Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend to treat language as an unproblematic expression of women 's experience , and they are too directed by the need for feminist change to do justice to the unconscious . |
| 2 | Although moral philosophers tend to treat aesthetics as a poor relation of their own discipline , it is in aesthetics that we arrive at the central problem of evaluating the activities which we pursue without thought of serving a purpose , in particular the one traditionally regarded as not merely good in itself but in some mysterious way improving to the agent , the contemplation of beauty . |
| 3 | They therefore rarely see ‘ the complete picture ’ and tend to lose track of an issue once discussion of it has been concluded . |
| 4 | Organizations that adopt the marketing concept also tend to see marketing as a very diffuse activity , shared by many , and not just the preserve of a specialist group called Marketing & sales . |
| 5 | This causes problems er , if I may say so , er but erm , it , the paragraph does n't make any reference to the date , it 's paragraph five point three , now I want to see debate in the point in erm , implementing it before the first of April . |
| 6 | If you want to borrow money on an overdraft , ask your branch before doing so . |
| 7 | So if we want to support pragmatism on the second , political dimension , we must accept and then exploit its central feature , its skepticism about legal rights . |
| 8 | It is common for pupils to grow in height as much as an inch and a half ; they appear to lose weight at the same time . |
| 9 | For the second consecutive month , manufacturers indicate they expect to increase output in the next four months . |
| 10 | How often is the decision left to junior doctors in the small hours of the morning who hesitate to increase dosage on the grounds that they do n't want to turn patients into addicts ? |
| 11 | There are times when you want to encourage talk within the classroom group , with students drawing on their own language resources to express thoughts they want to communicate . |
| 12 | We want to encourage excellence in the implementaton of this initiative . |
| 13 | I do not think that people in Cornwall want to allocate blame at the moment , but they do want to ensure that the environmental clean-up is carried out both in the short term and the long term without hold-ups . |
| 14 | Most of the children want the railway and are prepared to help with the survey , but a few want things to remain as they are , and they want to organise resistance to the coming of the railway . |
| 15 | If the Socialists are tactful and want to win favour with the centre-right , there will be no clean-out in June . |
| 16 | SIR — On July 28 , 1980 , Neil Kinnock told The Times : ‘ I want to retire at 50 , I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter , and sing in the choir . ’ |
| 17 | MANAGERS at Darlington Arts Centre have announced they no longer want to play host to the town 's annual beer festival . |
| 18 | First , Leconte demolished Sampras in straight sets before teaming with Guy Forget to administer defeat in the doubles over the American pairing of Ken Flach and Robert Seguso . |
| 19 | They want to use dance as a way in . |
| 20 | They want to use Belpan as a staging post . ’ |
| 21 | Rebel shareholders want to wrest control from a handful of family dynasties who 've traditionally been in charge . |
| 22 | ‘ I- want to put appearance at the office before lunch . ’ |
| 23 | Such is the general expectation that married couples will have children that those who do not want them , or want to put parenthood on a few more years , or sadly learn that they can not conceive , find themselves having to respond to veiled or not so veiled queries . |
| 24 | Some forms of Buddhism appear to deny belief in the existence of any god , whilst Hinduism is often associated with belief in several gods ( polytheism ) . |
| 25 | As well as scarifying to clear out thatch , we aerate to let air into the turf and release surface water . |
| 26 | I want to do English as a subject at a polytechnic and would like to do something to do with Ancient Greek culture as well . |
| 27 | When human and reptile brains get together , they want to do harm from a position of safety . |
| 28 | I must confess that I find this deeply attractive , and I want to draw attention to a few Bible passages where I think this idea is being worked out . |
| 29 | Here , I have another purpose : I want to draw attention to the fact that different variables may be used by the community to mark functions of higher and lower levels of generality . |
| 30 | Here I want to draw attention to an article by Beverle Houston , ‘ Viewing television : the metapsychology of endless consumption ’ , which seems to me to be one of the few serious attempts to theorize television subjectivity , and one which deserves more attention . |