Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monetary committee offers to carry out regular checks on ‘ a confidential set of indicators … primarily measures of external competitiveness ’ . |
| 2 | She has three children , one under the age of one , and has to come up four flights of stairs to her home many times a day . |
| 3 | The government has made it known it wants to shake up local administrations by combining all their services under single authorities . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough Council wants to buy up 200 properties to clear the area and make a fresh start . |
| 5 | This section outlines some of the main characteristics of the changes in the international economy over the post-war period and starts to draw out some implications for our understanding of the UK 's position in it . |
| 6 | In choosing , Alsys has to weigh up two objectives : which technology has greater market share and is more attractive to third parties and which technology will be the standard internally at Thomson for engineering . |
| 7 | To see the biblical renewal of liturgy successful in Europe , one still has to seek out certain churches . |
| 8 | To understand this , one has to think along certain lines , about what it means to talk of a sensation being in a certain part of one 's body . |
| 9 | I said that to understand this difficulty one has to think along certain lines . |
| 10 | For him , critical writing has to take up wider issues than enjoyment of a picture or a sculpture . |
| 11 | If weather is very hot … loves to take off all clothes and play with hose . ’ |
| 12 | In brief , he has to step back two generations and undergo what one may call a painful cultural circumcision ( God 's Lively People , Fontana , 1971 ) . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , with virtually all its 19th century industry cleared , Teesside apparently still needs to gobble up green fields . |
| 14 | The award winner in the urban category was Bridgefoot Multi-Storey in Stratford-upon-Avon , which may turn out to be just the attraction the town needs to woo back Shakespeare-mad Americans jumpy about international travel in the wake of the Gulf War . |
| 15 | CENECA plans to carry out similar surveys for women and children . |
| 16 | Sometimes the party in default makes an offer to put things right , e.g. the seller offers to buy back defective goods . |
| 17 | While every organization exists to carry out various programmes it is not necessarily the case that the responsibility structure matches the programme structure . |
| 18 | Every business organisation also has its objects — ie. every business exists to carry out certain activities such as manufacturing and selling motor cars , providing retail services , providing telecommunications services , etc . |
| 19 | Even when psychology recognizes gender differences between psychologists , it tends to pass over other differences . |
| 20 | One of the stores targeted by FoE , the B&Q chain , has announced it intends to phase out all imports of unsustainably-produced tropical timber by 1995 — the target date set by the World Wide Fund for Nature . |
| 21 | The proposed exploratory research intends to follow up these ideas and to establish tentative assessments of these hypotheses so extending our understanding of effective schools and their long term influence . |
| 22 | For every step forward , the institution often seems to slip back two steps . |
| 23 | SoVam Teleport , now part-owned by Cable & Wireless Plc here in London , has established a new packet switching node in Ufa , Bashkirria : the new facility will enable the company to market dedicated communications lines between the city and Moscow , with connections to the rest of the public network ; Ufa is a centre of oil industry enterprises and it is at these customers that SoVam is targeting its new service ; the company also aims to set up new nodes in the cities of Chelyabinsk , Salavat and Sterlitomak in the near future . |
| 24 | The very high quality of the tape recordings also seems to rule out amateur enthusiasts . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , his own doomily titled Millennium Fund aims to spruce up historic sites and buildings in preparation — well , for what : just a date on the calendar , or the day of judgment itself ? |
| 26 | He appears to put off large numbers of potential Labour supporters . |
| 27 | ‘ Messrs. Gould and Gunn set off to-day to the head of the [ Recherche ] Bay to a plain , which appears to run up many miles into the country the hill called South Cape , which presents towards the bay a steep and particularly denuded surface … |
| 28 | Each flower shows a prominent boss of golden stamens , and the tree is tall , slender and evergreen , and seems to shrug off frosty winters , even though some of its leaves get seared . |
| 29 | Depending on how they feel the first time , they may carry on if they enjoy it or if it seems to block out other worries and problems . |
| 30 | I think this is more to do with Wilko 's style than a lack of appreciation of Frankli : he always seems to bring on sub strikers very late in the game . |