Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We intend that to apply to the Navy and to the Air Force as well . |
| 2 | this , this , they only start from sort of like , there 's the house , and it goes half way up the garden , so I want fifty up at one side , and put fifty to go up other side , I want fifty to go across the garden , and they 're gon na go across the garden and cut the garden in half |
| 3 | We expect that to happen in the autumn . ’ |
| 4 | During this initial period it will be necessary to use whatever methods appear appropriate to deal with the patient 's distress . |
| 5 | Two and a half months of a ‘ non-campaign ’ had changed nothing , and few expect much to change after the election either . |
| 6 | New pay recommendations are due in the new year and , although Mr Clarke has told the review body that there must be pay restraint , ministers appear likely to press for the award to be met . |
| 7 | I want first to focus on the latter meaning , and to describe in some detail what teachers are talking about when they say they are stressed , or suffering from stress . |
| 8 | The axon transmits information by means of electrical impulses , and it is beeause these cause current to flow in the media around the cell that one can monitor the impulses , and hence the information flow , by means of a micro-electrode placed close to it . |
| 9 | Lou was everyone 's idea of the cockney sparrow let loose to fly in a wider world than she had once ever known existed . |
| 10 | There is not enough time to meet even short-term demands for preparation , marking , report-writing , sorting out pupils ' disputes and clearing up heat-of-the-moment misunderstandings with colleagues , let alone to invest in the longer-term necessities of clearing the backlog of paperwork , replying to letters , ordering supplies , planning schemes of work , reorganizing last year 's course , thinking about what your tutor group can contribute to the fourth year assembly , setting up a meeting with the educational psychologist about Jessica , and spending some time with the word processor manual . |
| 11 | Let alone to stand near the edge of a cliff . |
| 12 | Rochester Telephone Co , Rochester , New York has called in Bell Communications Research Inc to help with a study into whether or not to deploy a broadband fibre optic network in its local service area . |
| 13 | WELL BEYOND the wildest expectations of even the most optimistic airframe designer , certain piston-engines airlines seem set to fly into the next century . |
| 14 | These trends look set to continue into the early decades of the next millennium . |
| 15 | Under Mr Hunt 's current proposals we look set to return to the fifties and sixties . |
| 16 | With our moral rectitude , our modernity and military science , we look set to prevail against the evil Saddam and his ramshackle modernity . |
| 17 | Despite the frictions , Spain 's marks — European citizenship , which it proposed , and a long transition to EMU — look set to appear in the final treaties . |
| 18 | Records look set to crash in the National after Double Silk beat the clock on his majestic winning march over the Aintree fences . |
| 19 | Bracknell Bees look set to stay in the Heineken Premier Division and Fife Flyers are likely to be relegated . |
| 20 | ‘ Some of them seem content to sit in the Royal Box at Wembley and shake hands . |
| 21 | Yet many librarians seem content to select from a supplier 's selection , and to surrender professional responsibility for their service to the suppliers , allowing speed and ease of supply to take precedence over comprehensiveness and depth . |
| 22 | Two processes seem likely to lead to the formation of black holes . |
| 23 | The sixteen paintings seem likely to remain with the Uffizi , where they have been stored for some time . |
| 24 | Students who seem likely to fail on a particular goal , for example attendance , may be offered counselling and support . |
| 25 | We have , therefore , some agreement on the existence of effects which seem linked to age of the learner ; however , there may be a number of confounding factors . |
| 26 | If a status quo is preserved , Chelmsford seem sure to struggle in the new eight-team Premier League unless a number of quality players show a willingness to come to Essex . |
| 27 | Three days ago they were trying to dodge a massacre in Bosnia , now despite half their families being slaughtered they seem happy to play in the mists of an Oxfordshire morning nearly two thousand miles from home . |
| 28 | Nurses and doctors are legally entitled to refuse to perform an abortion , but the unions representing nurses seem reluctant to lobby for a similar right to object to ECT . |
| 29 | The students seem reluctant to stop after the 15-week session ( running from October till early February , after which exams and job interviews must take first place with students ) . |
| 30 | You obviously have to work it out in some way , but you seem able to arrive at the answer almost instantly . |