Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bet a mere $50,000 — tempting enough for Dastmalchi to call in the forlorn hope of a miracle six to fill his inside straight . |
| 2 | One down with three to play in a fourball is tough , but Howard made a sensational birdie on the 16th and the Americans made two bad seconds at the 17th . |
| 3 | Perhaps the best one can say is that when such heroes die they go , in Tolkien 's opinion , neither to Hell nor Heaven , but to Limbo : ‘ to my fathers ’ , as Théoden says , ‘ to sit beside my fathers , until the world is renewed ’ , to quote Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit , perhaps at worst to wait with the barrow-wight ‘ Where gates stand for ever shut , till the world is mended ’ . |
| 4 | It does n't take them long at all to get in the outskirts of London , it 's weaving your way |
| 5 | only by promising to work with the Independents . |
| 6 | He served in Mesopotamia during the First World War , came home in 1916 to transfer to an infantry regiment . |
| 7 | The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue . |
| 8 | What a pity that the members of the Napier Commission which was set up in 1883 to enquire into the conditions of the crofters and cottars in the Highlands and Islands were unable to have sittings in Islay ; despite pleas for them to visit the island they finished their tour at Tarbert . |
| 9 | What a pity that the members of the Napier Commission which was set up in 1883 to enquire into the conditions of the crofters and cottars in the Highlands and Islands were unable to have sittings in Islay ; despite pleas for them to visit the island they finished their tour at Tarbert . |
| 10 | A working party chaired by Lady Vaizey was set up in 1977 to look into the question of making such payments , but although it produced a paper on the subject , no further action was taken . |
| 11 | The Labour government elected in 1984 was the first to recognize the scale of Maori discontent , and extended the powers of the Waitangi Tribunal which had been set up in 1975 to act as an arbiter of Maori grievances . |
| 12 | This was set up in 1972 to cope with the fact that , in the words of the director of the regional organization' |
| 13 | Coenred , son of Wulfhere , was a man of at least 30 years of age , possibly older , who abdicated five years later in 709 to live as a monk at Rome ( HE V , 19 , 24 ) and who was succeeded by Aethelred 's son , Ceolred . |
| 14 | VISystems Inc , the Dallas , Texas-based company founded back in 1987 to help with the migration of IBM CICS transaction processing software over to Unix-based systems , is set to announce a tie-in with Sony Corp for its VIS/TP transaction processing system family of products . |
| 15 | Certainly Hearts created precious few chances , and the fact their goal , which came in the 20th minute , stemmed from a blunder must have proved hard for United to swallow at a ground where they last won in 1985 . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've denounced facts which are there for all to see in the RAI accounts , and the public prosecutors are looking into some of them . |
| 17 | He revels in the physical quality of the paint and that sheer primaeval force and energy is there for all to see in the late works . |
| 18 | The House does not have to take my word for it , because the action taken to deliver our commitments is there for all to see in the report . |
| 19 | He returned there in 1922 to participate in the work of the Palestine crafts and industries commission . |