Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 2 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 3 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 4 | The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems . |
| 5 | So RE needs to attend to encouraging pupils consciously to get beyond just looking for information or entertainment and see that there is a quite different way of looking at things . |
| 6 | It then has to go through regulatory procedures like filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission and Hart-Scott-Rodino which could taken until late March , early April . |
| 7 | Academic libraries may be expected to contain collections of research papers but too often one has to go to public libraries to find valuable collections of records and documents of local interest . |
| 8 | To understand how such an emphasis gained ascendancy in US jurisprudence , one needs to go beyond legal questions to those of history and politics . |
| 9 | With increase in overburden pressure , more stress is placed on the grain to grain contacts and compaction starts to proceed by chemical processes . |
| 10 | In winter , skin has to contend with central heating and cold temperatures ; conditions which can cause even the oiliest of skin types to become dehydrated . |
| 11 | The main contractor has to plan for subcontracted work just as seriously as for his or her own work . |
| 12 | This is understandable as , given the choice , no one wants to go through great suffering or pain . |
| 13 | Shell has stated that it ‘ no longer wants to invest in exploratory mining in Brazil . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose the great Dane Jacobsen never has to search for willing company . |
| 15 | Changing to a vegetarian diet is a big step as the body needs to adjust to different foods and sources of protein and you need to cope with new methods of cooking and shopping . |
| 16 | Mr Clinton may say that he wants to concentrate on domestic policy until he is blue in the face ; the truth of the matter is that in a federal system such single-mindedness will not get him far , because most domestic policy is reserved to state and local governments . |
| 17 | You can imagine my annoyance , then , that a ) there are no fiscal financial incentives whatsoever to encourage more people to cycle , and b ) that my health has to suffer from car-induced pollution although I do not contribute to it myself . |
| 18 | Queen Mary 's Hospital at Sidcup has cancelled all waiting-list surgery for ‘ at least ’ five weeks after more patients than planned were treated in the first five months , producing a £205,000 overspend on top of £200,000 it has to find for under-funded pay awards and other pressures . |
| 19 | And , of course , she is a director of Walter Lassally Productions and has to disappear to exotic places occasionally . |
| 20 | But Leonard is not of that cloth ; his nature is obsessive ; what he does , he must do with abandon ; he has to work in total conviction , and dedication . |
| 21 | Have to has to come into common use before it gets into the dictionary . |
| 22 | We might say that the Nun 's Priest represents a human character standing at the intersection of various areas of human activity and experience mirrored within the text , and that the important attributes of the construct that this character is are not least life and humanity themselves ; the real individual and communal life that has to compromise between animalistic anarchy ( i.e. the fabliau world ? — cf. |
| 23 | If the hon. Member for Wansbeck ( Mr. Thompson ) wants to know about urban regeneration , he should know that the most exciting urban regeneration project probably anywhere in western Europe is that on the river bank in my constituency . |
| 24 | There does need to be some organisation and structure , teachers do need time to organise their classrooms before the start of school and no one really wants to engage in long discussions when there are children to be settled and registers to be marked . |
| 25 | Using a more powerful cocktail of bio-tech moisturisers , Vitamins A and E together with deHydrocholesterol , Time-Complex aims to ‘ re-programme ’ the skin so that it starts to behave with youthful efficiency . |
| 26 | The court may take the view that the responsible person needs to participate in certain activities with the child or on his own . |
| 27 | When a government has to choose between internal priorities and external largesse , selfishness prevails over charity . |
| 28 | It may well be that a particular piece of research needs to focus on selected people for information , and the information gained from them will be fitted together into a coherent and consistent pattern with virtually no percentages and significance tests at all . |
| 29 | She has to look for new friends amongst the ranks of the unattached like herself ; and until she has recovered sufficiently to become interested in organising her social life to the best advantage , her opportunities to continue to enjoy the pleasures of mixed company may be very limited . |
| 30 | He also starts to look for blemished fruit . |