Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estée Lauder 's latest launch , Time-Zone , looks set to continue this preoccupation with dry skin as one of the first and most uncomfortable signs of an ageing complexion . |
| 2 | Bull looks set to join former boss Barry Fry at Southend , while current Underhill supremo Edwin Stein puts the total value of his squad at £2.16 million . |
| 3 | In less than a century the world of sound-recording had expanded from a plaything for amateurs to a world-wide billion-dollar industry , and it looks set to stay that way . |
| 4 | The mid-West systems integrator , which specialises in servicing and supporting Sun workstations , looks set to inject some new life into the lacklustre compatible market , promising not only a ‘ true clone ’ of Sun 's Sparcstation 10 workstation — within a month of Sun 's first superscalar deliveries — but also an intermediate Sparcstation 10 IPX system , an offering Sun is also thought to be mulling , and Sparcservers too . |
| 5 | Two very significant products , Adobe Illustrator and Aldus FreeHand , looks set to change that for line artwork at least but it will be a year or two yet before scanned photographs become a reality . |
| 6 | But the editorial method which is applied to the data has much to display that is well-spoken . |
| 7 | It 's a city because of it 's rich cultural heritage and it 's expertise in Local Government affairs that has much to offer those emerging local democracies in Eastern Europe . |
| 8 | The cabinet 's current review of the tax now looks likely to heed this advice and go for the quick chop . |
| 9 | The growing interest in German and Japanese in some parts of the world and the fact that the US looks likely to have more Spanish speakers than Anglophones some time in the next century may have an impact eventually . |
| 10 | Dennis 's desire to retain McLaren 's lucrative Shell contract in the face of Renault 's close links with Elf still looks likely to scupper any deal . |
| 11 | He has been working well recently and looks sure to take all the beating in an uncompetitive contest . |
| 12 | An area of great diversity , grandeur and fun , the USA 's West Coast has enough to keep most people enthralled for a lifetime . |
| 13 | Sir Leon Brittan tells a famous story of how the Chancellor once raised interest rates half an hour after the Bundesbank , and uses this to illustrate that ‘ British sovereignty lasted for 30 minutes ’ . |
| 14 | reckon it costs much to run these lights underneath here ? |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) rightly said that it costs more to collect that contribution than it yields . |
| 16 | Fundamental differences were reported between those G-7 states willing to consider some financial assistance in the near future , especially Germany , and those , notably the USA and Japan , which opposed any substantial financial aid . |
| 17 | It sounds crazy to think some Jap mother might see a diaper floating down out of the sky lit up by flares and fires and grab it to put on her crying baby . |
| 18 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 19 | In many cases this would render consideration of A's tort liability in a case of actual knowledge otiose , but it seems possible to assert such a claim where there is some additional loss . |
| 20 | It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution . |
| 21 | One way of achieving this was by closing each sale by some phrase like : " It seems foolish to miss this one , but it 's up to you . " |
| 22 | ‘ He seems prepared to let this country bleed to death while those on guaranteed incomes just look on . ’ |
| 23 | IT SEEMS appropriate to begin this review of Angela Carter 's last book with an anecdote from which the necessary expletive will be deleted . |
| 24 | You do so many things , it seems pointless to mention any one of them . |
| 25 | Since demonstrative pronouns typically involve a gesture , it seems easy to assimilate such acts of reference to general theories of action ; if one can then show that other kinds of referring expression are related to demonstratives , the case for viewing reference in general as a species of action is made plausible . |
| 26 | To do this is also to go ‘ beyond ’ the unconscious , and it seems impossible to do this , as Urwin hopes , without reducing the unconscious , the last resort of subjectivity 's difficulty , to a discursive product . |
| 27 | In effect the insider who questions the gross systems of classification which define police practice seems set to join those deviants or criminals who contest the system of law and order by breaking its rules and regulations . |
| 28 | The Burge campaign wagon now seems set to roll all the way till polling in the Teacher of the Year elections closes on March 14 . |
| 29 | Because of the cost it seems hard to imagine many more than 2 hybrid buses ever driving round Oxford . |
| 30 | A great deal of diversification has been of a conglomerate , ‘ unrelated ’ nature , but it seems hard to find any justification for unrelated diversification . |