Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Anglers are presently major users of the Derwent and would remain so even if the river were reinstated for use by power craft . ) |
| 2 | People may blunder , she thought , and their actions can still have a fine echo ; or they may act all right and the echo can be bad . |
| 3 | Such a service could act not only as a mediator between users and official agencies , but also deal with those aspects of heroin use that these agencies are unable or unwilling to resolve . |
| 4 | The adult you — the one watching the film — would know perfectly well that the fall had hurt and distressed you and would be able to say so . |
| 5 | It is all too easy to blame the unions , to argue that they must know perfectly well that the effect of excessive wage settlements is inflationary but that they nevertheless still seek and get them . |
| 6 | The person who creates a crisis in a relationship which is not going well such that the two part company and he or she is able to establish a more suitable and rewarding partnership may do much better than the person who avoids crises and settles for a far from ideal partner . |
| 7 | The simple mouse-and-icons approach means putting together new forms or reports ought to be a doddle ; and for functions like queries or browsing , you ca n't do much better than the GUI . |
| 8 | I 'll name no names at this stage , but will do so fearlessly if the exhibition continues much longer . |
| 9 | I hope that that will evolve in the fullness of time , but it will do so only when the electrification programme is extended to all parts of the country . |
| 10 | ( No. 2 ) [ 1990 ] 1 A.C. 109 , after reference to the principle of law that , in cases concerned with government secrets , the Crown , in order to restrain disclosure , must show not only that the information is confidential but also show that it is in the public interest that it should not be published , continued , at pp. 283–284 : |
| 11 | Yes , see who I mean I ca n't think of anybody who 's in the reserves who could do any better than the lot that are in , in at the moment . |
| 12 | or they may grow more slowly than the rest of the body , and so decrease in relative size , which is negative allometry . |
| 13 | If she chose , she could speak as gracefully as a courtier , as deviously as a diplomat . |
| 14 | It was thought that with strong , carefully chosen ministers , she would do well enough when the time came . |
| 15 | Indeed , the ILEA , precisely because its schools operate in such widely differing circumstances , has published a ‘ league table ’ of 16-plus examination results adjusted for intake factors , which shows that schools with a disadvantaged intake can do relatively better than a school with an advantaged intake . |
| 16 | Now one of the things that sex one of the consequences of sex is that a population which reproduces sexually can evolve more rapidly than a population erm which reproduces asexually . |
| 17 | Do this initial cultivation in early spring , and be ready to hoe or fork out weeds again once or twice more before planting or sowing in mid-spring , as weed seeds will germinate more readily when the soil is disturbed , and with the start of warmer weather . |
| 18 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 19 | ‘ In the day , ’ said Barbara Coleman , ‘ I can see as far as the Esterel … |
| 20 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 21 | You will have heard that if you do stick to a diet and lose weight , then your metabolism will drop so dramatically that the weight piles on all the more easily in the future . |
| 22 | artery , it 's probably quite easy , the television set , then after that it 'll drop off obviously because the body is pulling the pressure down all the time , it does , okay , but if it was a vein ? |
| 23 | In Normandy , the settlers could sleep more soundly as the theatre of active war moved south . |
| 24 | Glass , like other substances , contracts as it cools and if the outer parts of the glass be cooled and hardened before the inner parts then the outside will , of course , contract more initially than the inside but , since the inside is still soft , it will yield in the early stages of cooling . |
| 25 | The Economist has argued that the council is indeed a senate and ought to debate and vote as openly as a senate . |
| 26 | He joked to Philippa that he might react as badly as the sting victim on the TV show two weeks earlier . |
| 27 | Such individuals will then continue to breed , and the numbers will not sink as rapidly as the population controllers would like . |
| 28 | Blanche let the question drop as softly as a feather . |
| 29 | It still appeared deserted Their excitement was such that he doubted if they could stop now even if the gamekeeper did appear . |
| 30 | Even in wellingtons , he could move as lightly as a squirrel . |