Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find that a thoroughly unsatisfactory situation , in which this court should hold , if it properly can do so , that the board ought to give reasons for its recommendation . |
| 2 | She said she did n't think money ought to stop people living , actually living : making their lives little when they could be big . |
| 3 | In return , I hope very much that you keep on telling us what you think about the alumni services we provide , telling us what 's going on in your professional world and how you think the University ought to take account of it . |
| 4 | He rejects the idea that industry ought to keep workers on simply to fulfil a responsibility for maintaining full employment and he also argues that it will be impossible to increase the tax base enough to create employment in labour-intensive services such as health and education . |
| 5 | The radical agenda runs something like this : Labour ought to begin talks with the Liberal Democrats on PR ; negotiate electoral pacts with that party , so that they can achieve a majority in 1996 , not just in order to form a government , but to introduce PR ; abandon links with the trade unions , eschew egalitarian tax policies , perhaps even abandon the name ‘ Labour ’ , so as to disavow any claim of being a party that primarily represents a working class that , in self-identification , is constantly dwindling . |
| 6 | No vet trying to build up a practice ought to let pride overcome his or her business sense . ’ |
| 7 | The basic premise is that this depletion of inositol will desensitize phosphoinositide signalling by slowing down the resynthesis of the PtdIns(4,5)P 2 precursor used to release InsP 3 . |
| 8 | Although this organism does respond to treatment with certain antibiotics , it is , surprisingly , more sensitive to metronidazole , the anti-protozoal agent used to treat trichomonas . |
| 9 | Cyclosporin is a potent immunosuppressive agent used to prevent allograft rejection in solid organ transplantation . |
| 10 | By the early 1900s , the mill had been converted to a dower house , the water wheel used to grind bracken , etc , for the deer . |
| 11 | The journal is a book of prime entry used to record transactions which do not pass through the cash receipts or payments books , or purchases , sales or returns day books , for example , purchases and sales of fixed assets on credit , the correction of errors and other entries of an extraordinary nature . |
| 12 | In Equation ( 2.6.1 ) we arbitrarily assign ( n — 2 ) different values to unc ( other than unc = 0 , which we have in effect used to determine pn ) and then evaluate the ( numerical ) determinant for each of these . |
| 13 | Basting ( tacking ) is a temporary stitch used to hold layers of fabric together ( fig. 11 ) . |
| 14 | Dot used to have Gloria to snuggle up to in the dark . |
| 15 | Tecnazene , a fungicide used to prevent potatoes from sprouting whilst in storage , was found at up to 13 times the level considered safe for fish in some factories . |
| 16 | Where copper pipe has been replaced by plastic or a plastic fitting used to join copper pipe , an earth wire must be fitted across the plastic . |
| 17 | It may be at least partly an artefact of the methodology used to assign speakers to social classes . |
| 18 | A key aspect of the methodology used to estimate population trends was the assumption that policies in place at the time of the analysis would continue . |
| 19 | In the past , from blood transfusion and products made from blood used to treat haemophilia . |
| 20 | Thus the extent of right brainedness among left handers is seen to be a function of the position of the criterion used to classify sinistrality . |
| 21 | a light faced vertical rule used to separate columns of type . |
| 22 | The association used to take dogs from the general public , although this acceptance has now ceased . |
| 23 | ‘ The Queen ought to pay tax and so should other members of her family . ’ |
| 24 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 25 | Dave 's cleaner in High Hall used to do loads of stuff for him , she used to wash his mugs up and all sorts of things . |
| 26 | The contract is for the provision of their Permanent Downhole Readout [ PDR ] equipment used to monitor downhole pressure and temperature to optimise production from hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs . |
| 27 | SPECIALIST equipment used to treat people with speech impediments has been stolen in a break-in at a Dumfries hospital . |
| 28 | After a visit to a prison , where he supplied an inmate with cannabis , his car was searched and found to have glassware , knife blades , bicarbonate of soda and gauze filters which was equipment used to turn cocaine hydrochloride into free base cocaine . |
| 29 | A piece of communication equipment used to enable computers to send data to and from each other . |
| 30 | UN inspectors arrived in Baghdad on June 26 to supervise the destruction at Muthana , 130 km north-west of the capital , of 60 items of equipment used to make casings for chemical bombs . |