Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now let's look at some placed to go and thinks to do and people to see for later on today . |
| 2 | Less stringently regulated than the Official List operated by the Stock Exchange and open to smaller , less well-known companies , the USM is intended to promote and accommodate growth and vigour in the corporate sector of the economy . |
| 3 | Three men in black overcoats and dark glasses were fussing around the long cars and a small crowd had gathered to weep and wonder . |
| 4 | When the resist-coated silicon is exposed to light and developed , it imprints the pattern in one of two ways . |
| 5 | When a leaf is exposed to light and absorbs energy it has been observed that after a short delay ( on the millisecond scale ) up to 3% of the absorbed energy is re-emitted . |
| 6 | The methods and processes differ but the equipment used consists basically of the original to be photocopied being exposed to light or heat , together with a special light or heat-sensitive paper , and a processing unit in which the copy paper is developed . |
| 7 | The extra vehicles in the street with their flashing blue lights , had brought some of the neighbours to their doors or bedroom windows and one of the uniforms was designated to go and ask them if they 'd seen anything . |
| 8 | A couple of weeks after Brighton she came into the shop , presuming we were going out together that evening — without having told me what she intended , I 'd arranged to go and see a band with a mate from art college . |
| 9 | She had arranged to go and live with a niece , whose husband was out of work ; the couple would look after the old lady together . |
| 10 | Information is vital to politics and the well off are better placed to acquire and use it . |
| 11 | Since the track authority needs this information to access the capacity and other related constraints on the system , it is best placed to provide or sell timetable information nationally , regionally or at an individual service level . |
| 12 | But Byrd 's fate , a year after Detroit Lions lineman Mike Utley was paralysed by a neck injury , has brought into sharp focus the perilous nature of a sport based upon fierce physical contact between men — many of them giants — whose bodies were never intended to absorb and administer such punishment . |
| 13 | In order to understand the involvement of the RB tumor suppressor gene in rat carcinogenesis , we have undertaken to isolate and sequence the rat RB cDNA . |
| 14 | The Back Pain Association was formed to encourage and support research into the causes and treatment of back pain and to help people to prevent damage to the spine by teaching them to use their bodies sensibly . |
| 15 | I had intended to try and ring Jo as soon as I got in , to find out what the hell was going on , but I never made it for the house was in turmoil . |
| 16 | They are human , and are acknowledged to be , they can think but they are not to be acknowledged as authoritative , and if their presence demands such acknowledgement , they are bad women who should have been taught to hide or repress such demands . |
| 17 | Well the only encouraging initiative that I can speak of for West Sussex is the establishment of the Rural Options Land Bank and er I 've undertaken to try and get some county commitment to this and that means some land . |
| 18 | Various groups within the party were formed to try and achieve particular objectives . |
| 19 | They have been heard to scream and leave frantic claw marks . |
| 20 | The projects are partially funded by the European Community 's Trade EDI Systems , TEDIS , programme , which is intended to encourage and promote increased EDI usage within the European Economic Area , covering the European Free Trade Association countries as well as the European Community . |
| 21 | Ironically , Beveridge actually hoped that a pension which reduced income and gave a higher pension to those who stayed at work , would encourage people to defer retirement : ‘ Making receipt of pension conditional on retirement is not intended to encourage or hasten retirement . |
| 22 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |
| 23 | Soviet friendship and cooperation treaties with Third World states were intended to displace or counteract the existing alignments and alliances between these states and the Western powers . |
| 24 | Many thanks to the Essex teachers who had undertaken to provide and serve tea at the January meeting . |
| 25 | The difficulty lies in the fact that the governmental authorities , however highly principled and dedicated to the welfare of the citizenry , are essentially a vested interest running an organization which , to a greater or lesser degree , is designed to preserve and promote the continuing control of those same authorities . |
| 26 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 27 | The Act is designed to conserve and enhance the land and prevent undesirable uses or developments . |
| 28 | Incentive systems should be designed to promote and strengthen the social purposes and values of the organisation . |
| 29 | And finally there is meditation which is the specific thought designed to affect and train the brain . |
| 30 | Well it may be of course that that kind of thing has always tended to happen gather of society skirmishing goes on and young men are expected to go and find very often |