Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have to come to terms with the fact that there is a rival in the camp , a rival they would both love to remove but hate to lose because of his separate contributions to home life . |
| 2 | Regular staff , sometimes nominally of the same grade , provide a sort of supervision for them in the initial period and themselves tend to find that during the peak period they are doing , or doing more consistently , more responsible jobs than during the rest of the year . |
| 3 | That does not guarantee results , but I want to see than at Bramall Lane . |
| 4 | And have another one of those , but they want to wait until after . |
| 5 | He recommended excursions into the surrounding countryside , and for his class of people he could think of nowhere better to go than to the grounds of the ancestral mansion of Studley park , some ten miles from the town . |
| 6 | The ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation , which will care for physically and mentally handicapped people in Atea , expect to find that by owning their own tractor they will not only go a long way to becoming self-sufficient but will be able to hire out the tractor locally to enhance their income . |
| 7 | I want to answer that by looking at what I call ‘ The Proper Purgatory . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I want to hear that from Garry , and I intend to see him , with or without your co-operation . ’ |
| 9 | Evelyn and the others are , indeed , with greater or lesser urgency and awareness , immobile in desperation , but I want to suggest that for Joyce it is not the dispassionate artist 's gaze which alone allows that strange steadiness commentators have called and even tone . |
| 10 | I shall be looking more closely at the implications of this point of view later , but here I want to suggest that in emphasising the importance of reflection Dorothy Heathcote has overstated the case . |
| 11 | What is distinct to us or to church work from the assumptions of central Government where funding might direct us to exclude what we want to do and to be a youth service which would deliver a prescribed curriculum . |
| 12 | As soon as someone gives you ten to the minus eight , you can say , Well if I want to convert that into real money , |
| 13 | I want to emphasize that in my discussion of social differentiation I am not dealing with an ‘ underclass ’ in the sense in which that term has recently been employed by , among others , Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) . |
| 14 | It is what they want to learn and at the speed they want to learn it . |
| 15 | In a modern society , it is — more or less — up to the individuals or couples to choose the age at which they marry or enter into one kind of conjugal union or another , to decide whether they should have a child or children or not , mow many children they want to have and at what intervals , and to opt for an age at which they want to cease childbearing , etc . |
| 16 | Right , it 's forty five over sixty , you want to change that into a decimal , what do you do ? |
| 17 | You divide the top number by the bottom number , so , supposing you 've got fifty seven minutes and you want to change that into a decimal of an hour , what fraction of an hour is it ? |
| 18 | You want to check that on the calculator , see if that one works ? |
| 19 | That 's all I want to say except to er , who , that Synod received the report of the Church and Society committee ? |
| 20 | And on the other hand , what are changes such that we want to say that at the end of the change there is just no me left there at all and I 've been replaced by something else . |
| 21 | I have not wavered in the slightest degree in my attitude to this war , nor have I changed my mind as to the need of a final and complete settlement , but I want to say that in a war in which losses of such terrible magnitude are being imposed on all the Nations it appears to me not only wise but imperative that every country should use its political weapon to supplement all its military organisation , if by so doing it can defeat the enemy . |
| 22 | Advertise in local newspapers in the area to which you want to move or in periodical such as Exchange & Mart , Dalton 's Weekly , and the London and Local Advertiser . |
| 23 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 24 | The worst form of inter-group conflict is what is called a ‘ win-lose ’ conflict , in which the competing groups all seek to win and in which there can in fact be only one winner . |
| 25 | The difference between American and British approaches to obscenity law lies in the harms they seek to curtail and in their comprehension of the processes by which those harms are inflicted . |
| 26 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
| 27 | Now , I do n't want to give you a boring lesson about the markets of the day , suffice to say that in 1520 hard cash was rare , most of it being tied up in fields , lands and houses , so it was natural for people like Ralemberg to tout for business . |
| 28 | They therefore tend to assume that after two years the firm ( if it is not a supernormal growth firm ) simply grows in line with GDP , on the grounds that , in the long run , the share of dividends or earnings in GDP does not trend in any significant way . |
| 29 | Certainly , as I will argue later , ’ sport and show business constitute the two spheres in which blacks have made immense contributions and which seem to throw up figures with whom black kids tend to identify and on whom they model themselves . |
| 30 | We begin to accept that in education , as in economics , small can be beautiful . |