Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may involve special categories of trader , such as the market maker , who is under an obligation ( by the exchange rules ) to quote a price in a given contract whenever asked ; the designated broker , who agrees to promote a particular contract without giving a binding commitment to deal ; and the " local " , who trades his personal account on the exchange floor . |
| 2 | Thriving under the feet of elephants Quentin Cowdry goes to see a giant-slaying small firm which is |
| 3 | With the ardour of his age Dick agrees to carry a vital message across the frontier into Flavonia : delighting in unexpected action , he is afraid only of being late and failing in his mission and it is the free resourcefulness of a boy that ensures that in spite of accidents the message does get through . |
| 4 | These new , relatively small , selective colleges are to be set up by private sponsors , with government grants to provide a free education with a technological emphasis for 11–16-year-olds . |
| 5 | This meeting agrees to provide a reasonable level of financial and logistical and other support to those students who wish to pursue legal action against the CLE , who are not eligible for legal aid . |
| 6 | Johnson claimed that whenever Montesquieu ‘ wants to support a strange opinion , he quotes you the practice of Japan or of some other distant country , of which he knows nothing ’ . |
| 7 | In competition a sailor has to perform a three minute routine , performing as many tricks as he can and linking them together with a smooth flowing act . |
| 8 | Feminism , as I have said , needs to preserve a critical distance from all theories of self . |
| 9 | Whether Mr Coleridge wants to crown a successful career by pulling down the edifice in which he has enjoyably spent his working life is another matter entirely . |
| 10 | I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record . |
| 11 | It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way . |
| 12 | Nurses training needs to include a brief session on the effects of adoption on health and family relationships so nurses working in hospitals and the community can assume an active role with adoption participants . |
| 13 | And their bride has to wear er , all in red and er the bridegroo er groom has to wear a long costume with a red big flowers in front i aha and then they get married and there 's erm band , the Chinese traditional band with drums and trumpets blowing all the time and er , all the guests have a very nice time . |
| 14 | Perhaps if it 's a bad case the patient has to wear a special boot or keep the leg held straight with iron braces . ’ |
| 15 | Brown Owl needs to lose a few feathers for the summer |
| 16 | But throughout all this teaching , this familiarising and making intelligible , the teacher has to preserve a certain distance . |
| 17 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 18 | Anyone who wants to see a Labour government in action should look at Derbyshire . |
| 19 | He wants to see a new queuing system introduced … |
| 20 | Mr Lamont said : ‘ This is the best possible news for everyone who wants to see a modern and competitive British economy succeeding in world markets in the 1990s . ’ |
| 21 | And he wants to see a careful scrutiny to make sure that the existing money is used to greatest effect . |
| 22 | Mr Gallie wants to see a daily television slot where people who have committed violent attacks or murders have their faces unveiled . |
| 23 | Each team in England has to include a lay member . |
| 24 | Hence , to reflect Renaissance preoccupations adequately he has to include a wider variety of genres — and a wider variety of poets , for that matter — than the traditional canon allows . |
| 25 | The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education . |
| 26 | The EC Council of Ministers needs to establish a general mechanism for negotiating with Switzerland now that it is the only country in Europe that has neither EC nor EEA status . |
| 27 | For a start he has to find a receptive female — not always easy with animals as solitary and spread about the forest as orangs . |
| 28 | One therefore has to find a new theory that combines general relativity with the uncertainty principle . |
| 29 | I still regret it , but I 'm afraid the Prime Minister has to appear a great deal on the media . |
| 30 | In approaching this case the court first stated that there were many cases where a court has to construe a standard clause in , for example , a charter party , and there may be some earlier decisions on the same clause or on a clause which is in terms which are indistinguishable . |