Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it can happen that the momentum of the previous plan ( or previous chief executive ) is still pulling in one direction whilst the new plan ( or chief executive ) wants to go in the other direction . |
| 2 | Or flinging on high its smoke rings to fade in the pale blue sky . |
| 3 | Not because of the new-found fame , the cash she 's pocketed or the car she stands to win in the national finals . |
| 4 | By now , in contrast , the summary of the six points is very much what school management has to cover in the practical arrangement for giving assurances about , and for controlling , quality . |
| 5 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 6 | Andy Mutch says every young lad wants to play in the top league and he is looking forward to it . |
| 7 | Teachers , too , are assumed by some of the proponents of opting out not to care whether the school , with a changed status , has to buy in the traditional services of local advisers , librarians or in-service training . |
| 8 | The transmitted message contains details of all that the satellite has to do in the next period , in particular to implement the survey . |
| 9 | Andrew quotes a simple example as a note of warning : ‘ Anyone who is two stones overweight — and one in three people fall into this category — has to put in the extra effort equivalent to carrying seven bags of sugar in each hand — all the time ! ’ |
| 10 | Her father has to sleep in the same room since he has to attend to her during the night when she may need a bed pan up to four times . |
| 11 | Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course . |
| 12 | I do n't have a great deal of sympathy for his argument , since the BBC has to live in the real world like everyone else . |
| 13 | By spotlighting Hemingway 's taciturn blacks , the shadowy , subdued figures in Faulkner , or the insubstantial and sketchy figure of Willa Cather 's slave in Sapphira and the Slave Girl , Morrison reveals blackness as the boundary , the context that defines the ‘ mute ’ and ‘ frozen ’ world of whiteness : ‘ Suddenly I saw the bowl , the structure that transparently ( and invisibly ) permits the ordered life it contains to exist in the larger world . ’ |
| 14 | We are improving what the employment service has to offer in the new integrated offices , as all hon. Members who have been to see them will know . |
| 15 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 16 | When the weather starts to improve in the New Year , note that we have , by popular request , another talk by Graham Vincent , and talks by John Massey and our own member Len Davies . |
| 17 | Moderator the counter motion is in section four as it stands to stop in the second line after the word commentary . |
| 18 | Consideration of the process of transition needs to begin in the early years of secondary education . |
| 19 | It has not shifted the old Labour image and habits towards the new kind of social-democratic space that has begun to emerge in some European countries , and which represents the only real alternative for the left that wants to govern in the next post-Maastricht decade . |
| 20 | To gain an understanding of the persistence and excellence of black sportsmen , the analysis has to begin in the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | A second important difference is that if he misses his place in a routine he will be totally lost , whereas if he happens to go in the wrong direction while using a map he is still able to make whatever correction is necessary . |
| 22 | They will be incorporated into an exposure draft on off balance sheet finance , which the ASB plans to issue in the near future . |
| 23 | Visix is currently recruiting for a UK subsidiary it plans to open in the next two months . |
| 24 | The sociologist of religion does not , however , want to stop with what happens to emerge in the relaxed situation of apparently normal conversation . |
| 25 | Apart from exhibitions from its stock of artists such as Mary Cassatt , Maurice Prendergast and John Singer Sargent , which Adelson plans to hang in the new gallery , a show of contemporary sculptor Jim Ritchie will be on from 12 November to 5 December . |
| 26 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 27 | There are times when prejudice only contributes to conflict in the narrow band of outlook and experience where that prejudice exists . |
| 28 | If we are carrying out the valuation of a private company which intends to float in the foreseeable future it should be borne in mind that the flotation will make the shares marketable . |
| 29 | I hope the majority of regular readers of this column appreciate a broad spectrum of modern , popular music styles ; after last month 's metal mayhem , we now have Martin Rooms of Leicester to thank for requesting an article on the track One Of Us from the album ‘ The Visitors ’ by one of the purest pop acts to emerge in the last 20 years , ABBA . |
| 30 | Whatever the government allows in due course by way of contingency arrangements which it intends to permit in the first instance in personal injury cases , it is unlikely to sweep away the need for Legal Aid . |