Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [det] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my patch , many small builders are doing well and are struggling to find enough labour to keep them going in today 's market . |
| 2 | At that time we were also building a similar data base on another CAD system , which involved re-writing all software to suit . |
| 3 | Firstly , she needs to carry some weight to maintain her power . |
| 4 | Absolutely , we all want want each other to do well do n't we ? |
| 5 | Mr Weld , who inherited this confusion from the Dukakis administration , made it worse last year when , during the election campaign , he promised to find another place to dump . |
| 6 | Clerical Medical has designed this Plan to help you to make the most of the profit from your savings over the next 10 years . |
| 7 | He has secured enough prize-money to retain his Card by improving his course strategy . |
| 8 | You do n't even need to shoot any video to practise this : simply switch to ‘ rehearsal ’ mode , and work at keeping the image in the viewfinder as steady as you can . |
| 9 | Capriati has struggled all year to motivate herself , and even winning an Olympic gold medal has failed to resurrect her fading enthusiasm . |
| 10 | Complementing it is the British Coal Yearbook which offers a written record of the season and which has expanded this time to embrace the seasons in France , Australia and New Zealand . |
| 11 | There are some twenty-two indigenous Indian languages spoken in these communities , and the government has made little effort to support education in these mother tongues . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most well-known experiment in work organisation is the Volvo car assembly plant at Kalmar in Sweden where the company has made some attempt to break away from the traditional mass-production assembly line . |
| 13 | I believe he is half aware of his problem and has made some effort to solve it by forcing himself to concentrate on what he is told to read . |
| 14 | Laura 's pregnant mother Fran , 26 , said : ‘ If Laura has helped another child to have a chance , then we are delighted . |
| 15 | It is designed to help each applicant to make an informed decision before applying for a particular programme of study . |
| 16 | But I think the best recommendation is when big business has used that company to produce a video for themselves , you know the companies with the big budgets and so on it 's an indication of the quality |
| 17 | Previous work has used this characteristic to suggest a sub-lithospheric component that is more akin to MORB than to OIB , whereas the Os isotope data seem to favour an OIB-like component . |
| 18 | The media has got some message to give , and we want to be part of that message . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , none of us has got enough money to go into a high-class nursing home — at least as far as I know — so of course the wind was up all of us . |
| 20 | The Revenue would have some difficulty if they were to try to apply this head to tax upon the settlor or the spouse of the settlor income validly accumulating in an overseas discretionary trust . |
| 21 | THE GOVERNMENT has postponed any attempt to curb industrial action in essential services and make unions legally liable for unofficial action . |
| 22 | However , once Governments of either party know that they will complete a Bill on a certain day , they hand much of the power over to the Opposition to decide how they want to use that time to debate the proper timing and clauses . |
| 23 | Asked why he had changed tack in his purchasing , Mr Mason , his dealer , said : ‘ Mr Lloyd Webber has made his money in Britain in the last decade , and he wants to put some back to save the finest of Canaletto 's London views . ’ |
| 24 | So what possesses a man who has reached that pinnacle to swap a prestigious City office for a charity based in one of the more dubious London suburbs ? |
| 25 | Now with regard to auditors in particular , er he will know because he 's had some correspondence with me er on this particular subject , it is the view of the government that the er recognised professional body , the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England and Wales , is best placed as a professional body , to supervise er this sector er an argument can be mounted and no doubt he may seek to use this debate to do just that , to say that er this should be the subject of some direct er rule from Whitehall . |
| 26 | The measures are designed to reinforce each other to produce a combined accident reduction which will make their introduction as a package cost-effective , even in areas with scattered accidents where normal ‘ value for money ’ criteria for accident prevention treatment are not met . |
| 27 | Tiny children , barefoot and dirty , tried to generate enough courage to touch us for a few fils ’ . |
| 28 | Now , The Body Shop wants to start another project to update a hospital for the terminally ill in Sculeni , near the Russian border , and has launched a fresh appeal to this end . |
| 29 | Modern instrumentalism has adapted this strategy to explain how it is that the election of social democratic parties into government , or the advent of other coalitions orientated in part to working-class voters ( such as Franklin Roosevelt 's ‘ new deal ’ administration in the USA ) , have not qualified the fundamentally capitalist character of the liberal democratic state . |
| 30 | He has been accused of being an agent of the CIA , and Ethiopian security gave him 48 hours to leave the country in August 1978 , but no one has found any evidence to confirm these rumours , ‘ I think it 's very unlikely that Ethiopian security would expel somebody on the basis of baseless rumours , ’ White says . |