Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [art] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 2 | Old phone books apparently make an ideal alternative to straw , and they 're far cheaper . |
| 3 | Sometimes we so devalue a physical approach to the world that we begin to devalue action itself . |
| 4 | It is also interesting to note that endorphins are released when acupuncture is practised and perhaps make a significant contribution to the therapeutic effects which may be achieved . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , he does report many developments in the American social scene , which obviously owe a great deal to the careful monitoring of many local newspapers . |
| 6 | There are examples all the time , of a , I 'm not going to use football as an example or a team as an example in football , and if you suddenly get a new member to the hockey team or a new member to the football team , or whatever and the whole team is transformed just by this one extra person , this one person joining in . |
| 7 | What is difficult to believe is that they had suddenly become a real threat to Gloucester . |
| 8 | What is difficult to believe is that they had suddenly become a real threat to Gloucester . |
| 9 | This grouping derived primarily from the Tea , Pernetiana and Bourbon roses , all with their origins in China , were the parents of the Hybrid Teas and naturally bear a close resemblance to them , having passed on much of their form , fragrance and perpetual or recurrent flowering . |
| 10 | These two figures , one political , one literary , symbolise the two fundamental strands in Nizan 's emotional and intellectual outlook , and together represent a politico-literary ideal to which Nizan ceaselessly aspires as a communist novelist . |
| 11 | Thus , missioners knew from daily experience the fundamental importance to deaf and dumb people of fingerspelling and signing , and they agreed with the deaf community that the language of signs and gestures was their own natural language which they should be allowed to learn as children and to practise as adults . |
| 12 | ‘ Little crime ’ calls , what the Metropolitan Police call ‘ beat crime ’ ( Policy Studies Institute 1983b : 35 ) , include a host of infringements and public nuisances , many of which do not come within what the section police define as ‘ real , police work , although some none the less have an intrinsic appeal to ordinary policemen and women . |
| 13 | The sluggish movements deep in the Earth eventually cause the rigid crust to fracture along great fault planes of weakness . |
| 14 | With a little training both the congregation and the soloist can produce good results , and thus provide a welcome supplement to the singing of hymns . |
| 15 | ‘ Please , ’ I said , speaking carefully , ‘ I just want a one-way ticket to Stockholm for tomorrow morning at 10.05 . ’ |
| 16 | After 1945 democratic socialist parties in a number of West European countries were able , for the first time , to form governments or to become major partners in coalition governments , and thus impart a new direction to economic and social policy making ( and this also happened to some extent in other regions of the world , though encountering greater difficulties ) . |
| 17 | The buyer was going to re-sell the goods and it was recognised that the buyer 's sub-purchaser would test the weight and thus ascertain the precise sum to be paid to the seller . |
| 18 | Just give the floppy disc to the Editor in good time — and yes , you will get it back again quickly ) . |
| 19 | The perfection of this design is attested by the fact that species belonging to quite different families of fish have adopted it and thus bear a strong resemblance to one another . |
| 20 | The steps no longer have a logical reference to the purpose of the dance . |
| 21 | In terms of the performance of the economy as a whole it is not entirely clear what the impact of regional disparities is , though it seems plausible that congestion in the south east and the under-utilisation of resources elsewhere represent a net loss to the economy overall . |
| 22 | First , however , we examine passive resonators , which are perhaps the simplest of all optical systems , and indeed , in one limit , reduce to a one-dimensional noninvertible map , and thus possess a period-doubling route to chaos . |
| 23 | But when he discovers from his review of the precedents that mothers already have a legal right to compensation for emotional injury suffered on a direct view of the accident , and therefore that drivers must already insure against causing emotional damage in those circumstances , the question of insurance costs becomes more complex . |
| 24 | Apparently he 's costing Lazio thousands & thousands per match and they want to off load the hefty wage to someone else ! ! |
| 25 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 26 | They quickly provide the necessary interface to network PCs , workstations , and other Ethernet equipment . |
| 27 | Indeed , I have heard of some anglers who deliberately attach a big hook to the ‘ feeder and catch plenty of barbel on it . |
| 28 | ‘ the complexities of legal practice are such that it is difficult to see how a one man band can take holidays , cope with illness , and set aside time to keep up to date with the law and still give an adequate service to public . |
| 29 | The criticisms outlined above have not been completely ignored by the planners , since , although the new structure plans still exhibit a keen adherence to key settlement policies ( National Council of Social Service 1979 ; Shaw and Williams 1981 ) , alternative settlement policies have also been considered . |
| 30 | Its approaches are guarded by rings of illusion and mazes of spells which means only those selected by the Loremasters of Hoeth ever find the true path to the tower . |