Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , how many times have you seen your ball deviate off course at the last moment due to someone not repairing their pitch mark ? |
| 2 | There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields . |
| 3 | Her husband was due to retire then and they had decided that they would both give up work at the same time . |
| 4 | It is simply not on to believe that those at the top will willingly give up power for the overall health of society . |
| 5 | The aim to teach and carry out research at the highest possible level in the University 's mission statement is key to the future successful development of the University . |
| 6 | It can also carry out research through the Central Statistical Office and the Government Social Survey into a variety of topics . |
| 7 | From his home in Worcester , Phil Ride says he 'll keep up pressure on the British Government to work for his brother 's release . |
| 8 | Q. So how would you sum up progress in the last two to three years ? |
| 9 | The General Assembly has asked the richer countries to give one per cent of their annual budget to try and wipe out poverty in the third world . |
| 10 | Our job is to help build up trust between the smaller companies and their banks . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island . |
| 12 | The track index will take up part of the first track of each cylinder . |
| 13 | He will take up residence on the cleared site of the Fun House , whose place has been taken by a vintage carousel originally imported from Coney Island by Alderman W G Bean , the founder of the Blackpool funfair . |
| 14 | The military government in Burma said it would hand over power to the pro-democracy opposition which took an overwhelming lead in the elections for the National Assembly . |
| 15 | What little the authors can say , however , should stir up debate in the palaeoanthropological world . |
| 16 | It is finding that the phrase ‘ equal opportunity ’ is usually a meaningless compromise ; if the good things of life are really dependent on opportunity — which everyone knows they are not ; would the rich and powerful really be so careless ? — what human agency has the hubris to imagine it can deal out opportunity in a fair or even meritorious fashion ? |
| 17 | One suspects that the other purposes of the 1988 Education Act , in particular the need to emphasise parental choice and to bring the brisk benefits of the winds of market forces to the education system , will mean that the summative , evaluative and informative purposes might squeeze out emphasis on the other two . |