Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [vb base] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a sense in which I think you are saying something which I 've often heard people say recently , and that is that in a day , in a time of rapid change , we personally and collectively need to make sense of where we 're going , our futures , in terms of our past . |
| 2 | In this situation , firms find their inventories being run down involuntarily and so act to increase output . |
| 3 | Probably the most effective means is to find a task which is sufficiently simple that the patient can carry it out and thereby begin to experience success . |
| 4 | Hence , they develop quite rigid codes of behaviour , or group norms , which explicitly or implicitly act to create conformity among group members . |
| 5 | This particular passage ends with the sentence : ‘ the purpose of the underground press is ‘ not so much to dissent as to disrupt ’ , and its editorial policies explicitly and implicitly seek to overthrow society as we know it , and of this it makes no secret ’ . |