Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on to give a splendid example of the thing he has in mind , when an old Muslim tribesman went on urging a drug-addicted English hippy to ‘ pray to Jesus the Messiah ’ , until he was converted and delivered . |
| 2 | The text pronounces that so far as the words are concerned no trust is created , but then goes on to give a moral reason for holding one to have been created ; it ends by referring to a similar decision of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 3 | She goes on to make a new life in Hampshire with Harry still remaining ignorant of her great change and her children , of which she is extremely fond , remaining unaffected . |
| 4 | The chapter examines different theories of stratification and then goes on to present a full account of the facts of class inequality according to income , wealth , and so on . |
| 5 | Starting with the creation of the German night fighter force the author makes good use of eyewitness accounts from former Luftwaffe pilots , and goes on to portray a vivid account of what life was like serving on a night fighter unit . |
| 6 | James , who has still to keep a clean sheet , would be disappointed to be overlooked , but he has the confidence and the talent to establish himself at Anfield . |
| 7 | James , who has still to keep a clean sheet , would be disappointed to be overlooked , but he has the confidence and the talent to establish himself at Anfield . |
| 8 | His former Sunderland boss has yet to appoint a right-hand man at Bristol City . |
| 9 | As Stuart Marshall observed pointedly , postmodernism authorizes but has yet to create a new populism . |
| 10 | Semi-finalist at her first attempt at the age of 14 in 1990 , Capriati has largely flattered to deceive since and has yet to reach a Grand Slam final although she did capture the Olympic gold last year . |
| 11 | At the age of 32 , he has yet to win a major championship . |
| 12 | The Royal Horticultural Society ( RHS ) has made clear that it has yet to develop a conservation policy and will continue to give awards for plants collected in the wild . |
| 13 | Alan Smith , the Arsenal striker who has yet to sign a new contract with the club , is still part of manager George Graham 's plans even though he is unlikely to start today 's game against Crystal Palace . |
| 14 | Colin Calderwood has been with the club since their fourth division days , but has yet to sign a new contract for next season . |
| 15 | As Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury , he has yet to experience a single quarter 's growth in output ( excluding oil revenues ) , but nor will he accept any blame for the recession . |
| 16 | He , alone among the TV-am presenters , has yet to find a new position . |
| 17 | Liverpool can not afford to concede a goal tonight - and James has yet to keep a clean sheet . |
| 18 | Liverpool can not afford to concede a goal tonight - and James has yet to keep a clean sheet . |
| 19 | LIRT has yet to make a substantial impact on library instruction in the USA . |
| 20 | The ministry of agriculture has carried out successful trials on the new tests but says the government has yet to make a final decision on wether to fully adopt the new system . |
| 21 | Ironside , who is 28 on Sunday , has yet to make a senior appearance for the Ayresome Park club , and McHale said he had welcomed the chance of League action . |
| 22 | When stimulated by contact the dart shoots out to impale a passing animalcule as prey . |
| 23 | From the junction , the Ingleton road climbs steadily to traverse a wooded hillside where the pastoral beauty of Deepdale is revealed below . |
| 24 | Unless Buckingham Palace acts quickly to provide a new home , the couple will live at Anne 's mansion on the Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire . |
| 25 | Water that has evaporated and condensed in the upper atmosphere , and then falls as rain , should be pure , except for a little carbon dioxide picked up on the way down ( although in fact , these days , it tends also to contain a whole catalogue of pollutants ) . |
| 26 | A priest tells the story of a boy he rescued from poverty who grows up to become a revolutionary leader . |
| 27 | Thus , where element analysis by X-ray fluorescence of the inlays on two silver Anglo-Saxon disc brooches shows both to have a major component of silver , with some copper and sulphur . |
| 28 | In reality , the state must be conceived of as an ‘ educator ’ , in as much as it tends precisely to create a new type of civilisation … . |
| 29 | The wallet-sized Portfolio weighs just over a pound , yet opens out to reveal a qwerty keyboard and an eight line by 40 column display . |
| 30 | Enough survives today to give a compelling impression of the extent to which the crown supplied visual evidence to its subjects of the splendour of Scottish monarchy ; the buildings may be small-scale by comparison with those of wealthier kings , but they are also lovely , and imposing , and above all utterly fashionable . |