Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | tenant of area of sea has right to sue for nuisance where pollution killed larvae even though at the time they were killed , tenant had not acquired a proprietary right of action . |
| 2 | One is driven to the conclusion that here , too , the charge has most to do with symbolism . |
| 3 | By the means/ends equation , I mean the assumption that what the learner has eventually to achieve by way of language ability should determine what he does in the process of acquiring that ability . |
| 4 | A shrewd theologue said that personality has all to do with function . |
| 5 | It is a faith that believes it has only to ask in order to receive : e.g. in the cure of the leper ( Mark 1:40–5 ) . |
| 6 | One has only to travel by train from the north-east of England to see the land which has been set aside , squeezed between the railway lines , to realise what the farmers are doing . |
| 7 | On this basis he may by all means erect a system of imperatives logically interrelated with statements of objective fact , and elaborate it to any degree of complexity he pleases , but to confirm or correct it he has always to return to subjectivity , to his own spontaneity in the concrete situation . |
| 8 | One has always to bear in mind that for very many people in early-modern England — in the towns as much as in the countryside — the home was also the place of work . |
| 9 | In one case , which has still to come to trial , it is not clear which hat the salesman was wearing when he made his deals : his own or the life company 's . |
| 10 | One needs also to take into account implicit dimensions , for these are very much a part of the rhetorical structure of attitudes . |
| 11 | THOSE who feel Lord Arran has little to say about agriculture must now change their opinion of the Minister who has also to look after health matters in the province . |
| 12 | The young person who , unfortunately , reaches the age of 16 after July 2 has now to return to school for another year and will be almost 17 years of age whenever they leave . |
| 13 | I have had regular and extensive contact and dealings with the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service as an ordinary Member who has regularly to deal with immigration matters . |
| 14 | The irony of it is this : events will show that he has no need to pray for deliverance from Esau ; he needs instead to pray for deliverance from God . |
| 15 | We 're midway through Act II and a solitary six-pack has yet to hove into view . |
| 16 | Fortunately for his pectorals and his cranium , Mr Stallone has yet to fall in love with a woman who likes men with small busts and large brains . |
| 17 | Deane has yet to score at home ! |
| 18 | The device is called the Microdrive , but it has yet to go on sale , and in any case will be based on a tape rather than a disc . |
| 19 | Arnold himself conducted it on an EMI recording of 1980 , but sadly that has yet to appear on CD . |
| 20 | At the time of going to press he is taking action but the action has yet to come to trial . |
| 21 | In the glow of this new power , erotic love and spiritual love are somehow conflated ( in a way that seems finally to overcome for Prince the apparent mutual antagonism between sensuality and righteousness that has hitherto perplexed him ) . |
| 22 | With a government that appears consciously to thrive on discord , and which has no policy on crime other than the obviousness of its being evil , the central role of the police has been inevitable . |
| 23 | 7 ¾ mile later , track bends right to descend between forest walls . |
| 24 | WORDPERFECT PLAYS HARD TO GET ON ISSUE OF ITS INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING |
| 25 | CW intimated he wishes eventually to move to bar-coding of Library stock to facilitate loans , and the same technology will suffice for both Horticultural and Library purposes . |
| 26 | Safety technology — both active and passive — is now a significant selling point , and one that promises only to increase in importance . |
| 27 | The author does well to illustrate by quotation from the Philosophie Zoologique Lamarck 's own conception of Lamarckism — and it is interesting that Lamarck 's first and second laws are by no means incompatible with Darwinism . |