Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this article , I want to acknowledge openly a number of tensions that I experience , and which I suspect others may recognise . |
| 2 | People often want to agree today the price of some future payment . |
| 3 | I 'd be glad if you 'd let me know , because we , we want to know yet the numbers , and how many we 're going to get . |
| 4 | The report concluded that : ‘ Most of the advantages appear to benefit directly the builder or developer , whereas the consumer is left with a dwelling which must have some inherent risks , however small . ’ |
| 5 | We expect to contribute now a proportion of our income through sponsorships , events and appeals of ever more exotic and imaginative kinds . |
| 6 | To illustrate this I want to mention briefly a list of ways in which the Milltown Action Team has been able to either increase employment or increase local people 's chances of gaining employment . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to stage either a Scotland versus England international or a British championship by the end of April , ’ said Farr . |
| 8 | While it does seem to be a little less pernicious , in that male respondents less often say that they want to marry only a woman who is a virgin than they used to , it is still alive and well in that women are more often criticized than men for engaging in non-marital sexual activity . |
| 9 | If it 's alright then I 'll come home cos Mr said to me last night , oh you want to stay here the night . |
| 10 | I want to take seriously the suggestion that the sort of inquiry that Quine has in mind could be the heir to traditional epistemology — although I shall not restrict the concerns of the latter to studying the relation of evidence to theory . |
| 11 | I am conscious that we want to improve drastically the standards of laying hens , not just in battery cages but in colony and other systems . |
| 12 | erm secondly , I want to say just a word about an idea that Gould , in particular , and Stanley had been fond of , namely the idea of species selection . |
| 13 | They propose to take away the courts ' most important sanction — the power to take over a union 's assets . |
| 14 | Undergraduate on these courses expect to spend about a year pursuing their chosen discipline in a university elsewhere in Europe . |
| 15 | I understand that the Government propose to introduce shortly a money resolution in association with the Bill . |
| 16 | Manufacturers tend to state only the input wattage especially on mains powered tools , but it is the power at the cutting edge that counts . |
| 17 | UNFORTUNATELY the majority of memorial dedications tend to receive only a fraction of the publicity they deserve . |
| 18 | Within these lines , language and style combine to highlight both the fabliau context and the construction of the character . |
| 19 | Gradually they hope to strip away the disguises and help both partners to understand themselves and each other better and recognize the ways in which they interact . |
| 20 | These ideas were the ‘ promotion of homosexuality and its portrayal as a pretend family relationship ’ , which ‘ seek to alter fundamentally the society in which we live . ’ |
| 21 | But , on the other hand , this perspective produces global strategies which have little purchase on concrete instances , and tend to assume instead the burden of a messianic project in which the enemy is supposedly being smashed , crushed , or stamped out for ever . |
| 22 | I 'm not sure what I like best , I seem to like quite a bit . |
| 23 | A subject I happen to know quite a bit about because we 've got seven and a half million square feet erm in development at the moment in Lutterworth at Magna Park . |
| 24 | Well , I happen to know quite a lot of clever , amusing , wise , energetic old people who are excellent company and among whom are several of my friends . |
| 25 | They seem to talk quite a lot up high in the in their nasal passages . |
| 26 | You seem to do rather a lot of panicking , do n't you ? |
| 27 | They seem to have rather a thing about , I do n't know , nature , ’ he tells Howard . |
| 28 | Mr Outcalt believes that Nordstrom 's shoppers — typically bright , successful types who seem to spend nearly every waking hour with cellular telephones , laptop computers and videos — will accept Nordstrom-style television shopping as readily as they now use bank debit cards to buy their groceries . |
| 29 | Use a steel chisel or bolster to cut away the plaster and brick to a depth of about 35mm |
| 30 | I often rush through reading things and like to read just the summary — then ca n't remember what it said . |