Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but it was it was cos you had you know , you had to go that week kind of thing . |
| 2 | Save The Children works with organisations like the Red Cross to restore that life line . |
| 3 | It is important also not to pretend that library censorship is such a small problem that it can be safely ignored . |
| 4 | Yeah I used to like , we used to see each other sort of and I |
| 5 | Most writings seem to agree that leadership vision , or ‘ visioning ’ , as the process has sometimes been called , can be broken down into three distinct stages : ( 1 ) the envisioning of ‘ an image of a desired future organizational state ’ ( Bass , 1987 : 51 ) which ( 2 ) when effectively articulated and communicated to followers ( Bennis and Nanus , 1985 ; Tichy and Devanna , 1986 ; Gluck , 1984 ) serves ( 3 ) to empower those followers so that they can enact the vision ( Sashkin , 1987 ; Srivastva , 1983 ; Conger and Kanungo , 1987 ; Robbins and Duncan , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Bend the pipes to connect each tap tail to the supply pipes |
| 7 | Lillie , Lillie , we was playing darts on Monday , came out from the ladies toilets ' and said You ought to see that skirting board , it 's all coming away and rotting . |
| 8 | A fast-growing proportion of young people go on to higher education ; and we want to see that proportion rise still further . |
| 9 | Mr Allen has said he wants to see that percentage double by the mid-1990s . |
| 10 | And what 's more , we want to see that ice rink filled because it 's the greatest family sporting entertainment you could ever wish to see and with the crowd behind you it gives you that extra buzz . |
| 11 | ‘ But the crucial thing is to see that budget deficit coming down on a medium term basis convincingly . |
| 12 | It is also disappointing to see that home shopping , in the shape of Grattan , has failed to recover from the travails of last year 's postal strike and turned in a fall in profits from £14.3m to £8.6m . |
| 13 | And also I did n't want to see that Mercy Newbegin . |
| 14 | But I never wanted to see that gasoline engine washer on this hardstand again with the gas trucks parked around it . |
| 15 | So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage . |
| 16 | It is good to report that branch membership has increased by 46% over the last four years . |
| 17 | For those who might be disturbed that the ambience of ‘ live ’ recordings is in appropriate for music of such delicacy , I 'm happy to report that audience noise is minimal . |
| 18 | We have to report that Friday night 's domino handicap was won by Ian Mangles , who beat Les Thompson ( the chairman 's dad ) in the final . |
| 19 | He says that he thinks they can all work together to promote each others farm attractions . |
| 20 | Equation ( 6.17 ) implies that dividends are a constant proportion of share wealth ( P0 ) and are set at exactly the level necessary to enable that share wealth to deliver the same dividend in all future periods . |
| 21 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 22 | Now I want to include some background music . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's time we had an outstanding international , ’ said the English coach who , without any sour grapes after Wales 's win at Cardiff , desperately wants to see some back play , sadly missing in most of the Five Nations games so far . |
| 24 | Always arrange to see some sample work when choosing photographers for specialist work , and if possible have a talk with the photographers in person . |
| 25 | It 's good for the girls to see some role reversal . ’ |
| 26 | IAN HUNTER will be glad to see the back of 1992 after his third fitness problem of the season has forced him to miss another showpiece match . |
| 27 | To the Englishmen who have used their time and talents to restore this control tower , we are most grateful . |
| 28 | She was already screaming , desperately trying to steer the car away from the BMW , where the youth was attempting to light another Molotov cocktail . |
| 29 | Your back was patted ( not stabbed ) and you 've just been told to invest some company money in some brand new metal . |
| 30 | The motor industry is thus able to invest some risk capital in experimental projects in order to increase its working data base . |