Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I intend to concentrate on two issues in the Queen 's Speech — the commitment to continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Railways Board and the commitment to introduce a new council tax and to establish a review of local government structure in England . |
| 32 | Unfortunately , most bureaucracies tend to concentrate on small details , sacrificing the overall picture . |
| 33 | Another criticism is that UK banks tend to concentrate on short-term lending , causing a shortage of long-term funds for investment . |
| 34 | Most referees will tell you that when a new directive comes out on a particular law , referees tend to concentrate on that law , sometimes at the expense of refereeing other laws . |
| 35 | The tendency for current research to make use of multi-disciplinary approaches is increasing , although theses themselves tend to concentrate on smaller units of research . |
| 36 | However , since management courses tend to concentrate on basic tasks and procedures , there is a risk that the much larger matters signalled here will be treated rudimentarily at best . |
| 37 | Slugs tend to concentrate in such refuges , presumably because they give protection from desiccation . |
| 38 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |
| 39 | Those who gossip about him tend to meet with nasty accidents . ’ |
| 40 | Whereas unit production costs tend to benefit from increased volume of production , distribution costs tend to worsen . |
| 41 | Many other countries have announced that they expect to proceed towards democratic elections in the coming year — Angola , Cameroon , Kenya , Liberia , Madagascar , Nigeria , Seychelles and Sierra Leone . |
| 42 | Although a backbencher he is currently the politician the voters most want to see as prime minister . |
| 43 | Suddenly , there facing you , is the person you least want to see at that moment . |
| 44 | We want to go through that line by line so |
| 45 | Where depth counters emerged these were linked to surface perceptions with the spots , for example , stimulating the following response : ‘ There 's spots on there , and I guess that 's another reason why I want to go into that area . |
| 46 | So this letter which refers to our processes in this county council , it 's talking about people who want to go into residential care and to use public money . |
| 47 | But must but I do n't know how much further I want to go along that sort of line . |
| 48 | There are many clinical features in common among these treponematoses and some of them appear to go through similar stages and periods of latency . |
| 49 | You want to abort at that point , oh yeah retry 'll do . |
| 50 | Send to SCIAF for more information . |
| 51 | And I want to apologize for last night , I made an awful ass of myself , I am sorry . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ We have to get back to a position where investors want to invest in unquoted companies and believe they 're still getting a good return , but I do n't think that will be the 30% they might have been promised . ’ |
| 53 | The most important aspect of scanning is that you must have a clear picture of what you expect to see on each instrument . |
| 54 | Many labour markets appear to fall into this category , with wage rates being determined through complex institutional arrangements and bargaining processes which seem to imply that they will be less than fully flexible . |
| 55 | Get you some victims to be included because presumably they want to appeal for more members |
| 56 | ask your Social Secretary office for form AG 5 ( and form AG 1 if you want to claim on low-income grounds and you do not hold a current AG 2 or AG 3 certificate ) , fill them both in and send them where the form tells you . |
| 57 | sure but again I mean if there was a market for this I am sure that to take that and splinter it off into a unit it costs money to get people that want to come into this business |
| 58 | It is important we know how many want to come for each event , so PLEASE CONTACT Val Hawkins ( 453-3366 ) or David Cameron ( 445 1154 ) or sign the list to be circulated , as soon as possible . |
| 59 | ‘ You 've got to have ambition if you want to come to this club . ’ |
| 60 | There 's a special job Preston 's engaged on and I want to come to some arrangement with him — there should be room for both of us — if you would be good enough to tell me when your husband is likely to be back — " |