Example sentences of "[vb base] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather they involve a refusal to co-operate with or assist in evil policy , and an offer to co-operate on honourable and just terms … |
| 2 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 3 | His genealogical lists suggest a need to search for and establish his own identity . |
| 4 | One can also add that there is something in the present policies of the SDLP which suggest a need to maintain a somewhat fragile unity in respect of the national question . |
| 5 | It is a special effect used in thousands of films and TV dramas — the charges trigger a flash to create a realistic gun shot effect . |
| 6 | This , at the cost of the rates , aided by Government grants , could erect adequate buildings , and provide a curriculum to suit the residents . |
| 7 | Daily feeding displays , talks and demonstrations provide a chance to gain a real insight into this marvellous underwater world . |
| 8 | Notebooks provide a way to organize many spreadsheets together in the same file . |
| 9 | Paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) provide a power to rectify that can only be exercised by the court . |
| 10 | The TVX system is effectively a camera-on-a-chip : camera and lens are integrated onto one chip about the size of a postage stamp , and it is designed to provide visual verification of the cause of an alarm at the time of an incident , and provide a method to distinguish actual emergencies from false alarms . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd pay the going rate , and provide a car to enable you to get around to the various stores and liaise with curtain-makers and such . ’ |
| 12 | The CAPM and the market model provide a means to test the performance of these portfolios and in doing so have given indications of the extent to which the market is strong form efficient in assessing the ability of managers to consistently beat the market . |
| 13 | The budgets represent targets which responsible personnel can work to during the period and possibly also provide a means to motivate personnel . |
| 14 | They always provide a means to recognise , identify and focus on it , and finally to think it , but often at the end of a long investigation , and only after piercing the enigma contained in certain expressions . ’ |
| 15 | We also provide a guide to Minder-speak , which has become something of a fad . |
| 16 | We also provide a guide to Minder-speak , which has become something of a fad . |
| 17 | Based mainly on research evidence that some schools are more effective than others in promoting the progress and development of their pupils , School Development Plans provide a mechanism to link the planning of improvements with the financial and staff development planning of the school as a whole . |
| 18 | A case on these facts would now be covered by the Motor Insurance Bureau Scheme , whereby motor insurers provide a fund to meet claims against uninsured drivers . |
| 19 | Banks provide a loan to deal with the resultant cash deficiency . |
| 20 | Most of the groceries came down from a grand shop in London but she 'd order perishable goods from her brother and then send a servant to complain of the quality . |
| 21 | The hotel to stay in is the Victoria , a handsome pile run by the genial Platzer family ; they send a minibus to fetch you from the little airport at Berne — one hour 's drive away — and Herr Platzer then shows you where to hire ski equipment ( roughly £24 a week ) and organise lessons . |
| 22 | They now send a doctor to poison us . ’ |
| 23 | write a letter , , send a tape to say here 's an example of how we 're living , and leave it up to them then . |
| 24 | A family with many sons could farm its land successfully without the burden of paying farm workers and could if necessary send a son to work in the nearest town or city to earn money to pay back debts or to buy more land . |
| 25 | and send a minion to prise them apart . |
| 26 | We usually expect a marriage to last — yet things can change ! |
| 27 | If you expect a child to write about a personal experience , engagement with that experience has to be regarded as a priority . |
| 28 | By the turn of the century , to borrow from DEC 's Alpha phrase book , the pair expect a Sparc to have 100m transistors , operating at clock speeds approaching a billion cycles and deliver two billion instructions a second . |
| 29 | As Mann says , this may be acceptable if the only evidence consists of a ‘ one-sided dialogue ’ where the suspect refuses to answer any questions at all , but where some , a significant number perhaps , are answered , it may be highly impracticable to sever a conversation in this way and still expect a jury to make sense of it . |
| 30 | As for me , the things I expect a computer to do have advanced somewhat . |