Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retix Inc , Santa Monica , California says it has developed an Open Systems Interconnection-compliant distributed transaction processing communications manager , which enables different transaction processing monitors to communicate and interoperate with each other . |
| 2 | The most harmful effects are that groups develop competing or conflicting goals , and lose their ability to communicate and cooperate with one another , |
| 3 | Others were running wild , frightened of human contact and impossible to catch and treat for many days . |
| 4 | They start behind men in certain ways because of the sort of training they are getting in school , in the home I mean , and in so many respects I think schools have to try and compensate for that . |
| 5 | to try and finish for half past twelve if we can . |
| 6 | I 'm going to try and manage without that er support on my arm today . |
| 7 | I mean I said to him oh er what he 's really got to get really is a cooker erm cos I said to him , I , I said to him if you really want to try and move in next week then you have n't got another week 's money to pay for that , you know |
| 8 | And this is what I am going to try and do on this course . |
| 9 | ‘ I am working hard to try and build on this and so far we have about 16 corporate members . |
| 10 | But when the dickie birds sing in the trees I think we ought to try and sing like these . |
| 11 | It is in this setting that I want to try and talk about Moral Re-Armament . |
| 12 | I would therefore urge people to try and talk about these kinds of things before the situation arises because this can avoid so much misery later on . |
| 13 | Erm the J C one we 'll have to try and deal with that again as a separate issue but I do n't , I mean the amount of time we 're losing from high levels of sickness we talked about a c couple of meetings or so ago , about the absence levels with some people , we 've just got ta make sure we crack that on the head , we 're just haemorrhaging money , the fact that it is not just hours it 's money . |
| 14 | For a department within C U and er we 've done this design on it , and come up with a new system , that we want to try and sell to other departments within the company . |
| 15 | There has always been this tendency over here to try and save on public spending , ’ says Professor Greve . |
| 16 | I used to try and act in straight plays but I was so bad they made me act with my back to the audience . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's why I intend to try and stick in this country . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's why I intend to try and stick in this country . |
| 19 | However , if you take characters like Lysander and Demetrius in A Midsummer-Night 's Dream , it 's obvious , even to me , that it would be ridiculous to try and look for complex psychology and motivation in them , you know . |
| 20 | However , if you take characters like Lysander and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , it 's obvious , even to me , that it would be ridiculous to try and look for complex psychology and motivation in them . |
| 21 | And if you 're going to try and look inside one of these things then you 're going to have to use very high energy particles , which in quantum physics means something that is very short wavelength that you can actually look inside , and when you look inside these things by , say , scattering electrons from them , very high energy electrons , it appears that inside a proton and inside a neutron is mainly again just free space , and there are other point like objects inside these particles , and these objects are know as quarks . |
| 22 | Self-esteem or pride gives the horse confidence to try and get what it wants or needs ; and success increases the horse 's confidence further so it may dare to try and win against greater odds — whether it be stronger horses , an adverse environment , or dominant people . |
| 23 | Various funding agencies including Sight Savers are promoting integrated education enabling blind and sighted children to accept and adjust to each other . |
| 24 | The history of Judaism provides an example of how an organised religion can completely fail to live up to its promises and yet be stubbornly adhered to , its followers being prepared to accept and support with blind acceptance , whatever excuses or explanations are offered for those failures by the hierarchy . |
| 25 | If they do , it is thought unwise to allow them to come and settle in this country by and large . |
| 26 | He was aware that Members had to come and go at irregular intervals at the behest of their lords and masters when the House was in session , but he feared the worst . |
| 27 | Hopefully Oldham will prove me right … that SHOULD be an ok game as they are too crap to come and defend for 90 mins , so might try and attack us ( especially as its on the box ) . |
| 28 | In short , not only does the user have a better time , the support desk gets far fewer calls to come and deal with apparent equipment failures . |
| 29 | MO 9 had plans to raise 10 Commandos , each with 10 50-man Troops , and called for volunteers for unspecified hazardous duties who must also be prepared to work and train for longer hours than regular formations . |
| 30 | Given the substantial changes in the economic , political , and business environment of large firms over the past two decades , a critical factor affecting the relative competitive position of British firms must be the capability of firms to adjust and adapt to major changes in the environments and thereby improve their competitive performance . |