Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft , weighty fabrics tend to fall easily into gentle folds ; an obvious example is cotton velvet which is both soft , supple and heavy . |
| 2 | The MA(General) is especially well suited to those who intend to proceed subsequently to vocational training by means of a Diploma , Certificate or second degree . |
| 3 | I want to go through in chronological order , so I turn to the back of the stack and find the lowest deposit , the first record of the new Unit . |
| 4 | They all want to shop around for new western weapons , and are exploring joint-purchasing schemes to cut the cost . |
| 5 | Other companies in sectors such as oil and communications must also have way-leaves for work they want to carry out on private land . |
| 6 | And if you want to come home with traditional Portuguese pottery then your best bet would be the Minho region , north of Oporto , where street markets sell the distinctive , bright designs for a third of the price of Lisbon shops . |
| 7 | cos I want to come out of thick woollies now it is March |
| 8 | We all expect to benefit equally from clean water , clean air , access to screening facilities , and so on . |
| 9 | If we want to find out about ancient people and the sites they used and constructed , our first thought might be to consult the archaeologists . |
| 10 | At present the science curriculum is structured around physical science interests , on which boys are keener ( how motor cars work , atoms and molecules ) ; we were able to recommend that teaching build on the overlapping interests of the two sexes , because girls as well as boys want to know more about human biology and spectacular features of the environment ( animals in the jungle , volcanoes and earthquakes , acids and chemicals ) . |
| 11 | Although the worms appear to feed entirely on mucosal material the incidental damage to blood vessels can cause considerable haemorrhage . |
| 12 | ‘ Ninety-nine percent of vampires are real nice people , ’ he said , ‘ But we want to crack down on phoney vampires who are getting us a bad name . ’ |
| 13 | It is an ASTONISHING piece of equipment — and I long to know how to use other design and text layout programmes which can be purchased and loaded into it , but want to cast around for sound advice as the programmes cost significant sums each . |
| 14 | Step forward Ben Pearson of Welwyn Garden City , who writes : ‘ Dear Bizzerk , I 'm a bit of a man 's man , me , and I 'm fed up of all the blokes writing in who just want to hang around with other blokes . |
| 15 | Step forward Ben Pearson of Welwyn Garden City , who writes : ‘ Dear Bizzerk , I 'm a bit of a man 's man , me , and I 'm fed up of all the blokes writing in who just want to hang around with other blokes . |
| 16 | Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now . |
| 17 | This pattern now appears to have been broken , and Madeira experiences an all-year-round trade with those who want summer sun tans as well as those who want to get away from cold winters . |
| 18 | And there 's the added advantage that fretful babies can be soothed when mothers want to get on with other important jobs around the house . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to get back to normal again . ’ |
| 20 | I want to get back to good performances . |
| 21 | Relatively few rural residents appear to rely solely on public transport , perhaps because it is not regarded nowadays as a worthwhile alternative — Moseley et al . |
| 22 | Whether you want to be ultra-feminine and coy with a tiny dinky bag , or to use a chic leather box to give out vibes of power and control , or perhaps just want to splash out on serious quality in a crazy colour the handbag is the lifestyle message of the season . |
| 23 | I have not yet had time to study the minutiae of the Bill which , as we now know , runs to 163 pages , but I want to touch briefly on certain parts of it . |
| 24 | Other republics which , like Kirgizstan , want to push ahead with economic reform , will leave the rouble system to insulate themselves from Russian inflation . |
| 25 | If we accept the claim of Fischler and Bloom that this latter task produces effects which are more typical of those which operate in normal visual word recognition during reading , we might ask why context effects appear to operate differently in visual and auditory word recognition ? |
| 26 | ‘ When Chelsea signed me Ian Porterfield told me that if I got in the side he would n't drop me so I want to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 27 | So one of the first things many of us seek to find out about other people is what they do . |
| 28 | It 's one we hope to address regularly in future issues . |
| 29 | That parishes seek to co-operate closely with local schools , partly for the recruitment of children for music in church and partly for mutual support in the music education of children ( 605 , 615–618 ) . |
| 30 | Both seek to argue logically from certain abstract premisses . |