Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too often business has been inward looking and has not been sufficiently rigorous in pursuing the question of who needs to know of changes in its practices and needs . |
| 2 | NEC Corp is forecasting unconsolidated net profit of $430m in the fiscal year just started , up from an estimated $344m for the fiscal 1993 just ended ; the company sees strong demand for semiconductors in the US and Southeast Asia , and looks to launch of new personal computers , and domestic economic recovery around this summer following the government 's economic package , including the expected supplementary budget , NEC said . |
| 3 | He has to come of his own free will . |
| 4 | The Communists reacted by attacking " the half-Trotskyite ILP , a party that loves to talk of revolution and to shriek out " Left " phrases on every possible occasion " . |
| 5 | However , one has to beware of jumping too rapidly to conclusions on the basis of a single surface analysis without considering all the possibilities . |
| 6 | Times change , however , and today , under a somewhat different corporate regime , ‘ Heritage ’ starts to smack of yesterday 's fashion , and one is not entirely sure what commitment remains . |
| 7 | Whichever indicator one cares to use of the roles of the government in economic life — government expenditure as a percentage of GNP , total tax revenue relative to income , the range of activities in which the government is involved as producer , the extent to which economic life is subject to some form or other of regulation — all show a similar long-term growth in periods of peacetime throughout the present century . |
| 8 | Who on earth wants to think of following a slimming diet for ever . |
| 9 | He needs to think of how we are to find the right ministers , men and women — to let people know that there is a vocation called holy orders , of ‘ unique difficulty and unique happiness ’ ; the variety of ministers , deaconesses , teachers in schools , lay preachers , monks and nuns and friars who belong to ‘ the praying heart of the Church ’ , without which its mission would not have the power of God within it . |
| 10 | In order to appreciate the factors which motivate a writer or speaker to make this kind of selection , one needs to think of the clause as a message rather than as a string of grammatical and lexical elements . |
| 11 | She has to think of her younger sisters , her father may clamp down on what little freedom they had previously . |
| 12 | In any garden one has to think of the practical as well as the more decorative elements and so a shed and compost area were included . |
| 13 | it is a funny film , you seen Roxanne where he plays a fucking funny , he has to think of twenty pornographic , the only women who can satisfy two by two women at once its got here , nature loving , too much , really love little bee , give a mat to sit on and stuff like that , your gon na fucking break that in a minute , time have you Mark ? |
| 14 | In order to spell , one has to combine both kinds of sequence , one has to think of the syllables in the word in the correct order and remember them and remember how far you got , and also remember the sequence of visual symbols , i.e. letters on paper . |
| 15 | Even in a school one has to think of a very large number of different pupils with their own different characteristics and strengths and weaknesses , and one has to operate in a classroom and to a timetable and with given resources , and so on and so forth , and the combination of all these pressures and the ways that one has got used to handling them , on the whole , is what makes a person teach the way they do . |
| 16 | It is n't important ; pop is thus marginalized , and whatever it has to say of greater import is ignored . |
| 17 | He is still deciding the kind of pictures he wants to take of Liverpool . |
| 18 | So as soon as they start to fight Mercy starts trying to forgive Cruelty and Cruelty easily wins , whereas he wants to say of course that Cruelty , in this God-governed universe , is going to be defeated by Mercy . |
| 19 | But it is no secret , for Demidenko himself loves to speak of that memorable occasion , and its importance for him . |
| 20 | Arrangements will have to be made with a suitable removal firm if she is going to bring some of her furniture with her , and she may need help in finding the best dealers or auctioneers to take the items she wants to dispose of . |
| 21 | RELEASES are also sent out before work starts to warn of any inconvenience that might be caused by mainlaying . |
| 22 | The Croydon stylist first has to dispose of Puerto Rico 's Daniel Jimenez at the Lewisham Theatre tonight . |
| 23 | If all she wants to speak of is a message and a vision then there is no reason to call this position Christian . |
| 24 | The practice is found in a wide range of commercial applications , from rent reviews to breach of warranty claims , and from construction disputes to pension scheme transfers . |
| 25 | Thomas Szasz warns to beware of the psychiatrist who analyses jokes instead of laughing at them . |
| 26 | The first piece , which happens to consist of five correct sentences , one spoken to me , and the rest written on objects and on pages around me , simply does not make sense . |
| 27 | It looks ordinary enough … but inside it 's packed with high tech electronics … it 's the work of local man Richard Marshall , who just happens to head of electronics for the Benetton Formula Grand One Prix team , putting some ideas into practice . |
| 28 | My Lords , the Government er plans to dispose of the land St Pancreas site , once it is no longer needed for the building project , the British Library is preparing a case for retaining some of the land for further library buildings . |
| 29 | This is why he calls the object of his study ‘ narrative discourse ’ , which he defines as ‘ the oral or written discourse which undertakes to tell of an event or a series of events ’ , and which he distinguishes from narrative as series of events ( story ) , and narrative as the act of narrating . |
| 30 | Is a ballooning of the wall of an artery which leads to risk of bursting or clotting , which may lead to catastrophic results . |