Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man himself has to decide on the nature of ‘ goodness ’ , and to accept that it has to be found within the life on earth as it actually is . |
| 2 | The more distant in time an issue is to current industry concerns , the more difficult it is for managers to establish that it applies to their business in some significant way ( relevancy ) and that it should be addressed now ( urgency ) . |
| 3 | Each goal is planned for a week but some may possibly require longer ; our dieter will have to take extra time if it is taking her body longer to adjust than she anticipates at the start . |
| 4 | Qaddafi 's offers of union with Tunisia , Egypt , Syria and Morocco seem to indicate that he thinks of the Arab nation . |
| 5 | because he could n't get to there you see so I said well it 'll have to go now , well we 've got it shifted and it 's thrown away and , and that 's the end of that , so I says now when she does decide to come and she wants to be in here , well I said she 'll just have to carry a mattress in , and that 'll be alright just for her to sleep on |
| 6 | But then again , how is the individual management to know if it happens to be one of those which ought to acknowledge a responsibility to maintain or lower prices , or whether it is one of the lucky ones which can be let off that responsibility ? |
| 7 | In the same way , you need to know if he wants to be Prime Minister — would you be happy being a high-flier 's wife , with all the pressures that can bring ? |
| 8 | This distinction has to be expressed morphologically , by adding a suffix to a noun or by changing its form in some other way to indicate whether it refers to one or more than one : student/students , fox/foxes , man/men , child/children . |
| 9 | In turn , these two characteristics permit hierarchy to meet four of any organization 's fundamental needs : to add real value to work as it moves through the organization , to identify and nail down accountability at each stage of the value-adding process , to place people with the necessary competence at each organizational layer , and to build a general consensus and acceptance of the managerial structure that achieves these ends . |
| 10 | At this point in the student 's instruction his sifu will watch to see that he brings into play all the previous concepts of footwork , stance , balance and counter-striking . |
| 11 | Thus we have a situation where data is not transformed into information , ie what staff need is information that addresses a specific need or objective of their job , and what typically they receive is a mass of data not properly tailored to their needs and so difficult to penetrate that it falls into disuse . |
| 12 | And it is fatuous for Mr Paddy Ashdown to claim that he stands in readiness to preserve our democracy with a more moderate alternative to Labour . |
| 13 | However , I do not wish to claim that it follows from this that observation statements should play no role in science . |
| 14 | A quick glance at Ikeda 's sepulchral concrete space indicates what the gallery does hope to sell while it waits for American collectors to warm up to the cutting edge of new Japanese art . |
| 15 | It is to a degree , on the application form that each charity receives , it has to state whether it collects for people in the Oxford area , but not as a percentage . |
| 16 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 17 | Shareholders can afford to celebrate when it comes to the dividend . |
| 18 | If in doubt , one compares another specimen with the type in order to see if it belongs to the same species . |
| 19 | ‘ We will be studying this programme very closely to see if it crosses over that legal line . |
| 20 | And now when it comes in a miracle , you wonder at me for looking twice , thrice , four times , to see if it comes through ivory or horn . |
| 21 | One response to this choice might be to suggest that it depends on the type of dispute in question . |
| 22 | It 's chip resistant , it 's easy to apply and it comes in a choice of twelve brilliant shades . |
| 23 | Charles must use these years to make his mark and dabble in things that he may have to surrender when he succeeds to the throne . |
| 24 | Well you got nearly a mile to walk when he gets to the station . |
| 25 | Taylor added : ‘ Nigel will be asked to play as he does for his club , his normal game . |
| 26 | This idea of flexibility applies as much to exercise as it does to food . |
| 27 | The whole dictionary is processed in this way , a frequency count for each gram is collected , and each gram has a flag which is set to true if it occurs as a separate word ( i.e. dictionary entry length equals required gram length ) . |
| 28 | There are a number of reasons for thinking that such information transmission may be easier to manage if it occurs within firms than if it is subject to market transactions , and this means that there is a case for thinking that R&D activities ( particularly the D ) may have to be part of a vertically related structure that extends back into important input markets , and forward into downstream consumer markets ( see Teece , 1986 , Geroski , 1992 , and Jorde and Teece , 1990 , who apply these arguments to the antitrust treatment of co-operative R&D ventures ) . |
| 29 | Their main argument is that the World Cup should move around on a rotational basis , but having staged the first three tournaments , other countries have some catching up to do before it returns to these shores . |
| 30 | But such speculation is very difficult to predict as it depends on often highly volatile expectations . |