Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown Owl needs to lose a few feathers for the summer |
| 2 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 3 | ‘ And anyway , ’ whispered another voice , and one that was rather more matter-of-fact because it was her own , ‘ there 's a young eagle out there called Creggan who needs to know a few things if he 's going to survive and be free . ’ |
| 4 | Then someone else wants to buy the same book — what do you do ? |
| 5 | As Montag begins to realise how wrong his community is , he starts to steal a few books rather than burn them all . |
| 6 | who comes two years later when he has to do the same price again and it costs him money or her . |
| 7 | And she wants to do the same things as us . |
| 8 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 9 | Now Sir Colin has to spread the same degree of charm throughout BA 's expanding empire . |
| 10 | They 're just confirming that not everyone has to sing the same song . |
| 11 | Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below . |
| 12 | To be equivalent to this , an investment in a two-year bond has to yield the same amount , implying that the current two-year rate is rs 2 = 7 per cent : 100(1.07) 2 = 114.49 . |
| 13 | B has to achieve the same end result by using materials available in the early nineteenth century , e.g. |
| 14 | When I was at school , we used to take it in turns to visit a former pupil , a woman in her twenties , who lay in hospital incurably handicapped . |
| 15 | Flushed by success in selling homes in the slump , Pidgeley now plans to perform the same miracle in the recession-bashed commercial property sector . |
| 16 | of the District Council which happens to meet the same day as the County Council and the Economic Development Panel so if I can get a copy fast enough I will get one over here and that same week it will be formally preserved |
| 17 | issued in 1604 : it happens to use the same fount of music type as the Select Songs in the Fairy Queen , and it occupies two and a half pages : it could not have been squeezed onto two . |
| 18 | If you 've spare people or even just another pair of hands , you ring their second numbers as well just to block the lines and it never hurts to put a few idiot inquiries through to the dealing house main switchboard . ’ |
| 19 | Paul plans to use the same system this time . |
| 20 | Having grown up a northerner , I make no apologies for saying that I do not regard myself as a southerner who happens to live a few miles up the road . |
| 21 | It is what it is , it 's just another record that happens to have the same people on it as ‘ Harvest ’ … |
| 22 | But you could have er , be er could now be referring to a different row that happens to have the same numbers in . |
| 23 | Inner Cities Minister Sir George Young announced that plans to develop the former Herculaneum Dock in south Liverpool will get government backing . |
| 24 | Federal Express now plans to follow the same approach with other customers . |
| 25 | Theoretically , we might expect this to be so , since the same environment tends to support the same kind of organisms , but in fact the persistence of some fossils appears to go far beyond what we know at the present day . |
| 26 | Unfortunately this is the least glamorous of any of the activities of a busy public relations office and it tends to receive the least attention . |
| 27 | The alternative name for a close relation , Hamburg parsley , is turnip-rooted , the root being the part for which it is grown , and ordinary parsley tends to follow the same root pattern . |
| 28 | An education report that appears to support the former theory is a pussyfooting piece of dangerous nonsense , says John Rae . ’ |
| 29 | One of these young males , hardly 2″ yet , appears to cherish the same hope — he is almost fully coloured and busily chasing the females . |
| 30 | Interestingly , Eysenck ( 1977 ) seems to encounter the same kind of problem . |