Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb base] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a promise , and strength of quality in their songwriting , but The Prayer Boat appear to have some way to paddle before they find a grasp of the studio techniques they will need to coax real spirit from their music . |
| 2 | ‘ The benefits of a mass screening programme have to prove that prolongation of survival as a result of early disease detection outweighs psychological and financial drawbacks . |
| 3 | The findings from the sentence completion study seem to support this argument , in that performance was better on item ( 1 ) than on item ( 2 ) , and performance on item ( 2 ) was better than on ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) . |
| 4 | WARRANTY : Name Origin Research undertake to research any surname and to provide such information as is available by proven research . |
| 5 | London and the South East tend to have more psychiatrists , teachers , medical social workers , etc. , than other regions but shortages of lower-paid staff such as nurses and prison officers , largely because of inflated housing costs . |
| 6 | Though its international activities and long term contracts business appear to offer some cause for cheer , it seems that Egham , Surrey-based consultancy P-E International Plc is not out of the woods yet . |
| 7 | For example , rats given electroconvulsive shock ( ECS ) immediately after learning a simple avoidance response fail to show this response on a subsequent test , a result that has been interpreted as showing that the ECS destroys the original memory trace . |
| 8 | BERTIE CAMERON and JIM DAVIDSON of Transport Section wish to thank all friends and colleagues who contributed to their departure gifts and wish Dounreay all the best for the future . |
| 9 | Quite understandably , the Commission objected to this procedure , which made UK tapwater appear to have less lead in it than the consumer experiences . |
| 10 | Japanese companies continue to find the going extremely tough in the workstation business , where American companies led by Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co continue to make all the running , so defensive alliances are becoming essential , and Sony Corp and NEC Corp shared a platform last week to say that they are joining forces in the Japanese workstation market to enable Japanese language applications written for either of their MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based workstation families — NEC 's EWS4800 and Sony 's NEWS — to run on the other . |
| 11 | In other words , studies of television genre begin to reinvent some of the wheels which film authorship and genre studies set in motion some time ago . |
| 12 | When path picks up line of iron fence continue to follow this , keeping it on left-hand side , to reach trig point on summit . |
| 13 | Second , health campaigns for this age group appear to stand more chance of success if promoted at a group/ societal level . |
| 14 | Hippy and student activist continue to recognize each other as allies . |
| 15 | The teacher , librarian and media officer need to understand each other 's special skills in order to work together as a team : |
| 16 | According to later studies ( Martin , 1986 , 1987 ; TCPA , 1987 ; Green , 1988 ) the gap in the 1980s is now wider than ever ; and the latest developments in information and communications technology threaten to reinforce these contrasts ( Goddard and Gillespie , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | World Vision hope to provide some sort of schooling for these youngsters . |
| 18 | The authors of the Arkleton Trust publication seem to have this in mind when they state : — |
| 19 | £1.5m land deal to bring more jobs for Bathgate |
| 20 | How many people at breakfast time bother to do more than turn the set on , knowing that both channels are transmitting roughly similar programmes ? |
| 21 | Thank you sir erm in that the government and the opposition front bench want to move this measure erm fulfilling their commitments to the Maastricht treaty , I accept the methodology and the precedent that the government cites , I think that 's appropriate , erm I just wanted to very briefly say that this is of course a vote no longer like the generality of the population voting for the membership of a golf club in which we have varying degrees of er interest . |
| 22 | Forecasts made by married couples of their personal family size seem to share many of the drawbacks of demographic forecasts made by demographers ; especially too much dependence on current conditions ( Westoff and Ryder 1977 ) . |
| 23 | Dietary habits are also influenced to some degree by social class ; for example , those from a working class background tend to eat less fruit and vegetables than others . |