Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is not uncommon for tractors to slide into a stream as they attempt to cultivate every last scrap of land beside a watercourse . |
| 32 | Politicians , however , were quite capable of making any assistance look somewhat larger than life and thus attempt to reap the last ounce of voter gratitude for their services . |
| 33 | Southampton v Manchester C Howard Kendall watches from the stand as his new charges attempt to resist the First Division 's most prolific attack . |
| 34 | The announcement on the morning of 22 November of Mrs Thatcher 's decision to resign came as a dramatic surprise to the public because , up to that point , all the outward signs had been that she intended to stick to her initial resolve to contest the second ballot . |
| 35 | Although all males try to get a second female , only about 15 per cent are successful . |
| 36 | Cutter crews based in the north usually see Fair Isle as a faint blur through misty rain or flying spray , or in darkness and fog as a characteristic shape on the radar screen as they try to beat the next gale to Shetland , or conversely , back to Orkney . |
| 37 | Conference organisers may well be cutting their own throats in the long run if they try to wring the last penny ( or cent ) out of the latest bandwagons . |
| 38 | There are few things more obstructive to the composing impulse than those word books children queue up with , or those erasers they use to correct the first spelling mistake , often in the first word . |
| 39 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 40 | The trouble is that companies need two to three times as many pay grades as they do working layers , and once they 've established the pay grades , which are easy to describe and set up , they fail to take the next step and set up a different managerial hierarchy based on responsibility rather than salary . |
| 41 | How many E6 leaders each year pass by the ledge of Lloydia Serotina — rarest of British plants — which is only yards from the path , and fail to bestow a second glance on its nodding , purple-veined understatedness ? |
| 42 | If you have any comments on these then perhaps you might pass them to me unless , of course , you wish to attend the next meeting . |
| 43 | If you wish to view the next page , you need only press the TAB key . |
| 44 | Gosbank had warned on Nov.29 that it would cease payments to central government , after the Supreme Soviet refused to endorse a request for 90,500 million roubles credit to finance the last quarter budget deficit and pay state employees [ for budget deficit see p. 38301 ] . |
| 45 | If you wish to continue or you wish to recreate a nineteenth century corporatist local authority that 's fine . |
| 46 | I wish to present a second petition , signed by many thousands of Scunthorpe district residents . |
| 47 | The pack has been well received , and we intend to produce a second edition early in 1993 . |
| 48 | For our part , we intend to produce a third Update on general SVQs in February 1993 , as well as more informal news and information between now and then . |
| 49 | The second bit I 've seen but I need to see the first bit . |
| 50 | Indeed the need to know about the earlier and later stages of a child 's education becomes imperative when schools have to plan the next stage of learning on the basis of achievement so far , when teachers have to evaluate and — if appropriate — change their own teaching , when parents have to be told in detail how their children are progressing and when LEAs , parents and governors have to have information which allows the performance of the school as a whole to be evaluated . |
| 51 | It means you have to treat the first invoice as an error , and possible invoke the DOCTOR ( which has been with most Sage products for ages ) to correct things , and then go and do it right . |
| 52 | Even if they pass that test they still have to pass the second hurdle of being " in consumer use " when the defect arises . |
| 53 | We have to find the next point of attack and be there first . ’ |
| 54 | GPs will often find themselves in a situation where they are working one day , they are on duty all night , and then have to work the next day as well . |
| 55 | We need to find the next depot today , Oates wrote . |
| 56 | And they have to deposit the first year 's payment at the clinic as soon as they arrive . |
| 57 | And they have to deposit the first year 's payment to the clinic as soon as they arrive . |
| 58 | I have to avoid the last period on the second Friday in October , which is when the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist celebrates ‘ the rich goodness of God 's vegetables ’ . |
| 59 | I have to look a second time |
| 60 | At the Met they also plan to publish the first catalogue of the museum 's costume collection , to take shape gradually as the collection is displayed . |