Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [to-vb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the woman has to take money out of her purse then she has to use two hands and children can easily stray . ’ |
| 2 | But she has to run 23.30 secs or faster to secure a place in the British team for Barcelona and , still hampered by an Achilles tendon injury , she does n't think she 'll do it . |
| 3 | Overland , it needs to see 4 satellites at any one time to give a three dimensional ‘ fix ’ including altitude . |
| 4 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 5 | He 's on probation for three years and he has to do 100 hours community service . |
| 6 | ‘ Remember his train does n't come in till six o'clock , and then he has to ride ten miles on our old horse . ’ |
| 7 | … for an aspiring educational ideology to be able to mount a serious challenge at the national level it has to link three concepts together : the desired society , the type or types of educated individuals necessary for that society , and the educational means to fulfil these two ends . |
| 8 | Tim Jarvis says it 's always been his ambition to ride in the National and now he wants to go one step further . |
| 9 | Before Christmas , it plans to invite 40 pastors and community leaders from throughout Zaire to take part in a seven day seminar entitled ‘ Communication and the Democratic Process ’ . |
| 10 | Norway has announced that it intends to catch 382 minke whales over the next three years . |
| 11 | The US says that it intends to axe one satellite . |
| 12 | If it costs to transport one item from i to j , how should the goods be transported in order to satisfy all requirements at minimum cost ? |
| 13 | To do that , it assesses the difference in intensity of the sound in each ear and the infinitesimal difference in time that it takes to reach one ear before the other . |
| 14 | And you 've had all the time in the world it takes to dial seven digits . |
| 15 | Guar gum is a complex polysaccharide which can not be digested or absorbed and it appears to have two effects . |
| 16 | It appears to establish three categories : the first contains wordings generally agreed to be acceptable , the second wordings which appear to have been at some time problematic but are now acceptable , and the third wordings which remain inadmissible . |
| 17 | Siemens AG has formed a joint venture with the city of Shanghai and the Chinese Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications to produce digital mobile phones and base stations : it aims to make 300,000 phones and 500 base stations each year . |
| 18 | It aims to provide 40,000 training weeks by next April under its innovative and highly successful Training in Employment scheme . |
| 19 | But he seems to have one problem that I 'm too embarrassed to ask him about . |
| 20 | It hopes to mount 15 flights a day — carrying enough food to feed 500,000 of the most desperate famine victims . |
| 21 | The college 's development plan reveals that it hopes to give 700 pupils a year a taste of education in one of nine countries funds permitting . |
| 22 | While it hopes to build 500 houses before winding up in 1999 , the corporation said yesterday that it hoped to start transferring houses to the proposed Irvine Housing Association in 1993 . |
| 23 | In a large frying or saute pan put a slab of butter ( I use a good quality butter and find that it pays to prepare 2 lb. at a time since it keeps almost indefinitely and is immeasurably superior to fresh butter for frying bread , croquettes , rissoles , fish cakes , veal escalopes , fish à la meunière and a score of other tricky cooking jobs ) . |
| 24 | Fujitsu says it expects to sell 100,000 units per month . |
| 25 | It expects to invite 50–75 user groups worldwide to participate , get 35–50 of them actually involved and circulate 10,000 multiple-choice questionnaires in six languages : English , French , German , Spanish , Chinese and Japanese . |
| 26 | It expects to attract 2,000 attendees . |
| 27 | It seeks to answer three questions . |
| 28 | He manages to assemble three arguments against selectivity ; and stigmatisation ( there are four if we allow the afterthought reference to the poverty trap ) . |
| 29 | And the second servant does n't do quite as well , he erm but he manages to make five talents out of his one talent . |
| 30 | A kingdom like ours has to have one ruler . |