Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We will endeavour to continue to represent the members and to project their needs and desires towards the company .
2 Safina Hussain and Huma Farooqui say they quickly signed up 25 students at their college for the ANL , and intend to continue spreading the message .
3 Do you want to go see the dickie birds ?
4 ‘ Use your … influence to arrange to have the Americans kept busy tonight , so that the ceremony may occur in peace .
5 We are pleased that Northern Ireland party leaders agreed to meet to discuss the possibilities of progress .
6 Councillors agreed to try to promote the outstations for 12 months to see if the public make more use of them .
7 I did n't want to try landing the ship itself , because coming in to accurate pin-point landing requires delicate navigation , which was impossible with the ship 's erratic ceptors .
8 WASHINGTON ( AP ) — Zaire 's President , Mobutu Sese Seko , and President George Bush met to try to prevent the collapse of an agreement between Angola and the US-backed Unita rebels , reached through Zairean mediation in June .
9 And so they 're laying on this seminar for as many parish councillors who want to go to explain the planning procedures .
10 OK , so it eventually becomes an obsession , and someone has to kill to get the key , but it keeps the audience alert , particularly when there 's a late night knock at the door .
11 But of course if one wants to continue to have the capability into the next century , which the present er range of aircraft provides , er then Eurofighter two thousand may be the only available platform for those purposes .
12 Relations with Taiwan were expected to be downgraded to " representative " status , but Taiwan 's state-run Chinese Petroleum Corporation was expected to continue to buy the bulk of its crude oil from Saudi Arabia .
13 Under the scheme , forest management and surveillance will be maintained and local people will be permitted to continue to exploit the forest in ways that are supportive of existing ecosystems .
14 I 've visited at least two or three times each year since then and I still hesitate to claim to know the area really well .
15 He tried to go to see the family , but the palace was surrounded by Bolshevik guards and Russian soldiers .
16 The item must be of sufficient quality to be displayed in a public collection whether national , local authority or university , and the owner has to agree to keep the object in the UK , preserve it and allow reasonable public access to it .
17 B has to try to find the keys and get them out of the circle before being hit by A. If the Keeper hits B s/he wins .
18 We have to have recourse to what Stenning calls ‘ abnormal ’ contexts , where the analyst reads the text and then has to try to provide the characteristics of the context in which the text might have occurred .
19 Please remember that the programme has to try to meet the expectations of eight different Regions/Nations , the Overseas Groups , Sector interests eg. Fund-Raising , Communications , not to mention the visitors themselves .
20 Somehow she has to try to extract the information she wants from the information she gets .
21 Experiments were therefore designed to try to show the existence of bicarbonate secretion by the normal human oesophagus .
22 We want to try to find the cause of the problem so that we can improve the service .
23 We want to try to provide the alternatives : jobs for women and counselling for men . ’
24 ‘ We want to try to model the economies that can be realised from downsizing by studying particular cases . ’
25 Although Levi promised to work to unite the party " in order to heal the wound " , commentators claimed that the affair had exposed deep divisions in the party which might have a major impact on the June 23 general election .
26 The inference was obvious , and in a letter to his brother , a distinguished mycologist , Lister proposed to try using the mould for treating patients .
27 Similarly in Reg. v. Wells Street Stipendiary Magistrate , Ex parte Deakin [ 1980 ] A.C. 479 , a case concerned with the law of criminal libel , both Lord Diplock and Lord Keith of Kinkel were concerned that the result to which they felt constrained to come entailed the risk of a failure to comply with our international obligations under article 10 .
28 City : Attalli 's new order of things — one year on Frank Kane finds a Frenchman in the Anglo-Saxon world of banking pleased with progress at the institution he helped to found to rebuild the East
29 A professor of chemistry , Mr Gidaspov is expected to try to galvanise the party campaign , in the same way as Mr Yuri Prokofyev , the new party leader in Moscow .
30 A professor of chemistry , Mr Gidaspov is expected to try to galvanise the party campaign , in the same way as Mr Yuri Prokofyev , the new party leader in Moscow .
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