Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is notable that the one country which stands to lose most by free competition in labour is Germany , where labour and social costs are highest . |
| 2 | It would appear to be an astonishingly generous offer to the game in this country , given that the only person who stands to lose out of such a venture is Lloyd himself . |
| 3 | ‘ League points are still important to us and nobody wants to miss out at this stage of the season . ’ |
| 4 | If your equipment has to go outside on open roads or gravelled surfaces , remember castors are not always suitable . |
| 5 | To discover why Lindsey chose this particular aircraft from among many other types that were available , one has to go back to 1967 and Lindsey 's purchase of the ‘ Me 108 ’ . |
| 6 | That figure needs to go up by twenty-six thousand to read nought point two three one million , and what 's left needs to go down by twenty-six thousand at ten one one four o million . |
| 7 | If Prince Charles wants to go on in this exhorting role , he has to understand architecture . ’ |
| 8 | No , she wants to go up to that playgroup ! |
| 9 | He says the crossing patrol has poor visibility because of parked cars and the lollipop lady has to weave in between stationary vehicles . |
| 10 | The problems are not all one-sided , however , as it may be that a supplier of equipment or software has to fall back on contractual remedies . |
| 11 | In the process of this the Commission has to work closely with national governments , and so it is clearly desirable that domestic and EC law should be mutually consistent . |
| 12 | My husband suffered a stroke two years ago which has left him partially sighted , but he loves to meet up with old colleagues . |
| 13 | steel stock holder there , there is in fact er , a , a wood saw , there 's also a shed manufacturer and also a clear waste of Thetford also uses that , there are large houses , erm in there and all that traffic has to trundle along through residential areas , again onto er onto public routes , er indeed also in fact Pengate Road is very unattractive looking er settlement , if I can use that expression , so for Weeting my proposals would in fact disguise that by embankment and by tree planting , in fact I think that Weeting would gain considerably and it 's these sort of things which we will press upon your vote to draw their attention not just the |
| 14 | Somebody has to stand up to these scum . ’ |
| 15 | It is not advisable to give the dog free run of the car , however , simply because it could damage the interior , by scratching the upholstery , for example , if it wants to come out at first light before you are awake . |
| 16 | the hypertext system needs to work directly with other tools . |
| 17 | Has to come in like this ? |
| 18 | Such a grammar needs to be appropriate to the audience that is to use it , its content needs to be appropriate to the culture of the people whose language is to be learnt , and it needs to progress smoothly from one topic to another . |
| 19 | One needs to listen carefully to any client , but older people may be more reticent about disclosure to a stranger . |
| 20 | The largest companies have drawn up a criteria which demand inter alia that new book purchases must be based on a stock turn of one year ( in other words , the whole print run has to sell out within one year of US publication ) and that the projected gross margin must not be less than 50% . |
| 21 | Onshore winds and waves lead to the piling up of water near the shore , and this water has to escape seawards in one way or another . |
| 22 | If trust is to establish itself again , it has to do so by such devious and long-winded means , and it has to use the tools of its antitype . |
| 23 | I s'pose now we has to put up with young Doctor Lovell dashing in and out again before you can tell him what ails you . ’ |
| 24 | Laughton has had no luck with injuries but every coach has to put up with that . |
| 25 | It is not within the scope of this book to offer a full account of the development of socialist realism in France , yet the point that needs to emerge clearly at this stage is that contemporary hostile assessments are themselves a product of a post-Stalinist epoch reacting violently against the crude excesses of Cold War politics and cultural policy . |
| 26 | Likud has consistently argued that it wants to deal only with local inhabitants of what it calls Judea and Samaria ( the West Bank and Gaza ) . |
| 27 | Within the limitations imposed by his hosts and his own inhibitions and scruples , the anthropologist has to mix in with local society and become the life and soul of the party . |
| 28 | Sometimes it is tempting for an engineer to become so preoccupied with his own problems in an investigation , particularly if he needs to delve deeply into one particular feature or component that has failed , that he loses sight of the ultimate objective — to establish the cause of the accident . |
| 29 | Kruger favours pen-based machines because he says they make life easier for the user — all he needs to do is ring the bit of text he wants to file away for future reference , and his computer will store it away on hard disk . |
| 30 | If the Church is to keep its teenagers , especially , it has to compete successfully with many other attractions and activities which appeal to the young . |