Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the almost total defeat of the Italians in North Africa by General O'Connor in January 1941 , the Germans had decided to send an Afrika Korps to bolster their allies . |
| 2 | Leaving aside the issue of where Mart goes to see his films , the observation is interesting because it directs attention towards one of Hollywood 's generally unnoticed pre-occupations . |
| 3 | On one memorable occasion , she thinks to communicate her feelings about Catholic beliefs to some of her older pupils . |
| 4 | He then leans forward , and is guided up and round , so that he pivots to swing his hips round and onto the chair . |
| 5 | Alecko Papamarkou , who lives most of the year in America , is always a very kind and welcoming host , and loves to see his friends enjoying themselves . |
| 6 | with volumes this low , the farmer no longer has to dilute his sprays and risk contamination . |
| 7 | Though apparently free , it needs its controller ; but the controller must release it to the natural powers , the wind and the air-thermals , if he wants to enjoy its flights . |
| 8 | First Response offers a single and double test for the woman more unsure of the dates of her cycle or who wants to double-check her results . |
| 9 | British Coal therefore needs to continue its efforts to raise productivity still further . |
| 10 | Anderson attempts a show of strength by using the IFID , " I demand " five times and " I insist " once , but his insecurity is indicated by the fact that he has to support his demands by asserting that he has the status permitting him to make these speech acts . |
| 11 | In office each party wants to enforce its views irrespective of local opinion ; in opposition , it is convenient to uphold the right of local councils to make their own decisions . |
| 12 | And the market needs to establish its credentials in Europe unless it wants to risk being a perpetual also-ran to the likes of Generali , Allianz or Swiss Re . |
| 13 | And the market needs to establish its credentials in Europe unless it wants to risk being a perpetual also-ran to the likes of Generali , Allianz or Swiss Re . |
| 14 | They made little use of the youth clubs and other leisure facilities , other than as places to meet their mates . |
| 15 | During the Government 's term of office they have cut £600 million from the Strathclyde budget for services , so that council has to increase its bills this year by 32 per cent . |
| 16 | Another reason is that the US will simply need more of the world 's more unusual metals if it wants to meet its targets of producing more military equipment . |
| 17 | ‘ Unfortunately , she wants to meet her fans and sign autographs . ’ |
| 18 | The organisation wants to increase its investments at the rate of a dozen or so per year . |
| 19 | The group Butterfly Conservation wants to increase its numbers at Bernwood Forest in Oxfordshire . |
| 20 | But she needs to pull her socks up . |
| 21 | This knowledge is also recursive , in that the competent policeman or woman needs to know which criminals have a common-sense knowledge about the activities and deployment of the police , which requires that they have the additional common sense to confound the criminal 's working knowledge of the police . |
| 22 | Whatever the signal source , the designer needs to know what restrictions are imposed on the timing of the control signals by the parameters of the drive , motor and load . |
| 23 | Dirty Harry once said ‘ a man needs to know his limitations ’ , and nowhere is this more true than on the 13th . |
| 24 | But first the Louisville-based company — part of Courtaulds Coatings Inc — has to train its salesmen in how best to handle the product . |
| 25 | If she wants to find her relatives , I suggest that she looks in the villages . |
| 26 | I 'm inclined to think that every dominant feeling in a story or a poem affects what is seen and needs to find its correspondences in events and objects outside , which in their turn make the feeling real to the reader . |
| 27 | Working in conjunction effectively with you , our members , and it has to meet your needs and interests as well as our own , and I 'm therefore looking forward to the possibility , in fact , the certainty of us having a year of achievement us for the interests of the voluntary sector . |
| 28 | The main difficulty is that in order to record capital the organization not only has to know what assets it owns but it also has to put a value on them , even if the ‘ value ’ is their historic cost . |
| 29 | ‘ However , there comes a time , hopefully well before the kick-off , when a player has to set his disappointments and frustrations to one side , roll up his sleeves and get to work . |
| 30 | Michael Irwin , a director of Hambro Clearing Ltd , says that the exercise was useful , both ‘ to identify what our costs were ’ and to establish ‘ that we were extremely cost-effective ’ in the business of clearing and settling transactions , where Hambros wants to sell its services to third parties . |