Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But James 's great houses are rarely inhabited by ancestral families : Lord Mark is an exception , and Lord Warburton offers to move from Lockleigh if Isabel ( however mistakenly ) argues damp from its moat ; in any event , his family 's hold on the house is so frail that his sisters seem no more than faded chintz figures among the faded chintz of their drawing-room . |
| 2 | In Counterpurchase , the buyer agrees to purchase on normal commercial terms , including making foreign exchange available . |
| 3 | Male and female take turns to perch on the bulky drum-nest of seaweed , incubating the single stained white egg . |
| 4 | Thus , it is suggested , the application of modern technology to housework merely changes the tasks a housewife has to do without significantly reducing her overall workload . |
| 5 | In view of this , Taylor and colleagues argue that criminology needs to centre on theories of rule-making and breaking in relation to the distribution of power in society . |
| 6 | Stephen Tyler-Upfield wants to switch from conversions into building for the first-time buyers he believes are now increasing there . |
| 7 | A child is duly conceived , but before ever it is born , there is a breakdown of relationships between Sarah and Hagar , and Hagar has to flee into the desert . |
| 8 | If the excitation of A is removed and B is excited with positive current then alignment of the stator and rotor teeth has to occur under poles 4,8 of section X and poles 2,6 of section Y. The rotor moves one step clockwise to attain the correct position . |
| 9 | The university wants to expand from 6,800 students to 15,000 by 2030 and it is clear some private fee-paying would be instrumental in that expansion . |
| 10 | The last story has to do with the girlfriend of a friend . |
| 11 | The story has to do with Titus preparing to inherit Gormenghast as ambitious kitchen boy Steerpike leaves a trail of death and destruction in his wake . |
| 12 | But if that is our conclusion , then we miss perhaps the most profound contribution this story has to make to theology and to faith . |
| 13 | ( p7 ) If the drafter has to choose between clarity and legal accuracy , clarity must be sacrificed , but that should rarely be necessary . |
| 14 | They go round and round , and begin to vibrate frighteningly , so that the whole washing-machine starts to tramp across the kitchen floor , in a growing flood of hot soapy water … |
| 15 | Assessing the effectiveness of a programme in achieving a desired level of results is the newest and most difficult area of work that the auditor has to adapt to . |
| 16 | For women , the measurement of the thread has to do with continuity ; it is the thread that runs through all complexity , an underlying order linking past and future . |
| 17 | In a machine operating at 6000 stitches per minute , the needle thread has to accelerate to a speed close to 100 mph ( 160kph ) , stop , and accelerate backwards to the same speed , and all at a cycle rate of up to 100 times per second ! |
| 18 | Or come and send for him , h he what has to be in the yard , the blacksmith has to look thirty to forty horses their blacksmith has to look round every one of them . |
| 19 | Jim has to deal with any X-rays , lab reports . ’ |
| 20 | When Niki said the Paris decision had been the right one , one knows two things about Niki that explain his position : first that any Ferrari driver has to speak through both sides of his mouth , and second , that even were that not so , there is nothing Niki likes as much as winding someone else up . |
| 21 | Suppose we get 204 , giving herd B ; the second of the systematic sample will be 204 + 293 = 497 which gives herd F. By this means we always obtain two different primaries unless one of the primaries accounts for more than half the secondaries , in which case that primary has to appear at least once . |
| 22 | The second change has to do with gravity . |
| 23 | The second kind has to do with the conceptual coherence of the theory that the empirical investigation is designed to support . |
| 24 | The final word on Tony Iommi 's custom-built JD guitar has to come from John Diggins himself : ‘ Apart from the fact that Tony 's been threatening to take me out for a drink ever since I 've known him , things have changed a lot , and now we do n't get the time to get together any more . |
| 25 | ‘ He is a world class player with all the attributes a striker needs to play at the top , ’ added Allison . |
| 26 | Deciding what the board needs to know about its school and community , and then discussing with the headteacher and school staff how best to become informed . |
| 27 | A weekly routine of inspection has to begin at about the end of February . |
| 28 | Its ability to travel over distance is limited , and it is therefore a commodity which the recordist has to reach for . |
| 29 | But my information is that Gary wants to stay with St Helens . |
| 30 | Many other items could be added to this list ; reference 10 gives details of a number of considerations that the programmer needs to keep in mind . |