Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Region 's image is First Class NORTHUMBRIA Tourist Board , which wants to promote a more upmarket image for the region , has adopted a new logo carrying the slogan First Class . |
| 2 | In order to prevent a drain of young English cricketers to South Africa during the winter , the TCCB has to provide a suitably well-rewarded alternative and it is in this area that Subba Row 's successor will need to shine . |
| 3 | First , though , one has to obtain a very thin section of the rock , thin enough to be translucent . |
| 4 | It is not always easy to use their own in-house people if the chairman or chief executive wants to find a very senior director : then they nearly always go to outside professional advisers for confidentiality , for objectivity and often because the senior headhunters in the major firms are the best , of the highest quality and are paid accordingly . |
| 5 | Wilkinson is aware that many of Bromley 's residents go to central London for testing , so it wants to create a more local service with the help of the health authority 's clinics . |
| 6 | Like the ornithologist who has to reach an impossibly remote island by a certain day in the rainy season only to find it overflowing with ornithologists from all over the world choking the woodland tracks with cameras and tripods , trying to catch a fleeting glimpse of a small bird as it hops about in the dripping undergrowth . |
| 7 | Shopkeeper , Joyce Guild wants to put a more secure aluminium framed window in . |
| 8 | Often he has to interpret a badly worded question , with no hope of redress if his guess as to the examiner 's meaning should turn out to be wrong . |
| 9 | The rather dissimilar , and much later , pyramids of South America were probably largely religious in origin ; if one wants to build a pretty impressive temple to one 's gods , the pyramid is as good a shape as any to choose . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what proposals he has to ensure a more equitable distribution of resources for the social fund . |
| 11 | This is because capital gain on the whole value of the house accrues to the owner , whereas he only has to repay a relatively small proportion of the mortgage each year . |
| 12 | MDH says it needs to develop an entirely new helicopter — either civil or military — ‘ to propel it into a leadership with another helicopter company ( or several , possibly splitting civil/military business ) in the USA or abroad to provide the necessary investment . |
| 13 | While the industry desperately needs to present a more united front to Government and the public , a single voice does not mean the loudest voice , which can drown contrary views . |
| 14 | She needs to learn a more acceptable means of getting people to do things . |
| 15 | In the Dusun language every clause has to have a grammatically marked topic ( i.e. the person or thing about which something is said ) , which is determined by the larger context ( at discourse level ) . |
| 16 | To avoid such troubles , the water supply has to be freed from solid particles and needs to have a very low content of iron , manganese , aluminium , calcium , and magnesium . |
| 17 | Bank manager Hoey added : ‘ Neil needs to have a very good run at Portrush , and maybe even win something . |
| 18 | Transistor TR2 needs to have a very high h f e , which is why a BC109C is specified . |
| 19 | To cope with this , the father has to take a very active part in housekeeping and child-rearing , violating traditional conceptions of gender roles . |
| 20 | Small shopkeepers tend to support the Liberal Democrats , but Mr Kaifu wants to please a more important supporter , Mr Bush . |
| 21 | For while in New York , I learned that plans to build a virtually new Flushing Meadow complex , beneath the arrivals , rather than the unbelievably noisy take off flight path from La Guardia Airport , have been abandoned . |
| 22 | Next year the Department of Employment plans to introduce a more sophisticated central data bank to list job vacancies throughout Europe . |
| 23 | AS Lyles customer base grows to include an ever increasing number of independent retailers it places increasing marketing emphasis on their point of sale material . |
| 24 | This project is to assess whether sufficient material exists to enable a more substantial research project to be undertaken . |
| 25 | The theory proposed by Bueche tends to suggest a very clear-cut distinction between the movement of chains of length less than c and the relative immobility of the entangled chains with lengths greater than c . |
| 26 | Moreover , Arabic tends to use a relatively small number of conjunctions , each of which has a wide range of meanings which depend for their interpretation on the context , thus relying heavily on the reader 's ability to infer relationships which are only vaguely alluded to by the writer . |
| 27 | Becker , on the other hand , who tends to use a more open-ended style of interviewing , has argued that the interviewer should sometimes ‘ play dumb ’ and pretend not to understand what is being said , in order to prompt the respondent into saying more . |
| 28 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |
| 29 | The court tends to adopt a relatively liberal attitude towards extensions of time for commencing arbitration ( Patel v Peel Developments ( South ) [ 1992 ] 30 EG 88 ) . |
| 30 | Because of the emphasis on good care rather than biological bonds , this school of thought tends to hold a fairly favourable view of good substitute carers and to wish to strengthen their position vis-à-vis the natural parents . |