Example sentences of "they [vb base] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , they want to waste the next decade poring over the details of economic and monetary union rather than dealing with the real issues confronting Europe . |
| 2 | ‘ The bad news is that they want to see a first draft script within three weeks . ’ |
| 3 | It is not uncommon for tractors to slide into a stream as they attempt to cultivate every last scrap of land beside a watercourse . |
| 4 | There are few things more obstructive to the composing impulse than those word books children queue up with , or those erasers they use to correct the first spelling mistake , often in the first word . |
| 5 | Cutter crews based in the north usually see Fair Isle as a faint blur through misty rain or flying spray , or in darkness and fog as a characteristic shape on the radar screen as they try to beat the next gale to Shetland , or conversely , back to Orkney . |
| 6 | Conference organisers may well be cutting their own throats in the long run if they try to wring the last penny ( or cent ) out of the latest bandwagons . |
| 7 | The trouble is that companies need two to three times as many pay grades as they do working layers , and once they 've established the pay grades , which are easy to describe and set up , they fail to take the next step and set up a different managerial hierarchy based on responsibility rather than salary . |
| 8 | And they have to deposit the first year 's payment at the clinic as soon as they arrive . |
| 9 | And they have to deposit the first year 's payment to the clinic as soon as they arrive . |