Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ponies in the paddock , that sort of romantic scenario everyone has to come to terms with . ’ |
| 2 | Everyone needs to refer to back issues of ACCOUNTANCY from time to time , and there are two ways we can help . |
| 3 | ‘ No-one wants to talk about Coventry . |
| 4 | ‘ But someone needs to talk to Earth Commander again . ’ |
| 5 | If someone wants to go from A to B , who else is competing to take that person there ? |
| 6 | When initial appointments are made over the telephone , for instance if someone telephones to ask about vacancies , these should also be confirmed in writing . |
| 7 | While the above argument takes into account costs which the lawyer would normally ignore in reaching a policy choice , Manne nonetheless constructs a cost/benefit calculus which neglects to take into account the totality of costs involved in unfettered insider dealing . |
| 8 | The lexical relation which corresponds to overlap between classes will be given the name compatibility . |
| 9 | ‘ Nobody wants to invest in production , ’ says Grigoriev . |
| 10 | Nobody wants to look like material girl Madonna |
| 11 | They derive from both the operation of large units ( often highly mechanised and characterised by monoculture and high energy demands sometimes supplied from local sources ) ; and the small peasantry itself which has to work for part of its income on larger enterprises . |
| 12 | It is true that St Bartholemew 's Hospital is threatened by the Government health policy which wants to invest in community care at the expense of some London hospitals . |
| 13 | The separatist Northern League , which wants to secede from Rome , is now the strongest party of the wealthy north , and in Sicily the anti-Mafia movement of a former mayor , Leoluca Orlando , has taken nearly half the vote of the capital , Palermo . |
| 14 | The offer is from Essex County Council , which wants to hear from musicians aged from 14 to 20 who would like to play in either the Essex Youth Orchestra , the Essex Young People 's Orchestra or the Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra . |
| 15 | It is a tradition that goes back , as I have tried to show , to Hegel 's philosophy of history and which loves to operate with ideas of the Zeitgeist ( spirit of the age ) and Volksgeist ( spirit of the people ) . |
| 16 | It is an establishment which distrusts individualism , which prefers to proceed through collaboration , which looks still to the state to redress the workings of the market , to resist centripetal force which the City of London exerts . |
| 17 | This is a most entertaining position , which tends to appeal to couples with a sense of humour — but do n't fall backwards — this could fracture his organ ( see overleaf ) . |
| 18 | The fact of taking charge or taking responsibility for a vulnerable elderly relative requires considerable moral courage which tends to fall to women ( Graham , 1983 ; Ungerson , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | Unlike the gibbon , which tends to specialize in figs of a predictable and often continuous availability that allows it to live in small territories and at a large population density , the orang-utan is a great wanderer . |
| 20 | I give my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , South and Finsbury an undertaking that we are committed to a terminal at King 's Cross , but we are not necessarily committed to the expensive and grandiose project , which seems to depend on property values that were optimistic three or four years ago and are hopelessly pessimistic now . |
| 21 | There is , moreover , one piece of evidence which appears to put beyond question the pre-eminence of Fahreddin Acemi in the period following the conquest , namely the circumcision celebration for Mehmed II's two sons , held in Edirne in 861/1457 , to which reference has already been made in the previous chapter . |
| 22 | About one in every 350 American children suffer the disease , which appears to run in families . |
| 23 | Both observers were disturbed by Gert 's laughter , ‘ which appears to ring with hysteria ’ . |
| 24 | Thus , working in terms of what I have called a ‘ golden thread ’ approach ( the golden thread being justification by faith ) he names the Epistle to James ( which appears to speak of justification by works ) an ‘ epistle of straw ’ . |
| 25 | For example , the effectiveness of a retention of title clause which purports to extend to proceeds of sale is currently unclear . |
| 26 | This is a classic case of an argument which purports to take into account the female point of view , but which fails because the reference is merely token . |
| 27 | In addition , Thresher insiders are questioning the authenticity of the till receipt produced on November 30 , which purports to prove beyond doubt that Mr Lamont was in Connaught Street on a Sunday evening . |
| 28 | The use of English forms was also clear in a notable example where the English expression to dress-up forced signer 2 to make the sign DRESS with an upward movement ( which means to UNDRESS in BSL ) when the BSL sign properly carries a downward movement . |
| 29 | Editors always assume that photographs from PR sources can be used free of charge , and any PR outfit which tries to charge for pictures is likely to get short shrift . |
| 30 | In the determination of its grant to local authorities the government uses a complex formula which tries to take into account the extent of need for the various services . |