Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could there really be a building site in the middle of this swamp rapidly reverting to nature after a brief and unsuccessful flirtation with civilization , Zen wondered ? |
| 2 | It is difficult to assess the long term benefit of such a campaign as individual cases now coming to light clearly heard some of the publicity which was beneficial to them at the time but did not result in them making a call at that particular time . |
| 3 | Surgical treatment of severe chronic constipation not responding to medication had an inconsistent and unsatisfactory outcome , resulting sometimes in intractable diarrhoea requiring a definitive terminal ileostomy or in persistence of abdominal pain , bloating , and discomfort . |
| 4 | Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange . |
| 5 | He then replaced the three lids correctly according to size . |
| 6 | A distinction must be made between nociceptive pain not responding to morphine ( paradoxical pain ) and over-morphinisation . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , Dorothy my dear , there is a poor dog absolutely stifling to death in a car outside . |
| 8 | Basically my message said that I could make some general comments mainly relating to style rather than accuracy but if the deadline had passed so be it . |
| 9 | He was educated at the Royal Belfast Institution and then at Queen 's University , Belfast , studying science in his first year then switching to philosophy . |
| 10 | We need to shift to the procedure that we would probably have and a tell me if I 'm wrong I thought there was a sort of general agreement without it being sort of firmly agreed that we were going to go for a format of subject specific reports still coming to form tutor who would complete some sort of general report , is that |