Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , perhaps even more significantly , certainly for the junior players , is the opportunity they have earned to go forward for a personal screening at Bradnam 's unique Herts-based Dewhurst Tennis Academy , the operation which has firmly set about the task of uncovering a future British Wimbledon champion . |
| 2 | Water pumped out of building excavations or road works , for example , may be permitted to flow directly into a neighbouring watercourse without a requirement that any solids settle out in the lagoons which are the typical method of purifying similar discharges more permanent in character . |
| 3 | just wants to go there as an equal |
| 4 | Over Adam 's shoulder , she watched as the couple moved to stand together in a quiet corner , deeply engrossed in each other . |
| 5 | In practical terms , this creates a different and exciting aspect of work for care workers who may seek to engage constructively with a wide variety of neighbourhood care schemes . |
| 6 | The Lebanese army did not enter a nearby camp used by Dev Sol , the Turkish urban guerrilla group , but were expected to do so at a later date . |
| 7 | The basic assumption of geometric perspective is that although parallel lines never meet , they appear to do so at a vanishing point , on a distant backcloth . |
| 8 | And then a rite of reconciliation for those who 've lapsed from church membership , or from the practice of their religion , and want to start again in a purposeful manner . |
| 9 | A manager has to believe totally in a new act . |
| 10 | Whether the owners of large or small estates , noblemen were members of a caste which was expected to live nobly with a certain liberality and panache ( ‘ vivre noblement ’ ) as befitted their tank . |
| 11 | She 's expected to stay there for a few more days , as a precautionary measure . |
| 12 | It needs to think ahead on a systematic basis . |
| 13 | In other words for every three pounds , thirty membership fee , the National Federation it has to pay just over a forty nine pence to Customs and Excise . |
| 14 | I 'm quite keen to make a distinction between what you might call victimless crimes and crimes with victims , and that it is , it seems to me , we want to move away from an older pattern in which the university had its ideas of how people should behave and tried to make them conform to those ideas , towards a much more complaint activated system of response , so that it 's the kind of behaviour find objectionable that the authorities may get drawn into looking at . |
| 15 | No wonder Thailand 's prime minister , Mr Chatichai Choonhavan , talks so enthusiastically ofa regional Suwannaphume , or Golden Land , embracing his country ( which thinks it stands to gain most from a regional economic revival ) , communist Indochina and Burma . |
| 16 | I propose to begin therefore with a terminological clarification . |
| 17 | After landing , they are given a number and expected to conform quickly to an institutional existence in conditions worse than many of Hong Kong 's prisons . |
| 18 | The United Kingdom has now taken the first step towards European Monetary Union which is intended to lead eventually to a single European currency . |
| 19 | ‘ At the same time it was decided to go ahead with a new 14,000 square foot facility in the Dubai Free Zone of Jebel Ali . |
| 20 | It could be that the couple simply decided to go away for a few days , but those who know Mrs Allsopp say it 's unlikely she would have left without telling anyone . |
| 21 | Caspar was slowing down , his eyes on a dip towards their left , where the road seemed to fall away into a natural valley . |
| 22 | Scottish motorists , however , could receive preferential rates if , as expected , they are used as guinea pigs to prove that the theory of in-car navigation system can be made to work effectively on a national scale . |
| 23 | For all the truth of these points , and for all the striking contrasts , military production would appear to function more as a favoured section of the economy than as a separate one . |
| 24 | The prescription of glasses is an exact science , and they are made to fit correctly at a specific distance from the eyeball . |
| 25 | At first glance , the head seemed to consist solely of a long nose protruding from a tangle of hair , thereby resembling the countenance of a maned vole , though considerably larger in size . |
| 26 | It is very effective , in that it can be used to cool an extinguish solid combustibles and flammable liquids , and systems which apply it can be made to do so over a limited ‘ volume ’ of the racking where the fire is i.e. the fire can be ‘ pin-pointed ’ . |
| 27 | Where white and black churches exist side by side , some congregations are now meeting to worship together on a quarterly basis . |
| 28 | Samuel Rhodes , the viola player of the Quartet , has had a larger size instrument made which enables the normal viola range to extend downwards by a fourth . |
| 29 | We have decided to keep away from a theoretical treatment in this chapter and simply to give you well-tried practical techniques that have been found to work . |
| 30 | Human beings seeking to navigate home from an unfamiliar site , would need a map and a compass . |