Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ball gave details of the development of ECTA , and agreed to continue to look after Institute interests and to try to obtain uniformity . |
| 2 | The issue is not easy because in Botswana , Zimbabwe and South Africa elephants are doing well , and these countries understandably want to continue to trade in ivory . |
| 3 | Mussels , for instance , do not need to go to look for food , as most animals do ; the organic debris they feed upon is wafted in by the tides ( or the river estuaries ) . |
| 4 | Eric Howard , manager of Diadora Division Three Bracknell Town , has resigned to move to Division Two Egham Town as general manager . |
| 5 | Relatedly , for him , the evils of our times are indicated in the way that , allegedly , the polymorphous perverse has come to prevail over procreation , contraception over conception , and the anus over the vagina — ‘ as if the mark of a civilization dying should be a mountainous sense of excitement for the hole which presides over waste ’ ( p. 162 ) . |
| 6 | Gav — who probably epitomised thick-skulledness , though admittedly would not be amongst one 's first fifteen when it came to offering proof of heavy traffic within the central nervous system — opened one bleary eye and focused on me with the same accuracy one has grown to expect from security forces aiming baton rounds at protesters ' legs . |
| 7 | HP has decided not to take Sun 's move on its Apollo base ( UX No 394 ) , lying down and has decided to retaliate in kind . |
| 8 | A nurse may contact the health authority when she has decided to return to work . |
| 9 | ANTHONY Brannen has decided to stick to home territory for his last-gasp bid for Olympic selection . |
| 10 | But now , with the Government having heavily modified the MMC's recommendations so brewers have to drop the tie from only half of the outlets they own over a 2,000-pub limit , Whitbread has decided to stick with brewing . |
| 11 | In the light of the various responses , the Board has decided to concentrate on specialist franchising . |
| 12 | It has decided to concentrate on laboratory services instead . |
| 13 | France has decided to cut off aid to the Comoros Islands until the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men , who seized control 10 days ago , leave the archipelago , government sources said yesterday . |
| 14 | France has decided to cut off aid to the Comoros Islands until the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men , who seized control 10 days ago , leave the archipelago , government sources said yesterday . |
| 15 | France has decided to cut off aid to the Comoros Islands until the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men , who seized control 10 days ago , leave the archipelago , government sources said yesterday . |
| 16 | In contrast , no government has sought to remain in office after losing a parliamentary vote of confidence . |
| 17 | Since 1984 Dagenham has had to cope with double the number of product changes at Halewood . |
| 18 | The Washington Post of July 17 described this overwhelming endorsement as " an indication of how far the official Communist majority has had to move in order to keep pace with the pressure from Rukh [ the main nationalist opposition group ] " . |
| 19 | One of the problems of opposing what deconstruction has had to say about language is that , according to deconstructionists like Miller and de Man , to do so is to oppose language itself . |
| 20 | He has had to go into year 5 because of the different age for secondary school here but he has coped well with it and is allowed to carry on with his own level of work . |
| 21 | The control room , although just workable , is very cramped ( especially as it has had to take on committee work ) . |
| 22 | Clause 8 provides the necessary precautionary provision to prevent the buyer claiming that he has the right to intellectual property arising out of any development work which the seller has had to effect in order to put himself in a position to supply the goods under the contract . |
| 23 | Mr Abe , who was to succeed Mr Takeshita as prime minister before the Recruit scandal intervened , is not a healthy man ; he has had to return to hospital . |
| 24 | I would like to know if anyone else has had to pay for shore dives as I am told this is an illegal practice . |
| 25 | But it is as though she has had to start from square one . |
| 26 | He has had to struggle with nature ; compete with the most brilliant men and women of his generation ; labour to outstrip his own achievements . |
| 27 | Mr Yasser Arafat , a former terrorist , has offered to live in peace with Israel . |
| 28 | As in the past we would like to share the profit with another charity and a member of the Executive Committee has offered to act as Promoter for us if we could donate enough to provide 10 holidays for handicapped and needy children where she works ( £600 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ But I still do n't see what the distance between humps and dips has got to do with colour ? |
| 30 | This has got to do with work . |