Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to imagine Eleanor 's contrariness , since she rarely saw it , but even , Dorothea told herself , were she the dearest , most unselfish soul in the world , she is old , nevertheless , Alida has to carry heavily trays up and down stairs and see the food being left uneaten , to get up in the middle of night after night , to listen to the rambling memories , to put up with incoherence and with having to repeat everything because her mother did not remember . |
| 2 | Ministry of Defence officials are willing to sell the 1,548-acre site for £300,000 , but the trust has to find nearly £3 million to guarantee the area 's future . |
| 3 | The Government currently has to find about £1bn a week to finance its deficit . |
| 4 | Long before the director first calls ‘ Action ’ , or anybody has to worry about time , money , the weather or an irritable starlet , the producer , director and writer can sort out the lineaments of the project by focusing on what the film is trying to do , and how it can be made to work . |
| 5 | He or she has to generate both questions and answers , and in a well-organised text it is the generating of questions that is the most difficult task . |
| 6 | Zab wants to study both physics and philosophy ‘ As it used to be ’ ( 187 ) in Aristotle 's day . |
| 7 | If SunSoft does the port it costs $150,000 , but that 's apparently $150,000 every time it needs to be done even though SunSoft has to change only 5% of the code , an activity that takes only seven to ten days . |
| 8 | This council needs to take seriously crime prevention and crime detection and most of all fear of crime , and that 's why it 's become part of the policy committee 's concern , and I think that 's with the police committee 's agreement , for years they 've been trying to tell us to get involved in crime prevention , and from next year we 're going to do that . |
| 9 | There were also smiles at Colmore Row Branch which stands to earn about £15,000 commission for introducing Royal Scottish to Hills , one of its corporate customers . |
| 10 | ENynex Corp has extended its status as the biggest cable television operator in the UK by buying out US Cable Corp and Morgan Cable Ltd to take control of the Bury and Rochdale and Oldham and Tameside cable franchises : the New York and New England phone company now holds 19 franchises surviving a potential 2.7m homes and offices , and says it plans to invest over £1,000m in the next six to seven years to provide cable and telephone services ; at present it is providing cable television services to only 35,000 customers and 20,000 telephone lines . |
| 11 | Edmonton , Alberta-based Telus Corp has entered a partnership with CUC Broadcasting Ltd to develop UK cable television and telephone operations at half a dozen franchises in the London area : Telus says that it plans to invest about $100m in the effort in the next five years . |
| 12 | The Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , is expected to show a record $700m pre-tax profit this year compared to $400m in 1992 , Reuter reports from Athens : ‘ It will be a record profit allowing us to invest heavily in the modernisation of Greek telecommunications , ’ a government official said , adding that things would improve even more with OTE 's partial privatisation — the government has said it will sell 49% of OTE this year with 35% going to a foreign phone company ; it plans to invest about $1,000m in 1993 which will include 350,000 new digital lines , the transfer of 220,000 existing lines , many new digital centres and digging up 2,800 miles of trenches for cables . |
| 13 | The report said that US officials had advised the Pakistani military that plans to man forward defences along the Kashmiri line of control were " extremely foolish " . |
| 14 | In addition , the LDDC plans to spend over £200 million by the mid-1990s on road improvements with Docklands , and the Department of Transport is to spend more than double that figure on linking the area to the national road network . |
| 15 | In our example the man earning £100 per week plans to spend only £70 ; therefore he can save the remainder and purchase a range of financial assets which earn a rate of return . |
| 16 | According to reports in the metals industry the government plans to spend about £100 million over the next six months . |
| 17 | In the United Kingdom , the NHS plans to spend about £36 billion in the calendar year 1993 ( about 15% of public spending , or 5.7% of the gross domestic product ) ; a small percentage of this should be devoted to the conduct of prevention trials and the implementation of worthwhile new preventive medical services . |
| 18 | Over the next three years the government plans to commit just £3.3 million on this field and to redirect British research towards collaboration with other European countries . |
| 19 | In the end the woman chooses to renounce both men and sets out on her own path . |
| 20 | Once the information is captured in one format it is almost inevitable that it will be the wrong one for a typesetter or publishing company and a whole industry exists to convert both disk and software formats . |
| 21 | Pubmaster Limited intends to spend around £200,000 converting the Greenside pub into the country 's largest Tap and Spile . |
| 22 | The Trust intends to spend about £175,000 amalgamating services which are at present split between the Chest Hospital and Machynlleth Corris and District Hospital . |
| 23 | I think both in the lay person , as you say , it will be more immediately obvious what a computer 's doing if you have a visual display , but even in the scientific approaches then I think the ability to present graphical information rapidly and change erm the function that you 're looking at is also very important and , for instance in the teaching that we do here , then one of the things that we 're very keen on is using computes to show graphically sort of functions that you meet in mathematics and physics . |
| 24 | Lanarkshire Development Agency intends to bring together experts from a range of professions to draw up a redevelopment plan for the 1,000-acre site . |
| 25 | Unijet aims to increase greatly capacity across all its programmes in 1992 . |
| 26 | Pamphilia , a self-portrait of the poet , seems to annoy both men and women by her learning : |
| 27 | GARY McALLISTER tonight aims to blast away Leeds United 's Boundary Park jinx and prove his wonder goal against Liverpool was no fluke . |
| 28 | Soon the Wheelbarrow is trundling down the road towards the explosion site , and it is established that an IED positioned in a hole by the fence-post and fired through a wire appears to have only parti ally exploded . |
| 29 | [ It ] aims to develop systematically children 's critical and creative powers through analysis and production of media artefacts . |
| 30 | Usually this is a fixed sum which , at the time of writing seems to average around £90 . |