Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first great public indication of the shift in Barth 's thinking came in 1927 , when he published the first volume of a projected Christian Dogmatics , which was intended eventually to handle in a systematic way all the main Christian doctrines . |
| 2 | The text goes on to refer to a general trust clause providing that the heir should pay the legacies and carry out the instructions in the will . |
| 3 | A bumpy ride : Major flies in to fight for a key marginal . |
| 4 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 5 | Trying to find somewhere to live in a strange country may also be a concern . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State was thus granted a discretionary power to release a person serving a sentence of life imprisonment subject to two conditions : ( 1 ) He must be recommended so to do in a particular case by the Parole Board ( which was constituted by section 59 of the Act of 1967 ) and ( 2 ) He shall not do so except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice together with the trial judge if available . |
| 7 | One has only to glance at a human skeleton to see the numerous segments of the vertebral column . |
| 8 | If , as happened very occasionally — for instance in the great boom of 1872–3 — some workers actually earned enough to afford for a brief moment the luxuries which employers regarded as their right , indignation was sincere and heartfelt . |
| 9 | Gans tried not to act like a formal researcher : |
| 10 | Two entrances , an upper and a lower , descend easily to join under a natural bridge where a passage descends into darkness but becomes choked by boulders . |
| 11 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 12 | To my left the shallow ridge that formed an edge of the valley rose up to finish at a shallow bump . |
| 13 | In this area , at least , the would-be functionalist is offered the kind of rich and intricate structure that may match the detailed organization of linguistic structure , and so can be claimed plausibly to stand in a causal relation to it . |
| 14 | It is hard enough , as we have discovered , for people to know how to behave as a bereaved person . |
| 15 | Though he has yet to finish on a winning side — Great Britain lost both tests and were defeated 8-O at Leigh — & name is confident the side will come up with the goods this time . |
| 16 | Defenders of the Jewish American pieties and proprieties , and those in Israel for whom the Diaspora Jew is a rootless cosmopolitan , had marked Roth as a bad man , and in their eyes he has yet to turn into a good one . |
| 17 | Every practising barrister knows before which judges he would prefer not to appear in a political case because he believes , and his colleagues at the bar believe , that certain judges are much more likely than others to be biased against certain groups , like demonstrators or students , or certain kinds of action , like occupations of property by trade unionists or the homeless . |
| 18 | Celie strived not to conform to a stereotyped henpecked housebound wife . |
| 19 | Similarly , investors tend not to deal with a new house if they are doubtful about its tenacity — and skilled market staff will not join a firm even for high salaries if they are unsure that it will remain in the market . |
| 20 | Firstly , they tend not to originate from a real typographic font but are often variations on an original while , secondly , being bitmaps they can not be scaled . |
| 21 | No rule of law or the profession , therefore , prevents him from entering into a contract by which he undertakes not to act for a specified class of person . |
| 22 | In that situation , a person may choose not to contribute to a public facility on the grounds that others will pay enough to cover its finance ( and he can have a ‘ free ride ’ ) . |
| 23 | When you are made aware of this you can consciously choose not to react in a stressed way and you will therefore be able to maintain a calmness even when life becomes hectic . |
| 24 | She screamed , a cry that seemed not to come from a human throat , a deathyell of mortal agony and longing . |
| 25 | The long skeletal head and ghostly hands seemed now to belong to a bad dream . |
| 26 | Brian Horton says they think they 've done well to stay in a tough league having spent hardly any money … |
| 27 | Brian Horton says they think they 've done well to stay in a tough league having spent hardly any money … |
| 28 | Everyone is able to choose how to behave in a given set of circumstances , although many people operate on the assumption that they can not choose and never give the alternatives a moment 's thought . |
| 29 | In the 1930s you learnt how to behave as a human being from movies . |
| 30 | The best place to go like to go for a wee dance , the only place you could go for a wee da , that 's the . |