Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newspaper coverage may have contributed to bringing the crime into the public domain , but essentially the press and the police are using the same repertoire of scripts . |
| 2 | Some therapists express concern that a child may become addicted to earning stickers and that it may be difficult to wean them off charts . |
| 3 | The advent of more examples of non-medical clinical directors may well reduce this concern , as will the development of specific service contracts where each group will have committed to buying or providing an agreed package of care and support . |
| 4 | After an eight hour [ night ] patrol , it was only to be expected that the policeman would prefer resting to hanging around the courts waiting to bring petty offenders to book . |
| 5 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend think that such communication would have contributed to avoiding the accident ? |
| 6 | The patient may need to adapt to living in a new way ( e.g. Mr Reynolds ' stoma ) or without a particular organ or a limb which will make considerable alterations in lifestyle ( e.g. an amputation ) . |
| 7 | Or it you leave it open and one of the other speakers in the More than One or more of the other speakers in the conversation could decide to start to talking , or no one could erm start talking the present speaker at the moment gets another chance to carry on . |