Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought , what 's worse : to be the lover of some guy on screen , even see the relationship in bed , or to shoot somebody else on the screen ? |
| 2 | Simply to dismiss their work as ‘ pessimistic ’ , however , or to use it emblematically as a naive position which we now know better than to take seriously , seems to me hopelessly to devalue the currency of critique . |
| 3 | It was a sensation to me , a novice , but the experienced experimentalist learns the tricks of the trade , knows what mistakes to avoid and when weird things happen tries to investigate or to file them away in the memory — just in case . |
| 4 | The aim of coping responses in event-producing situations ( arrow d , Figure 7.1 ) must be either to reduce the likelihood that a severe event will occur ( perhaps by seeking marriage guidance counselling to help resolve marital difficulties ) , or to prepare oneself emotionally for the distressing event which is likely or certain to occur ( compulsory redundancy , say ) . |
| 5 | What better way to test the mettle of the new Calibra 16v than to pitch it directly against the class best , VW 's Corrado G60 ? |
| 6 | These medical investigations hardly ever revealed any physical or mental abnormality and if the bed-wetter continued thereafter to deplete the quartermaster 's stock of blankets then the British Army had no answer to this situation other than to discharge him honourably from the service without a stain on his character , whatever there might be on his bedclothes . |
| 7 | Buckley 's Grimsby Town have won five and drawn one of their last six to ease within sight of the famous names at the top — and nothing would give him greater satisfaction than to leave them behind at the end of the season . |
| 8 | If one accepts that comparable hypotheses may explain differential phenomenology ( such as the different experiences of motion-perception previously described ) , then his work shows that it is in principle possible for a creature incapable of experiencing distinct shapes to be aware of motion and to ascribe it correctly to an individual object . |
| 9 | The combination has impelled manufacturing and service enterprises in almost all sectors to search for larger markets abroad , and to establish themselves there in an ‘ insider position ’ ( Best , 1990 : p. 260 ; Milner and Yoffie , 1989 ) . |
| 10 | In the early days , the salesman behind the counter had served to promote the merits of different products , and to wrap them carefully for the customer 's homeward journey . |
| 11 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |
| 12 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 13 | The Citation rolled slowly on to its left side as Duncan fought to keep it flying and to keep it away from the airliner . |
| 14 | Traditionally , it was usual to take the upwind wing-tip and to hold it slightly below the horizontal . |
| 15 | It was Freeth 's custom to write songs — setting his words to popular tunes — about remarkable events in local and national news , and to sing them nightly to the company assembled at his Coffee House . |
| 16 | This was to draw the ‘ poor ’ and ‘ middle ’ peasants away from the private trade of the ‘ rich ’ and to turn them eventually towards an alliance ( smychka ) with urban inhabitants . |
| 17 | When James did succeed to the throne in 1685 , the pro-Catholic and pro-French orientation of foreign policy was naturally maintained , and the new king made strenuous efforts both to return England to the papal fold and to realign her fully with the international Catholic axis . |
| 18 | By and large , we are talking about commuter lines designed to bring people from the south-east to central London in the morning and to take them home in the evening . |
| 19 | The withdrawal from the world , the silence , the disciplines of community and the deliberate cult of monotony in a system where everybody wears the same clothes and does the same things day after day have been found to support the mystic during his frequently lonely journey , to earth him in reality and to wean him away from an excitement and drama that is inimical to the mystical experience . |
| 20 | Dino Zoff , the Lazio manager , decided to pick Gazza only on Saturday — and to tell him shortly before the kick-off . |
| 21 | The successful communicator selects just those features which differ from this schema , enabling the receiver to adjust it and to bring it closer to the individual instance which is being described . |
| 22 | We must see how this doubt develops and be careful to presuppose only what we know to be true and to commit ourselves consciously to the consequences of these suppositions . |
| 23 | It was characteristic of the radical agitational movements in Derry to echo ideas which were already widely accepted , but to put them forward in a more aggressive , combative and militant style . |
| 24 | I have very unpleasant recollections of sitting for him , for it was of utmost importance not to move but to fix him right in the eye and listen to him complain , saying as he always did that he was getting nowhere . |
| 25 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |
| 26 | The bureaucracy will be remunerated so as to set it apart from the rest of society and reinforce its internal hierarchy . |
| 27 | I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear . |
| 28 | ‘ But I am neither so foolish , nor so quixotic — nor , I may add , is my mind and resolution of so high an order ! — as to deprive myself entirely of the opportunity to better my own lot . |