Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But viewers soon came to rely on Central South as their major source of regional news . |
| 2 | THE South African government and the opposition African National Congress yesterday sought to defend against ferocious attack the agreement they have reached to share governmental power until the end of the century . |
| 3 | Citrine sometimes threatened a directive as his ultimate bargaining counter , but Area Board chairmen could call his bluff and he usually preferred to search for collective agreement . |
| 4 | Mr Yeltsin also managed to push through parliamentary ratification of his Federation Treaty that brings under one roof 18 of the 20 ethnic republics of the Russian Federation and all the smaller regions . |
| 5 | He said as well as having reached the statutory retirement age , he also wished to comply with constitutional legislation preventing members of the military from joining political parties . |
| 6 | President Bush ( Republican ) also had to deal with Democratic Party majorities in Congress . |
| 7 | Shells now began to fall with increasing regularity among closely packed men . |
| 8 | She paused and then began to speak with real passion . |
| 9 | Mr Sugar then decided to invest in commercial property , an investment funded by the sale of 43 million Amstrad shares , a transaction netting him £34m . |
| 10 | Although prepared , within two months of his capture , to address leaflets to his former comrades explaining his motives , he steadfastly refused to appeal to Red Army soldiers to desert : he wanted them to revolt , in arms , against Stalin 's tyranny . |
| 11 | We therefore decided to press for immediate action where it could be taken , with the aim of achieving a Directive in the medium term . |
| 12 | She therefore had to go into Intensive Care , as do other babies who may have had birth complications or other problems . |
| 13 | Palestinians therefore had to compete with subsidized Israeli produce in the home market while being denied access to the Israeli one . |
| 14 | And she never wanted to return to full time teaching . |
| 15 | Mm and she never wanted to return to full time teaching , its , its for her that she 's got a job that she 's very good at and she enjoy , in an extremely nice school . |
| 16 | Freud shared this evolutionary perspective with these early writers in sociology , and he too attempted to build on biological knowledge about man . |