Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [vb base] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A members ' voluntary liquidation usually happens because a company 's shareholders want to close down the business and get their money back . |
| 2 | Abreu 's strategies appear to rule out such renegotiation possibilities — an agreement is made once and for all and can never be reopened . |
| 3 | They may not all want to leave the Soviet Union ( indeed , whatever shape it takes in the future , Mr Yeltsin 's Russia will expect to be leader of the pack ) , but neither do the union 's supporters want to hand back the new economic and political freedoms that they have won . |
| 4 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 5 | Sotheby 's Publications continue to bring out the volumes on Alexej von Jawlensky with the Catalogue raisonne of the oil paintings , Vol. 3 , 1934–37 ( £175 ) . |
| 6 | If there 's no time to summon your child 's friends round to join in , invite Teddy . |
| 7 | The evening 's proceedings struggle to match up to Jesse 's performance . |
| 8 | It 's an outside chance — but all the more reason why Mrs Friel 's daughters want to find out more about the treatment their mother received . |