Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The student went on to say that , though he had received help for a specific question , he had not obtained enough understanding to cope with his future library problems . |
| 2 | Furthermore , if authenticity is to be defined as natural language behaviour ( and it is hard to see how else it might be defined ) there is also the difficulty that learners will naturally incline to draw on their own language in any situation that calls for uncontrived linguistic communication . |
| 3 | Certainly , I 'd I 'd very much like to agree with what that lady said . |
| 4 | Companies are far better equipped to compete with their international rivals than they were ten years ago ’ . |
| 5 | Why on earth should he want to , they 're only going to sell for his own work if he does n't . |
| 6 | It was not a motor-driven electronically tuned performance ( like a recent one by Salonen and the Philharmonia ) but one which attempted to penetrate the mysteries of the slower sections , above all those at the beginning of the second part , and one which was thoughtful enough to seem to come to its violent conclusion in spite of itself . |
| 7 | We 'll only have to go through it all again when we move . ’ |
| 8 | Whether the picture is seen as a staircase viewed from above or a staircase viewed from below seems to depend on something other than the image on the retina of the viewer . |
| 9 | Other reasons are less obvious , for firms have not merely reacted to change in their external environments ; many have actively sought to create new , internal sources of advantage . |
| 10 | In fact , men 's wrinkles only start to show from their mid-thirties . |
| 11 | The laggards were constantly encouraged to improve for their own good . |
| 12 | Erm it it does like this sir that I would imagine that what what we 're after here is a policy which would enable a local authority if it so wished to put into its local plan a strategic site . |
| 13 | Ashton 's careful build-up to this climax makes Vera 's discovery of them in each other 's arms all the more poignant because she shows a child-like petulance at losing one she so longed to have for her own . |
| 14 | He could see that Lee was attracted to Meryl , and this amused him , because he knew instinctively that he only had to turn on his own powerful charm and the result would be a foregone conclusion . |
| 15 | You only had to look at her greasy black hair , her insolent stare and her creased and spotted uniform . |
| 16 | Erm Isaac Azimov writes er , rather amusingly about this , he says why did , why did Weismann bother , he said Weismann was Jewish , of course , Weismann knew that since time immemorial , er , Jewish little boys have been having their foreskins chopped off , Weismann only had to look at his own children , when they were born , to see that even Jewish little boys are born with foreskins . |
| 17 | Delaney watched her — watched the reddish hair playing around her cheek , and the lips that he suddenly wanted to cover with his own . |
| 18 | ‘ Why , Mr Felse ! ’ said Lesley , opening the door to him , and blessedly forgetting to think of him first by his rank and office . |
| 19 | In those areas people can see what Labour councillors are doing for them and they only have to look at what Labour councillors are achieving locally and they will transfer their votes to labour for a national election ’ . |
| 20 | But he obviously wanted to get in his own trade , and I assume place came up . |
| 21 | He intended no offence to Scott , who was the leading living architect , and only wanted to appeal to his good sense and taste , but he could not understand Street 's attack on him , whose attitude that ‘ no one is an architect until he has been in Rome ’ , is the same as our grandfathers . |
| 22 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 23 | He is more likely to borrow than barter , since he does not want to part with his own . |
| 24 | At the moment computer manufacturers and disc drive makers who do not want to invest in their own design are uncertain about whose bandwagon to jump on . |
| 25 | Third party test facilities are another option for manufacturers which do not want to invest in their own facilities . |
| 26 | ‘ It appears that the Barnes lawyers and , by inference , the National Gallery of Art did not want to hear from me any comments questioning the indecent and dangerous haste in the timetable for the exhibition ’ , Stolow wrote in a 29 March letter to a member of Congress . |
| 27 | I had not intended to intrude on my hon. Friend 's speech , but does he consider that a schoolteacher , whose salary is fixed through national wage agreements by the independent pay review body for teachers and who lives in my hon. Friend 's or my constituency in the south-east , is better able to afford the council tax on a higher band than a teacher who lives in Darlington or elsewhere in the north ? |
| 28 | Buyers who desperately want to move into their new home will not thank a conveyancer who makes life difficult for a seller 's conveyancer who does not have a perfect title . |
| 29 | It is difficult to reject the view that he was genuinely anxious , first not to appear to profit from his own actions in bringing about the downfall of the Coalition , and second to strengthen the new Government , which he thought , probably mistakenly , that Mckenna would do . |
| 30 | Or am I not permitted to speak in my own house ? ’ |