Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have always been a minority of wealthy older people and a majority struggling to survive in poverty . |
| 2 | The Rangers defence failed to deal with cross balls all day , and it was inevitable the home side should use that route successfully in taking the lead after just 12 minutes . |
| 3 | The Rangers defence failed to deal with cross balls all day , and it was inevitable the home side should use that route successfully in taking the lead after just 12 minutes . |
| 4 | Entrusting the decision in unfair dismissal cases to tribunals was a conscious decision designed to include as part of the decision-making process the industrial experience of employers and employees . |
| 5 | But if that is our conclusion , then we miss perhaps the most profound contribution this story has to make to theology and to faith . |
| 6 | ( p7 ) If the drafter has to choose between clarity and legal accuracy , clarity must be sacrificed , but that should rarely be necessary . |
| 7 | For women , the measurement of the thread has to do with continuity ; it is the thread that runs through all complexity , an underlying order linking past and future . |
| 8 | The second change has to do with gravity . |
| 9 | With a heart fit to burst through tension , at last , a noise . |
| 10 | Many other items could be added to this list ; reference 10 gives details of a number of considerations that the programmer needs to keep in mind . |
| 11 | Thus , any attempt to analyse the former land use around a settlement needs to take into account more than just the present physical nature of the land : changes may have taken place in any period under the influence of the technical abilities , and social and economic conditions prevailing at any time . |
| 12 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 13 | The political economist has to look behind policy choices to the structural context of international relations and to the context of the security structure influencing the definition of the role of the state in relation to markets , domestic and global . |
| 14 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 15 | Where the action is for unliquidated damages and the defendant delivers an admission of liability for the claim but disputes or does not admit the amount of the plaintiff 's dam ages , then : ( 1 ) if the defendant offers to pay in satisfaction of the claim a specific sum which the plaintiff accepts , the provisions of this rule shall apply as if the defendant had admitted part of the plaintiff 's claim ; and ( 2 ) in any other case , the plaintiff may apply to the court for such judgment as he may be entitled to upon the admission , and the court may give such judgment , including interlocutory judgment for damages to be assessed and costs , or make such other order on the application as it thinks just . |
| 16 | However , Hitler 's scientists had developed another ‘ Victory ’ weapon — the ‘ V2 ’ — it was an advanced form of rocket with a nose-cap filled with high explosive designed to explode on impact . |
| 17 | But perfect love drives out fear , because fear has to do with punishment . |
| 18 | City Comment : Industry starts to advance on tax |
| 19 | A translator has to bear in mind the additional meanings that these forms can assume in a Japanese text . |
| 20 | Their change of mind has to do with brute economics , the new Europe , and long-lived discontent . |
| 21 | When Matthew Parris and another Tory MP who has since lost his seat tried to live on income support for a week , they both found it virtually impossible . |
| 22 | The degree of involvement which an employee has to demonstrate in order to fall foul of this duty need not always be very great . |
| 23 | When there are limits on borrowing , a company or household in financial distress has to survive on cash flow . |
| 24 | I suspect that the current hostility towards modernism has to do with feeling reassured by what is old ( we tend to value the patina of age regardless of quality ) — and the sense of stability that this lends to our institutions . |
| 25 | It was proved by feeding his statement into a unique computer programme designed to check for bank mistakes . |
| 26 | Whenever , in a wild population , a t allele happens to arise by mutation , it immediately spreads like a brushfire . |
| 27 | For a time a chorus of bells from the monastery seemed to peel in celebration each time I finished a pitch . |
| 28 | Even the opposition seemed to slow in sympathy , but he still kept the ball and did quite well each time . |
| 29 | The practice is found in a wide range of commercial applications , from rent reviews to breach of warranty claims , and from construction disputes to pension scheme transfers . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much his Department plans to spend on science in 1992-93 . |