Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People tend to invest more time deciding on a house purchase or what car to buy than deciding what to do with their lives and how to develop themselves . |
| 2 | They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ? |
| 3 | We want to see such wastes dealt with to the highest possible standards in ways that are consistent with industrial economics . |
| 4 | They both want to see narrow bends built into straight roads as a far more effective means of slowing traffic . |
| 5 | I want to see elderly people looked after well and if they can be looked after at home all well and good but of course they need the facilities . |
| 6 | We obviously want to see those companies continue as viable units . |
| 7 | We also want to see more money spent on the Government 's home energy efficiency scheme , with all houses in poor physical condition upgraded to a minimum standard . ’ |
| 8 | Although the actual rates produced by studies appear to differ two trends seem to be consistent : the lack of an association between depression prevalence and age and an excess prevalence among women compared with men . |
| 9 | In other words we want to help local enthusiasts to keep in touch with what is happening in the wider world of railways . |
| 10 | Social workers appear to expect few benefits to accrue from residential care . |
| 11 | Think how often , say in a meeting or discussion , you have a point of view that you want to persuade other people to agree with or adopt . |
| 12 | Formal consent must also be sought from the Reporter to the Children 's Panel if we propose to share certain information provided by the Reporter . |
| 13 | Most formal carers want to allow old people to remain in their homes as long as possible . |
| 14 | All animals appear to have some capacity to learn from experience . |
| 15 | The thing is , if I 'm going to start my own business one day , I want to get good experience working for the best … so I do n't care whether I 'm answering the phone or working in their library . |
| 16 | I want to get this tumour packed in nice and firm . |
| 17 | To explore what I mean further , I want to examine some data collected as part of a larger project looking at children and television . |
| 18 | I am conscious that to question publicly the established methods of English study is to lay oneself open to the charge of giving aid and comfort to the philistines and utilitarians who want to remake higher education according to their own ideals , if that is the word for them . |
| 19 | Depending , as Dufferin had so clearly perceived , for their ability to govern on the collaboration of a vast class of petty native fonctionnaires , and the political apathy of an even vaster class of ignorant peasants , they could in no way afford to see these people aroused to insubordination , even of an ostensibly peaceful kind . |
| 20 | We seek to establish effective partnerships based on a shared commitment to good standards and quality services , and an effective use of resources . |
| 21 | Some countries impose a fixed fee ( e.g. , the United States , where actual costs incurred by U.S. Marshals can vary enormously depending on travel distances involved ) , others seek to recover actual charges levied by , e.g. , a huissier , and others will in practice make no charge , especially where the state of origin is known to operate a similar policy . |
| 22 | Most experts attributed this to the so-called " greenhouse effect " , caused by a buildup in the earth 's atmosphere of gases which act to prevent solar heat reflected from the planet from escaping into space [ see pp. 36783-84 ] . |
| 23 | But instead of gaining , we stand to lose such workers to pay for a reorganisation that only Ian Lang ( the Scottish Secretary ) and a few of his supporters want . ’ |
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| 25 | ADD obtain maximum likelihood estimates by maximizing the criterion with respect to the α 's and β : i 's in the structure in equation ( 6.14 ) , where n is the sample size . |
| 26 | While the methods of structural linguistics seem to have some role to play in studying the structure of meaningful systems , they have nothing directly to offer the unravelling of meaning . |
| 27 | A valley I know has rowan trees growing with oak , birch and holly . |
| 28 | So Ollie had to change his passport and hand up another passport and I remember saying this guy plays in the big leagues . |
| 29 | Er this report refers to just the new road terms within the appropriate switch of transportation strategy , which as you know represent other proposals relate to certain facilities and off street parking , bus priority and major park |
| 30 | The number of isolations of non-toxigenic C diphtheriae var gravis referred to the unit from laboratories that continue to screen all throat swabs for C diphtheriae has increased fivefold from 1990 to 1992 . |