Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an expatriate , rather than a local employee is really needed , the organisation has to consider whether to relocate an existing employee or recruit specifically to fill the post . |
| 2 | Consequently , it mattered little whether the facade was retained or stripped away to reveal the reality behind it . |
| 3 | There 's nothing that we can say or do here to add the distinction , to add distinction er to what was done here forty years ago . |
| 4 | Heckling , or seeking temporarily to disrupt the speaker are insufficient to amount to such an offence . |
| 5 | The rays pass through a hole in the iris , called the pupil , which opens or closes automatically to alter the amount of light entering the eye , just as the diaphragm of a camera adjusts its aperture . |
| 6 | Eagles needed to witness the migrations of the smaller birds , or to fly afield to see the world beyond territories which at other times of the year they spent their time protecting and never left . |
| 7 | The phrase " all language " of quotations three and seven , the general term " language " of quotation four , and the use of " paradigm " in quotations two and eight , all function like the word " always " in the proposition discussed in the previous paragraph : they shift the focus of an immanent critique or paraphrase outward to formulate a general claim.2 The comparison between these propositions and the one already discussed is not perfect . |
| 8 | A control account is merely an extra account inserted at the back of a ledger or kept separately to make the ledger self-balancing . |
| 9 | Single-celled animals may have their pigments scattered , or gathered together to form an eye-spot in the cell . |
| 10 | Belinda gulped her juice and followed him obediently , too aware of him as he stood back to make way for her , or strode ahead to open a door , the taut muscles in arms and thighs revealed by his economical movements . |
| 11 | The detailed structure of the individual plates that combine together to build the skeleton are the basis for the classification of the corals , as well as the general form . |
| 12 | The marketing agents , Telemundi , have found themselves with the unenviable task of selling an event that has yet to capture the imagination of public and sponsors in a soccer-mad-country at a time when all media resources are concentrated on the approaching Olympic Games . |
| 13 | Such ambiguities only add to the difficulties of a plan that has still to win the approval of the Bosnian Serbs . |
| 14 | An engineer designing a horseless carriage is not obliged to retain structural features that existed solely to adapt the carriage to the horse ( although , in fact , such primitive features were retained for a time ) . |
| 15 | There is often considerable contrapuntal interest , although not always : some of the arrangements degenerate into a languid succession of chords that do little to retain the interest of at least this listener . |
| 16 | As a patient , I would like to think that the presence of a doctor 's name on the list would also offer me some sort of guarantee that he or she would not subject me to unnecessary or unjustifiably harmful treatment — whether that treatment be labelled alternative or mainstream , labels that serve only to confuse the issue . |
| 17 | Just something that ignited enough to get a flame onto his seat . |
| 18 | It may seem strange that trying hard to slam a partner bodily into the ground is a good way of making friends , but it 's true . |
| 19 | To attempt to encapsulate ‘ pain' or ‘ red ’ , in the sense in which these are sensations or experiences , within a form of words , is no more illuminating than trying verbally to capture the stink of durian ( a tropical fruit with a foul odour yet hypnotic taste ) . |
| 20 | Furthermore , ever since it became an independent department it has wanted to stop being merely a postman between the Treasury and the recipients of funds , and aspires instead to set the policy framework . |
| 21 | The one who took the lead looked big enough and mean enough to relish a ruck if there was a chance of one . |
| 22 | It was , however , a bodged job , probably by the farm labourers , and failed even to fit the opening properly . |
| 23 | The atomistic theory of Epicurus , the methods of the Greek sceptics , and Zeno 's paradoxes concerning time and space may all have influenced the heretics concerned , but MacDonald could find no trace of any Greek theory combining material and temporal atomism and sought instead to attribute the occurrence of the latter in Islamic thought to Indian influence . |
| 24 | Very quietly one gets up and goes noiselessly to check the bolt 's on the door . |
| 25 | A check of the water 's temperature is often made on the spot and smaller samples may also be taken and treated immediately to enable a measurement of dissolved oxygen to be made , or to fix for the presence of certain substances such as cyanide . |
| 26 | Doormen in red coats , royal blue silk lining flapping an appearance , peel off the foyer glass doors , and forge forward to park the car and muster bags . |
| 27 | Middlesbrough complete their North Division One programme at home to Widnes without lock Steve Howe , who is moving to Nottingham and has yet to make a decision about his playing future . |
| 28 | The student is expected to acquire knowledge and has also to prove a capacity for wide reading and understanding , an up-to-date awareness of the state of both debate and development in educational ideas , a capacity to criticize in a constructive way and an overall capacity to link those skills with collecting and analysing data and with the planning of projects . |
| 29 | Karen brushed them off with talk of a ‘ little twinge ’ that she got from time to time and rose briskly to clear the table . |
| 30 | ‘ People are clearly in earnest and want desperately to find a solution to keep the round on course , ’ a GATT official said . |