Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 2 | It was a wonder they had not all mauled each other to death long ago and left the damp , chilly coastline unpeopled except for howling birds . |
| 3 | The Liverpool manager diplomatically avoided any attempt to bill this encounter as Souness versus Dalglish . |
| 4 | ROS : Perhaps they 've all trampled each other to death in the rush … |
| 5 | The most important and novel findings are that the combination of the histamine H 2 receptor antagonist ranitidine and the prokinetic agent cisapride greatly reduced oesophageal exposure to acid , and the addition of a standard oral dose of cisapride increased amplitude , duration , and propagation velocity of oesophageal contractions compard with placebo and ranitidine alone . |
| 6 | Analogies to the North Atlantic Oscillation , the much cited ocean-circulation link to climate , can not apply over such distances . |
| 7 | ‘ But I thought , ‘ He 's already lost one wife to cancer — he 's not losing another one . ’ |
| 8 | Functionalists have not always given sufficient priority to man 's joy in his senses , and the need for enrichment and ornamentation of his environment . |
| 9 | She had quickly outgrown any tendency to baby fat , and her legs were like beansticks . |
| 10 | The antislavery body also claimed effective access to government on the aspect of anti-slave trade policy which complemented suppression ; after pressure over some years for the British government to reduce discriminatory duties on commercial products from West Africa originating with information by Roscoe , duties on cotton wool , ginger , coffee and palm oil were lessened . |
| 11 | Carefully structured so as not to antagonize the central Soviet authorities , however , the package also included humanitarian aid to cancer victims of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster . |
| 12 | Moscow has also sought military access to port and air facilities in the Seychelles and built the Angolan port of Luanda into the main support facility for the Soviet Navy 's West Africa Patrol . |
| 13 | In your jar and I think you 've also taken this jar to school have n't you ? |
| 14 | This series of publications follows reforms introduced by two white papers , both entitled Financial Reporting to Parliament ( Cm.375 published in May 1988 and Cm.918 published in January 1990 ) . |
| 15 | Rodier has now refined this philosophy to perfection , offering its customers six colour and styling themes each season . |
| 16 | I was simply given some down to earth instruction on techniques . |
| 17 | It 's true , I have n't given much thought to Mummy . |
| 18 | We have n't got enough room to manoevre these big trucks . |
| 19 | Uncontrolled vegetation burning has frequently caused significant damage to moorland and blanket bogs on peat . |
| 20 | Central TV have not yet made any approach to Villa owner Doug Ellis — but if Ellis wo n't play ball , then Newbon may try his luck with other Midlands giants like Coventry or Nottingham Forest . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , Alyssia never paid much attention to work , did you , Ali ? |