Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a moment are seen the paradisiac regions , as if the curtains of the moments have parted to show the gardens of reality that remain hidden to everyday sight . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't want to go to rotten old Glasgow . |
| 3 | It was luck that Anne came out on top because she did n't want to go to medical school anyway . |
| 4 | ‘ The businessman does n't want to go to different people to talk about things on the marketing front and someone else on the financial front . ’ |
| 5 | Vice-President and Finance Minister George Saitoti presented a budget on June 15 , 1989 , largely intended to appeal to international donors through its aim to curb public expenditure and to reduce the deficit to 4.2 per cent of GDP in 1989-90 , from 4.5 per cent in 1988-89 . |
| 6 | If an exchange had a rule that required members to state that every contract was intended to go to physical delivery , notwithstanding the fact that since the rule was made the exchange had introduced a number of cash-settled contracts ; this would almost certainly be subject to some sort of variation . |
| 7 | Christie 's had secured a good selection of attractive conversation pieces and landscape paintings calculated to appeal to private collectors on a budget , as well as the more interesting portraits and equestrian compositions , while the quality of the works at Sotheby 's was particularly thin . |
| 8 | Health statistics tend to relate to large psychiatric hospitals which include younger patients and often it is not possible to distinguish costs for acute or assessment beds or for outpatient or day hospital attendances . |
| 9 | In April 1990 , as the downturn deepened , they sold LET to Swedish life insurance giant SSP for £550 million , pocketing £40 million each and staying on to run the company . |
| 10 | In the USSR itself , art flourished at first in experiments after the 1917 Revolution , but became confined to social utility after 1922 . |
| 11 | After Victoria 's accession Lehzen , never skilled in personal relationships , failed to adjust to changed circumstances and her charge 's coming of age . |
| 12 | This meant that the troublemakers , including many who did not want to come to Great Engeham in the first place , were given a pretty free run . |
| 13 | ‘ Believe me , if I did n't want to come to Nice I would n't be here now . ’ |
| 14 | So RE needs to attend to encouraging pupils consciously to get beyond just looking for information or entertainment and see that there is a quite different way of looking at things . |
| 15 | Is it part of the Intercity trademark that the silver swallow has to go to right-hand up |
| 16 | Academic libraries may be expected to contain collections of research papers but too often one has to go to public libraries to find valuable collections of records and documents of local interest . |
| 17 | Although companies are not expected to go to unreasonable lengths to accommodate someone who is not able to carry out his job to the full extent , an employer who disregards altogether the possibility of finding you some other position and is unwilling to consider any other form of compromise may be vulnerable to an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 18 | The dispute was now expected to go to international arbitration , although the Belize government of Prime Minister George Price emphasized that not " one inch " of national territory would be conceded and that there would be no foreseeable cuts in the size of the British forces stationed in the country . |
| 19 | CCG HAS soared to new heights by securing the catering contract for the tallest building in the City of London , the National Westminster Tower . |
| 20 | This is an important issue which needs addressing given that commissioning authorities are not particularly accountable to the public and that an increasing proportion of purchasing power has devolved to general practitioner fundholders , who are not necessarily geographically distributed in proportion to need . |
| 21 | It has fallen to salaried professionals in universities , public record offices , the Business Archives Council , corporate bodies themselves — and the ‘ vanity press ’ — to salvage and conserve the tons of old papers explaining the historical context of what tumbled off the production line . |
| 22 | The National Health Service and Community Care Act ( 1990 ) has assigned to local authority social services departments the lead responsibility for the co-ordination and production of community care assessments of individual older people and the process of development of criteria , mechanisms , and models of assessment is underway in most social service departments . |
| 23 | The Bush administration also moved on proposals for tax cuts , designed to appeal to middle-class voters hurt by the recession , and to counter a plan put forward by Senate finance committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen ( Democrat , Texas ) for tax cuts of $72,000 million over five years financed by a 5 per cent cut in defence spending . |
| 24 | Violinist Nigel Kennedy and Scottish rock group Wet Wet Wet completed a balanced programme designed to appeal to different types of audiences . |
| 25 | FIRST Option Bonds are designed to appeal to basic rate taxpayers , and the minimum investment is a lump sum of £1,000 . |
| 26 | Paula Rego 's sequence of prints , inspired by nursery rhymes , actually seizes on language itself as a female domain , originating with the mother , in the nursery , and extended through play and gossip , as depicted in her etching ‘ Secrets and Whispers ’ , and the one she has given to New Hall , ‘ Encampment ’ , which appropriately has been hung in the Senior Common Room , a place to gather and talk , tell stories , exchange ideas . |
| 27 | Zuckerman has enabled Roth to deal with the question of the offence he has given to righteous Jews , and to come to terms with the rebellious , psychedelic , philo-Semitic Sixties , when Roth 's writing went , with the times , derisive and fantastic . |
| 28 | That figure has referred to preventative services . |
| 29 | The Indonesian government has responded to environmental concerns by banning the construction of all new hotels on the popular tourist island of Bali . |
| 30 | It has responded to internal and external stimuli and absorbed the tensions between local and central needs and ‘ top-down ’ and ‘ bottom-up ’ initiatives . |