Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Much of what business needs to carry out new information strategies is simply not being provided , he says ; ‘ most organisations are going through an architectural crisis at the moment due to the absence of strategic planning and management . ’ |
| 3 | If you 're willing to go down the route to drag hunting I am willing to support any hunt that wants to go down that route and I am sure this authority would . |
| 4 | ‘ Anything going in or out of the valley has to pass along this road . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The government has made it known it wants to shake up local administrations by combining all their services under single authorities . |
| 7 | Hodge commented in a letter to Goodfellow , ‘ The old man has made a lot of unfortunate statements … he wants to set up separate government now and drive Russians out … |
| 8 | Middlesbrough Council wants to buy up 200 properties to clear the area and make a fresh start . |
| 9 | ‘ Anybody who wants to help out that way can come along and see the kids for themselves . |
| 10 | Melvyn Hayes played the younger son who wants to give up technical college and the chance of a job as an engineer so that he can fulfil his literary ambitions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When the second parent dies , the family has to share out any money and possessions . |
| 14 | To see the biblical renewal of liturgy successful in Europe , one still has to seek out certain churches . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I said that to understand this difficulty one has to think along certain lines . |
| 17 | ‘ One has to lay down some ground rules for any work of art . |
| 18 | For him , critical writing has to take up wider issues than enjoyment of a picture or a sculpture . |
| 19 | It has to take up private time — and at home . |
| 20 | ‘ For love is something so positive , so strong , so real , ’ he wrote exultantly to Theo , ‘ that it is as impossible for one who loves to take back that feeling as it is to take his own life . ’ |
| 21 | If weather is very hot … loves to take off all clothes and play with hose . ’ |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , with virtually all its 19th century industry cleared , Teesside apparently still needs to gobble up green fields . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | CENECA plans to carry out similar surveys for women and children . |
| 26 | Now Argyll plans to drum up more business with in-store dry cleaners and post offices . |
| 27 | Last Saturday — Father Christmas arrives to switch on festive Christmas lights |
| 28 | He also plans to take out full-page newspaper advertisements , listing the names and telephone numbers of all the members of the Knesset who opposed repealing the law . |
| 29 | In October 1989 Shanmugam Jayakumar , the Home Affairs Minister , outlined in Parliament plans to phase out religious education in Singapore 's schools . |
| 30 | Sometimes the party in default makes an offer to put things right , e.g. the seller offers to buy back defective goods . |