Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It often happens , especially if you train only spasmodically , that you start off the season with a personal best time , get really excited because you think there is a lot more to come and then the rest of the summer turns out to be something of a damp squib .
2 On his death there were then no freehold estates to pass and therefore no liability to feudal dues .
3 When she too heard the clatter of the galloping horse far below she went to the window , but there was no longer anything to see and only the sound of the nursemaids chattering .
4 This meant that a large part of the lesson time was wasted getting on buses and to and from the slopes instead of learning to ski and also a lot of walking around in boots and carrying skis .
5 Her family soon knew what to expect and so the potential for resentment was never allowed to build up .
6 This encompasses the design of passenger seats and the methods of body restraint with seat belts , the establishment of the forces they are designed to withstand and even the strength of the seat attachments to the floor of the aircraft .
7 Then the helicopter began to descend and only the rear of the house was in view .
8 An announcement concerning changes to the Food Hygiene ( Amendment ) Regulations was received after thee April issue of Hospitality had gone to press and consequently the information on temperature in our Refrigeration feature was , unfortunately , incorrect .
9 In war it was only the poor who were expected to die and so the death of Earl Patrick came as a great shock to everyone .
10 However , it will be noted that the above depends upon the propensity to save and not the propensity to unproductive consumption .
11 But according to Mary White from the Emigrant Advice Unit in Hamill Street , Belfast a worrying percentage still leave here with no job , no contacts , no place to stay and absolutely no idea of just how hard life in the big city can be .
12 Angry John refused to pay and yesterday a spokesman for the bank at Ashton-under-Lyne admitted : ‘ There was a bit of a mix-up . ’
13 Bash Brannigan , manager of the Dunston Fund , formed the view that dividends on equities were about to rise and so the excess of the no-arbitrage price of an index future ( F ) over the spot price of the shares in the index ( S ) would reduce , that is , the basis will narrow .
14 The fault lay with other clubs who responded to the devastating effectiveness of Arsenal 's attack merely by turning their centre-halves into stoppers , while failing to grasp that a sound defence was only the springboard to attack and not an end in itself .
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