Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone needs to drive these days . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Cumbria is rugby league mad and everyone wants to see this match . |
| 3 | If someone wants to pay 3.0 mil for Deane god help them — are then any quoted values on Rush and Ferd — both players we have recently been linked with . |
| 4 | While the fax machine is easy to use , it 's less attractive when it comes to mass faxing , as someone has to feed each document in and dial the destination . |
| 5 | Someone has to make sure Wellington has heard this news . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ What happened to Poll ? ’ she asked , determined not to be silenced by Dr Neil Cochrane , and not to allow the ruin of his looks to create any pity for him . |
| 7 | What you are telling me is that you are the kind of person who needs emotional space , and if someone tries to occupy that space all the time , then you do n't want to know . |
| 8 | To get motorists to switch modes there must be financial incentives , such as a big environmental tax on petrol , the revenue from which goes to improve public transport . |
| 9 | To make tritium you can fuse a neutron onto a deuteron , or alternatively add a neutron to 6 Li ( lithium-6 ) which splits to yield one atom of tritium and one of 4 He . |
| 10 | Rain is naturally acid , with a pH of around 5.6 ; as it falls it picks up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere , which dissolves to form carbonic acid . |
| 11 | Nobody wants to spend extra money to prepare for something that may never happen and earthquake engineering has long been neglected . |
| 12 | Nobody wants to close any bed that is offering a good quality service , that is wanted and being used . |
| 13 | Nobody wants to see that flow become a trickle . |
| 14 | nobody wants to trade that way , I do n't |
| 15 | Higher taxes , the most sensible route , are probably out — both for the usual political reasons and because this year nobody wants to reopen last October 's budget agreement . |
| 16 | Each team has to create its own routine which has to include mandatory starburst , jumping jacks , domino sequence and freezing techniques . |
| 17 | ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society . |
| 18 | But the council , which has to make severe economies to meet Government spending targets , is trying to ensure that more people spread their visits throughout the entire week . |
| 19 | I believe the Kuwaiti people naturally are a peace loving people and we will never forget that erm good nature of us and we will try to capitalise on that and maintain peace and Kuwait become again a country which has to have peaceful causes everybody . |
| 20 | A GLIDER club which wants to develop full-scale gliding activity on an abandoned wartime airfield has put forward a compromise package . |
| 21 | It 's a good job , that somebody wants to revitalize these areas of land . |
| 22 | A leader in the erstwhile field of large and beautifully produced publications is Abbeville , which plans to publish Classical Taste in America 1800–1840 by Wendy Cope in June , at the relatively modest price of $55 . |
| 23 | They include Azabu Group , which plans to sell 60 properties worth around ¥200 billion by the end of June ; Itoman , a trading company which hopes to sell and lease back its Osaka headquarters for ¥80 billion as a first step towards paying off its debt of ¥1.3 trillion , much of it owed to Sumitomo Bank ; and MDI , which wants to unload ¥50 billion out of ¥150 billion worth of residential property that it holds for development . |
| 24 | His concept of the press was very close to the soviet-communist view outlined above , in which the ruling party knows what truth is and falsehood equals anything which happens to challenge that view . |
| 25 | For the majority of well-informed people are now clearly convinced that these laws are unjust and obsolete in a society which refuses to punish lesbian practices , prostitution , adultery , fornication or private drunkenness . |
| 26 | The group — which intends to donate all proceeds to Cancer Research , the MacMillan Nurses and the Special Baby Care Unit — is looking for sponsors , and are more than willing to wear sweatshirts with logos on them . |
| 27 | Perhaps there is a natural reluctance to give addresses to an organisation such as CPRW which intends to write demanding time and money . |
| 28 | Perhaps there is a natural reluctance to give addresses to an organisation such as CPRW which intends to write demanding time and money . |
| 29 | CPRW is an organisation of volunteers which exists to help local people protect their local environment . |
| 30 | It concerns yet another pair of mismatched cops , with the disposable novelty of one of them being a dog , which tends to restrict verbal sparring , along with the mangy dialogue and Belushi 's lack of manic spin . |