Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arnold himself conducted it on an EMI recording of 1980 , but sadly that has yet to appear on CD . |
| 2 | The young person who , unfortunately , reaches the age of 16 after July 2 has now to return to school for another year and will be almost 17 years of age whenever they leave . |
| 3 | More than eight out of 10 consumers , out of a sample of about 1,500 , said their consumption of meat and fish was unaffected by health considerations and 60% did not care about calories , while more than half claimed not to worry about calories , while more than half claimed not to worry about salt , sugar or caffeine . |
| 4 | This had more to do with share price performance than with currency changes . |
| 5 | The report of that research — Accident risk and behavioural patterns of younger drivers , published last year — showed that more than a third of the men aged 17 to 25 were assessed as ‘ unsafe ’ drivers , and suggested that this had more to do with lifestyle than with driving skills . |
| 6 | Then we all settled down to wait for Madam . |
| 7 | There was one time she was all dressed up to go to town and I did n't know her because she had a hat on . |
| 8 | So they all have somewhere to unwind after work , De Niro has even installed a restaurant downstairs , the deliberately downhome Tribeca Bar and Grill . |
| 9 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 10 | However , it is important to learn how to plot by hand . |
| 11 | The following day Gould visited the Catamaran River area again , but by now he was running short of fresh collecting sites and desperate to get back to work in earnest . |
| 12 | That had more to do with management and the presentation of the play to those who were backing it — so instead of playing Beefy , who is described as ‘ the world 's most beatific observer ’ I played the opposite number who was ‘ the world 's last shy elegant young man ’ . |
| 13 | Later that over Pringle let a ball or two pass only to freeze in horror as his last snapped back to hit the off stump . |
| 14 | Be ready to ease up to stay in position as the tug starts to climb . |