Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We accept that the Minister has honoured his commitment ; he has brought forward powers to establish a funding council . |
| 2 | Craig 's father Robert says his son is still suffering from nightmares , and has to see a psychiatrist weekly for counselling . |
| 3 | In this case , the agent only needs to see a ticket manifest ( a government-stamped document showing how many tickets are printed for the venue ) and a box office statement from the hall ( stating how many tickets were sold ) when checking the promoter 's expenses . |
| 4 | In a new age of philistinism , when everything has to wear a price tag , the beauty and wonder of the world of nature have low value in the market place . |
| 5 | She now has to wear a neck brace , keep her left arm still with a sling and use a walking stick . |
| 6 | Or there 's chemical warfare — but who wants to carry an aerosol can of doggy deterrent around with them , even if it is CFC free ? |
| 7 | The Rev Richard Griffiths , of St Pancras in Chichester , West Sussex , wants to find a bone marrow donor for leukaemia victim James Crook , 17 . |
| 8 | Manager Malcolm Crosby wants to accept a £750,000 bid from Premier League Southampton — but his chairman Bob Murray vetoed the move and is holding out for £1 million . |
| 9 | The UC-sandia consortium wants to establish an X-ray calibration and standards facility at SSRL , among other things , to develop high-speed X-ray detectors to analyse radiation from nuclear weapons tests . |
| 10 | Labour has to create a state system which is so good that no one will want to send their children anywhere else . ’ |
| 11 | The company wants to open a microwave link between its headquarters in Long Acre and its main transmitter in Britannic House , less than 3 km away . |
| 12 | She wants to open a coffee shop next door . |
| 13 | A company wants to install a computer system in one of its departments which has previously had to use slow , laborious ( but reliable ) manual methods . |
| 14 | Merrill could have sold the whole issue several times over in the US , but Waste Management International intends to acquire British companies , funded by future share issues , and needs to create a shareholder base in Britain to facilitate this . |
| 15 | In traversing an embedded semantic net hypertext , the user has to visit a text block . |
| 16 | ‘ It does n't matter whether the customer wants to buy a bus ticket or round the world cruise , ’ says managing director William Shaw , ‘ we offer a complete service to all and do n't just concentrate on packages . ’ |
| 17 | So , the customer who wants to buy a vacuum cleaner will be familiar with the name Hoover and will therefore look for models produced by this company . |
| 18 | So if anybody wants to buy a letter box sticker now 's your chance . |
| 19 | Moreover , to achieve recognition within the legalistic and decentralised bargaining system in the United States a union needs to win a majority vote in a ballot , and although perhaps 40 or 45 per cent of the employees in a given enterprise may desire union services the union fails to achieve recognition because of the unwillingness of the majority of their colleagues to opt for unionisation . |
| 20 | He intends to raise the top rate of tax from 31% to 36% and wants to apply a 10% millionaires ' surtax , leading to a top rate of approximately 40% . |
| 21 | One of the American networks wants to do a television interview . |
| 22 | Insignia now needs to do a Windows package and 386 emulation to accommodate OS/2 . |
| 23 | Er , as I said the government has already accepted when we introduced the legislation last year in the criminal justice act on money laundering , that there are far wider er interests and fidrer fi far wider implications than there have been ever before and I think the government needs to do a little bit more to show that it is aware of international implications and the sheer scale of what we 're dealing with and er I touched earlier on the question of indemnity , er perhaps the minister could specifically address that point . |
| 24 | So one has to use a quantum theory of gravity to discuss the very early stages of the universe . |
| 25 | One has to use a quantum theory of gravity to understand how the universe began . |
| 26 | She therefore has to use a dialysis machine approximately three times a week . |
| 27 | Oh , I will agree that the electronic is very versatile , but if one has to justify a punchcard model , then the electronic would need even more justification . |
| 28 | Wants to start a Book Group or some damp thing , lending out and discussion groups on a Wednesday morning over coffee . |
| 29 | I believe that if an act wants to run a fan club , it should be a service rather than a profit-making enterprise . |
| 30 | If a customer wants to build a Sparc derivative for internal use , it will cost $1,000,000 up-front and a royalty fee of $5-$10 depending on the application . |