Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [conj] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say this not because any holder of judicial office should ever regard it as an affront to be overruled by an appellate court but merely to emphasise that as a practical matter the chances are that the visitor probably will get it right . |
| 2 | The announcer warns people not to swim because of a dangerous fish . |
| 3 | This method — removing an aggressive nursery school child from play for a period of one minute — was compared by researchers with a scolding and orders not to hit and with a further method of distracting ( i.e. redirecting ) him to other play . |
| 4 | The soldiers had orders not to shoot except as a last resort to save human life . |
| 5 | A successor ( all Heads of Department were eligible for election ) had proved hard to find and for a brief period the chairmanship of the Course had been taken over by the Deputy Director , Brian Tonge . |