Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burns units are weird places because all the staff are in masks and visitors have to wear hats and covers on their shoes . |
| 2 | As his lexicography has shown , Dr Burchfield is ready to acknowledge change but holds fast to certain rules on the grounds of avoiding barbarous sentences or ambiguities . |
| 3 | The booklet , entitled Prompt Payers — a Guide , provides companies with an immediate check on their customers ' commitment to prompt payment and includes a copy of the code itself . |
| 4 | Once the dieter starts to lose weight and feels more energetic it might be time to consider further possibilities . |
| 5 | To repair damage that 's been done would take |
| 6 | Our client met his bankers on twenty second of October and was only able to obtain funding as follows . |
| 7 | He admits to having wanted always to write poetry but doubts whether he can attribute that entirely to his rebellion . |
| 8 | The industry recognises the pressures to contain costs and knows that it must concentrate on developing clearly better products , work towards European standardisation of prices , and accept the generic market in return for an extended patent period . |
| 9 | The SSD is funding voluntary groups to provide counsellors and advocates to help women cope with child protection investigations . |
| 10 | It is the mission of the church to proclaim the Word and if some of our friends can not receive the spoken word , we have a responsibility to find ways and means within a sacred context of doing this . |
| 11 | Nature herself feels free to impose secrecy as regards the composition of some of her polymers and one of the most interesting fields of polymer research today is that of bio-polymers , where the techniques of the explorer are as important for the researcher as those of the polymer chemist . |
| 12 | However , despite my aim to provide flexibility in structure , the HyperCard still imposes a primary organizational structure and it may be difficult to extract information that has no relation to the original structure imposed by the author Nevertheless , some links have been made between tutorials which cut across the primary categorization and users are able to move between different sections as easily as moving within sections . |
| 13 | You must be well acquainted with the materials of Part 2 in order to answer trainees ' questions but be careful not to provide information that goes beyond that given above ; try to amplify rather than extend the information . |
| 14 | There is , therefore , an implied need to provide information that measures the inputs ( resources ) and outputs of individual programmes . |
| 15 | The court could be asked to observe injuries or scars on the child 's body . |
| 16 | A task-based approach for those needing to write letters or telexes in English . |
| 17 | In concert with other senses , the bat 's nose-leaf allows it to find prey and helps it to discriminate between , say , a cold hoof and the warmer blood-filled tissue further up the leg . |
| 18 | SIR — For the past two years , the BBC appears to have increasingly forgotten its obligation to provide entertainment and has substituted news and current affairs programmes with a strong political bias . |
| 19 | The therapist helps to set goals and suggests means of attaining them , but tries whenever possible to put responsibility on the patient . |
| 20 | Dr Runcie affirms the need to create wealth and makes no plea for its collective ownership . |
| 21 | For the cartoonists , it 's a daily battle against time , to create work that captures the imagination . |
| 22 | Not knowing the decorative style of the new home is an important point to bear in mind when planning a picture of this sort , so it is always best to choose colours and frames that are attractive without being so dramatic or colourful that you considerably reduce their hanging potential . |
| 23 | It is also seeking to explore ways and means whereby men and women can play a larger part in the reconstruction of local working-class communities through the establishment of new forms of social and economic structures designed to meet local needs in a collective fashion . |
| 24 | The break-up of her former group , the medium-profile Blake Babies , has left her free and unshackled on her first solo LP ( the riveting ‘ Hey Babe ’ ) to create music that shares subject matter with ‘ soul ’ — love viewed from every possible angle — but blossoms with a fiery individuality born from experience . |
| 25 | All traffic will be diverted down York Place , a one way street , and major changes are being planned to bus routes and stops during the next few days . |
| 26 | Stewart , now 27 , is scathing about attempts by officialdom to tackle homelessness and says ministers like Peter Lilley , the Social Security Secretary , need to experience the problems of the homeless directly . |
| 27 | Colour codes may be adopted to highlight information that belongs together . |
| 28 | This removes any duty to create employment and endorses a laisser-faire attitude . |
| 29 | Not inclined to consult others but has a pleasant , friendly manner , which helps colleagues and middle managers to accept his fundamental ideas , arguments and methods . |
| 30 | US airline operator , Northwest Airlines Inc , is moving to open systems and has issued a request for information on products that it can use to build an integrated distributed computing system . |