Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could no doubt be taught to sew or clean things . |
| 2 | We were treated as an accepted channel of communication with the mass of independent objectors and were often the only other organization apart from the local councils ' consortium whom Michael Barnes asked to comment when dramatic announcements were made . |
| 3 | The arguments in Beyond the Pleasure Principle which sought to establish that all organisms aim at death , a return to the state of inanimate matter , were admitted by Freud to be ones which could be overthrown by later biological research . |
| 4 | I would be fascinated to know if these yards of generally disagreeable reviews will in fact sell copies . |
| 5 | The train lover was fascinated to find that most journeys are undertaken on the railway because Chinese roads are not up to Western standards . |
| 6 | Mr Coates 's replacement , Jonathan Davie , thinks that , in Britain , the firm is well placed to benefit if share-trading volumes continue at the pace of the first quarter of this year . |
| 7 | The security source added : ‘ Customs are checking to see if these men are in fact registered for VAT . ’ |
| 8 | They are killing things due to the fact that mankind is sinful and man 's want to kill and corrupt things . |
| 9 | It is appropriate to try to discover if such institutions were ever actually the way they had been previously presented by a scholarship interested ( even if it did not declare its interest ) in constructing its own version of the past to answer its own preoccupations . |
| 10 | And Bassett claimed : ‘ Brian 's union role is clearly a cross he has to bear because some managers simply do n't seem to want the PFA chairman on their books . |
| 11 | There are obvious limits to the extra work that families can be expected to absorb and these limits may already have been reached . |
| 12 | The company , as a policy , will need to establish whether small tools and minor items of plant are charged to the project at cost and credited on their return to the plant department , or whether all items of plant , including small tools , are to be charged on a similar basis to that used by plant and tool hire companies . |
| 13 | The first hurdle will be to renew the approval of the Vice-Chancellor , a senior judge , who has so far agreed that there is a case to argue but wants to know that enough creditors support the action to make its pursuit a worthwhile use of all creditors ' funds . |
| 14 | Dad wants to know if those scales have come . |
| 15 | But she needs to remember that deciding strategies is easy ; implementing them is hard . |
| 16 | Three times in twenty-four hours MacDonald tried to resign and three times the King dissuaded him . |
| 17 | The disaster was all the more stunning because people had come to assume that such things did n't happen . |
| 18 | The king-duke had to try to suggest that such appeals as were made were not his personal responsibility . |
| 19 | They want to assert that homosexual relationships are just as valid as heterosexual ones and that it is perfectly ‘ natural ’ for some people to be homosexual if their inclination is in that direction and that those who profess distaste for homosexuality are denying them human rights . |
| 20 | In situations of moral dilemma a man must do what he thinks he has to do and moral decisions are involved in his action . |
| 21 | Firstly , it might argue that so much of what doctors do lacks solid scientific support that it would be ludicrous to try to insist that all doctors practise scientifically valid medicine all the time . |
| 22 | Serious UFO researchers have come to recognise that these stories are essentially subjective . |
| 23 | It follows that a firm will need to ensure that any guarantees which they require from a client or other person in respect of the performance of their obligations towards the firm do indeed contain appropriate provisions to displace the statutory rule , and bankers to a firm seeking security for its overdraft will invariably attach similar conditions to the liability of any person put forward by the firm as guarantor . |
| 24 | However , if the condition in question were designed to ensure that all operators of fishing vessels were based in the United Kingdom , it would inhibit the export of fish by British flag vessels to other member states and so constitute a breach of article 34 of the E.E.C . |
| 25 | Detailed regulations are in place which are designed to ensure that all employees give the highest priority to the health and safety of themselves , and those around them . |
| 26 | He thought , not for the first time , that a system which required ministers to run their departments , fulfil their parliamentary responsibilities , and spend the weekend listening to the grievances of their constituents , might have been designed to ensure that major decisions were made by men and women tired to the point of exhaustion . |
| 27 | On waste , the government intends to introduce a system of credits designed to ensure that local authorities get on target to meet the goal of 25 per cent recycling of household waste by 2000 . |
| 28 | The diversity of museum collections in general requires that these practices be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the unusual object or set of circumstances , and yet sufficiently disciplined to ensure that realistic standards can be established and maintained . |
| 29 | ‘ Many of us truly want to believe that money-making schemes are genuine , even if we harbour some doubts . ’ |
| 30 | By the time Durkheim came to write Two Laws of Penal Evolu-tion , he had modified his theory about the decline in importance of the conscience collective ( a phrase he ceased to use ) and had come to believe that collective sentiments were a crucial factor in any society . |