Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People tend to invest more time deciding on a house purchase or what car to buy than deciding what to do with their lives and how to develop themselves . |
| 2 | families of those who have lost loved ones , who do n't want to see other families going through the suffering that they have gone through . |
| 3 | I just do n't want to see similar signs appearing up mountains as hill-walking grows more popular Where would it all end ? |
| 4 | We do not want to see more knife carrying by people who are mentally ill , although that clearly affects a minority of community care cases . |
| 5 | They would not proscribe the teaching of fine art , archaeology or music — but would much prefer to see British colleges turning out many more vocation-ally-trained graduates in science , technology and business management . |
| 6 | They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ? |
| 7 | ‘ Must 've heard this fucker coming in , ’ deduces the striped pyjamas . |
| 8 | In addition to being highly competitive when sailing under IMS , the J/44 is intended to provide excellent one-design racing . |
| 9 | They 're happy to come to the rescue but most of all they want to see tighter rules regulating the ownership of such animals . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's a world market of over £100 million a year in clean technology and I want to see British industry winning a much larger share of it . ’ |
| 11 | He tried to spot any spy-flies lurking in this foyer , little spies which so recently had been his own to command , till they were stolen . |
| 12 | This policy announcement , which was designed to curb heavy state spending in the health sector , had been made possible by the strong growth of medical aid schemes in all communities [ see above for plan to desegregate some state hospitals ] . |
| 13 | And Patricia also wants to see other women fighting back against which she calls this ‘ most horrible thing ’ . |
| 14 | And there is also the crucial issue of political financing which we 've heard about already this morning , and which is such a vexed question in French Spanish , and Italian politics now everybody wants to see more money coming from an expanded , er , political membership . |
| 15 | This meal was designed to include many reflux provoking foods to maximise postprandial reflux in normal subjects . |
| 16 | With the economy moving out of recession we expect to see fewer clients cutting back and this should help reduce our terminations . |
| 17 | Some carried painted blood-stained banners denouncing the Party , and cried ‘ shame , shame ’ . |
| 18 | It welcomed the recent installation of the Central American Integration Law Institute ( INCADI ) , designed to provide legal machinery guaranteeing integration relations among the region 's countries and co-operation between these countries and third parties . |
| 19 | But by the leave of all here , I challenge your view , Father Abbot , that he has committed any offence touching the removal of Saint Winifred 's reliquary . |
| 20 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 21 | Sir Charles ' career has included many periods conducting many of the world 's major orchestras . |
| 22 | Traditionally , public finance theory has approached these issues using the assumption that government is motivated by the pursuit of the ‘ public interest ’ . |
| 23 | He and Dr Kohl are expected to meet next week following the swearing in of a new East German government on Monday . |
| 24 | ( 9 ) If the bidder is proposing to offer consideration shares then , unless it already has sufficient authorised but unissued share capital and the appropriate directors ' authority to allot such shares , it will need to pass ordinary resolutions increasing its authorised share capital and granting the directors an authority under CA 1985 , s80 . |
| 25 | CCG has won another schools catering contract , the latest in a series of valuable new work that means we now provide over 200,000 school meals every week . |
| 26 | The study has argued that naturally occurring toxins can be more dangerous than man-made pesticides , and has presented scientific data showing that glycoalkaloids , nerve-damaging toxins that occur naturally in potatoes , are present in the same levels in organic crops as in their treated fellows . |
| 27 | He knows the authority that he 's had in that community , he has seen supernatural things happening in his life and through him , albeit , they were not of God , but has been involved in supernatural things . |
| 28 | If you are called for an interview with a local authority , you would not be expected to answer detailed questions relating to local government law . |
| 29 | In Wales the opencast industry has exploited shallow reserves lying close to the limestone outcrop with the result that working and restored sites are concentrated on a relatively narrow tract of land stretching from Montgomery to Kidwelly . |
| 30 | The emphasis on care in the community , the reduction of institutional type beds has made mental health nursing a challenging but exciting specialty . |