Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had arranged to go out in a crab boat to get JTR 's coastal sketches . |
| 2 | for me , so , I 've arranged to go back to the dentist then . |
| 3 | The hoarse words were intended to come out as a joke , but instead they held a raw note of emotion which seemed to hang in the air between them . |
| 4 | Some who were working intended to slip away for an hour or so . |
| 5 | Lahaina 's sponges can be folded or rolled to go anywhere in the filter . |
| 6 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 7 | The USA had previously been opposed to such involuntary repatriation , as had the Vietnamese government , but the latter was expected to go along with the initiative , given its current desire to restore diplomatic relations with the USA . |
| 8 | They are expected to report back to the software house and tell the programming team about any bugs they find , any inconsistencies , and so forth . |
| 9 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 10 | This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements . |
| 11 | In the case of real assets , the expected return may be less certain ( i.e. riskier ) but potentially greater as , for example , if property values are expected to soar ahead of the rate of inflation . |
| 12 | Consumers in Scotland , where the heating season is the longest in the UK , are expected to suffer most from the change . |
| 13 | Priority was in this way accorded to the least prosperous regions and countries of the Community , partly arising from an expectation that these areas might otherwise be expected to benefit least from the SEM . |
| 14 | There was no clue to contemporary thinking at the DTp throughout the 1970's : indeed , it was not until 1987 that a new standard reference work was published which could reasonably be expected to provide up to the minute advice on traffic planning in existing urban areas . |
| 15 | One scratchcard in six is expected to come up with a prize between £1 and £100 . |
| 16 | Secondly , there is the regional flood defence committee , whose members will be expected to come up with the lion 's share of the cash . |
| 17 | Nor can democracy be expected to work smoothly in a society with rigid divisions , producing a permanent majority and a permanent minority . |
| 18 | He might be banished during cleaning , but he was still permitted to jump on to the bed . |
| 19 | By the end of this month manufacturing capacity is expected to increase three-fold as a result , according to sales and marketing director Joe Weston . |
| 20 | If cimetidine ( or the hypochlorhydric condition it creates ) as in fact carcinogenic to the gastric mucosa , gastric cancer incidence should be expected to increase only after a period of time after initiation of treatment . |
| 21 | Under South Korean electoral law only officially registered campaign workers were permitted to participate formally in the campaign . |
| 22 | In a developing country , like India , a preference for sons would be expected to lead initially to a reduction in the birth rate , which would be to the country 's advantage ; and before long , the more farsighted parents will realise that in order to have grandchildren , they should select not sons , who may not be able to find wives , but daughters , who will be sought after , and be able to enter into advantageous marriages . |
| 23 | Talk of regional governmental or elected assemblies seemed pointless eyewash , a sign of weakness in the face of the nationalist challenge ; a policy designed to lead either to a call for total independence for Scotland and Wales or to a permanent loss of authority by Whitehall and therefore a diminution in the competence of Scottish and Welsh MPs . |
| 24 | He or she will be expected to participate actively within the Centre 's research activities . |
| 25 | Passive acceptance and rote learning of facts and procedures is now discouraged ; you will instead be expected to participate fully in an exchange of views and information . |
| 26 | Were such a test to be adopted in future , it would reintroduce into British obscenity law a wholly subjective assessment of taste and decency with respect to works of art and public communications , and it would do so by amending an Act which was designed to focus solely on the question of harm . |
| 27 | This period is thus , in effect , the lifetime of the product , during which it can be expected to function normally without the need for repair ( other than , of course , in appropriate cases , replacement of consumables — such as ribbons on a printer , and routine or preventive maintenance — such as the need to service a car in accordance with the maker 's guidelines ) . |
| 28 | It 's designed to fit neatly in a pocket while you listen — and it 's yours absolutely FREE when you apply for the NatWest Hospital Income Plan before the date shown on your Application Form . |
| 29 | Another type of use is for Sales and Marketing , which is expected to grow considerably in the future . |
| 30 | Indo-Soviet trade , which had been increasing rapidly , was expected to grow further after the signing of a trade protocol worth Rs70,000 million in 1989 , a 35 per cent increase over the sum for 1988 . |