Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In some locations AEI needs to operate a double chart of accounts . |
| 2 | PINPOINTING a tiny airport in Dallas as an ‘ island of non-competition ’ , Senator Robert Dole wants to repeal a quirky law that bars direct flights from there to his home state of Kansas . |
| 3 | So a hummingbird that specialises in feeding from Heliconia has to patrol a whole group of plants , visiting each hanging spike of blossoms in strict rotation on a carefully timed schedule . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the objective threat posed by the Soviet Union and its own nuclear weapons means that the United States has to have a permanent war economy and that the people recognise this and vote for it . |
| 5 | Ken plans to put a false roof over the sales area , bringing down the ceiling to create a more intimate atmosphere . |
| 6 | According to the hitherto reliable Interfax news agency in Moscow , Mr Gorbachev plans to introduce a daring set of reforms , a ‘ 180-degree about-turn ’ , by July . |
| 7 | While increasing its yields in chip manufacturing , NEC plans to mount a cost-cutting campaign in its semiconductor plants , including overseas plants such as NEC Semiconductors UK in Scotland , from next March . |
| 8 | GAIM aims to produce a complete mathematics assessment scheme appropriate to all first to fifth year students in secondary schools . |
| 9 | For example , the United States appears to provide a clear example of a single executive — the President . |
| 10 | Considering that Coward and Lawrence only ever appeared together twice in adult life , in Private Lives and Tonight at 8.30 , Mr Morley manages to make a little go a long way . |
| 11 | In Kenya Harris Okong'o Arara continues to serve a five-year sentence imposed in 1988 under a law which makes it a criminal offence simply to possess literature critical of the government . |
| 12 | Although ITT claims to have a clear lead in the new technology , it is not alone in the race . |
| 13 | Freud attempts to give a psychoanalytic account of the state of the baby before the first object-relations begin , when the ego and the world are not differentiated . |
| 14 | Dr. Roger Coghill plans to submit a technical paper to the hearing in Northallerton in May at the invitation of Dr. Ashok Kumar , Labour MP for Langbaurgh . |
| 15 | At present , a multinational company can not run just one fund for all its staff ; an employee moving from Britain to Spain has to join a different fund . |
| 16 | Each team in England has to include a lay member . |
| 17 | CTB has to make a distinctive mark . ’ |
| 18 | SIR Richard Attenborough plans to direct a big screen version of the West End hit Shadowlands . |
| 19 | There is , however , a problem : the judgment of the republics of , for example , Byelorussia , Ukraine and Kazakhstan may alter if the Republic of Russia chooses to remain a nuclear state . |
| 20 | The NHS aims to provide a comprehensive range of care which is free at the point of consumption . |
| 21 | The stone chair in the Throne Sanctuary at Knossos seems to imitate a wooden precursor ; the frescoes show folding wooden stools with cushions , such as were used in ancient Egypt ; there is indirect evidence , in inlay work and bronze hinges , of storage chests , cabinets and chairs ; presumably there were also low wooden beds of the same type inferred from a cast discovered at Akrotiri on Thera . |
| 22 | Birkett appears to feel a personal hostility to Mary Kingsley and her autocratic ways , rather than antagonism towards her imperialist activities . |
| 23 | Trident seems to occupy a blind spot for a Government otherwise over-enthusiastic about cutbacks in public expenditure . |
| 24 | Following the criticism of Frey , Regan moves to establish a particular belief , the ‘ preference-belief ’ , which he will use to prolific effect of his dog Fido 's love of bones . |
| 25 | May I place it on record that I know that my hon. Friend is doing his best to ensure that south Dorset continues to have a large amount of Ministry of Defence employment ? |
| 26 | ‘ Dr. Briant proposes to read a short account of his project to you and will then be available for questioning . |
| 27 | Whether Mr Coleridge wants to crown a successful career by pulling down the edifice in which he has enjoyably spent his working life is another matter entirely . |
| 28 | Like other textbook writers , Greer seems to have a clear understanding of the ways in which the examination system services a class-ridden society : CSE Mathematics Book 2 has a whole section on overtime and piecework with a briefer section on salaries paid to ‘ people like teachers , civil servants , secretaries and company managers ’ . |
| 29 | When , in the opening scene , McKendrick tries to initiate a new topic , by referring to the " fictions problem " ( p. 46 ) , Anderson fails to take it up because he fails to realise that McKendrick is referring to the paper which Anderson himself is going to give . |
| 30 | Underlying this ‘ discovery ’ Althusser claims to find a revolutionary epistemology which centres around the abolition of the distinction between subject and object , and makes Marx 's theory incompatible with those of his predecessors . |