Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " 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 | The Seya-Namioka type monochromator contains an anastigmatic concave diffraction grating and line spectra produced using this monochromator do not exhibit the characteristic shoulder on the side of each peak that is caused by the coma-type aberration . |
| 3 | The geographic distribution of Sea Life Centres makes us uniquely placed to support marine conservation endeavours right around the UK coastline and , in particular , to encourage public involvement and interest in these endeavours . |
| 4 | The cultural capital of such a modernized and differentiated habitus is capable of using differentiated classificatory schema to understand , say , the modernist work of art in terms of its own particular aesthetic conventions . |
| 5 | You do n't want to go this afternoon do you ? |
| 6 | Thirdly , it seems that both groups of critics would want to see greater support given to natural families , in general , to help them to care for their children more effectively and to prevent the need for substitute care arising . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It does not cover using stolen property left in one 's father 's garage : Sanders ( 1982 ) 75 Cr App R 84 . |
| 9 | There 's not so much wanking going on as there was , now it 's all on offer , so everyone thinks eating saturated fat makes you blind , and they 've all got obsessed with what they put in their mouths instead of in their … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Must 've heard this fucker coming in , ’ deduces the striped pyjamas . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea welcomed the recent progress in relations between the two states , and on July 6 suggested that he expected to see Korean reunification achieved within five years . |
| 12 | In my patch , many small builders are doing well and are struggling to find enough labour to keep them going in today 's market . |
| 13 | Act 1919 , which encouraged adjacent districts to co-ordinate their plans , and the Town and Country Planning Act 1932 , which sought to encourage local action to regulate activities in both the town and county ( Sheail 1981 ) . |
| 14 | The word processor package which I 'm using to write this book has a couple of games built into it — partly for light relief , no doubt , but also to give newcomers the opportunity to play with the system , to get confident in using the tools . |
| 15 | Contacts made locally , from a string of hill villages overlooking the camps , and in Damascus and Tunis , failed to secure Palestinian agreement to disarm and withdraw to the camps . |
| 16 | The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation . |
| 17 | Large-scale empirical work which is intended to provide new information based on reliable data . |
| 18 | In addition to being highly competitive when sailing under IMS , the J/44 is intended to provide excellent one-design racing . |
| 19 | In September , the Executive asked to meet Bonar Law to discuss the subject , now that Unionists were in government , but Law refused any outside discussion until the cabinet had made up its mind . |
| 20 | Only when they actually got to know each other had he discovered that it was the idea of loving her that he had fallen for and not the girl herself . |
| 21 | They want to see financial pressure applied , to ensure South Africa can not roll over its debt or raise new capital . |
| 22 | We want to see Grand Met send someone to Darlington to a meeting which would include all the licensees affected by the rent rises and the new leases . ’ |
| 23 | We also want to see more money spent on the Government 's home energy efficiency scheme , with all houses in poor physical condition upgraded to a minimum standard . ’ |
| 24 | You want to see this girl hurt ? |
| 25 | You want to see this girl suffer ? |
| 26 | ‘ We all want to see this concern cleared up quickly . ’ |
| 27 | The Conservatives want to see this link restored as they believe the present situation leads to extravagant and irresponsible local spending . |
| 28 | I do not believe the vast majority of people want to see British industry sold abroad for jam today . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | Like Opposition Members , we want to see British Coal secure as much of that market as possible . |