Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why then should anyone want to conserve examples of modern architecture ? |
| 2 | The plans , expected to include cuts in some minister 's budgets , will be revealed in the chancellor 's autumn statement next week . |
| 3 | A suspicious customs man asked to see Melms swing his 6-iron when he arrived in Britain for a ‘ golfing holiday . ’ |
| 4 | These reservoirs behave as imperfectly elastic containers , expanding and contracting to accommodate fluxes of melt . |
| 5 | The General Public Utilities ( GPU ) , which operated the station when a faulty valve badly damaged the reactor core in 1979 , had alleged that Babcock and Wilcox , the manufacturers , failed to issue warnings about known deficiencies in its pressurised water reactors . |
| 6 | He is claiming that Imperial Tobacco failed to issue warnings about the health hazards when he started smoking 30 years ago . |
| 7 | WWF is calling on the Government to fulfil a pledge made to the Lords that the licences granted to suppliers will be amended to include provisions for penalties to be imposed . |
| 8 | Classes of assets to which the roll-over provision apply should be amended to include shares in family companies . |
| 9 | Staff working in centres in which facilities for attempted suicide patients are developed should endeavour to monitor trends in the behaviour in their area . |
| 10 | To coincide with the study 's publication , the council renewed its call for the Data Protection Act to be amended to enable individuals to see any file on them kept by the league . |
| 11 | The watchdog chemist should be well placed to spot abuses such as this . |
| 12 | No power was given to conduct investigations on its own and it had to advertise in the local press for information to be brought to it . |
| 13 | Andy , do you want to borrow Streets of Rage two ? |
| 14 | The Whole Curriculum ( 1975 ) and The Practical Curriculum ( 1981 ) both sought to alert teachers to the complex issues that have to be taken into account in whole curriculum planning , but both eschewed the provision of ready-made answers . |
| 15 | They can be partitioned to accommodate ferrets singly or in multiples as necessary . |
| 16 | Rycroft argues against relegating so much of our mental life to the status of pathology , preferring to liken dreams to waking imaginative activity , such as creative writing . |
| 17 | Those texts are not intended to promote students ' engagement and critical thinking but , instead , are intended to initiate students into the culture of the scientific discipline in question . |
| 18 | Allegedly the money was a back-hander to the PSI for helping to arrange loans . |
| 19 | But institutional ownership is not proving ideal for economies , because fund managers are poorly placed to monitor firms . |
| 20 | International Relations theorists too tend to treat states which seem not to be power-maximizers either as unimportant or as maximizing power in their own eyes and according to their own ideas . |
| 21 | One year 's notice was given to enable schools to get the records into order . |
| 22 | Batty , who watched Blackburn 's disappointing goalless home League Cup draw with third division Shrewsbury Tuesday night , added : ‘ I have enjoyed eight good years at Leeds but I can see that Blackburn intend to go places . |
| 23 | The social security system was , at first , principally intended to support pensioners and , although the numbers have increased during the last forty years , the main increases in those claiming supplementary benefit ( now renamed income support , have been the unemployed and single parents ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 24 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 25 | ‘ Thank you , Rosie , ’ Nanny said to her subordinate , before calling for a way through the throng of servants who had gathered to see hounds move off . |
| 26 | A total of 62% of firms said they expected to lose clients through business failures over the next 12 months , the largest area of concern ; 54% named cash flow as an area of concern , while 47% named staff overheads and 38% property overheads . |
| 27 | Further information on programmes which have so far been developed to enable students to gain entry to Higher Education can be obtained from the Scottish Wider Access Programme ( SWAP ) — see page 22 . |
| 28 | About 10 per cent of solicitors — around 6,000 — might want to conduct cases in the higher courts , Mr David Ward , president of the Law Society , has estimated . |
| 29 | I mean I du n no whether it 's because they do n't want to lose votes or you know I mean they they were there sort of pontificating about we should all come little children and let's talk . |
| 30 | Remarkably , when she was given ungrammatical sentences to repeat , she often produced a grammatically correct version : she repeated ‘ She write she mother a letter ’ as ‘ She wrote her mother a letter ’ , and ‘ Do you want to go movies ? ’ as ‘ Do you want to go to the movies ? ’ . |