Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [adv] [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the time it takes to write and then publish a book , our apparently insatiable appetite for the stuff causes real problems : the satirical observation conceived now is likely to look at best , a little tired , and , at worst , incomprehensible , in twelve to eighteen months ' time . |
| 2 | A good seventeenth-century example is Thomas Howard , second earl of Arundel , a great collector of pictures , who volunteered in 1636 for a special embassy to the Emperor Ferdinand II simply because he wished to see and perhaps buy a number of art treasures about which his agents in Germany had sent him glowing reports . |
| 3 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 4 | Appointing authorities have reputations to keep and therefore have an incentive to maintain standards . |
| 5 | Had ICI focused earlier on shareholder value creation , he said , it would not have allowed a value gap to develop and so become a target for Hanson 's predatory schemes . |
| 6 | At some stage after you have leapt out through the waves you will need to gybe and hopefully catch a wave back in . |
| 7 | Their key player is the fly-half Matthew McCarthy , who opened their scoring against Ampleforth with a penalty , and went on to make and then convert a try by Neil Ryan . |