Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implementation has been left to local managers , who appear to have baulked at that option . |
| 2 | Food costs appear to have risen at both establishments , even though Marie has secured improved terms from the suppliers . |
| 3 | The implication was that the efforts to reduce the use of remands in custody , which appear to have met with some success in the last two years after the spectacular rise of the custodial remand population during the 1980s , were having unintended and unwanted effects on the crime rate . |
| 4 | The numbers recorded appear to have declined in recent years . |
| 5 | Numbers appear to have declined in recent years . |
| 6 | These did not result from the Pleistocene glaciation ( in fact none of the ice ages of the past appear to have coincided with mass extinctions ) , but all occurred after the final retreat of the ice . |
| 7 | But substantial beds of green algae are present and appear to have spread in recent years ; they are probably continuing to do so . |
| 8 | Now there have been some allegations flying around that there are people in the parliamentary Labour Party who want to get rid of that link and I want to categorically say that there is no serious figure in the Labour Party who shares that opinion there 's no one in the G M B group who takes that view there 's no one in the Shadow Cabinet and what is more , I know from my own personal experience , and my dealings with him over thirty years , that there is no greater supporter of the trades union link than John Smith himself ! |
| 9 | If you want to get rid of that dog , listen to me . |
| 10 | ‘ Most of the fifty or so Europeans prefer to live in Tala-Tala rather than Anani , ’ he said adding , with a touch of sarcasm , ‘ They say they dinna want to get contaminated by big-city life . ’ |
| 11 | What I hope to have shown in this article is that the use of discourse analysis and pragmatics to reveal significant areas of Anderson 's character proves very successful in explaining more precisely how Anderson 's vagueness , loquacity , urbanity and pomposity are evinced in his linguistic performance . |
| 12 | Sometimes the very old seem to have moved beyond that kind of fear . |
| 13 | The same inhibitions which kept clergy clean-shaven seem to have applied to clerical uniform . |
| 14 | Such low relief is found in Greek art too ; but Greek sculptors seem to have begun with free-standing statues , and when they came to relief their approach was affected by the conventions of that art . |
| 15 | In contrast to other schools of Judaism , they seem to have subscribed to some form of reincarnation . |
| 16 | The balance between headings and text has been lost ; the typesetting is definitely more uneven and gappy ; and you seem to have switched to cheaper paper such that there is more show-through . |
| 17 | As noted above , only a relatively small proportion of Oxfordshire teachers seem to feel threatened to any extent by the scheme . |
| 18 | Would not Opposition Members like to have thought of that idea and put it through in legislation ? |
| 19 | ‘ Value billing ’ should , in theory , be a consequence of the value-added auditing service that most firms claim to have offered for several years . |
| 20 | So what tends to happen is that world , world agricultural prices fall , right , and that trend has been observed erm , er , it 's an im empiric empirically , agricultural product prices tend to have fallen in general sort of , over the last sort of , eighteen hundred years . |
| 21 | Very often they have a bit of a say in it , because you know that the young girl has n't got , but erm interestingly enough they tend to get recycled to young men and it 's the older men that get the young girls from their older male and it 's younger men who get . |
| 22 | Some can , and do , choose to stay put for many years , risking staleness and obstructing the development of other staff . |
| 23 | Some bees come to recognise tripped from untripped flowers and frequent only the former , while others learn to chew a hole in the side of the flower so as to rob untripped blossoms without ever venturing inside . |
| 24 | The plant should be designed to resist damage from materials it handles therefore damage to plant caused by such materials is excluded . |
| 25 | You have to get rid of that person and put a caring person in . |
| 26 | You talk about Brides ' magazines , or any of the other magazines that are there , it 's all set out , it 's all hyped up and , I think a lot of people feel they ha , really have to get married in that way . |