Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My earlier use of ‘ translation ’ to cover both interpretation and compilation into a lower-level language is not intended to carry any suggestion that the lower levels , including the lowest level of all , the machine 's registers , can be an interesting formal semantics for the higher levels , let alone what the highest level ‘ is about ’ . |
| 2 | Section 1 , Protection From Eviction Act 1977 , was amended to enable more prosecutions and at the same time introduced a new criminal offence . |
| 3 | You and I will want to affirm this world and its beauty and its sadness and all the colours of life — the greens and golds , the greys and the blacks — as part of the tapestry which is God 's gift to us all . |
| 4 | ‘ In no sense , though some diocesan clergy tend to treat parochial clergy as though they were their inferiors . |
| 5 | Even if , like Cox ( 1981 ) , they represent Hispanic , Native-American , Asian-American and Afro-American women 's experiences , they tend to treat these categories as equivalent , and ignore differences within them , which may be more important than differences between them . |
| 6 | This predominantly optimistic view is further enhanced by Rutter et al who were prepared to identify five key areas which were associated with good schools and suggest.ways in which each area can be developed to promote positive behaviour and improved attainment levels . |
| 7 | You may still want to lose more weight and inches , and your top priority may be to achieve a much slimmer body than you have so far . |
| 8 | Do you want to go this way and have a look ? |
| 9 | It 's me that told him not to go cos I said , I did n't want to go this week and he did n't go . |
| 10 | ‘ You think I 'm just an old man who does n't want to see new shops and houses . |
| 11 | Creative people are often not business minded , and they do not even want to acquire such skills as self-promotion and image-projection , let alone scrabble about with the nitty-gritty of lucre . |
| 12 | These areas were designated to conserve valued landscapes and to make them more accessible to the general public ( or at least to those who own cars ) . |
| 13 | But the cynical depravity of this outrage — placing a bomb that would inevitably cause massive damage to a national health service hospital and was intended to kill medical staff when it exploded and which , only by great good fortune , did not cause many more deaths and injuries — must surely mark one of the lowest points in the IRA 's inglorious history . |
| 14 | Ambassador to the USA and Lady Renwick ) is also intended to stimulate American patronage and raise funds for the Royal Academy and the Royal Marsden Cancer Appeal ( tickets from the organizer on 0799 52699 ) . |
| 15 | Adults tend to lose this enzyme unless they continue taking cow 's milk and milk products from the time they are weaned onwards . |
| 16 | Thirdly , they tend to see human behaviour as shaped by the system . |
| 17 | Psychologists tend to focus on behaviour as the expression of certain psychological propensities while sociologists tend to see human behaviour as shaped in its course by the social context of human life . |
| 18 | However , conventionally , which is not to say correctly , modes of social scientific explanation tend to see these elements as analytically separate orders of phenomena and , accordingly , data . |
| 19 | Or does he want to gag free speech and have every tabloid newspaper supporting the Tory party ? |
| 20 | Policy makers sought to promote national health and welfare and it was considered to be in the nation 's interest to extend child and maternal welfare services . |
| 21 | Such financial and staffing delegation is intended to enable governing bodies and headteachers to deploy their resources in accordance with their own needs and priorities and to make schools more responsive to parents , pupils , the local community and employers . |
| 22 | Women tend to uphold social traditions and conventions and are more comfortable with stability . |
| 23 | In Manchester , Liverpool , the Greater London Council , and some London boroughs left-wing Labour authorities sought to implement local socialism and use the town hall to challenge Thatcherite Whitehall . |
| 24 | ’ Yes sir , ’ the leader said , ’ we intend to interview that person before he leaves . |
| 25 | But the science-related ministries and agencies failed to classify such items as ‘ new social infrastructure ’ outside the present budgetary system . |
| 26 | Soundwise the ME-10 kicks out some really usable sounds , and through a combo or power amp all the effects and processes ( like compressor , distortion , noise suppressor , EQ , phaser , flanger , pitch shifter , delay , stereo chorus and reverb ) can be adjusted to sound either fat and warm , thin and cutting , and to cover most points in between . |
| 27 | It must be admitted that concepts referring to unseen processes tend to acquire additional meanings that are not suggested by the evidence they are intended to explain ( see MacCorquodale & Meehl , 1948 ) . |
| 28 | The reform was intended to affect all farms and estates of more than 180 hectares ( 450 acres ) but in Pomerania — the Polish Corridor — the soil was so poor that the lower limit was set at 400 hectares ( 1,000 acres ) . |
| 29 | No sane person would want to kill this baby when there is every chance that it will survive and be part of a loving family . |
| 30 | His earliest students learned the hard way by helping to erect experimental plant and doing the pipe fitting . |