Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither Jochen Mass nor Patrick Tambay did much to push him towards fresh championships ; his Number One status in the team was assured without effort , and I have often been led to wonder what would have happened if Teddy Mayer had been smart enough to hire a young hot-shot to give Master James a needed shot in the arm . |
| 2 | To understand the specific nature of the abnormality experienced by disabled people we have not only to document a general failure to provide for needs . |
| 3 | She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter . |
| 4 | It was a brave and beautiful place , with innumerable windows and twisting staircases and a lawn and a swing in a tree and everything you could desire in a spacious and desirable residence , only that it was all still and tiny enough to need a magnifying glass to see the intricacies of its carvings and appurtenances . |
| 5 | In a recent large UK search the company in question called on five of the major search firms , and invited them all in to make a competitive pitch to decide who was going to be successful at finding them a group chief executive . |
| 6 | Thus a clause which permitted " any partner " to be expelled by " the other partners " was held not to enable a single partner to expel either or both of his colleagues ( Re A Solicitor 's Arbitration [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 353 ) . |
| 7 | Because they have seen the future they can not or will not speak of what they know so the Phoenix Guard are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in all the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 8 | They are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 9 | In June opposition parties had boycotted parliament in protest against the government 's decision not to appoint a special tribunal to try Azam for war crimes allegedly committed during the 1971 war of independence [ see pp. 38967 ; 39007 ] . |
| 10 | The Church in Wales is soon to appoint a full-time priest to help in the area . |
| 11 | The research programme was thus to have a broad base to provide broadly applicable results . |
| 12 | Goalkeeper Stephen Pears is prepared to play after his cheekbone operation , and Lawrence has decided not to recruit a young player to deputise for suspended Jimmy Phillips . |
| 13 | Furthermore , once children have acquired the conventional word to express a particular meaning , they tend to use that , and not to coin a new form to use instead . |
| 14 | As jobs become even more complicated we have to look harder and harder to find a suitable person to fill them . |
| 15 | In November 1970 the CNAA was informed that the NCDAD had written formally to request a joint meeting to explore ‘ interrelationships ’ . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Labour MP for Blaydon , John McWilliam , emerged from talks with the police and MetroCentre officials yesterday to announce a new plan to handle such emergencies at the centre would be reviewed . |
| 17 | By having an attack of the infectious disease the body is stimulated to produce appropriate antibodies not only to assist recovery but also to provide a sufficient quantity to remain in the blood for a longer period , sometimes throughout life , for example after an attack of rubella |
| 18 | So many mourners turned up to say a final goodbye to nurse , Sharon Hill , that some had to stand outside Gloucester crematorium for the service . |
| 19 | It was in fact hoped eventually to build a new Hall to cater properly for the ever-expanding School , and to convert the Ha/lam Hall into a Chapel . |
| 20 | ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’ |
| 22 | A Northumbria Church Watch scheme is being launched today to encourage a positive attitude to deter criminals . |
| 23 | 2.1 HOW TO CHOOSE A LITERARY TEXT TO WORK ON |
| 24 | He smiled , then got up , moving across to fetch a small towel to mop up the ch'a , a brush to gather up the tiny pieces of broken porcelain . |
| 25 | THE DEPARTMENT of Industry ( DoI ) is about to appoint a new recruit to knit together Britain 's activities in satellite mapping . |
| 26 | The most common culinary crises were narrowed down to : seduction cuisine — how to cook a romantic dinner to impress ; budget cuisine , coronary cuisine , comfort cuisine — for those not feeling on top of the world ; spoil yourself cuisine — for anyone on their own ; student cuisine ; survival cuisine — for those who 've never had to cook for themselves before ; sports cuisine — for those needing a carbohydrate boost before a sporting activity ; trim cuisine — for cooks wanting to entertain but still stick to a diet ; creep cuisine — to impress the boss ; and finally , oat cuisine — for vegetarians , of course ! |
| 27 | Since dogs are so easily manipulated , it is perhaps surprising that two of the most common problems we hear from doggy ‘ specialists ’ ( dog breeders , for example ) concern eating — like how to get a show dog to eat on the road , and how to get a recalcitrant dog to eat at all . |
| 28 | It is all too easy for a department to obtain research money ( for example , from the pharmaceutical industry ) and then to employ a young doctor to perform substandard research . |
| 29 | A. G. Brown , who refused either to wear a white tie to show his ministerial status or to allow an organ in his chapel , was pastor of the East London Tabernacle . |
| 30 | Under the auspices of the Microelectronics Education Project ( MEP ) , Britain became the first nation worldwide to implement a unified policy to get computers into the classroom and to develop computer-based curriculum materials . |