Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To prosper , the newspaper needs to attract lots of advertising . |
| 2 | I 'm not afraid of money but occasionally a writer wants to write something for love and for pleasure |
| 3 | Now the question is why , well it 's pretty obvious with some , it 's pretty obvious why Rachel wants to know everything on television in her life , I suppose . |
| 4 | So again we do need to practise coordination it needs to have lots of practice , it is of course frequently affected by certain types of illnesses er and , and again that may be inevitable but again the more past experience you 've acquired and the more , the greater your ability to fight back , even though you 're fighting a losing battle if it 's an illness , can you see it 's going to delay the difficult bit the difficult part longer , you 're going to be able to cope . |
| 5 | She has to get plenty of rest . |
| 6 | Dinner is a noisy affair , Jake wolfs down everything in sight within minutes but Sophie refuses to eat anything except bread . |
| 7 | Yet , thanks to the cumbersome appeals procedure , each execution currently costs between $2m and $5m , four or five times what it costs to keep someone in prison for life . |
| 8 | ‘ He appears to have lots of money — probably why Susanna married him . |
| 9 | On the one hand manipulation means to handle something with skill and on the other to make dishonest changes to suit your purpose . |
| 10 | The president , according to the constitution has the executive power that executive power depends to a large part on the willingness of congress to provide the legal framework moments in which there is harmony and cooperation between president and congress tend to be exceptional rather than er a regular feature of the American system and if er the president manages to get something through congress , you can bet that very quickly the president will face some defeat in congress shortly thereafter to remind the president that the United States does not have , contrary to the popular press , does not have a presidential system of government . |
| 11 | You know , the ones where the killer cauliflower or the deadly cucumber or whatever comes down from Venus in a spaceship and proceeds to devour everybody in sight . ’ |