Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] to create " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ What happened to Poll ? ’ she asked , determined not to be silenced by Dr Neil Cochrane , and not to allow the ruin of his looks to create any pity for him . |
| 2 | It is as if she has to create an impervious beauty , a mask to conceal the painfully damaged body beneath the clothes , just as her lips are always closed in these photographs to conceal her decayed teeth . |
| 3 | She aims to create a meaningful , personal tribute to the deceased , using favourite poetry and music and the recollections of family and friends . |
| 4 | First he has to create a neutral police force . |
| 5 | At some point in its development it has to create more organized political groups , or convert or capture existing political organizations , which are able to engage directly in a struggle for power and have the capacity to use power when they have gained it in order to reconstruct society . |
| 6 | Wilkinson is aware that many of Bromley 's residents go to central London for testing , so it wants to create a more local service with the help of the health authority 's clinics . |
| 7 | It 's simply that he wants to create a better atmosphere , and show that after all he 's a reasonable man , and we should n't be too hard on him in these days . |
| 8 | For a statute or a past decision poses problems of consistency in strategy only when it has assigned people legal rights that a judge forming a new rule is for some reason powerless to change , rights that would work badly with the new rights he wants to create . |
| 9 | Digital Equipment Corp reports that the state of Kentucky has awarded it a $10m contract to manage and provide technical and other support for state-wide educational reform ; the pact will enable DEC to start implementing a plan it developed as project consultant with the state education department — it plans to create the infrastructure for a state-wide information highway providing equitable access to technology and information throughout eight regional centres , 176 school districts and 1,400 schools across Kentucky ; the state 's public schools were declared unconstitutional in 1989 , primarily because of funding inequities between rich and poor school districts , and the new system is part of a wider plan to overhaul state schools ; it will be a model for other states in the use of technology in education reform . |
| 10 | Vasulka has developed visually compelling techniques , which he uses to create an electronic opera based on 20th century history . |
| 11 | It intends to create a new conservation agency in Scotland to replace the existing Countryside Commission for Scotland and Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland . |
| 12 | All it takes to create a sense of country in your home is a little of your imagination and a lot of inspiration from Allied . |
| 13 | It aims to create a world-wide network of contacts with leading academics and consultants who will contribute to regular international conferences and working parties . |
| 14 | It aims to create a world-wide network of contacts with leading academics and consultants who will contribute to regular international conferences and working parties . |
| 15 | In effect , however , it can not continue to exclude non-Arab states from the security arrangements it hopes to create . |
| 16 | It helps to create a pattern in the subconscious mind so that , as you go about your routine actions , the mind automatically prepares itself for sleep . |
| 17 | By extending a kind of equal opportunities policy to the whole discipline , it tries to create a gender-neutral psychology , ‘ a non-sexist science , a psychology of human behaviour ’ ( Vaughter quoted in Unger 1979 : 24 ) . |
| 18 | Most MPs see the cross-party support for the new Speaker as an omen of a kinder , gentler House , a suitable legislature for the kind of country , ‘ at ease with itself ’ , that John Major has said he wishes to create . |
| 19 | Elonex Plc is to contract manufacturing of its personal computers to Cordata Ltd , described as a new company and not related to the Cor-data Technologies owned by Daewoo Electronics Co : this Cordata is building a £5.5m contract manufacturing plant in Cumbernauld , Scotland , where it expects to create 175 new jobs and make 100,000 personal computers a year , and Elonex will turn its North London plant over to final assembly and testing . |
| 20 | He not only has room in his science for God ; he tries to create God using only some laws of physics , some simplifying assumptions , some outrageous extrapolations , and truly cosmic gall . |
| 21 | It takes longer to make William Shatner look young in the make-up department than it does to create the Klingon look : five hours as compared to four . |
| 22 | More than 1,000 pedigree breeders are involved in the scheme , which is based at Lanaud , near Limoges , and it seeks to create an identity and premium markets for the fine-grained , well-marbled lean Limousin beef : that is , genetic improvement with a commercial objective . |
| 23 | [ … ] The Revolutionary Left since Marx 's time has normally been reluctant to specify in any great detail the nature of the society it seeks to create . |
| 24 | Yet , with its odd mix of introversion and extroversion and overbearing sense that the adult world is conspiring against the youth of today , it manages to create an almost perfect distillation of adolescence . |
| 25 | There is nothing philosophical about this in itself , but it begins to create the habit of mind that begins to take for granted the natural superiority of science and rational thinking . |