Example sentences of "they [vb base] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People can see how across there Israeli politicians fight each other in parliament , and in Greece they bring to account a corrupt prime minister . ’ |
| 2 | Guillaume ( 1984 : 120ff ) shows that all substantives , adjectives , adverbs and verbs are inherently predicative because they bring to mind a lexical notion which has to be said about something in order for the word to perform its function in discourse . |
| 3 | I have just received information from the above-named group that they intend to hold a study day on the Snailbeach District Railway on Saturday 11th September . |
| 4 | Above all it is important for the staff planning groups to decide what ‘ interdisciplinary ’ work or topic work will actually mean for the learner in practice , and choice will depend in part on the school 's view of the ‘ whole picture ’ spread across quite long periods of time , with the teachers planning carefully how they intend to create a balanced curriculum over weeks and months . |
| 5 | In addition , they intend to lease a horse to run in the race and this should provide a novel angle if nothing else . |
| 6 | The Directors of AW announce that , in the absence of unforeseen circumstances , they intend to announce a final dividend of not less than 6.5p per share in respect of the financial year ending 31 December 1985 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They intend to keep a tight grip on the demand for the bread and butter work boots , worn by thousands of postmen and bobbies on the beat . |
| 9 | IBM and Motorola expect to be producing PowerPCs in the millions starting next year , and they intend to capture a 20% market share in 1996 or 30% to 40% of the desktop market . |
| 10 | A collection was made for Ian and his wife Jeanette by all the companies in the Engineering Services Division , with which they intend to buy a painting . |
| 11 | If they intend to make a zombi of her , they will do it there . ’ |
| 12 | Have you , Mr. Speaker , had any intimation from Ministers that they intend to make a statement , today or in the very near future , that would at least enable the House to question Ministers about that meeting and to show that , even if Ministers have no solution to offer , the Opposition have ? |
| 13 | He adds that ‘ the natives of Mull are very careful to chew a piece … especially when they intend to have a drinking bout ’ . |
| 14 | If they intend to have a go , it 'll take weeks to organize , but that does n't matter . |
| 15 | Right wing soldiers in the Philippines have written to national newspapers saying they intend to launch a bloodless coup against President Corizon Aquino , and to replace her with a military junta . |
| 16 | They intend to build a socialist state , and the revolution which they have begun is irreversible . |
| 17 | Along the way they intend to write a book of their experiences , most of which will undoubtedly be totally unprintable . |
| 18 | In order to override that , they intend to introduce a statutory instrument . |
| 19 | It is strange , therefore , that in this Queen 's Speech the Government say that they intend to introduce a new Local Government Finance Bill to abolish what they did in 1987-88 . |
| 20 | They intend to introduce a shift towards preventative medicine and will bring back the free eye test and dental check ups axed by the Conservatives . |
| 21 | In consequence , they tend to see a simple one-to-one relation between attitudes , interests , and group organisation , and so they take the interest group world as a given that arises " naturally " in a way that calls for no complicated explanation . |
| 22 | Not only are British managers outstandingly good at adapting to foreign countries , but they tend to leave an equally indelible imprint when they have gone . |
| 23 | In Dicey 's words it meant that ‘ whenever men act in concert for a common purpose they tend to create a body , which from no fiction of law but from the very nature of things , differs from the individuals of whom it is constituted . ’ |
| 24 | Moreover they tend to serve an audience of converts , who already have some basic understanding and who are sufficiently interested to want to know more . |
| 25 | They tend to receive an unsatisfactory education , harbour poor employment prospects and have few ways of creating a positive self-concept . |
| 26 | ‘ Michael had a lot of lunches , and in New York they tend to ask a man on his own , ’ she said . |
| 27 | And in the first day of life they tend to sleep an awful lot , right , so newborns tend to be sleepy and inactive and the things that , that wake babies up and warm them are feeding , crying , limb movement . |
| 28 | They te it , they tend to do a lot like in the holidays and half term , when they can get together , because obviously there are other demands on them with Brownies and Guides and stuff like that . |
| 29 | It is generally agreed by the plethora of studies made of the phenomenon that : ( a ) they have been rapidly growing ; ( b ) they are most common in Europe ( see Table 7.4 ) ; ( c ) they are strongly related to the upper income bracket ( Bielckus et al , 1972 ) ; ( d ) they are concentrated in the more scenically attractive areas , and within these a contagious process can lead to further concentration ( Thissen , 1978 ) ; ( e ) they tend to form a further ripple of urbanization beyond the immediate commuter belt of big cities ( Boyer , 1980 ) ; and ( f ) they are also relatively and increasingly absolutely important in upland and mountainous areas ( Cribier , 1973 ) . |
| 30 | Often the councillors are the same people who have gone to live in the pleasanter parts of rural England for peace and quiet , and they tend to take a dim view if local farmers apply for licences to run money-earning , but intrusive , leisure pursuits such as motor bike scrambling , model aeroplane clubs , clay pigeon shooting , go-carting and jet skiing . |