Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be evokes a resulting state in these sentences as does to differ in ( 181 ) and make evokes an antecedent cause . |
| 2 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
| 3 | Nutritionists and doctors agree that the food we eat has an enormous amount to do with the way we look and feel . |
| 4 | At HRW Antiques experience and expertise in fine art and interior design combine to provide an interesting selection of antique furniture and furnishing objects all within one location . |
| 5 | It can therefore provide collectively a formidable knowledge of the University and bring to bear an enormous fund of experience . |
| 6 | If you want to see an automated process , come over here . ’ |
| 7 | Others suggest attaching an attractive passport-size photograph of yourself . |
| 8 | The initiative 's aim is to encourage children in schools , to think about the environment , and involve producing an environmental teaching pack , running an environmental course for teachers , and developing a green software application for us on personal computer in schools . |
| 9 | For example , if no one has yet discovered the principle of the lens , it is difficult to invent the telescope ; if you want to erect an astronomical observatory , therefore , you have to do your best with the current technology — in other words , build Stonehenge or some similar megalithic monument . |
| 10 | The first category includes those small towns where the defences appear to rationalize an extensive urban scatter and to enclose a suitable urban core . |
| 11 | Rotel make an extensive range of hi-fi separates : their current 900 series encompasses some 20 models plus the de luxe ‘ Michi ’ products reviewed last December . |
| 12 | I want to support an idealistic publication |
| 13 | The world 's greatest jockey , 57 next Thursday and who won his first Derby on the aptly-named Never Say Die an astonishing 38 years ago , is making a rapid recovery following his spectacular fall from Mr Brooks in the Breeders ' Cup . |
| 14 | The most likely reason for fitting a new copper hot water cylinder is that you want to replace an existing galvanised hot water tank . |
| 15 | I want to install an ornamental niche . |
| 16 | Scottish salmon farmers want to create an international organisation artificially to maintain the production and price of their product ( your report , 12 February ) . |
| 17 | I was now able to test responses to questions such as ‘ Why is it that if you want to create an ideal family as the basis of society , Unification husbands are often expected to leave their wives , and mothers are asked to leave their children while they are sent to work on a mission , possibly thousands of miles away ? ’ |
| 18 | The radicalism of the young people in his office consists in this : that they want to create an ideal world flowing with milk and honey , where man is brother to man , and lives in harmony with nature ; where ice is warm to the touch , and no ocean is too wide for a child to wade across , bucket and spade in hand . |
| 19 | The significance of the oxygen isotope data reported by Woodhead and colleagues is that they appear to require an upper crustal or sedimentary component in the lavas of the Pitcairn seamounts . |
| 20 | The headteacher say , ‘ Evidence showed that our community did value the work we do , that they want to know more about what we can offer and that they want to play an active part in their children 's pre-school experience . |
| 21 | He declined to specify the Formula One team 's ownership structure , quote a price or nominate prospective buyers — though , as reported in Tuesday 's Guardian , there is speculation that the team will be taken over by people who want to field an all-Italian line-up , with Emanuele Pirro displacing Britain 's Martin Brundle and joining Stefano Modeno . |
| 22 | And she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing . |
| 23 | ‘ At Reading the girl form the Clothes Show was talking to us and she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing ’ JOHN END |
| 24 | And she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing . |
| 25 | ‘ At Reading the girl form the Clothes Show was talking to us and she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing ’ JOHN END |
| 26 | Although he blamed himself rather than the department for his own failure , making comments like ‘ I 'm just not an academic basically ’ and ‘ I do n't think there 's a lot wrong with the course , if you want to do an academic course ’ , the path he saw himself as taking seemed directly opposed to the departmental ethos ; stating that he did n't want to do ‘ anything theoretical ’ , he told me that he wanted to train to be a nurse . |
| 27 | Long and narrow shaped pictures can be very useful if you want to fill an awkward space in your home , such as the area between two doors or in a small alcove . |
| 28 | The important point to stress is that humans appear to possess an innate capacity for finding common cause in a great number of cultural activities , a capacity Carrithers in this volume calls ‘ sociality ’ . |
| 29 | And if you want to book an extra week at Waikiki , it will cost just –49 . |
| 30 | This will depend on the size of the bird — you want it to be comfortable and to be able to move its legs , but you also want to keep an untrained bird under firm control . |