Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usual , for instance , in trust deeds used in the capital markets to provide that disputes about remuneration of the trustee are to be resolved by a merchant bank acting as an expert : see 5.5 . |
| 2 | Often the houseparent is a married woman whose husband goes out to work but acts as a father to the children in the evenings and at weekends . |
| 3 | To acknowledge that amounts to something very different from simply excising history as such . |
| 4 | Like other terms associated with emotional states , stress is difficult to define and varies from person to person . |
| 5 | The foreign wife , known for her outrageous kaftans and kimonos , tries to conform and succeeds in embarrassing the General 's lady . |
| 6 | that well , maybe the officer , the local beat officer has got a problem estate that he has to pinpoint and has to be there , or an area where the crime is being committed to try and deal with |
| 7 | Mongolia is remote , not easy to reach and feels like it . |
| 8 | The tyre then begins to slide and scrubs off the excess speed which could n't safely be lost with a more drastic pull on the brake . |
| 9 | The end result , more often than not , is horrid to drive and looks like a cross between a barbeque and a plane crash . |
| 10 | But Gentleman James never runs to win or bothers with pbs . |
| 11 | To suggest that delegates from a conference of existing trades councils would reflect a truly national view , would be misleading . |
| 12 | Gipsy woman , hips swaying provocatively , walks to hedge and gathers in washed clothes |
| 13 | With an asset sale the purchaser selects the assets he wishes to buy and leaves behind all other assets . |
| 14 | It also makes all its facilities easy to use and comes with an attractive range of templates suitable for documents of many types . |
| 15 | Choose a gentle formula perm with added conditioners like Poly Style Deep Care Perm , £3.79 — it 's easy to use and comes in two variants — or Fashion Style home perm , £2.69 , which is available in three variants . |
| 16 | It is fun to do and needs to be practised regularly . |
| 17 | The rules do permit the RTC to give away worthless properties to housing groups to use as shelters for the homeless . |
| 18 | One of several convincing ‘ flats ’ produced to use as back-drops during the filming . |
| 19 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 20 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 21 | In medieval times independent auditors were employed by feudal barons to ensure that returns from tenant farmers accurately reflected revenues received from estates . |
| 22 | Care therefore needs to be taken to ensure that increases in value in management 's shares do not derive from a chargeable event as described above . |
| 23 | The current ( 1 ) has not started to decay and flows through the freewheeling resistance ( R1 ) , so the maximum collector-emitter voltage ( neglecting the forward voltage drop across the freewheeling diode ) is : The phase current therefore decays in the freewheeling circuit and the magnetic energy stored in the phase inductance at turn-off is dissipated in the freewheeling circuit resistance ( winding + forcing + freewheeling ) resistances . |
| 24 | But in practice , the growth rate in earnings is extremely difficult to determine and has to be forecast . |
| 25 | If so he wonders if the patient needs to cry and has for some reason stopped himself . |
| 26 | It is important to commit appropriately trained and resourced professionals to the task and to structure the project in such a way that information specialists are enabled to contribute as equals with technical colleagues , as an integrated part of the team . |
| 27 | In spite of this experience , there are still some people who try to argue that increases in the money supply have no effect on the rate of inflation . |
| 28 | The British government — and a substantial number of British citizens — effectively opted to exclude Blacks from the United Kingdom and deny them their rights to live as equals with other British subjects . |
| 29 | an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting . |
| 30 | They may be interested to learn that snowstorms in the Alps have been known to throw a spanner in the clockwork of everyday life too . |