Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [verb] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the date your application for a title search is received at the local Land Registry , you have 30 working days ( ie not less than six weeks ) within which period your client has priority over any other person who searches or seeks to register a dealing . |
| 2 | Her parents exchanged glances , looks that seemed to remember a long wait for a first and , as it turned out , an only child . |
| 3 | This extremely loose phrase means that trying to quieten a noisy factory can be a long , complicated and very tiresome business . |
| 4 | Tizard argues that her study , together with others , suggests that attempts to restore a child to his [ or her ] natural family may not be in the best interests of the child . |
| 5 | The disorder gets its name from the way the patient behaves when trying to read a word : the letters of the word will usually be named aloud , from left to right , very slowly . |