Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 2 | But the court did not accept the legal conclusion which the defence sought to draw from that fact , since Megaw L.J . |
| 3 | Shortly after graduating in 1987 , the opportunity arose to work with former Napier student , Tom Kidd . |
| 4 | A substantial number of miscible blends have now been discovered using this principle and it is possible to identify certain groups or repeat units , which when incorporated in polymer chains tend to enter into these intermolecular interactions and enhance the miscibility . |
| 5 | Guerilla campaigns and non-established religions tend to operate in this way . |
| 6 | After 15 months of tough talks , Moscow agreed to pull out most of its troops by Nov 15 this year . |
| 7 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 8 | Jim has to deal with any X-rays , lab reports . ’ |
| 9 | When Niki said the Paris decision had been the right one , one knows two things about Niki that explain his position : first that any Ferrari driver has to speak through both sides of his mouth , and second , that even were that not so , there is nothing Niki likes as much as winding someone else up . |
| 10 | When the West wants to move into these markets adequate postal and telecommunications systems will be needed . |
| 11 | Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst . |
| 12 | ‘ It may be that Parliament has to look at this issue of excluding people from property when they 've got property rights , ’ he said . |
| 13 | This can be one time when a young writer has to compromise on some immediate ambitions in order to progress on to the next stage of securing a record deal or having artists cover his or her songs . |
| 14 | He concedes that the object-oriented paradigm needs to deal with both large objects ( applications ) and small objects ( down to characters or numbers within files ) , but argues that in the Cobol business context , a fine level of granularity is often not required . |
| 15 | As you work on the pronunciation of the vowels and consonants in the new language you will of course need to concentrate on those that are unfamiliar and difficult . |
| 16 | Dudek was surprised at the request ; it was not a course designed to deal with such matters . |
| 17 | Peurl also wrote four canzoni and these , with a few examples by Hassler and Aichinger , Schein and Scheidt , are practically all that Germany has to show in this genre . |
| 18 | However , the two parties failed to come to any agreement over plans for the construction of autoroute A16 , linking Boulogne with Amiens . |
| 19 | Most referees will tell you that when a new directive comes out on a particular law , referees tend to concentrate on that law , sometimes at the expense of refereeing other laws . |
| 20 | It might be fair to say that the paintings Picasso executed during the following eighteen or so months tend to look like all tribal art , an indication that he was ultimately interested and immersed in its spirit and its formal principles rather than in any of its individual manifestations . |
| 21 | In the crystal these rods tend to roll over each other and change position when thermally agitated . |
| 22 | The earlier part of the chapter sought to describe in some detail the major concerns articulated by Mrs Whitehouse and the NVALA , the most basic of which , it was suggested , revolved around the perceived declining centrality of organised religion in British social life . |
| 23 | Viol tried to flag down another , but the driver ignored him . |
| 24 | An actress has to think about these things . ’ |
| 25 | The market is being distorted : if General Electric wants to come into this country , it gives a price concession which damages one of this country 's crucial companies . |
| 26 | Indeed , by failing to acknowledge what applied research has to say on this matter , the Griffiths report proceeds from a false premise ( that care by the community — in its present form — is desirable and will continue ) to a false conclusion ( that publicly provided services can be increasingly restricted to an enabling and facilitating role ) . |
| 27 | Employment law , pensions , taxation , licensing regulations , Landlord and Tenant , V.A.T. Data Protection and so on — the Club has to deal with all of these and recent Minutes show an increase in the amount of business in these areas . |
| 28 | Miss Kenton seemed to think about this before saying a little sulkily : |
| 29 | Nellie seemed to drift through each day starting a lot of things and never finishing them , and doing an awful lot of washing . |
| 30 | Then the boat seemed to bump against some solid object , making the contents of the kitchen cupboards rattle . |