Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I reckon that 's a bit of a cheek , really , if you prefer to affirm and swear on the bible , I do n't see why they should challenge why you want to do one or the other . |
| 2 | Here we go and that is that , up to now , erm we 've only made six beams , we 've got to reach , for these tanks , we want to make sixty and the problem is we 're on stop now redesign the whole thing and going on the present rate of production we 're going to go up to about week twenty-eight . |
| 3 | the second one is that er we want to make sure that the policies you do have are doing the job that they were initially designed to do , and it 's thirteen years since you er took out the policy |
| 4 | Of course its members gain because they work in the service , but they put forward their views because they want to make sure that the service does not collapse under the strain and we do not have a repetition of the destruction that we saw at Strangeways . |
| 5 | We maybe on different sides , but we want to make sure that the O A P s and the people that do have to er er present th pay these bills , I mean if you consider if you think of Calor , Calor Gas , Calor Gas , the way that I actually heat my I pay V A T on that , Calor Gas is is is V A T ed |
| 6 | In other words , although social scientists certainly want to make sure that the information that they are gathering is accurate , this is only a necessary — not a sufficient — goal . |
| 7 | I only want to make clear that the problem is far more complex than it is represented . |
| 8 | With Puffed Wheat an ounce would actually overflow in many bowls , so people tend to serve less than an ounce . |
| 9 | Moreover , whilst many agencies now seek to make clear that the relationship with their temporary workers is not one of employment , many of the larger ones also offer them " employee-like " fringe benefits and try to encourage agency loyalty . |
| 10 | But things begin to go wrong when a dinosaur expert , played by Irish-born New Zealand actor Sam Neill , and his girlfriend , played by Laura Dern , arrive on the scene . |
| 11 | I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away . |
| 12 | The shades of the nineteenth century seem to loom larger than the prospects of the 21st Century which is what we should be aiming for . |
| 13 | Land Rover themselves seem to realise this as the Defender is now fitted with the 200 Tdi unit which seems a good engine . |
| 14 | Placed abaft the column of her forward gun , the warhead would be protected from the impact of ramming the caisson as the bows crumpled , and the eight-hour delay chemical fuses would give the raiders time to get clear before the acid ate through copper discs . |
| 15 | Since the press seem to take any and every chance they can to doubt his ability to play , this article , and indeed all your support over the last few months , has been more than a pleasure to read . |
| 16 | So in an attempt to upgrade the tournament and I suspect to make sure that the host nation of the top division is bound to be involved in that division , the number of teams in each division has been increased from sic to eight . |
| 17 | Always be willing to ask questions of the material and demand to know more than the text is willing to divulge about people , places and events . |
| 18 | We just try to make certain that a guest will be comfortable with a certain line of questioning . ’ |
| 19 | And vaccine supplies start to run dry as the flu outbreak reaches epidemic proportions . |
| 20 | The only other external modifying force is the fact that extremely intricate designs tend to become unclear if the pile is too long , which is why most finely-knotted items are close-cropped . |
| 21 | People tend to become emotional when the subject of the ordination of women is raised . |
| 22 | We residents and poll tax payers of Everton have to endure little or no street lighting at all . |
| 23 | But to really appreciate a Woodstock kitchen you have to look deeper than the cabinet door . |
| 24 | If you have to point lower because the wind has changed direction ( you have been headed ) , this is a sign to tack and gain ground over those who have n't spotted it . |
| 25 | And so the A N C has to make sure that while it works for the aspirations of its people it must also protect the country and I 'm afraid in this context it means it has through negotiations and other means also conceded made concessions in order to save the situation and the only organization that is now working for the national interest even losing its own supporters in the country is basically the A N C and it 's quite a remarkable thing to see that leaders are prepared to l lose political support because they have to make sure that the country does n't . |
| 26 | You have to make sure that the period of the regular payments is measured in the same unit of time as the interest and the term . |
| 27 | If the speaker is going to refer to headings on a blackboard , or diagrams on an Overhead Projector you have to make sure that the viewer too can refer to them . |
| 28 | I also have to make sure when the passengers come into the airport terminal they are entering a clean , well-presented environment . |