Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Launched from ML 102 , the two raiders had a mile or so to paddle on a compass course through choppy water into the harbour where , as the canoe surged on the swell alongside a large ship , they reached down underwater to fix their eight limpet mines . |
| 2 | Are these people afraid to expose themselves in a panel condemning the National Health Service or just to sit in the background and make any comments ? |
| 3 | It is possible to book alarm calls , make transferred charge calls , telephone for travel information , for the time , the weather , or just to listen to a story or some music ! |
| 4 | For others , it was a chance to browse … or just to relax in the sunshine . |
| 5 | For others , it was a chance to browse … or just to relax in the sunshine . |
| 6 | Not everyone gets better at weekends either — sometimes it can take a week or more to recover from the effects of chemicals at work . |
| 7 | The hospice aims to beat its previous record of £1,400 , and anyone with an hour or more to spare on the day should contact Deirdre Shaw or Dorothy Davison on . |
| 8 | It is an offence under bylaw 17(4) of bylaw 2 of the British Railway Board Bye Laws to molest or wilfully to interfere with the comfort or convenience of other passengers . |
| 9 | There was no sense of obligation to society , or even to learn of the necessities of life . ’ |
| 10 | There is a great difference between , on the one hand , voting Labour in a constituency which spread beyond the boundaries of the colliery village , and , on the other hand , being seen to organize a local Labour party or even to stand against the colliery manager and the old elite . |
| 11 | What is it that we carry away with us when we leave a gallery that creates a desire in us to paint , to draw or simply to doodle on a page . |
| 12 | It is clearly naive to talk in general terms about ‘ central government control ’ over local authorities , or indeed to generalize about the relationship at all . |
| 13 | They do not consist of an abstract duty to maximise profits or otherwise to act in the interests of society . |
| 14 | Yes , I was very successful in that respect as well that er , my children , I taught them that just to wait till the January sales and they 'd get what they wanted for half the price ! |
| 15 | It is feared he will concentrate on domestic policy , when Mr Major , who must overcome the embarrassment of backing Mr Bush , believes the US has a greater role than ever to play on the world stage . |
| 16 | I think we 'll just have a nice quiet day today erm there 's a little bit of a snag because I do n't quite know what we 're going to do about all these children that like to go to the library . |
| 17 | Its continued presence always surprised him since it served no purpose that he could see except symbolically to cut off the headland and to give travellers pause to consider whether they really wanted to continue . |
| 18 | There appears to be no other solution than either to conform to the system or to destroy it . |
| 19 | With an enormous effort Alexandra said , with a small smile , ‘ It was better to be artificial than actually to sit in the sea in March . |
| 20 | While individuals may be seeking : ( 1 ) freedom to advance their careers by moving on to other firms , but " job security " in the meanwhile ; ( 2 ) payment , on death or retirement , of the full value of their partnership shares ( including capital contributions , undrawn profits , goodwill etc ) ; and ( 3 ) upon death and/or retirement from practice , financial security for themselves and their families , the firm 's priorities in the interests of preserving profitability are likely to be concentrated on : ( 1 ) the need to impose restrictions on the freedom of partners to leave without adequate notice and/or thereafter to compete with the firm ; ( 2 ) the ability to remove from the firm any partner who has failed to meet proper professional standards who is disruptive or who is not seen to be pulling his weight ; and ( 3 ) the need to minimise the strain on the firm 's finances when a partner leaves whilst recognising a certain moral responsibility towards the family of a deceased partner . |
| 21 | Most of the teachers lingered a few minutes in the staff room , not from any affection for the place , but to allow the unruly mob of boys to get down the long road that led to Cullbridge , and thence to disperse to the bus station , to Wimpy bars , the library or their various homes . |
| 22 | It develops the ‘ ability to operate within the boundaries of sentence meaning , on the meaning expressly represented in the sentence per se , and thereby to operate within the boundaries of an explicitly presented problem ’ ( ibid. pp. 8–9 ) . |
| 23 | The fair is to be kept ‘ … upon the fourth day of July , being St Martin 's Day , and so to continue for the space of seven days … ’ , but the date changed to the 15th July when the Gregorian Calendar was adopted . |
| 24 | The reason for such an uncompromising policy is made plain : ‘ … that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices which they have done in the service of their gods , and so to sin against the Lord your God ’ ( 20.18 ; see7.4 ) . |
| 25 | In those days the infant Crocker had run up paths lightly and gleefully to bang on a knocker or ring a bell and , elated with an enormous naughtiness , hidden behind a hedge to see the angry householder erupt and curse . |
| 26 | The pressures to evade the tax — a new imposition bearing particularly hard on poor people in deprived , high spending areas — will encourage some people to disappear from all public record and perhaps to keep on the move to avoid detection . |
| 27 | Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own . |
| 28 | I look forward to the day when we do have a regional tier of government , and erm , a very prominent local politician , not of my party , told me in confidence , that he believes that erm , there will be a regional tier of government sooner or later , if only to react to the pressures from Europe . |
| 29 | I 'm sorry Mr , I think we have to press you on this , can I can I take it from what you have said We have to press you because for the reasons we explained on Friday morning , we have to go through the sector sites , if only to find at the end it can not be done . |
| 30 | Of course , it is necessary constantly to review policy and constantly to keep in the forefront of our thinking the need for the security forces and the police to have all the resources necessary to do the job that they do on behalf of all of us , the need for which has been so tragically illustrated again in the last 24 hours . |