Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We share that judgement and intend to continue with the passage of the Bill . ’
2 Against these dramatic changes , we intend to remain at the centre as an effective resource for the voluntary sector , and an important bridge between the sector and others .
3 later than that , it 's er I mean to go to the crematorium at quarter past eleven , we would n't be back here before twelve o'clock .
4 Speeds greater than zero correspond to flow from the west to the east .
5 The electors intend to proceed to an election to the Coulson Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry , which falls vacant on 1 October 1994 upon the retirement of Professor N.H. March , and invite applications by 26 July 1993 .
6 If you intend to proceed with the appeal on your own , you should contact me for a copy of the relevant parts of the Sheriff Court process .
7 Lectures about this type of library material tend to sound like a catalogue of unfamiliar names — the ‘ catalogue aria ’ .
8 We tend to work from the Centre in the friendly critic role .
9 Having become established , people tend to work within the tradition for reasons which are never properly articulated .
10 Mrs Keating shouted , ‘ I think you 'd better know , I intend to write to the school about this . ’
11 Initially , the chemical potential µ 1 , of the solvent in the solution , is lower than that of the pure solvent , µ 1 ° and solvent molecules tend to pass through the membrane into the solution in order to attain equilibrium .
12 Ideas , materials and methodology used all tend to come into the country from outside .
13 All timbers tend to come to an equilibrium with the relative humidity of the surrounding air .
14 My examples tend to come from the part of the world where I live , but the same principles apply wherever you happen to be .
15 Kenotic christology of this sort did have its own internal problems : on closer examination it is not easy to understand what exactly it can mean to speak of this ‘ self-emptying ’ , and attempts to make the matter more precise tend to fade into a tangle of artificialities and contradictions .
16 However , animal experiments have shown that , if tobacco extracts are painted on rabbits ' ears , cancerous growths tend to appear on the skin of the ear .
17 The Liberal Democrats intend to concentrate on the prevention of crime by putting more policemen on the beat and setting up special committees to discuss law and order .
18 Local authority loans for house purchase are more likely to be made to manual groups and they tend to concentrate on the purchase of older dwellings .
19 As is the case with most areas of text-linguistics , linguists tend to concentrate on the analysis of signalling devices in English and extrapolate from that to other languages .
20 To understand what the issue is really about , we must look more carefully at the premises they bring to bear on the discussion of reduction ; for this debate functions as a strait-jacket , stifling the very assumptions and aspirations which lie at the heart of the dispute .
21 The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it .
22 They tend to communicate in a form of shorthand based on this common database and can to some extent predict each other 's reactions to normal situations .
23 I want to go through the process of what we really have to do and consider to build up the story .
24 ‘ Do you think , ’ the elder man wondered , his face as grey as his hair with stone-dust , ‘ that the generals really want to go into the war with an army of pressed men ? ’
25 We propose to remain within the centre of the Community , framing the future of the Community in the interests of the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe .
26 region in terms of the general business conditions , or the second most optimistic so it 's not entirely surprising that they now say that they expect to invest on the back of the strength of that optimism .
27 For my own purposes , I propose to treat as a way of life argument any claim that a particular policy decision would have significant consequences for the demographic , economic or social life of a community , or that it would significantly affect the atmosphere or symbolic existence of that community .
28 I 'M getting married in less than two months and I want to lose about a stone before then to get in shape for the big day .
29 If we are outside , we shall not enjoy the advantages of a single currency or have the investment in this country of those companies — our own and overseas firms — which want to invest in the core of Europe and enjoy full access to all that goes on in Europe .
30 They are willing to do so because they expect to be paid back , and because they expect to profit from the transaction through the interest they charge on the loan — it would be a strange world if they did n't !
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