Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In industry the purpose of this process is to make work more interesting , through the restructuring of the components of a work role — either by increasing the number of operations that each worker has to perform or by making changes from one activity to another more frequent . |
| 2 | Therefore , in looking at this diagram , one needs to realize that to the southwest er and just east of er Strensall erm the area is filled up by greenbelt . |
| 3 | Although I am convinced that the prime management problem is ‘ making it happen ’ , one has to accept that in life there is always at least an evens chance that one is going the wrong way . |
| 4 | These two tasks are inextricably interwoven : if advisers fail to establish what it is that a client wants to know because of poor interviewing , then they will not be able to supply the correct information even if it is available . |
| 5 | Charlie of course is now the man every trainer wants to engage because of his marvellous performance at Cheltenham in booting home four winners and taking the Ritz Club Trophy for the top jockey at the festival . |
| 6 | He despises the human race and the combinations that make it tick ; the human race in its present state , he 'd qualify — he 'd like to send us all back to nursery school — so he has to behave as unlike his fellow beings as he can . ’ |
| 7 | The first declaration he gave to Pineau to take back to France would almost certainly have disappointed resisters : its denunciation of the Third Republic was a little too sweeping for Pineau 's taste ( one has to remember that by this stage the bitter experience of Vichyism and Nazism was beginning to rehabilitate the reputation of republicanism in France ) , and it had almost nothing to say about social or economic reform . |
| 8 | In order to understand what you would see if you were watching a star collapse to form a black hole , one has to remember that in the theory of relativity there is no absolute time . |
| 9 | If the red light starts to flash whilst in operation , the battery has less than 5% life left , and there is no light at all when the battery is completely flat . |
| 10 | He wants to argue that we do join civil societies and that we can under certain circumstances erm decide to quit them and , overall of course against Filmer he wants to argue that in this respect a civil society is radically different from the family . |
| 11 | It stands to reason that in such vast space there must be some other beings . |
| 12 | If the Timex worker wants to regard that as a right of reply to Neil 's speech , so be it . |
| 13 | And somebody has to say that under Section fifty four A if this kind of policy exists in the county structure plan it will be extremely difficult for any proposer erm of development outside built-up areas , existing built-up areas , to proceed . |
| 14 | Once the constable has told that person of both types of specimen and has listened to anything that that person has to say as to which type of specimen he would wish to provide , the constable may decide whether the specimen to be provided should be a specimen of blood or urine . |
| 15 | The company , which also sells building materials , has to move because of the proposed cross-town route linking the A68 and A66 . |
| 16 | In the more difficult political conditions in which a Labour leader has to operate when in opposition , appeals for restraint were less likely to be effective … ’ |
| 17 | It already has a labour force there of 15,000 and plans to double that over the next year or two , investing around DM1 billion . |
| 18 | It suffices to say that under it , once black Rhodesians had acquired a sizeable number of seats , but far less than a majority , they would have been in a powerful position to form a coalition with any breakaway group of whites . |
| 19 | Their name suffices to show that unlike the FOP they have no ambition to occupy the middle ground , and their precise situation in West German politics remains uncertain . |
| 20 | Finally the contemplative grows to recognise that in his life of love for God the being of God is extended in time : " he is gifte for to knowen and lufen him " ( Scale 2 , 34.111r. – 264 ) . |
| 21 | A system exists to ensure that at any time , day or night , the consultant 's wishes are followed . |
| 22 | No good reason exists to think that in the remoter past households were more egalitarian or less structured than they were in 1979 . |
| 23 | At one point in the novel the ‘ implied author ’ intervenes to argue that in critical discourse the critic-as-reader becomes a principle of unity and semantic determination : |
| 24 | The reasonable interpretation of their experience seems to demand that by the time the chain had reached them the actual result of the observation had become fixed . |
| 25 | But the frequency with which I receive such public congratulations ( to the great embarrassment of my nine-year-old son ) seems to indicate that at least a proportion of those who buy the book actually do read it . |
| 26 | This seems to indicate that after a fairly steady climb and a certain standstill in the late 1880s , the numbers really took off in the late 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 27 | One response to this affront is to erect an alternative system of belief ; to fabricate another , esoteric world of ideas that seems to challenge and in turn to trivialise the ideas that are proving so bothersome . |
| 28 | The Scotsman survey seems to suggest that in significant sections of our society this function is no longer being fulfilled by the family . |
| 29 | Roger of Howden seems to suggest that behind Eleanor there stood the figure of a man , her uncle , Ralph de Faye , the seneschal of Poitou . |
| 30 | What research and evidence there is appears to suggest that at school level at least their educational achievements are higher than those of Afro-Caribbean boys , and that they exhibit a greater tenacity in the pursuit of educational qualifications than white girls . |