Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of his profits , the retailer has to pay all the costs involved in running the shop , that is , his overheads . |
| 2 | The retailer needs to do this in order to predict future sales . |
| 3 | In order to make this decision , the retailer needs to do some market research into the socioeconomics of the area . |
| 4 | In deciding how much profit he wants to make on each item , and how much to mark up his prices , the retailer needs to consider many of the factors we looked at in Section 7 — the socioeconomics of the area , the needs of the typical customer , the competition , and so on . |
| 5 | If a user wants to read all the news stories on say , Lloyd 's insurance , he or she simply types in the name on a computer keyboard and a complete list of stories appears on the screen in seconds . |
| 6 | The Milk Marketing Board wants to improve that situation . |
| 7 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 8 | It may be questioned whether or not the user needs to retrieve all of the possible relevant documents for a specific query at any one point in time . |
| 9 | This attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor Mum has to do all the washing , is really quite , quite misguided because it , it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons , and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |
| 10 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 11 | Nucella has to bore all but the smallest mussels , but an adult dog-whelk can usually inject the narcotic between the opercular plates of a barnacle to relax the prey without boring ( Carriker , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | To justify its existence , a conglomerate 's headquarters has to add more value than an independent business unit could get from outside advisers and banks . |
| 13 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 14 | Nevertheless , any account of the undergraduate curriculum has to address such issues , not because the questions must be asked , but because they have already been answered — in the institutional , professional and curricular structures that exist — and these answers must be examined . |
| 15 | While the nation mourns ( not ) over the sudden cancellation of the SHAKESPEAR 'S SISTER mega-tour , it would seem that the reason behind the decision had little to do with SIOBHAN 's nervous exhaustion and more to do with the fact that hubbie DAVE STEWART wants to spend more time with his wife and less time on his Jack Jones , staring at his fibre-optic carpet . |
| 16 | Elitism has to mean more than this — even in its modern , broader sense — for it to be of analytical use , so modern elite theory has tended to argue for a plurality of elites which may interact or compete in a variety of ways . |
| 17 | When you shorten distances between elements in a line of jumps , the horse simply has to bring its hocks under more than it is currently doing … while doing so the horse has to shift more weight from its forehand to its quarters , which are thus lowered and ‘ engaged ’ . |
| 18 | The horse has to succeed most of the time to retain its self-esteem and to increase it . |
| 19 | Mummy has to get those . |
| 20 | It is at the point in Scale 2 , where Hilton starts to emphasise this , that he uses the image of the ladder to look back at what has gone before , and to point the way ahead : The rest of the book illuminates the subtle inner movements of the personality in which man engages with the power of God to come to a knowledge of his being , the " wirkyng in a soul " when Scale 2 is more engaging as a work which marshals literary resources to illuminate Christian mystical theology . |
| 21 | ( Not that it 's anybody 's business , but even a dybbuk needs to have some downtime . |
| 22 | But whereas the administration likes to talk about a greener and more internationally competitive car industry , Detroit wants to spend any available support on overcoming bread-and-butter engineering obstacles in complying with environmental legislation . |
| 23 | There being no applicable statute to regulate the position , the revenue has to maintain this position at common law . |
| 24 | Addressed here are the socially organized ways in which dirty water comes to be noticed and defined as a pollution , thereby creating a case about which an enforcement agent has to take some action . |
| 25 | The Third World as a term needs to retrieve this lost positive sense — even if today the political order has changed so that to some extent the various forms of Islamic fundamentalism have taken over the role of providing a direct alternative to First and Second World ideologies . |
| 26 | The decision to focus mainly on Latin Europe stems from a long-held conviction by WACC-Europe members that the regional association needs to encourage more members and more communication activities in southern Europe . |
| 27 | It is true that the industry has to bear some costs . |
| 28 | It is a borderland concept between the mental and the physical , and Freud wants to express this when he speaks of an instinct arising as an impulse within the organism , not as a stimulus from without . |
| 29 | But because Linda has to stop half way through so that other stages can be filmed , the swiss roll dries out and cracks and she has to start all over again . |
| 30 | We see we see this forum as very much the right sort of forum for either making or breaking the case for a new settlement , the one thing I do have to say , however , is that the Department wants to see this particular issue settled in the context of the alteration , and full significance of that is n't immediately apparent , it , what we do n't want to see is what was envisaged in the H B F statement , where they thought that we might end up with a decision to have a new settlement in principle and then leave it open to the local plans , all four of them around the city , to then explore the possible alternative locations . |