Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Erm he , he then obviously goes on to erm to erm talk about peasant bans and prohibitions erm and for some incredible reason the peasants suddenly take a disliking to gaming , gambling and opium smoking , three things that I could n't think of anything I 'd like to do more , erm |
| 32 | The evidence of history , not to mention the physical evidence of those land deeds , suggested a subject of legitimate journalistic inquiry : who legally as well as morally had the right to ownership of the property ? |
| 33 | I much prefer the attitude to sex in Amsterdam where the whole set-up is less clinically efficient than in Germany . |
| 34 | Typically overheating by 1°C increases energy consumption by 7 per cent , and so heating a building to 22°C rather than the statutory maximum of 19°C increases the amount of energy used by over 20 per cent . |
| 35 | Ali had attacked the British bases in Iraq , and so created a threat to pipelines and oilfields vital to the Allied cause . |
| 36 | Plainly , there will be a very close connexion between the rules of change and the rules of recognition : for where the former exists the latter will necessarily incorporate a reference to legislation as an identifying feature of the rules , though it need not refer to all the details of procedure involved in legislation . |
| 37 | However , these fun boards winds are not frequent enough to recommend the resort to experts . |
| 38 | Propulsion occurs on the back-stroke ( when the hairs are erect ) and far less energy is expended in moving the leg forward on the recovery stroke ( when the hairs collapse against the leg and so reduce the resistance to movement ) . |
| 39 | From their smiles it appeared that the Corporal was a regular there , as he obviously travelled the road to Boulogne often . |
| 40 | Luckily , 21-year-old Emma , was well enough to make the trip to St. Bart 's on Monday morning by train , said Lyn , — but a few months ago the situation would have been completely different . |
| 41 | In addition to making an order for the child 's attendance the court may order any person who is in a position to do so to bring the child to court ( s95(5) ) . |
| 42 | One of these , Bernard Levin , memorably described a visit to Evita as " one ofthe most disagreeable evenings I have ever spent in my life , in or out of the theatre " , and " Do n't cry for me , Argentina " as a somewhat inferior melody to one he would hear as a boy , improvised on the saxophone by a busker outside the Albert Hall with only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 43 | It is one thing to produce an unbiased manuscript which adequately tells the complex factors which contributed to the American disaster that day ; it is quite another to successfully bring the story to life before the cameras . |
| 44 | In Matabeleland , the conflict between the government and dissidents between 1982 and 1987 effectively condemned the region to years of not only destruction and deaths , but also to general neglect . |
| 45 | He 's just broken the news to parents in a letter to each family . |
| 46 | Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated . |
| 47 | All the evidence available suggests that the rate of fall of the glucose concentration does not affect the response to hypoglycaemia in a clamp . |
| 48 | The Statute of Limitations itself does not affect the right to payment , but only affects the procedure for enforcing it in the event of dispute or refusal to pay . |
| 49 | Imaginative story-telling thus represents an alternative to information , but also to the realist novel which shares the media 's obsession with factual precision . |
| 50 | It was true : she had not given a thought to Gazzer . |
| 51 | The delay in publication of the original book would probably have been much longer had Medvedev not given the manuscript to Andrei Sakharov to read in October 1988 . |
| 52 | The events described had already formed the backdrop to Guinness I , and two unfinished sequels . |
| 53 | ‘ I understand , ’ he said anxiously , ‘ that Roy has already received a summons to Downing Street . |
| 54 | In any event , the new regulations can not eliminate the risk to taxi drivers . |
| 55 | The left-hander just avoided a caught-and-bowled to Malcolm 's left hand , but when Gooch brought Salisbury on , this time at the Nursery end , and pitching into the legside rough , he spun one right across Salim Malik to have him caught at gully . |
| 56 | Or maybe , rather than a total replay , just award the Cup to England due to Campese 's blatant obstruction on Underwood just as he was about to tackle Horan . |
| 57 | The publicity given to the award-winning designs must have helped to establish the popularity of the Second Empire style for certain buildings in Britain and the United States in the 1860s and 1870s , but it did not introduce the style to Britain . |
| 58 | Frank , at the age of 16 , had already won a scholarship to Trinity College in Cambridge . |
| 59 | While badgers can ‘ snuzzle and take all the corn crops ’ and will sometimes take the odd lamb , they are not considered a threat to farming , though it has been suggesting that they might have links with tuberculosis in milking herds . |
| 60 | SNI may well be involved at this stage too — it already has a licence to HP 's SoftBench as it is implemented in Informix 's ToolBus , going back to June this year ( UX No 388 ) . |