Example sentences of "they [vb base] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 2 | After April they intend to use the standard discharge procedures that have already been piloted with one general practice , as mentioned above . |
| 3 | Two other authorities , however , did indicate how they intend to reconcile the two systems . |
| 4 | The whole country would like to know at what level of income they intend to increase the higher rate of tax . |
| 5 | International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries . |
| 6 | I do n't see them very much , they tend to use the back door , and sort of come out and then go down |
| 7 | Eliciting these principles from participants is complex , because they tend to give the prioritized principles . |
| 8 | Speeches like Bob Giles ' are all very well but they tend to obliterate the cool thinking so necessary by those who hold positions of trust . |
| 9 | We make relatively little use of the simpler DTP systems because they tend to obscure the logical/physical distinction and encourage students to invent design elements on a case-by-case basis as they create a document , leading to incoherent and inflexible document structures . |
| 10 | They tend to assert the overwhelming desire for cognitive order , and thus offer an unrealistically cohesive model of cognition itself which ignores the problems of ideology and framing . |
| 11 | They tend to identify the common good with the interests , real or imagined , of their supporters . |
| 12 | One can imagine someone in a room looking at a beautiful painting , drinking in the details and the way in which they combine to constitute the lovely whole , and there being nothing beyond this observer and the object of his contemplation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | First , the constitutional authorities want to limit the sovereignty of Parliament by law ; second , they want to reinvigorate the various checks on the power of a democratically elected government through changes designed to bolster a more " balanced " constitution ; and third , they look to the checks implicit in a genuine revival of Parliament and parliamentary government . |
| 15 | Councillors say grazing all year round is ruining the grass and they want to restrict the ancient rights of commoners . |
| 16 | They want to move the whole competition — lock , stock and barrel — out of the province entirely and turn in into the Jersey Milk Cup . |
| 17 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 18 | They want to regain the natural environments . |
| 19 | MPs will start debating these issues on the 17 of this month , two weeks before members of the old party have to make up their minds about whether they want to join the new ship . |
| 20 | If they want to climb the sheer slope , an I test ( Scale Sheer Surface +10 ) allows a character to head upwards D6+2 feet during the round ( only D6 for a Dwarf and D4 for a Halfling ) . |
| 21 | The others will chip in if they agree , but they will they are , they are wanting to set a missile to move , they 're wanting to send a bullet , they are wanting to s to evoke emotion or anger or rage or frustration or political bias or to change attitudes now for example the interesting thing about the Princess Diana erm the headline on one of those tabloids which talks about exile is I suspect that they want to evoke the constitutional crisis which there was at the time of |
| 22 | are only ten percent so why are you try why are you saying they want to get the rich peasants when the , the poor peasants comprise seventy percent of the peasant population ? |
| 23 | Either they want to conceal the real cause of death or they 're still alive . ’ |
| 24 | The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members , so they want to land the first blows . |
| 25 | The supporters are not happy with that , they want to know the real truth and well , so do I in a way , because I do n't really know . |
| 26 | Given that the units each do their particular thing , I can then understand how they interact to make the whole engine move . |
| 27 | In Figs. 21.18(a) and ( c ) the structures appear to be orientated approximately in the plane of the picture whereas in ( b ) and ( d ) they appear to intersect the new plane . |
| 28 | They appear to offer the right combination of warmth , windproofing and breathability . |
| 29 | Superimposed on this map of things as they were , one sometimes finds the lines drawn in by the commissioners showing where they propose to create the new fields and hedges , and the new roads , public and private . |
| 30 | In short , theory can help practitioners to adopt a theoretical orientation to their task , whereby they seek to refer the particular techniques they use to more general principles , and , reciprocally , test out the validity of such principles against the observed actualities of classroom practice . |