Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | holding a ‘ dress rehearsal ’ beforehand so that the members of the panel can get used to working together rather than having to learn while the interview is in progress . |
| 2 | He had known Elise only slightly and seemed to sense that Merrill did n't want to talk about her cousin , and he confined his conversation to holidays , recent travel and his work . |
| 3 | It 's an electro-mechanical device , with contacts and so on that tend to corrode and all the rest of it , and that sort of thing can be very conveniently replaced by a small microcomputer . |
| 4 | The Government take the matter extremely seriously and want to ensure that grants go to those who most need them . |
| 5 | The renewed popularity of Japanese gardens , not only as places to visit but as inspirations for western design , can be seen in two forthcoming books : Maggie Oster 's Japanese Garden Style ( Cassell , March , £19.99 , 0 304 34222 X ) , and Philip Cave 's Creating Japanese Gardens ( Aurum Press , May , £19.99 , 1 85410 212 5 ) , which comes with an imprimatur from Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe . |
| 6 | He nodded once more and tried to remember that this was dammit , the British embassy . |
| 7 | Love within a partnership in which , for one of you , the love is still there and yearning to grow and develop , whilst for the other , it 's gone , it 's over , it 's finished . |
| 8 | I thought I should start packing his clothes straight away but decided to wait till after the funeral . |
| 9 | Once the New Year festivities are out of the way , we expect that sales will pick up significantly and continue to improve as we come into the traditional pre-spring buying season . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We do not want to be accused of smuggling these pictures out of Russia , we want to do things quite officially and have to wait until the Russian ministry of culture says everything is all right , ’ said embassy spokesman Enno Barker . |