Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you really can only go shopping once a week , you will have to store all you fruit and vegetables in the refrigerator or somewhere cool to prevent them from spoiling . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) François Seurel , narrator , mostly sprechgesang to set scenes , describe locations and weather . |
| 3 | However , children who are doing badly tend to expect failure and criticism , since it may have little effect on them except to confirm their worst beliefs about themselves and reduce their efforts . |
| 4 | This chapter deals mainly with optical ( or visual ) effects that involve construction in three dimensions , a stage beyond matte painting , and therefore a step nearer to physical , or mechanical , effects , which mostly tend to involve live action shooting on set or location . |
| 5 | We saw common guillemot , Brünnich 's guillemot , razorbill , black guillemot and puffin : it only needed little auk to complete all the auks on the European list ! |
| 6 | In fact , it closely resembled the constitution of the Consulate established in 1800 , and like its predecessor it would require little change to turn it into an Empire . |
| 7 | Both poems would require little change to make sense at any time between AD 600 and now . |
| 8 | The denial of prejudice is strategic , but ‘ we thereby want to convey that the move is strategical only relative to the goal of ‘ making a good impression ’ , rather than to the goal of being ‘ sincere and honest ’ ( p. 127 ) . |
| 9 | As public shopping arcades lend themselves to situations of abuse it is important that they have somewhere warm to go ; one example of a voluntary initiative is that Bradford Council of Mosques has set up a day centre for retired older men . |
| 10 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I badly want to run well again over 10,000m . |
| 12 | I suppose in a way it 's a bit like the tail wagging the dog to a certain extent , whereby the er larger institutions rather want to get their two pence worth , er rather than let the Engineering Council take over . |
| 13 | Group leaders are not ‘ mission-committed ’ to the group 's success , but rather want to maximize membership and the achievement of collective benefits for members because it expands their own patronage , power and prestige . |
| 14 | If you have spent a twelve hour day coping with the daily realities of road accidents , the elderly incontinent , housing the homeless — usually with inadequate resources — I promise you that you rarely want to go home and read about it . |
| 15 | Some leaves have buds growing by their divided lobes , and these eventually grow to become new plants . |
| 16 | This is the point erm , well Plato made the point that the people we most want to rule us are probably the ones that are the least likely to want to take on that duty and Ben Williams made the same point the other way round that the people who rise to the top in politics are likely to be the ones that we would least like to have governing us . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this . |
| 18 | Although a backbencher he is currently the politician the voters most want to see as prime minister . |
| 19 | Indeed , he remains the one royal personage whom portraitists most want to paint . |
| 20 | The rise in the quality of French tennis over the last 20 years , culminating in the emergence of players such as Yannick Noah , Henri Leconte and now Guy Forget , coupled with the transformation of the French Open at Roland Garros into what the majority of players regard as the best organised of the four Grand Slams ( even though Wimbledon remains favourite as to the one they most want to win ) are due very largely to the leadership he has shown . |
| 21 | Given that we wish to give British industry the flexibility to employ part-time workers , is not this another effort by Labour to hit the people who most want to seek jobs ? |
| 22 | He 's always doing things quietly and behind the scenes and he 's always there with that one little touch to encourage you to keep going . ’ |
| 23 | The NRA says the fish have probably just moved away to find somewhere better to spawn . |
| 24 | Said she wanted somewhere better to bring up her baby . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I rarely bother to use my title , ’ Roman murmured drily , ‘ as your mother knows very well . ’ |
| 26 | But they rarely bother to come . |
| 27 | With most punters having travel passes with those twee colour pictures on their identity cards , the conductors rarely bother to come upstairs to collect fares any more , so you can get a fair amount of free rides in if you 're prepared to keep moving . |
| 28 | We have two sorts of customers — those who are happy with DOS and want to carry on using it , and those who eventually want to move to Windows . |
| 29 | Not least BARRY MOONCULT who went so ape-dropping crazy , he was spotted stumbling out of the party while it was in full swing armed with a stash of joke bombs , which despite being pretty harmless ( containing about as much genuine explosive as your average cap pistol ) make a loud enough bang to put the fear of God into the most ardent of atheists . |
| 30 | If they had served small areas , the CMHTs would have had great difficulty in liaising with the specialist facilities and organizations ( statutory and non-statutory ) which characterize the mental handicap field and which necessarily tend to cover large areas if not regions . |