Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Every watch that comes on has to do a drill .
2 If he only wants to use a part-pack , the operator pulls the lever to suck neat chemical into the transparent tube .
3 In this case , the agent only needs to see a ticket manifest ( a government-stamped document showing how many tickets are printed for the venue ) and a box office statement from the hall ( stating how many tickets were sold ) when checking the promoter 's expenses .
4 She only needs to make a token 1500 metres or 3,000 metres appearance in the main trials meeting , in Birmingham on June 27 and 28 , to claim her Olympic team place alongside world champion Liz McColgan .
5 And yet this awareness does not need to take any of our precious time ; it merely needs to become a part of what we are doing anyway .
6 It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’
7 She only has to wear an outfit once for it to become an instant fashion trend .
8 It means the teacher only has to write a word once , in the teacher 's book , instead of thirty-plus times , once in each child 's book .
9 She only has to express a hint of yearning for a food , fad or fantasy for her fans to start racing after them too .
10 The critic necessarily has to take a manifesto into account .
11 1 The present House of Lords is seen as a wrecking chamber with a built-in Conservative majority and a crippling power of delay that only exists to put a brake on a reforming Socialist government .
12 Following explication and illustration of these principles , Clark notes that earlier work by Donaldson and Balfour ( 1968 ) on young children 's understanding of the words more and less appears to provide an exception to the Principle of Contrast .
13 Pluralism is regarded as an ideology which masks the reality of power and so helps to legitimise a system which is grounded in inequality and an absence of fair play .
14 Fruitful though this has been in promoting and giving direction to research , its uncritical pursuit only serves to advance a reductionist and therefore an inadequate view of man .
15 The word spiritual has become for many fundamentally dissociated from religion and so serves to encourage an alternative , one that is more attractive because lacking both definition and the incubus associated with religion .
16 Generally speaking it only pays to change a system when it has reached the end of its economic life — usually 20 years .
17 It only remains to devise a film that will encode this experience in false colour .
18 Eiji has made extremely long trains to form an arch , the biggest of which he was invited to fly in happier times at Kuwait .
19 Under the modern law , certiorari normally lies to quash a decision for error of law .
20 The value of R5 is actually not particularly critical ; it just has to provide a minimum of 93µA to the base of TR2 .
21 Marlboro , for instance , does not have to show or even mention somebody smoking cigarettes — it just has to show a cowboy .
22 All observers seem to agree that , as Mair ( 1990 : 200 ) puts it , " the infinitival construction generally serves to express a combination of knowledge and subjective judgment " while the that- clause expresses " plain knowledge " ( cf. also Riddle 1975 : 471 ; Dixon 1984 : 590 ; Wierzbicka 1988 : 50-1 ) .
23 The independent republic of Honduras had been created a year previously , in 1838 , having once been part of Spanish America ; its fertile coastal plains surround a mountainous interior , rich in forests , and it just manages to have a 40-mile strip of southern coastline on the Pacific to complement its much longer Caribbean seaboard .
24 Mrs Davison was injured when she jumped from a bedroom window and still has to use a crutch .
25 Someone still has to make a decision about who should be encouraged to reproduce , and as in the past , women still carry the physical , social and emotional burdens of the eugenicists ' plans .
26 Plans were lodged with Arfon Borough Council in April but the council still has to make a decision .
27 The president still has to make a host of key decisions : how generous to make the benefits ; how to pay for the changes ; how much freedom to give the states and , above all , how to sell the package .
28 If the patient still needs to use a wheelchair , you will need one which is fully portable and the right size to fit into the back of the car .
29 Everyone always wants to knock a man off the top — I know , I was that man .
30 The joint always has to sag a bit before the control starts to push it .
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