Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the company wants to increase the number of cars it sells in the UK rather than maximise profits , that is likely to mean price cuts . |
| 2 | Should the local planning authority determine that the proposals do constitute or involve development , it has to inform the applicant of grounds on which it has reached this decision and also his rights of appeal . |
| 3 | With pants , as with many clothes , she has to know the difference between things that are nearly the same — like large waist holes and smaller leg holes — and then match them to her body . |
| 4 | Heath wants to use the promise of riches from the blood products to maintain his large-scale funding of research in British universities and to expand into mass production of the products of that research ( the job which Genentech wants to do for factor VIII ) . |
| 5 | All this raises the question of why the Reagan administration wants to quit the business of satellites in the first place . |
| 6 | Unless one wants to deny the involvement of cytokines in the course of gram-negative sepsis , one is left with the question : which cellular component of the L-form is responsible for the induction of cytokines ? |
| 7 | Vivienne Peters , chief executive of the Telecommunications Users Association , believes that Mercury 's reticence may not be because of problems with the trial , but because it wants to keep the plan under wraps in the fear that British Telecommunications Plc will try to steal its thunder by pre-launching a similar service . |
| 8 | If he cares to count the number of persons in the Chamber , including you , Mr. Speaker , the Chairman of Ways and Means and his Clerk , he will find that there are 16 . |
| 9 | This column has long argued that Scottish football needs to reduce the quantity of matches played and increase the quality . |
| 10 | Before embarking on briefing exercises with staff or negotiating discussions with unions , management needs to consider the sorts of questions that are likely to be raised and to have answers available . |
| 11 | The North-East needs to expand the diversity of products and services it offers . |
| 12 | To the concern for another serious reactor accident , one has to add the concern for accidents during other stages of the nuclear fuel cycle , the long-term risks associated with the safe disposal of ever-increasing radioactive waste , and the decommissioning of nuclear power plants at the end of their 30-year operating life ( about 100 such stations by the end of the century ) . |
| 13 | And so it starts to uncover the difficulties about psychologists which conventional psychology tries to ignore . |
| 14 | Even if some process of this kind was at work , one still has to explain the differences between women 's responses — why did some women describe themselves as housewives and others not ? |
| 15 | If the Home Office really wants to stop the abuse of children and the rape of women , it must pass a law allowing the castration of the perpetrators , not for a first offence , in case there is a mistake , but for a second offence — unless people are unfit to plead . |
| 16 | Education Secretary John Patten says the Government wants to boost the number of students in further education by 222,000 over the next three years . |
| 17 | The Government has said it wants to cut the number of smokers from 30 to 20% of the population by the year 2,000 . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Alan Govier plans to continue the campaign for others . |
| 19 | Reporters were fascinated by the methods ICI uses to monitor the effects of chemicals in the air , on the ground and in rivers , lakes and seas . |
| 20 | The workers agreed to management plans to resolve the dispute over lay-offs . |
| 21 | The licence has been granted to Isotron , which plans to use the technology on stocks of black pepper . |
| 22 | Guinness is stumping up £750 and Helen plans to raise the rest through events including a sponsored abseil . |
| 23 | The CAPs currently generate 3% of the firm 's turnover , but Brossa plans to double the number of centres in the near future . |
| 24 | This tends to confirm the findings of psychologists who report an optimum memory faculty for five items in any one dimension . |
| 25 | Although there is no doubt that this view is supported in London — which tends to see the West in terms of an Anglo-Saxon axis and the ‘ special relationship ’ between Britain and the United States — France has reservations and it is clearly not shared by southern European nations . |
| 26 | Medical experiments indicate that the presence of an appreciable quantity of pectin in the diet tends to increase the number of calories excreted in the stools in the form of fat . |
| 27 | The model tends to overestimate the prices of calls on securities that have volatile returns and underestimate the call values of those with non-volatile returns . |
| 28 | Bear in mind that choral music tends to obscure the clarity of words , and that at a first hearing few people will understand them , their attention inevitably being concentrated on the music . |
| 29 | Childbearing acts as a powerful filter for channelling couples into one or other of the tenures and therefore it tends to reinforce the differences between groups . |
| 30 | This rule tends to reduce the number of nodes in the tree at the expense of storage requirements . |