Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We want to see a working countryside and we do n't want to see it fossilised so it 's almost like a theme park . ’ |
| 2 | Let us assume that you want to find a particular book and that you know the title and author . |
| 3 | Most traders , and I 'm sure this applies to those advertising in Guitarist , want to provide a good service and usually do . |
| 4 | Police who 're still searching for Carol Clark 's missing denim clothing , also want to trace a blonde woman and a man seen on the canal towpath at midnight on Saturday . |
| 5 | If you want to use a different yarn and , especially for readers overseas who may not be able to buy the originals , the yarns shown are actual size so that you can compare your substitute yarn with the original . |
| 6 | If you want to use a different yarn and , especially for readers overseas who may not be able to buy the originals , the yarns are shown actual size so that you can compare your substitute yarn with the original . |
| 7 | And foreign ministers from Africa are coming the Secretary General of the O A U United Nations representatives and others because we want to build a new agenda and move the anti-apartheid campaign so that it prepares to handle the problems of Southern Africa . |
| 8 | ‘ That shows that people want to adopt a healthier diet and lifestyle but are not finding it easy to make the change . |
| 9 | You want to have a good time and paint the town red this weekend , but somehow you feel restricted and constrained from enjoying life . |
| 10 | Then , when you get the chance , you want to have a closer look and check it out . |
| 11 | I hear , I , I , I think there is a tendency with the County Council but as I discovered as Chairman of Highways that members want to take a greater interest and to have a greater say on the items on the agenda now planning is is not a controversial as , as say highway items , but nevertheless I think there will be times and there will be agendas which will require a great deal of discussion on the individual items and I 'm also a great believer bearing in mind comments if it ai n't broke , do n't bend it . |
| 12 | I think the Labour Party 's heart is in the right place , they want to take a positive approach and do what they can to help industry , to train , to put more money into training youngsters for industry then we have a skill work force , not a cheap , not a cheap unskilled labour force , er , you know , which is what we , what 's happening now , because we 've just not been trained , they 're cutting the training , but it 's all the same , anyway you know , I , I , I do n't know , you say what can I do for ya , well er in the short run not much except to help the , the people who are on lower income and the children through the budget er which will be introduced , it 'll be that why er through er child benefits and through er high , high benefits and through er , er lower taxes for the , everybody up to er twenty odd , twenty five thousand year or something , so , erm I mean that 's in the short run and little that can be done , it 's not as much as anybody would like , you put more and more into , into er , into training , er more money into industry to help them to invest , er you know you can have a sort of regional development banks to help industry to invest these in , in each of the regions , but I mean the , these are the positive plans and not like this one who 's just letting things go . |
| 13 | By sacrifice and submission and by the Grace of God I mean to become a truly serious person , fit to make a new beginning and become a Catholic and a proper wife to you . |
| 14 | This winter I hope to perform a major rebuild and , as part of this , I would like to modify the braking system . |
| 15 | In quite a lot of professional academic writing , the various systems are mixed together , despite the fact that most journals seek to adopt a consistent policy and insist on receiving manuscripts which follow a specified system . |
| 16 | Teachers should realise , therefore , in presenting their programmes of Religious Education which seek to foster a personal faith and commitment they can quite properly assess pupils ' knowledge , understanding , skills and attitudes in varying degrees for the benefit of the individual pupil . |
| 17 | They have aimed to participate in all , or nearly all , of the major fields , and to be net exporters of major electronics hardware items ( TV sets , computers , telephone switches ) ; they also seek to have a major defence and aerospace industry and to be net exporters of television programming . |
| 18 | I hope to have a safe season and be more consistent than in the past two years . ’ |
| 19 | You may be right but some people seem to dramatize a commonplace misfortune and turn it into a cult . |
| 20 | The large and very enthusiastic entertainments team create a welcoming atmosphere and ensure that there are plenty of activities to keep everyone happy . |
| 21 | Since technologies are ‘ neutral ’ , then no aspersions are being cast on individual members of cultures which happen to lack a particular technology and are thus taken to lack certain intellectual advantages . |
| 22 | But we just you know like Saturday night we really enjoy making a nice meal and having a nice bottle of wine or something and doing something |
| 23 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 24 | But — although this is very rare — you do sometimes come across one or two who seem to have a genuine interest and ‘ feel ’ for the birds ; then , obviously , I try to give them all the advice and encouragement I can . |
| 25 | In contrast , boys seem to have a firmer self-identity and a clearer ambition showing more insight in response to sentence stems such as ‘ My main problem is … ’ and ‘ He/she felt proud that … ’ . |
| 26 | She sighed happily , then went on , ‘ We seem to have a prospective buyer and Liz is making frantic signals to me , so I 'd better go . |
| 27 | A merger occurs where two companies combine to form a larger enterprise and where the shareholders in the combined enterprise comprise all , or substantially all , of the shareholders of the two companies . |
| 28 | A merger occurs where two companies combine to form a larger enterprise and where the shareholders in the combined enterprise comprise all , or substantially all , of the shareholders of the two companies . |
| 29 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
| 30 | It 's a long-established human set-up , whose name comes from the Old Arcturean quickspeak for ’ family Organization ’ — because they like to affect a patriarchal system and because they demand the same absolute loyalty and devotion that one would show to close kinfolk . |