Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both governments agreed to try to restart the political talks on Northern Ireland early in 1993 . |
| 2 | Mr Nathan said that once he was jailed , members of the Knesset planned to try to call a special session . |
| 3 | Before the anniversary I had intended to try to mark every hundred days of John 's captivity in some way , but the prospect of battling through another summer of silence seemed impossible . |
| 4 | Conversely , if we are concerned about ex post outcomes , we would not be happy about treating the person as receiving the average , or actuarial , benefit from government spending ( e.g. , on health ) , and would want to try to measure the actual provision in relation to need . |
| 5 | They 're the side of Freud , that has tended to be ignored , even by the people you would 've expected to take the greatest notice of them . |
| 6 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 7 | He was expected to continue to pursue the broad objectives of the outgoing government , including regional peace in accordance with President Arias 's 1987 peace plan ( Esquipulas II — see p. 35441-42 ) , to which he had initially been opposed . |
| 8 | I expect to continue to make the same kind of pictures . ’ |
| 9 | Branson understood media manipulation as well as anybody , and had much enjoyed helping to orchestrate the on-going controversy around the Sex Pistols once they had signed to Virgin . |
| 10 | Our second bureau is based on or around a traditional typesetting service where they have seen customers moving to in-house production using desktop publishing and want to continue to service the high quality end of the market . |
| 11 | If it is possible , I want to continue to build a lasting basis for US-Soviet co-operation , for a more peaceful future for all mankind . |
| 12 | We did not achieve that , but the Regional Council has undertaken to carry the full costs itself . |
| 13 | One of the Festival 's six major themes is that of ‘ Recreation and Sport ’ and the Scottish Sports Council through Actionsport Scotland has undertaken to organise a daily programme of sports activities . |
| 14 | In developing the short list of manufacturing locations he proposed to establish to produce the new products which would incorporate all the latest technologies , he had detailed the comparative costs of manufacture per country and identified the economic and commercial advantages and disadvantages of selling components into specific European countries from single and dual manufacturing sources . |
| 15 | Rolle has to try to meet the linguistic challenge which faces any mystical writer : to define and point towards the nature of an experience which is in essence ineffable . |
| 16 | During the same period , it has voted to change the Russian constitution — itself new — on roughly 50 occasions . |
| 17 | Instead , I want to try to develop a further view of what it means to see criticism as a significant feature of higher education . |
| 18 | We only want to try to run a straight line through a cloud of data points if the relationship looks linear . |
| 19 | Not all vessels bother to try to release the trapped dolphins from the tuna nets , especially if there is no observer on board . |
| 20 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 21 | And I think a common assessment policy if it is to come has to include the private sector at least in so far as the public sector is funded by private money . |
| 22 | A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years . |
| 23 | Now , with all Europe freed to unite ( or to fall apart ) , the time has come to devise a shorter , clearer replacement of all that has gone before — a constitution designed for a larger and more disparate union . |
| 24 | The time has come to take a closer look at that assumption . |
| 25 | The time has come to put the national interest above the special interest and totally eliminate political action committees . |
| 26 | For example , the period 1945–51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve . |
| 27 | Last week Lord Skelmersdale told the Lords that ‘ the government 's decision is that the time has come to implement the 1975 Act … . it is the large number of reservoirs for which no one appears to take responsibility which gives rise to the greatest concern , he added . |
| 28 | Byrne ( 1986 , p. 299 ) sees it as a constitutional change such that ‘ central government , in relation to local government has come to resemble the Big Brother of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty Four ’ , while Newton and Karran ( 1985 , ch. 8 ) compare it to ‘ Knee-Capping Local Government ’ . |
| 29 | Tonight the cellist Vedran Smailovic , who has come to represent the very soul of the besieged city , performs simultaneously with three other cellists in different capitals around the world . |
| 30 | In 1924 , though , Eliot has come to perceive The Golden Bough as a ‘ stupendous compendium of human superstition and folly ’ , seeing in it increasingly less ‘ interpretation ’ , so that it has become ‘ a statement of fact ’ which is not involved in the maintenance or fall of any theory of Frazer 's . |