Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 2 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 3 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 4 | It goes as follows : " So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world . |
| 5 | The Attorney-General has to consent to any prosecution under the Act and such cases have been fairly infrequent . |
| 6 | and that , and the Dracula has to go towards that person but if that person says someone 's else 's name before you get them |
| 7 | His belief is that work has to go on all year round , whether or not that means taking on the hazardous and snow-covered Carpathian mountains . |
| 8 | Your outline ( see above , Chapter 1 , pp. 22 – 4 and Chapter 3 , pp. 59 – 61 ) will indicate what needs to go into each part of your essay , and enables you to write the different parts in any order you wish . |
| 9 | In winter , skin has to contend with central heating and cold temperatures ; conditions which can cause even the oiliest of skin types to become dehydrated . |
| 10 | The main contractor has to plan for subcontracted work just as seriously as for his or her own work . |
| 11 | This is understandable as , given the choice , no one wants to go through great suffering or pain . |
| 12 | I am asking the hon. Gentleman whether he wants to go down that road . |
| 13 | Shell has stated that it ‘ no longer wants to invest in exploratory mining in Brazil . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose the great Dane Jacobsen never has to search for willing company . |
| 15 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 16 | I do n't know , maybe the time was better for making music than it is now , there was less touring , not this hysterical feeling that everyone needs to jump from one place to another , or the lure of too many good orchestras — maybe it 's true that there are now more good orchestras than good conductors . |
| 17 | Mr Clinton may say that he wants to concentrate on domestic policy until he is blue in the face ; the truth of the matter is that in a federal system such single-mindedness will not get him far , because most domestic policy is reserved to state and local governments . |
| 18 | You can imagine my annoyance , then , that a ) there are no fiscal financial incentives whatsoever to encourage more people to cycle , and b ) that my health has to suffer from car-induced pollution although I do not contribute to it myself . |
| 19 | Queen Mary 's Hospital at Sidcup has cancelled all waiting-list surgery for ‘ at least ’ five weeks after more patients than planned were treated in the first five months , producing a £205,000 overspend on top of £200,000 it has to find for under-funded pay awards and other pressures . |
| 20 | Every advertisement has to appear in some advertising medium or other , even if it is only a roadside sign or a newsagent 's window . |
| 21 | DOLPHINS AND SEAGULLS , silence and laughter David Sylvian and Charlie Parker John Cleese and Buster Keaton … who wants to write to this woman . |
| 22 | But Leonard is not of that cloth ; his nature is obsessive ; what he does , he must do with abandon ; he has to work in total conviction , and dedication . |
| 23 | The market is being distorted : if General Electric wants to come into this country , it gives a price concession which damages one of this country 's crucial companies . |
| 24 | Have to has to come into common use before it gets into the dictionary . |
| 25 | We might say that the Nun 's Priest represents a human character standing at the intersection of various areas of human activity and experience mirrored within the text , and that the important attributes of the construct that this character is are not least life and humanity themselves ; the real individual and communal life that has to compromise between animalistic anarchy ( i.e. the fabliau world ? — cf. |
| 26 | If the hon. Member for Wansbeck ( Mr. Thompson ) wants to know about urban regeneration , he should know that the most exciting urban regeneration project probably anywhere in western Europe is that on the river bank in my constituency . |
| 27 | I shall discuss some of the results of this work , and their possible implications , at the end of this chapter , but I shall look first at some of the general problems for the sociologist who wants to engage in this type of investigation . |
| 28 | Using a more powerful cocktail of bio-tech moisturisers , Vitamins A and E together with deHydrocholesterol , Time-Complex aims to ‘ re-programme ’ the skin so that it starts to behave with youthful efficiency . |
| 29 | Do shut up , Tilney : no wonder little Toby is such an insensitive oaf , if he has to listen to that racket every night … |
| 30 | Alliances are high on Bull 's list of priorities : the group wants to talk to any consultancy firms , independent software vendors and systems integrators . |