Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | My missus has to buy the kids ' clothes down the jumble sale and if she wants a pair of nylons they come off the Green Shield stamps . |
| 2 | In any case , he has to notify the Drivers ' Medical Branch of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre if he has any kind of disability when he resumes driving . |
| 3 | The next step is in the hands of the hotel 's owners , a construction firm from Halesowen , which wants to build an old-peoples ' home on the site . |
| 4 | In West Germany , every residential facility has to have a residents ' committee by law — this may not work in every case , but it speaks of a different attitude to the residents themselves . |
| 5 | In the meantime the company itends to fight the planners ' decision , to save the £25,000 cost of demolition as well as 16 jobs . |
| 6 | Franco Piro , president of the finance commission in the lower house of Italy 's legislature , plans to investigate the banks ' role in the Federconsorzi fiasco . |
| 7 | Mr Rudkin now plans to ask the contractors ' insurers for a refund . |
| 8 | The company plans to dock the officers ' pay and is threatening disciplinary action . |
| 9 | The sonar appears to disrupt the whales ' navigation system , hampering their migration and search for food . |
| 10 | This level continues the programme of revision and extension in Headway Intermediate , but aims to extend the students ' understanding of English grammar by dealing with more complex tenses and language points such as the perfect tenses and idioms . |
| 11 | The scheme aims to ensure the residents ' economic survival and to maintain or create family units wherever possible . |
| 12 | Their magnetic sense also seems to influence the bees ' comb building . |
| 13 | This helps to improve the exporters ' cash flows and reduce overall debt administrative costs . |
| 14 | If Mr Bulger , the proprietor of the Seagull Hotel , Loathesome-on-Sea , wishes to open a non-residents ' bar at the hotel to attract passing trade , whereas at present the hotel bar is open to residents only , does Mr Bulger require planning permission ? |
| 15 | The current commissioner , Luis Cancel , disputes that version of events , and pledges to place the arts ' economic role at the center of an effort to secure more funding or at least resist further budget cuts . |
| 16 | The mother through her counsel has sought to support the decision of the justices except in so far as it is conceded that the prohibited steps order in relation to the two adults was wrong , and likewise although in the court below the guardian ad litem had reluctantly supported the interim care order , the guardian ad litem today seeks to uphold the justices ' decision . |
| 17 | In practice , as a crowd gathers to watch , success may go to the combatant who manages to engage the onlookers ' , sympathies on his/her side to mobilize others into fighting alongside him/her . |
| 18 | It is well known that the Education ( Schools ) Bill , which seeks to privatise the schools ' inspectorate , is a matter of great controversy . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the objects clause continues to limit the directors ' authority ( as distinct from the company 's capacity ) , though this will only affect a third party who is not in good faith , a requirement which is widely defined . |
| 20 | But enough family likeness remains to make the chimpanzees ' tea-time a most popular attraction in zoos all over the world . |
| 21 | Now , consistent with her previous practice of using Creole for comments in Creole on the other players , she begins to describe the players ' code words in turn — " ( you ) slap down , he says " pin " , he slaps down , he says " needle " , he slaps down he — " . |
| 22 | The government has responded with engineering works to prevent the rivers ' winter and spring floods reaching the marshes ; according to the UN , water has been prevented from reaching up to two-thirds of the marshes this spring . |