Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As usual the ‘ big race ’ will lure the top names and Lisburn Borough Council expect to have in action ‘ 26 miles ’ specialist Peter O'Donoghue of Omega , who had a PB last year and Annadale 's John Walsh … and they are also confident that last year 's winner , Jerry Kiernan of Clonliffe Harriers , will take the starter 's gun with the intention of making it a hat-trick . |
| 32 | The amount of money companies like Sun stand to save on testing and retesting applications is substantial . |
| 33 | British Airways warned that it will have to either close or sell off its UK regional business if its cabin crews continue to strike over pay cuts . |
| 34 | Even if the Church Commissioners decide to proceed with demolition , all is not yet lost . |
| 35 | Having opened the doors an hour late , the stewards proceed to examine in detail every bag and every pocket of Pop Will Eat Itself 's thousand-strong audience , wasting a further 45 minutes of everyone 's time while they play at being customs officers . |
| 36 | Having opened the doors an hour late , the stewards proceed to examine in detail every bag and every pocket of Pop Will Eat Itself 's thousand-strong audience , wasting a further 45 minutes of everyone 's time while they play at being customs officers . |
| 37 | One of the major improvements bankers wish to see in respect of financial information is an improvement in the timeliness of information . |
| 38 | This is not to suggest that all , or indeed any , should be discarded ; if England have to go for maturity and hope for the best , so be it . |
| 39 | Increasingly , therefore , TNCs take up international investment opportunities through international capital markets , and domestic companies have to compete for capital from the USA , Japan and other countries . |
| 40 | The few studies which found some relationship had to resort to extensive and differing lag structures , using interest rates which hardly reflected the rates most companies have to pay for borrowing . |
| 41 | The programme model is one of parent capacitation and empowerment so that parents learn to cope with child-rearing , finding their own solutions rather than increasing their dependence on professionals . |
| 42 | So parents need to take into account the attentional state of the child before making a demand and by being aware of the need to gain attention they can avoid a clash of wills ( Stayton et al . |
| 43 | What any of these matters have to do with intercountry trade or a single market in Europe is not readily apparent . |
| 44 | Conversely , creative jobs in advertising , television or merchant banking seem to thrive on uncertainty and attract people much less interested in power in a managerial sense . |
| 45 | The various forms seem to increase by division of the bulbs — and clumps can get both dense and reluctant to flower — so divide up every second season or so . |
| 46 | ‘ I do n't really think we can necessarily say that it must be vitamin E that is a protective factor , but what we can now say is that fruit and vegetables seem to protect against heart disease , ’ says Professor James . |
| 47 | Lecturers vote to strike in support of colleague |
| 48 | Subject Public libraries tend to budget by subject only if the staff is organized into subject specialist groups . |
| 49 | Western economists tend to talk at length about theory ; the easterners are mainly interested in practice . |
| 50 | These black bands tend to fade with age . |
| 51 | Costs tend to decrease as expertise in accessing data develops . |
| 52 | Pups tend to lengthen in body as they grow . |
| 53 | In academic psychology , black psychologists tend to work in administration , counselling , and ‘ race'-related research , areas which traditionally lack status . |
| 54 | Psychologists tend to focus on behaviour as the expression of certain psychological propensities while sociologists tend to see human behaviour as shaped in its course by the social context of human life . |
| 55 | Since all the females in a group tend to come into oestrus at around the same time , the male goat will have a busy two or three days . |
| 56 | In Portugal , the dog-whelks appear to live inside mussel clumps ; in New England , fucoids and crevices offer the necessary shade . |
| 57 | 9 A late evening walk to search for glow worms in Folkestone . |
| 58 | The second-hand boat market is saturated ; yachts seem to drop in value to a level that lasts for decades , never entirely disappearing from the market . |
| 59 | ‘ Enterprise democracy ’ , as the decentralised aspect of the socialist control over production by the associated producers , will never be realised unless workers begin to struggle under capitalism for control over the policy and operations of enterprises , and this means exploiting rather than rejecting outright the kind of ‘ Industrial Democracy ’ proposals raised by the Bullock Commission , and more recently by the EEC . |
| 60 | Only then during the forward swing can the legs and hips begin to work in harmony with the upper body in generating clubhead speed . |