Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary Smith : ‘ You learn to pull the right triggers , push the key words to get the money . |
| 2 | As you vary your walking pace ( increase your speed ) , then repeat the above method to calculate your new walking speed . |
| 3 | She suggested we try and cook in turns and bring the smaller children to play together in the workshop . |
| 4 | ‘ You may have joined Neighbourhood Watch at home ; bring the same vigilance to work and help make Park Royal more secure . |
| 5 | This is said to exist where a company has a number of large shareholders who engage in limited co-operation to protect their common interests , but are insufficiently cohesive and lack the necessary co-ordination to give rise to majority or minority control . |
| 6 | Three out of four directors say social workers lack the necessary powers to act when they suspect old people are being abused by carers , relatives or neighbours . |
| 7 | In fact , this is exactly the conclusion reached by the modern retributivist Jeffrie Murphy ( 1979 : 95 ) , who states that ‘ modern societies largely lack the moral right to punish ’ . |
| 8 | Certain persons lack the legal capacity to make a contract . |
| 9 | Yet as Comecon 's major source of hydrocarbons the countries have felt in recent years the strain of cutbacks in Soviet oil exports as well as what they consider to be unfair trading terms caused by rising costs which they lack the economic freedom to renegotiate . |
| 10 | Part of the explanation for this failure is that not enough information about investment plans is available to the market , and also that market participants lack the technical ability to evaluate what may be highly complex and specialised projects . |
| 11 | Putting aside these perhaps superfluous thoughts , it is nevertheless evident that from the beginning some students prefer to write ‘ differently ’ but lack the technical resources to do so competently . |
| 12 | Can it be justified to send to prison people too poor to pay fines — and there are more such persons during times of economic crisis — not only when the original crime of which they were convicted did not warrant a prison sentence , but when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crimes which we lack the political will to tackle directly by socialist remedies ? |
| 13 | Social groups which lack the civic skills to represent their own interests are particularly vulnerable to neglect by decentralizing agencies . |
| 14 | A BITCI survey last year revealed that business leaders , despite their good intentions , often lack the local know-how to tackle problems in specific countries . |
| 15 | Queen 's Club remain the only club to share the impressive 3-game 100% record with Royal Berkshire , as a result of their Area 5 third round victory against London 's Connaught Club . |
| 16 | I defy the eighteenth century to produce anything more English , more full of home and rest , and the nature of the country than my junction . |
| 17 | Sunderland refound the winning habit to beat them 2–0 with goals from Steve Maxwell and Eric Mathers . |
| 18 | We hate the constant struggle to keep order — but the alternative is worse . |
| 19 | I trust the Ministerial Committee to make decisions and bring recommendations . |
| 20 | Please make the appropriate arrangements to reserve places . |
| 21 | Following the same rules , we make the indicated pivot to arrive at P3/T4 in which θ = 5 > θ = 2 . |
| 22 | And if you make the conscious decision to stay at home then |
| 23 | The people who make the biggest contribution to profit are those who take a pride in being the best . |
| 24 | go to prison is , I mean the only people to go to mountain er was Nepal and they left in Wales and there they orin a region is from making |
| 25 | They wanted to make it work though and they could n't have made it work unless they had had the I mean the right conditions to do so . |
| 26 | ‘ Compulsive spenders suffer the same urge to go on a binge as compulsive drinkers , eaters or non-eaters , ’ declares Dr Christopher Cook of London 's Middlesex Hospital Psychiatry Unit . |
| 27 | Paddy went on imperturbably , ‘ Jesus said — ‘ Suffer the little ones to come unto me . ’ |
| 28 | But when Jesus saw it , he was much displeased , and said unto them , ‘ Suffer the little children to come unto me , and forbid them not : for of such is the kingdom of God . |
| 29 | Here we encounter the first attempt to undo the category of ‘ man ’ , an enterprise which has caused more distress than most in the recent history of the social sciences . |
| 30 | Last night the four jurors said : ‘ We suggest the easiest way to resolve the matter is for each member of the jury to identify his own hand-written ballot paper . ’ |