Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each smaller work group attempts to perform better than their rival groups in both quality control and in the number of suggestions they offer to improve productivity . |
| 2 | Brian got the urge to come home as his 60th birthday approached . |
| 3 | Come over here and spent his silver wedding just to come here and his golden wedding ! |
| 4 | Needing to find precisely when their electrical axis first originated in the development of the animal , he began mapping the fields in progressively earlier stages of salamander embryogenesis and discovered that the electrical axis originated in the unfertilized egg , thus contradicting conventional biological and genetic theory . |
| 5 | On hitting the stop , the wire trip is forced back in relation to the tube and , at the other end of a dowel pushrod , the release pin allows the parabear to fall away and its static line is pulled from the parachute pack . |
| 6 | Pascoe staunchly refused to go further than his earlier explanation that he wanted to speak to MacQuillan about finance . |
| 7 | Those people have lived here for about two years and they 'll still say ‘ I 've got to go home because my old man wants his dinner . ’ |
| 8 | Though the actual trees stood back against the sky their reflections had to be made to advance so that their topmost branches felt close . |
| 9 | By the 1940's it was becoming more usual to conclude rather that their distinctive role was quite other than that of saying anything factual at all . |
| 10 | Rob Pinchbeck expects his new spell as manager of Magnus to last longer than his previous stint in the job . |
| 11 | Services should be provided near enough so that people do not to have to venture further than their local shops or post office . |
| 12 | Therefore , though the high density of Mercury suggested it might well have an iron core , Mercury was known to spin slowly and its large surface area to mass ratio indicated that its interior was cool enough for most or all of any core to be solid , and thus no detectable dipole field was expected . |
| 13 | In his heart he wanted to run properly but his stupid legs were letting him down . |
| 14 | In our day and age , can you think of someone who has been so full of the Spirit that he 's had the courage to preach even when his own life was at stake ? |
| 15 | I have continued to live there as my sole residence and do not have any other home or accommodation . |
| 16 | For this reason culture is difficult to analyse scientifically but we all sense assumptions from it the more closely we become associated with a firm . |
| 17 | Hunched in a remote and subordinate cranny of government — devising a rent bill at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government , as a matter of fact — I was not disposed to go overboard when our armed forces were launched into the attack in November ; but what on earth was intended to come out of it and how an occupation found untenable could be tenably restored and sustained by force was beyond the comprehension of this unmoved spectator . |
| 18 | We were just about to go abroad when our usual nanny was taken ill and was advised not to travel . |
| 19 | This member is identified as having to move in both the X and Y directions in order to remain in contact with the pin on the horizontal arm of the bell cranks , and also to rotate so that its other end is maintained on the vertical line which describes the allowable movement of the rod member . |
| 20 | It was ridiculously easy to get away and her own skill brought a grin to her face . |
| 21 | I intended to stay longer than their short breakfast stop — because this is the town of David Thomson , who spent part of his childhood here ; his late adolescence and young manhood in Ireland ; his maturity as a writer and BBC radio producer . |
| 22 | Not all buyers conform to this theoretical plan , however , and the salesperson should be prepared to close even if his planned sales presentation is incomplete . |
| 23 | The justification for this view is partly pragmatic ; as Cohen puts it , ‘ it would be a mistake to refrain from taking those explanatory steps which are open to us , just because we should prefer to go farther than our current knowledge permits ’ . |
| 24 | Mitzi tried to rise quickly but her sixteen stones were against all precipitous action . |
| 25 | She tried to speak again but her vocal cords produced only faint strangled sounds . |