Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The millionaire , standing with his legs apart , breathed in to help disguise a nascent paunch . |
| 2 | The drafter may sometimes be tempted to leave something deliberately vague in order to mask its meaning , perhaps to avoid frightening a potential contract partner . |
| 3 | However , I was lucky enough to have joined a tolerant company that believed in giving people a chance . |
| 4 | They are simply people who are lucky enough to have landed a free trip to a holiday destination , a trip paid for by an airline , a tour company , a hotel chain or any combination of the three . |
| 5 | In fact , there is only one car that has been around long enough to have reached an affordable price on the secondhand market — the Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.8i . |
| 6 | In all cases , however , Standard English has been present for long enough to have had a substantial impact on the language practices of the communities in question . |
| 7 | While the English fleet lay off Lisbon Moulton was sent ashore to try to negotiate a diplomatic settlement with the king . |
| 8 | But it is perhaps better not to try to make a bizarre idea for a murder the seed in your mind for a book , though when you have devised your plot you should of course make the actual circumstances of the murder as attention-grabbing as possible . |
| 9 | The question of ‘ going modular ’ does recur even now at Oxford Polytechnic , but on the local basis of whether or not to apply to join a going concern . |
| 10 | The court found that the pilot appeared to have confused the vertical speed instruments with the altitude indicator , and thus to have selected an inadequate altitude shortly before landing . |
| 11 | And , of course , every official New Zealand or British sitting in the stand claimed not to have witnessed a gross act of violence , right in front of their eyes . |
| 12 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |
| 13 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |
| 14 | In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) . |
| 15 | On the other hand , she comforted herself , the modern Dane , from what she had read and the little she had seen , appeared not to have inherited a great deal from his pillaging ancestors ! |
| 16 | They would prefer not to have to make a financial contribution , regardless of their ability to pay . |
| 17 | It was also a mistake not to have organised a separate workshop on Islamic fundamentalism and Salman Rushdie 's book , because this ended up dominating discussion in the International workshops making it difficult to discuss other anti-imperialist issues . |
| 18 | Examples of the latter include the installation of an electric blanket at Murrayfield , which has meant that they are the only home union not to have had a Five Nations match postponed within the last 30 years , whilst they always have a venue for important representative matches available there if the weather tries to sabotage the programme . |
| 19 | He appears not to have had a ready answer to this question ! |
| 20 | But in the mid-1980s , a 34-year-old advertising executive earning a substantial living who chucks it aside to help forge a Utopian society is an anachronism , more like a character in a Peter Carey novel than real life . |
| 21 | That lesson was fully absorbed when Walter Smith took over as Rangers ' manager and made Goram his first domestic signing — and the only Scottish goalkeeper ever to have cost a seven-figure sum . |
| 22 | A number of experiments have been set up to try to establish a satisfactory method of appraisal . |
| 23 | mother gives up to avoid having a screaming child |
| 24 | This arrangement was partly to help overcome a technical problem since Laura Ashley machinery was not capable of producing sheeting to the required width , and coordinated bed linen was a must for American designers . |
| 25 | Bail conditions appear also to have become a standard practice in public order cases . |
| 26 | People who are concerned to preserve their own well-being , and also to strive to do a better job , need to look in two directions for help : they must look inwards , to gain insight into the dynamics of their own stress ; and they must look outwards , to understand better the social forces that surround them . |
| 27 | The key worker or case manager role , identified in the research , uses social work time productively to help maintain a vulnerable person in his/her home , and not using more costly residential care . |
| 28 | SUNDERLAND-BASED Dawn Milligan had her first open winner of the year when home-bred Woodhill Echo bounced back to form to win a high-class £1,000 open at Nottingham . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly , this doctrine has become especially important to those who feel as a matter of Marxist science that the proletariat ought by now to have enacted a revolutionary response to the crises which are seen as always present ; and their failure to do so is therefore commonly explained as an aspect of false consciousness , which prevented them from recognizing their proper historical duty . |
| 30 | The sites may not be so dramatic , but you will be surprised at what you discover if you aim really to get to know a particular area . |