Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have sounded odd to only have an 18in tube for a four foot tank , but this is another attempt to try to establish a more natural environment . |
| 2 | The government found it necessary to try to impose a centrally determined framework on what had hitherto been entirely local , and often monastic , charitable initiatives . |
| 3 | If the theory that DNA and its copying machinery arose spontaneously is so improbable that it obliges us to assume that life is very rare in the universe , and may even be unique to Earth , our first resort is to try to find a more probable theory . |
| 4 | The other day I came to work wearing a rather sharp tie and somebody said it looked as if it had been designed by somebody with ‘ special needs ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ The manning hours at Hartlepool had to be reduced as we are trying to cut the amount of money that the tax payer has to find to run a socially necessary railway . |
| 6 | By the end of the reign it was already falling off , and while Henry VI had much noble support for his coronation expedition in 1430–1 , those who continued to serve him in the French war in the years to come constituted a relatively small group of men . |
| 7 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 8 | I have had to try to explain a rather sophisticated argument : last year their pensions were increased by more than 10 per cent. , when the increase in the cost of living was lower . |
| 9 | They lacked any direct involvement in the origins of those hostilities and were clear-eyed about the depleted resources with which they had to work to arouse a usually indifferent public . |
| 10 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 11 | There are obviously many reasons for the conjunction of forces which produced its institutions and these must include the Reithian spirit ( described above ) , a political system secure enough to grant broadcasting a relatively free hand and the absence ( or the negation ! ) of deep social divisions . |
| 12 | However , the amount of these that are actually enjoyable to play represents a radically different figure . |
| 13 | A further dilemma may arise when the individual whom professionals are trying to help has a very different interpretation of his or her circumstances , aspirations and prospects from those of relatives , or where the individual is suspicious and distrustful and does not want even close family to know what has happened to him or her . |
| 14 | secondly , our reading of the way that professionals and people with learning difficulties are working towards recreating the relationship between them , including an outline of a support structure developed recently by the authors ( Brechin and Swain , 1986 , 1987 ) designed as a tool to help shape a more equal relationship , or ‘ a working alliance ’ as it has been described elsewhere ( Deffenbacher , 1985 ; Egan , 1986 ) ; |
| 15 | Dry-lay a row of tiles from this point out to each wall so you can see how wide the cut border pieces will be , and adjust your starting point if necessary , to avoid having a very narrow border strip which will be difficult to cut . |
| 16 | I must again stress how very grateful we are to the IBOA and AIB for their kindness in continuing to help put a little additional pleasure into the lives of our members . |
| 17 | According to a similar perspective , adopted by authors like Hall ( 1978 ) and Taylor ( 1987 ) , the growing media focus on hooliganism since the 1960s may be seen as a political device to help justify a more authoritarian state response to all forms of social dissidence . |
| 18 | English is the language of aviation and our native tongue , but some of the people we were trying to teach had a very poor comprehension of the language . |
| 19 | Santa Cruz has to date kept a very low profile in Japan , although it has had a product available on NEC 9800 series personal computers for some years . |
| 20 | A lat-ent macro-economic effect was that the social groups most likely to save bore a relatively light burden — important , perhaps , for the financing of economic growth . |
| 21 | GKR claim to have developed a uniquely effective research procedure , but it is such a closely-guarded secret that its uniqueness and efficacy is impossible to judge . |
| 22 | All of this seems to have painted a rather gloomy picture . |
| 23 | In its location there , on the Atlantic coast of north-western Spain , it appears to have received a constantly renewed nourishment and impetus through the maritime trade routes from Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 24 | Cotter seems to have enjoyed a fitfully co-operative relationship with Wilson until 1921 , when the NSFU seceded from the National Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 25 | If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development . |
| 26 | But Morse appeared to have boarded a completely different train of thought : ‘ I was just wondering about their dates of birth … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You seem to have adopted a very cynical viewpoint , Matthew . ’ |
| 28 | During the night , it might have been useful to have adopted a more individualised approach . |
| 29 | That is why talks with GM are rumoured to have been more extensive than those with Ford , which appears to have adopted a more aggressive stance . |
| 30 | I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ? |