Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Replacement adsorption pads cost around £5 for three and because of this expense , human nature being what it is , there is a tendency not to replace them as regularly as recommended .
2 If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory .
3 Now go and try to execute them as precisely as drawn !
4 So the practice has been to regard them rather unofficially as having been satisfied if there is compliance on about … three occasions out of four , or four out of five , or two out of three — practices are variable from one authority to another .
5 They do not like by-elections , for in them a candidate of their own party may , win or lose , find the opportunity to display himself so advantageously as to become in the next general election a fearsome competitor .
6 We are trying to drag them here so as to get direct investment and to get foreign capital without incurring foreign debt .
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