Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two species of butterfly fish have been observed to swim slowly backwards at the first hint of trouble , making their false eyes seem even more real . |
| 2 | Already , the germ is present which was to flower most fully in The Last Battle : the idea of school holidays being a mere Platonic shadow of our permanent refreshment in Paradise , of our earthly homes being but a reflection of heaven . |
| 3 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |
| 4 | Most of the people , just over two thirds , who spent all the last year of their life in a residential or nursing home were 85 or more , and it is this age group which is predicted to increase most rapidly in the next twenty years ( Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) , 1989 ) so it is likely that increasing numbers will spend the last year of their lives in such homes . |
| 5 | It therefore required no feat of prophecy to assert that long before the twentieth century was out , the United Kingdom would be a country without empire and not in the front rank in size and power , and yet that this would not be synonymous with disaster , dishonour or extinction . |
| 6 | Margaret continued to cope fairly well during the next year . |
| 7 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
| 8 | Most people expect the PLA to intervene more openly in the next political crisis , but not necessarily in a unified manner . |
| 9 | Close pal Ince will lead the rookie side that Taylor plans to name late today for the first of three US Cup games . |
| 10 | After that , the aim was to proceed relatively quickly with a fourth Hinkley station , possibly one of the first commercially operated fast breeder reactors . |
| 11 | WHETHER WE LIKE it or not , the world we live in has changed a great deal in the last hundred years , and it is likely to change even more in the next hundred . |
| 12 | Some were able to return home yesterday for the first time since Thursday . |