 .
9 Any major player in this field has to take the imminent MPEG standard very seriously .
10 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 ?
11 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 .
12 ( 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 ) .
13 The adoption of this form of reification in legal reasoning tends to conceal the distributive aim behind a rhetoric which is superficially compatible with liberalism .
14 On the top of the wind circle , the speed of the wind increases to include the tracking speed of the storm .
15 Eschewing the traditional media , Perot used telephone banks and television and radio talk shows to exploit the anti-incumbency mood currently prevalent within the USA , by portraying himself as a principled outsider , untarnished by the exercise of power .
16 ‘ It is not every week a side gets to meet the reigning world champions and I would have thought Andy Roxburgh would have got more support from his clubs .
17 The Department of Employment has said that the market testing programme aims to provide the best value for money for the taxpayer .
18 The therapy aims to stimulate the nervous system by body massage and manipulation .
19 Henry 's voice-over adds an amusing counterpoint to the visuals but by the time we reach his eventual arrest , on drugs charges , in '81 , Scorsese 's frenetic cross-cutting seems to leave the original premise — presumably , the mob 's seductive potency — somewhere in the sidings .
20 Henry 's voice-over adds an amusing counterpoint to the visuals but by the time we reach his eventual arrest , on drugs charges , in '81 , Scorsese 's frenetic cross-cutting seems to leave the original premise — presumably , the mob 's seductive potency — somewhere in the sidings .
21 This study aims to set the current problem in its context by describing developments in the relationship between central and local government between 1945 and 1983 .
22 The study aims to determine the common strategies and features of companies that are successful and those that are less successful .
23 This chapter aims to clarify the important issues .
24 The research aims to examine the assumed need for telecommunication standards in Europe as well as the national and international institutions involved in the making of standards .
25 The research aims to explore the sexual practices , beleifs and understanding of young women .
26 This research aims to uncover the special role of refugee migrations , ‘ brain drains ’ and international movements of personnel generally in scientific growth , particularly as regards the development of new scientific specialities and disciplines such as theoretical physics , applied mathematics , bio-physics and molecular biology .
27 This research aims to determine the relative importance of ‘ area ’ and ‘ personal ’ characteristics in explaining local variations in school-leaver employment and unemployment within Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1981 .
28 The research aims to identify the principal ways in which the onset of hungness changes political and management processes within such authorities .
29 Our study helps to resolve the apparent paradox : females take a year longer to reach sexual maturity and so have longer to grow .
30 That is because the stiffness of the card helps to control the increased amount of pressed material being used .
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