Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd badly want to find the car to forestall any possible inquiries about an abandoned vehicle , and to remove all evidence of my presence . |
| 2 | They had long since stopped expecting the world to deal kindly with them : they had used up their good fortune by remaining alive when the Plague came . |
| 3 | Thus " information handling " does not merely cover using the microcomputer to find references to aspects of pollution such as ACID RAIN but to the whole process of learning done in the classroom and the school library . |
| 4 | Holding the mussel with both forefeet , it begins pounding it on the rock until it is sufficiently broken to allow the otter to extract the flesh with its teeth . |
| 5 | If the community really wants to tackle the problems of alcohol abuse it merely has to encourage the government to push up the cost of alcohol beyond the point of everyday affordability . |
| 6 | Like a wine connoisseur who only has to sniff the vintage to know how good it is , a cat can learn all it wants to know without actually trying the food . |
| 7 | Although in word-processing this key acts in the same way as the typewriter lever that moves the paper up one line , on a computer it is only used to force the word-processor to move one line — usually at the end of a paragraph . |
| 8 | Some structures merely seem to satisfy an urge to build but not any desire to simulate an existing object or building . |
| 9 | 3.2 The Landlord shall procure that as soon as in the opinion of the Architect the Works on the Premises are sufficiently advanced to enable the Tenant to commence and carry out the Tenant 's Works the Architect shall give notice to the Tenant to that effect |
| 10 | As the car 's lights disappeared round the corner , it occurred to Charles that he should perhaps have asked the man to wait . |
| 11 | As he repositioned the pins , she suddenly decided to take the opportunity to mention Constance and her plans for her . |
| 12 | It merely seems to stimulate the body to produce more and more to match the daily need . |
| 13 | They wo n't like it in here , too hot ; but it 's quicker for the morning , otherwise I 'd only have to cross the yard to get them . |
| 14 | In concerning ourselves with the needs of pupils , we may too long have ignored the need to give our teachers services and support and help them to feel adequate to cope with the demands that education in the modern world is making upon them . |
| 15 | You had to keep stirring all the time and , after an hour or so , the milk set solid and then was gently cut to allow the whey to flow out , leaving the curd . |
| 16 | Blocking your feelings will only serve to restrict the way to talk with a partner or someone else important to you . |
| 17 | The Soviet leadership had long hoped to persuade the West to accept the division of Europe as the price of détente . |
| 18 | This ensures that the patient 's conscious mind is sufficiently relaxed to allow the subconscious to offer up whatever it may choose to reveal . |
| 19 | She only had to shake a hand to increase the revenue and bring more publicity to the organization than any amount of money could buy . |
| 20 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
| 21 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 22 | I only have to take a moment to get my eyes strong and then I can push it out , this strongness , at anything at all so long as I am staring at it hard enough … |
| 23 | Downtown is awash in a torrent of languages ; you only have to ride the subway to see the city is no longer the prim , white Anglo-Celtic centre of 40 years ago . |
| 24 | Our transformation matrices are therefore 15 × 15 in size , and the advantage of only needing to consider the trace to derive the character X is apparent ! |
| 25 | ( iv ) Discard most of the supernatant , leaving behind just enough citrate covering the cells to flick the cells into a suspension by gently tapping the sides of the tube . |
| 26 | Also the Transport Authority was expressly empowered to require the Executive to provide a service at a cost the Executive considered to be too high , so long as the Transport Authority provided the necessary additional cost . |
| 27 | You do not need to see a lawyer to complete the form , but advice on any aspect of your LIVING WILL can be obtained from The Terrence Higgins Trust Advice Centre and Legal Line or the Immunity Legal Centre . |
| 28 | With object-oriented Cobol , as with traditional Cobol , a manager should not need to understand the language to see what is happening . |
| 29 | The purchase of this equipment also ensured that we did not need to convert a room to provide a separate Archive Library in future building development . |
| 30 | Again , all the boys are circumcised according to tradition , and we do not need to flash the penis to prove us to be nice , Jewish boys . |