Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Her long black hair , which was always tied back in a knot at the nape of her neck , would spring constantly outwards in a curly disarray whenever she was suddenly excited .
2 Hillhouse International gardeners are hoping their efforts will flourish once again into an award-winning display to catch the eyes of the local Britain in Bloom judges .
3 We can now focus more directly on the philosophical potential of the fabliaux .
4 We can know far more about a fictional character than we can about another human , even more than we can know about ourselves .
5 In the presence of 0-D crossover , the data of Fig. 2 a and b would deviate upwards away from the theoretical curves based on 3-D fluctuations with decreasing reduced temperature t , and there would be a region of steeper slope ( -2 ) at small t .
6 Polymeric macromolecules have variable dimensions and thus can not pack closely together in a regular arrangement .
7 So many days of late , although dry , have been dull and overcast , but as someone said to me , you ca n't wait too long for a good thing , so here 's hoping .
8 ‘ We will focus very strongly on the important and valuable conservation work which is carried out here .
9 The film , which starred Huw Garmon in the title role , does not concentrate too heavily on the Black Chair episode , but rather on the character of the man who became a legend throughout Wales in the months after his death .
10 Did John Doe do much up at the Tilberthwaite Mines ?
11 Similarly , I will refer only briefly to the statutory sick pay order , which gives effect to the SSP proposals announced in my uprating statement to the House on 21 October .
12 Vegetable lasagne or cannelloni are sometimes offered and would do especially well as a main course choice .
13 As you get used to the F-Plan method you will probably want to plan your own high-fibre meals and can do so easily with the caloric and fibre charts in the middle of the book .
14 Finally , may I make it unambiguously clear that Labour will reverse the decisions on these three hospitals announced today and will do so immediately after the general election ?
15 It can do so only through a constant turnover of individuals , whose sole purpose in being born is to reproduce and then die .
16 The public ceremony , the ritual , the signing of the contract , which can speak so powerfully to the inner world of the subjects , is absent .
17 Indeed , there is a body of evidence ( Pidgeon 1967 ; Steedman 1980 ) which suggests that girls do achieve more highly in a single-sex environment .
18 That day the bones of the brother of my mother who went to the bottom of the sea will rise up through the green waters , and when they meet the air they will take on his flesh again , and he will swim far up into the endless air and he will meet the old man , free of his dust walking in the air , and my mother flying , and me flying , and I will be laughing .
19 ‘ He 'll do well enough with the Welsh , ’ said Douglas stoutly , ‘ why should he not ?
20 It is submitted that in these circumstances they do not do well enough with the written word .
21 A candidate who does not do well enough in the written examination for the Master 's degree , but who otherwise attains a satisfactory standard , may be awarded the Diploma .
22 Actually I was thinking it would be nice erm I have to make a team up with erm Wendy 's parents and we would do quite well with the joint knowledge of four of us .
23 The results indicate that pupils need more practical experience but the result of an APU practical test item suggests that lower attainers would currently do no better in a practical than in a written test situation .
24 ‘ If he is n't , he can swear pretty well for a dead person , ’ said Sacco , sagging to the floor .
25 For really top class Joplin you need pay only a little more for a selection from Dick Hyman 's complete survey mentioned above , but at less than a fiver , Arpin 's disc will do very nicely for a representative sample of Joplin — which is really all I can take in a single sitting !
26 Similar reefs may also exist further westwards along the southern flank of the Mid-North Sea High .
27 As George would be the one who would work most closely with the new shepherd , he went with his father to the Hirings in Kirkbymoorside to help choose a man .
28 For one distinguished American musicologist , the decision of some English scholars and musicians to draw the secular polyphony of Machaut and Dufay into the English a cappella tradition constitutes an ‘ English a cappella heresy ’ , but that phrase may sound rather strangely in a British ear ; it appears to imply that songs by Machaut and Dufay , for example , are best performed within the tradition of the ‘ early-music group , employing instruments reconstructed on the basis of meagre evidence while using musical techniques which draw upon no established tradition of pedagogy and which retain a tinge of 19605 experimentalism and superficial multiculturalism .
29 The formal ought may look rather too like an artificial construct brought in to make the theory work and some might well wonder how the special functional legal ought could simultaneously be regarded , as I purport to regard it , as a moral ought .
30 ‘ I feel very pleased after changing our style for this match and seeing it work so well against a Premier League team .
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