Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This goes to confirm that the figures shown in Table 11.1 are fairly representative of the industry more generally . |
| 2 | Everyone involved has to realize that the tasks are not relearned in an automatic sequence : the fact that the patient may be able to put on his sweater one day does not necessarily mean that he is immediately able to progress to putting on his trousers — indeed , he may have forgotten how to cope with the sweater the following day . |
| 3 | Yet the counsellor of older people has to realize that the blocks may not necessarily be those current in modern attitudes and beliefs . |
| 4 | As each car approaches the commentator 's microphone the whine of its engine rises , and then starts to fall as the car passes the microphone and moves away round the circuit . |
| 5 | Dave needs to establish whether the track is a Public Right of Way . |
| 6 | An employer has no more power to give orders to an employee than a customer has to demand that a grocer supply goods at a certain price : all a discontented employer can do in practice , just like a customer , is terminate the relationship . |
| 7 | The prosecution no longer has to establish that the complainant resisted . |
| 8 | you understand that the honourable gentleman wants to establish that the government has been extraordinarily dilatory , that er there is a massive delay , there is problem for electoral registration officers because that the regulations , the regulations depend upon a directive . |
| 9 | They may think the experimenter wants to know himself and not realise that he just wants to know whether the child knows the answer . |
| 10 | He also wants to know whether the £40m saving was used to subsidise the tender for the helicopter carrier . |
| 11 | The teacher , while not allowing poor practice , needs to remember that the learner is a learner and needs the opportunity to become proficient . |
| 12 | It is even harder to imagine his reaction , in light of his long imprisonment , to the authoritative comment of The Times on the Bedford Bunyan Festival : ‘ No one cares to remember whether the author of the most fascinating allegory that ever struck despair into the souls of imitators was a Dissenter . ’ |
| 13 | In conclusion , one has to wonder whether the borders are in fact open . |
| 14 | In the meantime , the hole in the road is reopened , and at 6pm the men line up by the side of the maypole , the band starts to play and the command to hoist it on to shoulders is given . |
| 15 | One has to assume that the report will be read critically ( though this may be a rather optimistic view ) . |
| 16 | If the House of Commons is not inclined to accept the Lords amendments , something has to give if the Bill is not to fail . |
| 17 | Equally , he wants to stress that the government should listen to industry and respond to its needs . |
| 18 | The machine keeps increasing the numbers it has to divide but the answer line does not change . |
| 19 | No wonder no-one at Siemens Nixdorf wants to hazard when the company might return to profit . |
| 20 | His rehabilitation — from the leader they could not wait to get rid of because he represented high taxes , inflation and military failure ( over Iran ) , to the president everyone loves to cite as the model elder statesman -has been remarkable . |
| 21 | Because of an appointment or whatever one has to leave before the group as a whole breaks up . |
| 22 | One respondent in the Yorkshire survey summed up the difficulties : ‘ One has to recognise that the pressures on consultants are increasing steadily — workload , management , teaching , financial control , reduction of juniors ’ hours … |
| 23 | Third , since the APB wants to ensure that the debate which it intends the paper to stimulate does not get confined to the Big Six and a few others , it is to go on a whistlestop tour of the country over the next three months , holding discussion meetings with interested parties . |
| 24 | To do this , accepting that many visitors from across the world will probably attend the next World Cup , tempted also by the extraordinarily favourable rates of exchange and despite the problems which may still exist in the country , SARFU has to ensure that the majority of South Africans will have a chance to attend the games if rugby is to lose its elitist ‘ white ’ connotations . |
| 25 | Once the family sessions have begun , the counsellor has to ensure that the family group is maintained , despite the many potentially explosive problems and difficulties that might need to be discussed . |
| 26 | The tribunal has to consider whether the employer acted reasonably in deciding to sack the employee . |
| 27 | Nobody wants to fight and the police only make arrests if we telephone them ourselves to report trouble . |
| 28 | To read with understanding the young reader has to appreciate that a page of six pictures of a bear may not be about six bears but about one bear and , reading from left to right , that one bear at six different moments in time . |
| 29 | It stands to reason that a firm would find difficulty selling advanced microelectronic machinery to a culture with a primitive agriculturally-based economy . |
| 30 | If small groups of say three pupils per microcomputer , the teacher has to decide whether the program will run without intervention . |