Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went out , leaving Peter Suvarov to wait for a more rational assessment of Julia 's state from Annunziata . |
| 2 | It would have to wait for a more opportune time , she decided , and replaced the receiver . |
| 3 | Twice a week , having given their word of honour that they would not attempt to escape , those prisoners who wished to go for a heavily guarded march through the surrounding countryside , along lanes chosen for their loneliness , were allowed to do so . |
| 4 | Now we need to go for a more direct experience , feed in the kind of energy you get at raves , for example . |
| 5 | And indeed , to go for a more precise figure would suggest that I was making a particular point . |
| 6 | The ineffectiveness of prosecution , or the threat of prosecution , to deter large stores from Sunday opening has caused local authorities , who are charged with the enforcement of section 47 , to search for a more effective remedy , and as a result they have resorted to seeking injunctions to restrain stores from infringing the section . |
| 7 | In principle , though I think it 's very difficult , as I understand it right now , you 've got to go through a rather unfriendly session of training the computer to respond to your voice , and if you say something in a slightly different way later on it may not recognize it as the word that you had previously trained it on . |
| 8 | Wakefield director David Lane believes care management is likely to go through a fairly turbulent period initially . |
| 9 | They danced until their limbs fell from their bodies , compelled to cavort as a fantastically swift leprosy rotted the flesh from their bones . |
| 10 | You may find it a long way to come for a comparatively short meeting and I should also mention that we have a regular reporter who covers the meeting on behalf of the Courier and the Garstang Guardian . |
| 11 | Braithwaite ( 1979b : 130 ) believes that , ‘ government lawyers , who must in many ways be all-rounders , can not compete with the corporation lawyer who spends his whole life finding out all there is to know about a narrowly delimited area of ‘ legal loop-holes ’ ' . |
| 12 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 13 | The motion was : ’ That leave be given to bring in a Bill to end distinctions between the various types of educational institutions that cater for people over 18 years of age , and to provide for a genuinely comprehensive system of higher education under democratic control . ’ |
| 14 | But Ned Corvan , it seems , continued to work for a solidly working-class audience and address working-class concerns . |
| 15 | ‘ Many people with this disease are able to continue to work for a very long time and there is no evidence to suggest that her condition and the error are necessarily linked . ’ |
| 16 | Lily , my mother , was not allowed to receive this additional education and from her early teens had to work as a very junior housemaid , at the beck and call of older staff . |
| 17 | Though a fictional character , Cu Chulainn came to stand for a very real sense of patriotic courage and self-sacrifice . |
| 18 | Criticisms made of it are here being required to stand for a more general critique . |
| 19 | Yet the amphibia as a whole represent an early level of terrestrial organization ; they are tied to water for reproduction , because their larvae have to pass through a wholly subaqueous phase , and desiccation of the adult is a constant danger . |
| 20 | This was hardly a welcome dowry for the investors that the government wanted to attract into a newly privatised industry . |
| 21 | He then entered the University College , London , to study zoology and stayed on to work with a very distinguished man , J B S Halldane on the genetics and behaviour of the fruit fly . |
| 22 | The usual trouble with nebulæ is that their surface brightness is low , and it is usually best to work with a comparatively low magnification . |
| 23 | It is essential to work with a more complex picture of who the elderly are and of their role in society than the simple , depressing picture of a costly burden . |
| 24 | Newly commissioned cadets are normally sent to work in a relatively small situation . |
| 25 | God , when things like that happen I just feel like shouting I Want To Work in a very loud voice . |
| 26 | Upon taking up his position Barratt 's first action was to stop all mining for two months before allowing the men back , to work in a more orderly fashion . |
| 27 | They both need to learn to work in a more advanced outline , by increasing their hock engagement which will lead to lightness of their forehand and better selfcarriage . |
| 28 | The Elton Committee did , however , offer pupils an opportunity to benefit from a more child-centred approach to school discipline . |
| 29 | Consequently most visitors to the countryside continue to come from a fairly circumscribed group of affluent suburban car-owning families while those arguably in greater need are scarcely catered for . |
| 30 | Many people would take up the opportunity to train in a completely new craft . |