Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want to continue to live a lie ? |
| 2 | ‘ I was taken to see the vaults and was fascinated to try to lift a gold bar , ’ he says . |
| 3 | THE jury in the trial of a man accused of attempting to murder walker Josephine Chandler is expected to retire to reach a verdict today . |
| 4 | THE United Nations Security Council has voted to establish a war crimes court at The Hague to try those accused of murder , and other atrocities in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | Anyone who has forgotten to take a glass bottle out of the freezer will know the shattering consequence . |
| 6 | It is that industry itself has come to hold a position of exclusive predominance among human interests , which no single interest , and least of all the provision of the material means of existence , is fit to occupy . |
| 7 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 8 | But when science proposes to manipulate the life of a human baby , the time has come to call a halt … . ’ |
| 9 | At the pragmatic level then , the rivalry has come to seem a lot less fierce than it did . |
| 10 | In her catalogue introduction Alexandra Noble notes the extent to which installation art , using hybrid forms , has come to represent a challenge to the modernist emphasis on the purity of the particular medium . |
| 11 | Since he walked out of the cabinet in 1986 , Michael Heseltine has come to occupy a role in British politics that has few precedents . |
| 12 | Freudian in the modern world , has come to mean a belief , predominantly , that human behaviour is influenced by early experience . |
| 13 | The time has come to find a solution to prevent Britain becoming one big , dangerous rubbish tip . |
| 14 | Football since the 1950s has come to provide a kind of surrogate community for the young ; the club defines their identity and the ‘ end ’ is their territory , even if they have moved out to high-rise blocks miles away . |
| 15 | Football since the 1950s has come to provide a kind of surrogate community for the young ; the club defines their identity and the ‘ end ’ is their territory , even if they have moved out to the high-rise blocks miles away . |
| 16 | ICL Plc has applied to register a subsidiary in Slovenia , a formality that should be completed in the next few weeks , and despite renewed conflict in Croatia , the company says it is still ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 17 | Author and historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy has applied to have a bankruptcy order against him annulled . |
| 18 | Malaysia has threatened to organise a trade boycott of Austrian goods if Austria fails to rescind its eco-labelling law . |
| 19 | ‘ Ace , Benny , ’ Petion called out as he entered , ‘ the Colonel has decided to take a force to the cemetery . |
| 20 | Paul Merton has decided to hold a party for some of his friends . |
| 21 | As part of its expanding programme of cultural tourism , the Val d'Oise region has decided to exploit a theme with immense popular appeal : Impressionism . |
| 22 | JAPAN has decided to remain a member of the International Whaling Commission to lobby against the creation of a whale sanctuary in the Antarctic , Farm Minister Masami Tanabu said last night . |
| 23 | I sha n't be coming to New York this spring as I 'd hoped because Monsieur Félix has decided to open a branch of the Maison de Verveine in London instead of New York ! |
| 24 | Ingmar Bergman , who for some years now has been insistent that Fanny and Alexander was his farewell to the moving image , has decided to stage a come-back with a project called The Good Will . |
| 25 | Zurich — which had gross premium income of SFr21.5 billion ( $15.3 billion ) last year , mostly from its non-life business — has decided to become a specialist insurer on a global scale . |
| 26 | EMBATTLED British Coal chairman Neil Clarke has decided to become a man of the people . |
| 27 | Firstly , it has decided to adopt a system of home country supervision . |
| 28 | In the matter of its lawsuit against Berkeley Software Design Inc for copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets , Unix System Laboratories Inc has decided to file a petition for reconsideration with Judge Dickinson Debevoise before it goes over his head to the Circuit Court of Appeals . |
| 29 | In the matter of its lawsuit against Berkeley Software Design Inc for copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets , Unix System Labs has decided to file a petition for reconsideration with Judge Dickinson Debevoise before it goes over his head to the Circuit Court of Appeals ( UX No 427 ) . |
| 30 | The autonomous region of Catalonia has decided to build a synchrotron facility near Barcelona , following rejection last December by CERN , the international particle physics laboratory in Geneva , of a request by Spain for support of a facility to produce large numbers of tau and charm particles . |