Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it all goes to confirm that a democratic society will inevitably get the police it deserves as it responds to new pressures . |
| 2 | This goes to confirm that the figures shown in Table 11.1 are fairly representative of the industry more generally . |
| 3 | Everyone involved has to realize that the tasks are not relearned in an automatic sequence : the fact that the patient may be able to put on his sweater one day does not necessarily mean that he is immediately able to progress to putting on his trousers — indeed , he may have forgotten how to cope with the sweater the following day . |
| 4 | Yet the counsellor of older people has to realize that the blocks may not necessarily be those current in modern attitudes and beliefs . |
| 5 | As each car approaches the commentator 's microphone the whine of its engine rises , and then starts to fall as the car passes the microphone and moves away round the circuit . |
| 6 | Dave needs to establish whether the track is a Public Right of Way . |
| 7 | I 'm proposing that we accept this er trading charter draft , and that the Parish Council erm looks to provide once the Czech version as being er provided for us from Czechoslovakia er from the Czech Republic rather , that erm we 'll accept . |
| 8 | An employer has no more power to give orders to an employee than a customer has to demand that a grocer supply goods at a certain price : all a discontented employer can do in practice , just like a customer , is terminate the relationship . |
| 9 | The prosecution no longer has to establish that the complainant resisted . |
| 10 | Thus one has to infer that the second statement here functions as some kind of explanation of the first statement in the passage , so that the failure of oil-bound paints on certain building materials is caused by the reaction of an acid and an alkali . |
| 11 | you understand that the honourable gentleman wants to establish that the government has been extraordinarily dilatory , that er there is a massive delay , there is problem for electoral registration officers because that the regulations , the regulations depend upon a directive . |
| 12 | They may think the experimenter wants to know himself and not realise that he just wants to know whether the child knows the answer . |
| 13 | He also wants to know whether the £40m saving was used to subsidise the tender for the helicopter carrier . |
| 14 | The teacher , while not allowing poor practice , needs to remember that the learner is a learner and needs the opportunity to become proficient . |
| 15 | It is even harder to imagine his reaction , in light of his long imprisonment , to the authoritative comment of The Times on the Bedford Bunyan Festival : ‘ No one cares to remember whether the author of the most fascinating allegory that ever struck despair into the souls of imitators was a Dissenter . ’ |
| 16 | In conclusion , one has to wonder whether the borders are in fact open . |
| 17 | In the meantime , the hole in the road is reopened , and at 6pm the men line up by the side of the maypole , the band starts to play and the command to hoist it on to shoulders is given . |
| 18 | One has to assume that the report will be read critically ( though this may be a rather optimistic view ) . |
| 19 | If the House of Commons is not inclined to accept the Lords amendments , something has to give if the Bill is not to fail . |
| 20 | Equally , he wants to stress that the government should listen to industry and respond to its needs . |
| 21 | The machine keeps increasing the numbers it has to divide but the answer line does not change . |
| 22 | No wonder no-one at Siemens Nixdorf wants to hazard when the company might return to profit . |
| 23 | His rehabilitation — from the leader they could not wait to get rid of because he represented high taxes , inflation and military failure ( over Iran ) , to the president everyone loves to cite as the model elder statesman -has been remarkable . |
| 24 | Because of an appointment or whatever one has to leave before the group as a whole breaks up . |
| 25 | One has to recall that a major objective of Mrs Thatcher 's government has been to change public opinion , not least about the role of government itself . |
| 26 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |
| 27 | One respondent in the Yorkshire survey summed up the difficulties : ‘ One has to recognise that the pressures on consultants are increasing steadily — workload , management , teaching , financial control , reduction of juniors ’ hours … |
| 28 | Third , since the APB wants to ensure that the debate which it intends the paper to stimulate does not get confined to the Big Six and a few others , it is to go on a whistlestop tour of the country over the next three months , holding discussion meetings with interested parties . |
| 29 | The interviewer also needs to ensure that the potential expatriates have a clear idea of their careers and how an overseas posting followed by a return to work in the UK will aid their career paths . |
| 30 | Management needs to ensure that the expensive and long-term project has a good strategic pay-off . |