Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young otters do not like the water and quite often , mum has to forcibly shove the reluctant infant into the river for its first lesson ! |
| 2 | Using fleece covers to completely cover a crop down to the ground will significantly improve water retention by the soil . |
| 3 | While Labour seeks to simply snatch the language of one nation from the Tories , the danger here can only grow and it is compounded because it is by no means clear how far a reconstituted and emphatically ‘ un-loony ’ socialism may go in negotiating its own language of toughness on immigration and nationality , even perhaps on humane socialist repatriation . [ … ] |
| 4 | At about the time the new clock was commissioned , I became seriously ill with a heart condition , and it proved not possible to undertake the extensive research required to faithfully replicate the old clock . |
| 5 | Although this is welcome , taken together with demographic changes and the likelihood of Lothian Health Board wanting to directly purchase a fair amount of nursing home beds , it underlines the need to maintain a stable market . |
| 6 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 7 | To be able to add this latest accreditation to what may already be a substantial collection of brandings and certifications , a vendor has to successfully complete a set of tests and checks , buy a distribution source licence for the specific OSF technology , and agree to a royalty structure for products shipped under the certification seal . |
| 8 | This logical identifier has to uniquely identify the record , and its actual address can also be obtained by looking up a table containing the addresses of all the identifiers . |
| 9 | The record seemed to openly encourage the backlash which , amazingly , The Smiths had thus far avoided . |
| 10 | The amount of protamine needed to actually shrink the tumours , however , was toxic and killed the rats ( Nature , vol 297 , p 307 ) . |
| 11 | They addressed the well-attended Public Meeting held to officially launch the Group at Stourbridge in late summer . |
| 12 | In September 1939 , a request came to fully convert the two brake vehicles for each train by the provision of the necessary cupboards and other amenities required the LMS to provide 15 trains . |
| 13 | This facility helped to further enhance the rapidly expanding ship building and repair trade within the port . |
| 14 | THREE people were treated in hospital today after passengers and crew had to swiftly leave an aircraft by emergency chutes when smoke appeared in the cockpit . |
| 15 | The man , once derided and jeered by Arsenal fans , earned instant immortality with the latest of late goals in a 2–1 replay win to finally end the interminable Wembley saga and break the hearts of luckless Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 16 | The occasion of the most recent serious attempt was in 1968 when a Bill designed to further limit the power of the Lords received a second reading in the House of Commons but it foundered . |
| 17 | Keegan refuses to publicly condemn a competition that has already provoked a welter of criticism but has asked the Football League to re-examine the format of using Italian referees in England and vice-versa . |
| 18 | The right hand was better at balancing unless the subject had to concurrently repeat the alphabet , in which case both hands performed equally well . |
| 19 | The members simply have not the time at their disposal to take on the continuous pressure needed to effectively construct a platform for alternative or opposing views . |
| 20 | As a consequence , the complexity of some teachers ' classroom organization appeared to greatly increase the proportion of the time during which children were distracted , awaiting attention or working only sporadically . |
| 21 | I also remember the effort required to initially turn the inertia starters . |
| 22 | This provides the all-round strength required to safely contain the sometimes vast amounts of water in a large all glass aquarium . |
| 23 | They were often born limbless because a pharmaceutical company failed to adequately test a product . |
| 24 | Her hauntingly beautiful face seemed to perfectly encompass the vulnerability of adolescence . |
| 25 | Crucially the second Republic failed to materially improve the lot of the majority of the Spanish people who lost faith in it and eventually rejected it . |