Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the heads are restricted to general terms they are a useful means of outlining the transaction and identifying the main areas the parties want to see included in the sale agreement . |
| 2 | Both main parties appear to have fallen for the rhetoric about the rising tide of crime among the young despite statistical evidence which plainly suggests that the problem has declined in recent years . |
| 3 | However , since this is not a prerequisite for acceptance on the Minor Project , some schools did not form one , and several of those which were formed appear to have lapsed following the completion of the school 's spending phase . |
| 4 | Many respondents , especially those answering ‘ no ’ , interpreted question 1 by focusing on the traditional model of sole practice , and appear to have answered on the assumption that support for any enforced modification of the present model would give rise to a negative response . |
| 5 | These appear to have grown at the edge of the platform and were surrounded by oolitic sand shoals ( Peryt et al . |
| 6 | The Essenes , an extremely ascetic sect who withdrew to the desert region of Judaea near the Red Sea , appear to have originated in the middle of the second century BC at the time of the Maccabean revolt against the misguided Hellenizing reforms of the Seleucid ruler of Palestine Antiochus IV . |
| 7 | The marginal platforms appear to have prograded over the top of the mud aprons and when combined with the latter , form lenticular bodies of sediments ( Figs . |
| 8 | Despite the ministrations of the Mine Surgeon poor Sarah died on the 13 June , and after this date none of the Duke girls appear to have worked on the mine again . |
| 9 | If the Liberal Democrats threaten rebellion , Labour will say : ‘ We have a programme to get Britain out of recession ; we want to get rid of the poll tax ; we want to rescue the health service , and you are standing in our way in order to get petty party advantage . |
| 10 | ‘ If you want to get rid of the Sex Pistols , ’ he said , ‘ I 'll take them off your hands . ’ |
| 11 | Unless you want to get arrested at the finish , do n't ever wear it again . ’ |
| 12 | They all seem to get hit in the head nowadays . |
| 13 | So from the mid century onwards many working-class women seem to have retreated into the home , and by the end of the nineteenth century a conscious ideology was constructing the role of housewife and mother . |
| 14 | seem to have gone down the drain a bit . |
| 15 | ‘ As you seem to have seen through the subterfuge from the very first moment , why did you agree to this trip ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You seem to have fallen from the top of a Christmas tree , Fräulein , ’ he said spitefully . |
| 17 | They seem to have peaked in the winter when nature itself can be grey enough , or maybe I just remember them as peaking in the winter . |
| 18 | On project management , many SSDs seem to have struggled with the notion that the changes should be led by a dedicated manager and teams with specific responsibilities and timescales . |
| 19 | The Garlands seem to have merged into the landscape . |
| 20 | Most seem to have lived on the sea floor , champing their way through mud . |
| 21 | The first ones seem to have lived in the sea , but by the Silurian the jawless ( Agnathan ) fish were a prominent component of fresh- and brackish-water sites in many areas of the world , and continued to diversify into the Devonian period . |
| 22 | Although the Unix International/OSF wars seem to have abated at the moment , ‘ there is always an excuse for them to rip each others hearts out , leaving Bill Gates to have the market , ’ says Rothstein . |
| 23 | Between the Cuckmere valley and the kingdom of Kent settled a group whose identity remained fairly coherent until the days of the Norman conquest but of whose political influence we know but little ; these Haestingas seem to have come within the South Saxon ambit but served also as a buffer in the continued kingly wars of the early centuries . |
| 24 | These marine reptiles have a higher chance of preservation than many of the terrestrial species , and their carcasses often seem to have sunk to the sea floor , so that some localities have yielded numerous complete specimens . |
| 25 | But could you comment , and no doubt Mr Curtis will also want to amplify why York er seem to have cooled on the idea . |
| 26 | She felt her own skin begin to feel chilled as the heat slowly ebbed away . |
| 27 | The long-term effects of martial law on the morale of the Polish People 's Army remain to be seen , but the demoralisation which we now know to have followed in the wake of the 1970 disorders are an inauspicious clue to the LWP 's health today . |
| 28 | That will not do , and when , to make matters considerably worse , bubonic plague breaks out in the town , the people of Ashdod decide to get rid of the ark . |
| 29 | Exactly like the Philistines of Ashdod , Gath and Ekron , its people decide to get rid of the ark as quickly as they can . |
| 30 | We just want people to get the money in very quickly after the seventh of November , er but we 'll hopefully know after Sunday evening , er what we reckon to have raised in the area . |