Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be interesting and potentially lively to engage in maths or history or music in the midst of a project on ‘ Warwick Castle ’ ( say ) , or ‘ Myself ’ , or ‘ Transport ’ , but projects tend to contain inherent biases to one subject area or another . |
| 2 | But the staff at Westonbirt say lose one claim to fame , gain another . |
| 3 | I want those subsidies to be phased down by the Community , and I also want to encourage British coal to be exported to Germany if that is a way to deal with the problem . |
| 4 | The dreams cease to bear much relation to reality , but are so important to both men that they can not be awakened from , controlled or stopped , by anything short of death . |
| 5 | You save it , but you forget to extract that range to a separate file . |
| 6 | They want to replace ineffective reaction to the symptoms of trouble with positive action aimed at the roots of the problem . |
| 7 | ‘ Those are the folk you want to walk fifteen miles to your meeting , ’ Byers said in a low voice . |
| 8 | Social workers who want to give serious attention to an elderly couples ' relationship which is causing unhappiness might find it helpful to find a colleague with whom to talk through their feelings about doing marital work , including the discussion of sexuality with an elderly couple . |
| 9 | ‘ We want to love these people to death , ’ he gushes . |
| 10 | Do you think for one minute that I want to live next door to a stinking curry eater or a mugging , drug-dealing , sweaty black rasta ? |
| 11 | Finally , I want to mention two approaches to developing self-awareness and increasing self-esteem : transactional analysis and assertiveness training . |
| 12 | ‘ I want to teach these people to be practical and self-reliant , ’ Edhi said . |
| 13 | Many criminal actions appear to offer little threat to the capitalist class system . |
| 14 | But when we generate profits abroad , and want to pay some dividends to our shareholders , we are told : sorry , you 'll have to offset those against your UK profits only ; which we ca n't do . |
| 15 | So you could , the handwriting could of been neater , fine and then you want to pay some attention to your illustrations in the future , that 's good , come on then shout at me , it 's the only time you 're allowed . |
| 16 | If you want to add extra fruit to a cake or pudding , add extra sultanas . |
| 17 | Where kids become worldly-wise with such rapidity , it is easy for a certain laissez-faire to creep in ; they expect to have unbridled access to everything , and in the long run this is not doing any favours to either party concerned . |
| 18 | Many local caciques or large landowners expect to have sexual access to campesina women , particularly young girls , living on or near their estates . |
| 19 | Although institutions of higher education to some extent reshaped their admissions procedures before and after the Further & Higher Education Act 1992 , they still appear to pay little attention to the effect which their policies have on schools and colleges . |
| 20 | It should , says SunConnect , prove particularly attractive to companies that want to link small workgroups to a remote , central system . |
| 21 | Conscious that the fat woman had seated herself on a stack of biscuit tins and was listening avidly , Joe said ‘ Er , I want to take some groceries to an old lady . |
| 22 | 'Mr McGuire. ’ 'Ben. ’ 'Mr McGuire. ’ 'I just want to say one word to you . ’ |
| 23 | Both these latter points , though Macdonald does not connect them , appear to lend some force to the arguments of Edinburgh employers that by the end of the century , they were not so much drawing extra work to Edinburgh as desperately trying to stem an inexorable decline of the Edinburgh trade , occasioned both by its geographical distance from London ( incurring freight costs and inconvenience , which would have affected bookbinding equally ) and by its comparatively high rents and cost of living ( as compared to country towns like Frome ) . |
| 24 | Er and then to contrast this you 've got like the feminist view er well it 's a just reconstruct a lot of these ideas instead of saying that women 's talk was diffident they said it was more considerate , and so the idea that quite often A lot of the features that are in this conversation are n't because women want to be deferential to the men they 're talking to , it 's that they actually want to show some consideration to the turn-taking or the conversational style that 's going on . |
| 25 | Similarly , while Wish art and Virden want to admit counter-historical trends to the dominant tonal tradition — in what they call ‘ genuine folk musics ’ — these are understood as almost completely separate from and opposed to that tradition . |
| 26 | The spastics society , which have their own centres in Britain , say that they want to introduce conductive Education to this country , but setting up a centre like the Peto Institute will take time and money . |
| 27 | All the more important , then , to stand protected from the like and ensure that all things — not excluding alcohol — conspire to bear visible witness to that ruddy hue sported by the English living in the Tropics . ’ |
| 28 | They seek to restrict town-based owners to one dog per household and legislate for all puppies to be neutered before being sold . |
| 29 | The second tactic is to ensure that we stop adding more people to the numbers of tragic people on our streets as a result of years of social and self-neglect . |
| 30 | Cards No. 2 and 3 are examples that show machine knitted lace to be a series of holes between stocking stitch . |