Example sentences of "they [vb base] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They vow to fight the system in court , if necessary . |
| 2 | On 23 April 1991 the Government announced that they intend to replace the community charge with a new ‘ council tax ’ . |
| 3 | Now they intend to seduce the world with more jazz hip hop , more samples — ‘ Cantaloop ’ itself used six , all from the Blue Note archives , built around Herbie Hancock 's ‘ Cantaloupe Island ’ — and fistfuls of new British talent . |
| 4 | ‘ This will confirm our fears that they intend to rip the soul out of student associations and the NUS , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ This will confirm our fears that they intend to rip the soul out of student associations and the NUS , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Although there are girls who talk glibly of how they intend to reach the top of the women 's professional game by the age of 25 , and from there move on to marriage and a family , the Solheim Cup served as a salutary reminder that no-one should expect quick results . |
| 7 | Although most presidents promise , on taking office , that they intend to re-establish the cabinet as a decision-making body , few seriously try . |
| 8 | They intend to circumscribe the House of Commons by introducing a Scottish Parliament and by devising assemblies for Wales and the English regions . |
| 9 | They intend to run the course as a pay as you play facility , however , they intend to offer a membership scheme so as to accommodate competitions and team matches within the club . |
| 10 | They intend to cross the island and gaze out over the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 11 | The institutions say they intend to raise the equity weighting in their portfolios from under 10% to perhaps 15% by the mid-1990s . |
| 12 | Because Bem and other gender schema theorists assume that rationality and cognitive unity characterize psychological subjects , they tend to see the break-up of gender schemata as hindered by dominant social relations , but still as fairly straightforward in itself . |
| 13 | One disadvantage of general library skills workbooks is that they tend to teach the use of the library and its resources in isolation from other studies . |
| 14 | But before players go out they tend to kick the wall to make sure their boots are on properly . |
| 15 | The use or significance of ‘ stills ’ and long shots in this context is that they tend to lessen the impact of the coverage , making it less attractive and exciting , thus diminishing , so the argument goes , the likelihood of imitation . |
| 16 | The disquieting feature of the pronouncements of the House of Lords is that by flatly insisting upon the literal rule without expressing any qualifications , they tend to repress the use of the traditional tools by which the judges have in the past introduced rationality into the statute law . |
| 17 | They make sure they can do the basics well before experimenting , where in Wales they tend to spin the ball straight away . |
| 18 | By contrast they tend to exaggerate the unacceptability of proposals from the other person , ‘ a derisory offer ’ , ‘ completely unreasonable ’ , ‘ laughable ’ and so on . |
| 19 | They tend to throw the ball rather than kicking it 60 yards up the park . ’ |
| 20 | An example often quoted is that of Bernard Bloch , who defined the style of a text as " the message carried by the frequency distributions and transitional probabilities of its linguistic features , especially as they differ from those of the same features in the language as a whole Such definitions appeal to the empiricist , who would like to reduce a subjectively perceived phenomenon to something objective , but they tend to alarm the student of literature . |
| 21 | So relaxed in Italy , according to one anonymous wag , that they tend to build the house first and apply for planning permission later . |
| 22 | By contraction they tend to compress the segment and are therefore important in respiratory movements . |
| 23 | When they are given a chance to take a big decision about reform they tend to make the right — meaning the most reformist — decision . |
| 24 | Because the prevalent methods of handling seasonality , in particular the use of seasonally adjusted variables , are ad hoc they tend to distort the structure of these models . |
| 25 | However , the AIB inspectors always try to be helpful and provide the coroner with the basic information he needs to establish the cause of death , but nonetheless , they sometimes get little thanks for the efforts they make to assist the coroner and sometimes they are treated in a rather off-hand manner . |
| 26 | Whichever the case , things are so awry that God himself is afraid and immediately jumps to the conclusion that they mean to seize the power that properly belongs to him . |
| 27 | ‘ They want to retain the character of the building , ’ says Nick Wood . |
| 28 | People who come on a timber frame construction course , for instance , will come along because they want to use the technique , perhaps for an extension to their home . |
| 29 | You 've got ta probe and establish the reasons why I 'm gon na talk to him and most people it 's , it 's , it 's a lie , they 're not gon na talk to him , they want to use the accountant as a reason to say oh erm I 'm , I ca n't do it this time the accountant said no or I 've not spoken to him yet I 'll have to put it off for a , for a bit longer |
| 30 | Farmers may have to reduce their herds by up to a quarter if they want to save the country 's forest , the group says . |