Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If business premises suffer serious fire damage the landlord usually covenants to reinstate the premises with all convenient speed . |
| 2 | Assuming that Jackson is right in thinking that a larger budget and extra staff will be less effective in achieving such objectives , a model of bureaucratic behaviour needs to include the trade-offs to be made by bureaucrats between the different elements in their utility functions . |
| 3 | The consultant needs to see the relatives as well as the patient and take time to explain what the treatment is for , what its effects are and about the side-effects . |
| 4 | She now wants to sue the owners over the ‘ humiliating ’ ordeal . |
| 5 | If there is a drop in demand the informal outfit has to carry the risks and absorb the shock of fluctuations in the market . |
| 6 | Now she wants to cruise the canals of France in a barge , tend to her beloved garden in Kennebunkport and read to her own grandchildren , instead of other people 's . |
| 7 | ( His voice drops to include the TRAGEDIANS , who have frozen . ) |
| 8 | For all that the Government is making a bit of er er idiot of itself by not embracing the things that it needs to embrace the things it needs to do , at least it 's saying that it wo n't do them . |
| 9 | For all his doubts and self-irony , Palomar still wants to penetrate the secrets of the world and , to this end , what is seen acts only as a means of activating the thoughtfulness of language . |
| 10 | As Isay said , I think he wants to see the mountains around his homeland once again . |
| 11 | He obviously wants to see the Christians in the capital city of the empire . |
| 12 | Almost no-one wants to see the Tories or Labour do a deal with the Ulster Unionists . |
| 13 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc declined to put a timeframe on delivery of its own COSE-compliant products — it wants to see the specifications first — but its IXI Ltd division expects to be first to market with a compliant desktop manager ; moreover , Santa Cruz is said to be toying with the idea of doing some kind of COSE implementation to run over Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 14 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc declined to put a timeframe on delivery of its own COSE-compliant products — it wants to see the specifications first — but its IXI Ltd division expects to be first to market with a compliant desktop manager . |
| 15 | ‘ He wants to see the sights . ’ |
| 16 | Or , for that matter , what good is it to the teacher who has to keep up with the ins and outs of teaching reading and who needs to diagnose the difficulties of Jason , Amil and Della and then advise a colleague on how to help them ? |
| 17 | It seems that for a computer to find a strong play , it first has to arrange the options in order of strength . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe everyone has to suffer the pangs of calf love before they can recognize when it 's the real thing , ’ she said lightly . |
| 19 | His image being created in the image of God , he has to discover the laws by which the Almighty governs His creation ; and , by making these laws his standard of action , to conquer nature to his use , himself a divine instrument . " |
| 20 | The obligation of the target to repay lenders or loan capital in the event of a takeover could result in a dramatic increase in the cost of the bid for the offeror if it has to find the funds itself to enable the target to meet the repayment obligation . |
| 21 | Every feeling has to find the metaphor(s) which will give it a body . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what plans he has to increase the funds allocated to roads maintenance in the next financial year . |
| 23 | Bell Atlantic Corp is asking the US Department of Justice to waive restrictions that prevent it from providing video programming services — it wants to provide the services across the US without regard to local access transport area boundaries of its local territory . |
| 24 | ‘ Someone has to provide the sites on a co-ordinated basis . |
| 25 | It may need more general contextual information to discriminate between words , yet it has to provide the words that determine that context . |
| 26 | The user also needs to know the operations that can be applied to the relations so as to carry out the desired retrievals . |
| 27 | For the casting of horoscopes one needs to know the positions of the planets for a given date . |
| 28 | Furthermore , since she normally lays around 12 eggs in a season at a rate of one egg every two days , she needs to know the locations of several nests simultaneously . |
| 29 | One is that the investigator needs to know the rules , conventions , and context governing the action — the meaning of the action regarded as a move in a socially defined ‘ game ’ . |
| 30 | Behind a blank and perfectly uniform wall , he needs to find the studs to which he can attach the cabinet . |