Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of towing amplified sweet nothings ahead of the school , they might do better to sit astern with a few well-chosen selections from The Osmonds ' Greatest Hits , or Singalongamax . |
| 2 | This is because objectivity is usually narrowed down to refer only to a homogeneous group of organizations . |
| 3 | The City is no longer confident enough to pay blithely for a new trading system being developed by consultants at Arthur Andersen . |
| 4 | A typical pattern in psychosomatic illness is for the disease to fluctuate with periods when the symptoms disappear only to return again at a later date . |
| 5 | Mr Yeltsin , meanwhile , asked the 1,033 members of the Congress of People 's Deputies not to go ahead with a planned impeachment vote . |
| 6 | The judge has also decided not to go ahead with a preliminary trial on two key issues in the case , scheduled to begin on January 15 , which would have broken new legal ground . |
| 7 | And a fair bit left over to put away for a rainy day , I daresay . ’ |
| 8 | I immediately took this to be a delusion — a sign that I was shortly to withdraw forever into a blissful lunatic world of favourite food fantasies . |
| 9 | An unpretentious batsman and an excellent field near the wicket , his towering height — he was 6 ft. 5 ins. tall , and delivered the ball , it was claimed , from a height of eight feet — enabled him both to bowl effortlessly off a short run and to produce stinging lift off a good length . |
| 10 | Either each bell sounds different , and each could be heard in every apartment , or each sounds the same but is wired up to sound only in a single specific apartment when pressed . |
| 11 | The captain and stand-off has taken time out to recover fully from a pre-season hand injury , and Bath will be grateful of his guidance . |
| 12 | He did well to hold off the challenge , battling bravely to last home by a short head . |
| 13 | The male patient is asked to pass a little urine ( perhaps the equivalent of two tablespoons ) into one glass beaker and then to pass more into a second beaker . |
| 14 | education programmes to increase visitor awareness of how to tread lightly in a sensitive area . |
| 15 | YOUNG prisoners are to be taught how to survive inside with a real-life version of the hit television comedy series , Porridge . |
| 16 | Statistics suggest that those whose marriages last beyond this period seem to have learned the secret of how to stay together in a stable relationship . |
| 17 | PLA2 has been considered earlier to act mainly as a harmful agent in the pathology of various inflammatory diseases including acute pancreatitis . |
| 18 | But they still do get nurses due for retirement who have nowhere to go apart from a special retirement home for others in the same profession . |
| 19 | This was probably a consequence of British membership of WEU , but Britain 's recent agreement to a treaty of association with the ECSC may have led the Six again to think optimistically of a British change of heart . |