Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 's a huge weight to carry on his wasted muscles . |
| 2 | Since the leu is not yet convertible , shopkeepers have no choice but to pass on their hard-currency costs to the customers . |
| 3 | For he was no landed gentleman like the Larks and the Covington-Pyms who 'd go to any lengths to pass on their noble names . |
| 4 | I am sure that we all want to pass on our good wishes to his wife and family after their terrible ordeal over the past few months . |
| 5 | What you must do , however , is to write down your weekly goals at the beginning of each week . |
| 6 | Those in charge of planning the relocation will need to establish exactly what key tasks need to be carried out , when , and in what order these should be done . |
| 7 | In times like these , insuring your mortgage still makes sense even with tougher conditions imposed — but you need to know exactly what those conditions are . |
| 8 | ‘ Although I admit I 'd like to know exactly what those reasons were . ’ |
| 9 | As the months of his NEA tenure lengthened into years , he sometimes reversed his positions , and even his supporters found it difficult to know just which problematic grants he would end up supporting , and which he would finally reject . |
| 10 | Speaking to the NATO Council the following day Havel recognized that " our country can not become a regular member of NATO for the time being " but called on NATO not to exclude permanently its democratic neighbours . |
| 11 | It is important , you remember , for a bird to pull off his own ticks , but he can not reach the top of his own head and needs a companion to do that for him . |
| 12 | However , virtually all the proposed HDTV standards mean that consumers will have to write off their existing televisions and buy new sets in order to receive HDTV . |
| 13 | It is often a good idea to write up your own notes of a disciplinary interview immediately afterwards . |
| 14 | Perhaps that contributed to his good looks , thought Charles , and bent to pull up his wrinkled socks as Dimity had told him . |
| 15 | It gives scope for the hobby-electronics enthusiast to try out his own ideas , and for those who do n't the design as it stands provides a useful power supply unit . |
| 16 | We do n't like the orthodox approach — but what right do we have to try out our home-grown experiments on other people 's children ? |
| 17 | We ran up to the firing range one morning to try out our destructive techniques for real . |
| 18 | When he next spoke it was about something trivial , and Alyssia replied in the same vein , stifling the burning curiosity to find out what dark secrets he was keeping behind that controlled face of his . |
| 19 | It is important to find out what raw materials a product uses . |
| 20 | Numerous archaeological sites are already known and have been recorded ( although often not investigated in any detail ) , so the first task is to find out what these sites are . |
| 21 | We 'll be limited in our ability to find out what these Trusts are doing with public money , what they 're doing er er in su su what they 're doing er i i i in support of , support of patients . |
| 22 | To find out what potential customers think of Foodbase , we asked Steve to set up stall in a local health food shop . |
| 23 | But unions at Corporate Jets point out they have no such assurances and are anxious to have a meeting with Raytheon to find out their long-term plans . |
| 24 | Collocates appear in the language column , helping students to find out which other words commonly occur with the headword |
| 25 | Sometimes a number of ideas are researched to find out which most appeals to potential buyers . |
| 26 | There are clever conceptual numbers like Scenes From the Class Struggle In Beverley Hills , which has director Paul Bartel visiting the censor to find out which risqué jokes he can keep in . |
| 27 | But unions at Corporate Jets point out they have no such assurances and are anxious to have a meeting with Raytheon as soon as possible to find out its long-term plans . |
| 28 | Equally , as with insulation for example , you will need to work out what long-term savings you could effect by taking the plunge now . |
| 29 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 30 | One of the most exciting developments in recent years has been the degree of convergence between models of visual function built up by computer scientists trying to figure out how to build machines that can see and physiologists trying to work out what different parts of the visual system do . |