Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The last grants to pass the great seal ( although others were in the pipeline ) were the appointments of the chief baron of the exchequer and two serjeants at law on 14 and 15 June — a last attempt by the establishment to pretend that it was business as normal . |
2 | The last grants to pass the great seal ( although others were in the pipeline ) were the appointments of the chief baron of the exchequer and two serjeants at law on 14 and 15 June — a last attempt by the establishment to pretend that it was business as normal . |
3 | The initial storyline came from Terry Nation , but as an amusement for themselves the two writers took it in turns to write the detailed story breakdowns , each leaving an impossible cliff-hanger which the other writer had to get out of . |
4 | All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined . |
5 | Swoon director Tom Kalin — he wants to seduce the whole nation with his New Queer Cinema |
6 | Karen Rake of Aylesbury finished fourth in both the 100 and 200 and now has to go the Welsh Nationals next month to try to qualify for the Europeans … |
7 | This already small and still dwindling breed needs to acquire the comprehensive training that such a course provides . |
8 | That uncertainty will mean that the City of London will lose any aspirations that it has to accommodate the central European bank . |
9 | Whether yours is a family garden which has to sustain the rigorous attentions of children , a more sedate garden for entertaining al fresco , or a small city garden with little room for more than a couple of raised flowers beds , a patio can give your home and lifestyle a whole new dimension . |
10 | Labour now not only has to embrace the new agenda of electoral reform , political decentralisation and power-sharing , and a new Britain in Europe . |
11 | If she has to wear the hired 1920s costumes for Countess Maritza it will be disastrous . ’ |
12 | The software also needs to support the various drawing and , if you 're desperate , paint packages . |
13 | We said that if the revolution is victorious in Russia and a republican government comes to power which wants to continue the imperialist war in alliance with the imperialist bourgeoisie of England and France , a war for the conquest of Constantinople , Armenia , Galicia , and so on and so forth , then we will be decided opponents of such a government , we will be against " 'the defence of the Fatherland " " in such a war . |
14 | ‘ After a long and painful recession business needs to readdress the strategic issues to secure sustainable growth in the 90s , ’ said Harold Eatock , director of the CBI south-eastern region . |
15 | Somehow Mr Lee has to carry the old guard with him , not least because the mainlanders dominate the legislature as well as the National Assembly . |
16 | But this does not mean that the ethical has to renounce the moral order in the political world of the third person — of justice , of government , institutions , or the law . |
17 | THE European Community knows it has to support the liberal and democratic reforms of its eastern neighbours . |
18 | It seems to me to be straining language to say that only one computer is necessary when one looks to see the actual wording of the subsection : ‘ Causing a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ ’ |
19 | It seems to me to be straining language to say that only one computer is necessary when one looks to see the actual wording of the subsection ; ‘ causing a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ |
20 | Another and at least equally powerful strand says no , because it wants to emphasise the distinctive value of women 's insights , and also the special bond of sisterhood which is seen as binding women together , rather than letting them be absorbed and assimilated into he wider human group . |
21 | He then needs to estimate the desired shelf stock size for each category on the basis of this record of use . |
22 | CPRW wants to see the new generation of structure and local plans conforming to government advice on sustainable development ( 1 ) . |
23 | She wants to see the other guy 's thing . |
24 | So we thought , first the Caribbean for a couple of weeks , then , later in the year , your mother quite wants to see the Great Wall of China before she 's too old . |
25 | The Director of Swaziland 's Curriculum Research and Development Unit at Manzini must motor miles to Mbabane if he wants to see the Chief Education Officer . |
26 | Richards , who has just completed his first year as the Welsh Rugby Union development officer for Mid-Wales , wants to see the representative side going from strength to strength . |
27 | in the process of revision one wants to see the semantic net and see the linear form repeatedly . |
28 | In certain running-down cases , however , a defendant should be asked to make discovery ( eg latent defect cases , where the plaintiff may want to see all his maintenance and servicing records ; accidents alleged to have been caused by sudden and unexpected illness or death , where the plaintiff wants to see the medical records ; and of course claims in nuisance against highway authorities and their contractors , where discovery can often reveal breaches of prescribed safety codes and bad accident records ) . |
29 | THE FFESTINIOG Railway wants to see the scenic Welsh Highland Railway ( WHR ) reopened in its entirely from Porthmadog across Snowdonia to Dinas and with an entirely new section running from there right up to the walls of Caernarfon Castle . |
30 | And I think a common assessment policy if it is to come has to include the private sector at least in so far as the public sector is funded by private money . |