Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have only to look south of the border at some of the experiences of their former workmates within public sector bus operations to see what the alternative propositions might be . |
| 2 | I think we 'll look at the news in a few minutes to see what the weather 's going to be and then , do you want any ice cream or anything ? |
| 3 | Politically , therefore , the inducements to continue what the Plowden Committee call ‘ excessive social services ’ are much stronger than the inducements to discontinue them or to supplement any which may happen to be ‘ inadequate ’ . |
| 4 | 4 Setting baselines ( 10 minutes to establish what the parents are to do ) |
| 5 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 6 | Bann face Garvey at Blaris on Wednesday night ( 8pm ) and Holywood at Olympia next Saturday , needing two outright wins to secure them the honours . |
| 7 | You have only to look through one or two stately homes to see what a great difference the architectural details — the cornices , mouldings , hardware on doors and windows , doors themselves — make to a room . |
| 8 | ‘ He gave me twelve months to find him a bigger place , ’ recalled Thomas . |
| 9 | So we thought we 'd riffle through the rails of leading dancewear manufacturers to find something a shade more exciting than saggy tracksuit bottoms . |
| 10 | It took the bank almost two months to write him a curt letter saying it was not interested . |
| 11 | Generally speaking , it is better for farm animals to give them a lot more space and a lot more variety in their environment . |
| 12 | ‘ If they do n't drive , then they ask their husbands to give them a lift . |
| 13 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 14 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 15 | Back in 1936 Frank Hawks asked the Granville Brothers to build him the ‘ fastest landplane ever ’ . |
| 16 | There is a determination displayed within the guidelines to assess what a student can do ; and the academic distinction between Traditional subjects has been virtually eliminated . |
| 17 | You 'll obviously want to make it , you do n't want to make it too short you 're going to have enough words to get yourself a good mark . |
| 18 | Young people differ in their interests and aptitudes , and we need a range of schools to offer them the best opportunities . |
| 19 | Mr Morris welcomed the principle of the Farm Assured Scotch Livestock initiative but added : ‘ The scheme guarantees consumers that stock have been produced according to welfare friendly standards but we would welcome steps to take it a stage further , particularly to embrace quality . |
| 20 | In Luxor we hired a felucca with two crewmen to take us the 120 miles by river to Aswan . |
| 21 | You 've lo lost all the opportunities to make yourself a bit more money which is what we 're talking about here . |
| 22 | Those who fought through the months to make it a much leaner , quicker body exercising true peer group pressure will be a touch disappointed . |
| 23 | Those who fought through the months to make it a much leaner , quicker body exercising true peer group pressure will be a touch disappointed . |
| 24 | The dustbag itself forms part of the filtration system , so if high filtration is important to you , be sure to look out for cleaners that have dust indicators to tell you the amount the bag contains . |
| 25 | The Act emphasises the crucial importance of support for those carers , and without strategies to empower them the Act can not work . |
| 26 | One energetic character asked if we minded waiting while he climbed another two hundred feet to see what the view over a nearby rise was like . |
| 27 | Right so the functional form test , if we look at the kie squared version , right , again we 've got a very small er test statistic implying there 's no breach of functional form right , the , the log er specification , right , seems to be working okay , there 's no problems with it erm if we now look at normality we 've got a bit of a problem with normality , right in that our test statistic is now four point nine , if we look at the critical value at the five percent level of kie when kie squared two , ah it 's not too bad , our five percent critical value of the kie squared two is five point nine nine , so although that test statistic is reasonably high , I mean you 'd probably reject , oh yes , we can reject the null at ten percent of normally distributed errors we would n't reject the null at five percent erm let's just have a look at in actual fact at those errors to see what the problem is . |
| 28 | What Labour Members say makes it sound as though they do not want parents to know what the schools that their children are attending are like . |
| 29 | They really do stand a better chance being left there to their own devices for the parents to feed them the right diet than being picked up and brought here . |
| 30 | Empty phrases to give you the illusion that it 's Adam who 's holding you , and not me ? |