Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ELDORADO , the BBC supersoap launched in a blaze of glory only to fizzle like a damp squib , CAN be saved . |
| 2 | Alternatively , he or she may have a self-imposed rule not to drink before a certain time of day or on particular days , weeks or months or even years . |
| 3 | ‘ No more games , ’ he said roughly , as he finally had to draw his mouth away to drag in a quick snatch of breath . |
| 4 | You should be aware of the peculiarities of the local weather before you make your mind up to live in a particular place . |
| 5 | He learnt then and in later practice how to jump into a bobbing canoe , letting his feet give under him without capsizing the frail Folbot . |
| 6 | It 's like turning the car round to take off a bloody bolt , you know ? |
| 7 | He always used to lecture people , tell them about the honesty of the artist , the necessity not to speak like a bourgeois . |
| 8 | The City Take-over Panel , which has to give its blessing to the ending of the contract , could take a dim view of the decision not to proceed with a formal bid . |
| 9 | The parent is also demonstrating to the child how to behave in an aggressive and anti-social manner ( Patterson et al . 1975 ) and is likely to be copied in the future . |
| 10 | Even my wife , enlightened , but energetically gregarious , upon my expressing my desire not to go to a certain gathering would say , ‘ Normal people like parties , they want to go . ’ |
| 11 | They have not therefore always reached their conclusion on analytical grounds ; often these conclusions are expressive of a pragmatic desire not to intervene in a particular case . |
| 12 | I look away , for all the reasons that people like me , with homes and an income , look away : a mixture of helplessness , guilt and the desire not to stare at a perfect stranger , as it were , in bed . |
| 13 | Weight loss does lower the metabolism in that every time you lose one pound , you will need to eat about 18 calories a day less to stay at a stable weight . |
| 14 | He was subsequently ordered by a court not to go within a hundred yards of her . |
| 15 | Different considerations would arise if it did , since it would be contrary to public policy for the court not to recognise as a qualified representative of the head of state of the foreign state the diplomatic representative recognised by Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 16 | Designs giving decade or binary steps are popular , the latter enabling an indicating instrument connected to the output always to operate at a substantial fraction of full scale as the input signal changes , with attendant reading accuracy advantage . |
| 17 | These ideas proposed that the tail was asymmetrical , with a larger lower lobe and , when in use , tended to drive the head up to compensate for a heavy head shield and a lack of paired fins . |
| 18 | He works at weekends as a hospital porter , and finds it necessary to take a week off to compete in a national or international event . |
| 19 | Not only was the Psittacidae the first volume ever to concentrate on a single species , it was , as Lear himself maintained , ‘ the first complete volume of coloured drawings of birds on so large a scale published in England , as far as I know — unless Audubon 's were previously engraved . ’ |
| 20 | There is enough area there to call for a two-person crew , so launching is rarely a problem . |
| 21 | The bill was designed to permit workers in companies with more than 50 employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave annually to care for a sick or new child , receive medical treatment or tend to a seriously ill spouse or parent . |
| 22 | So the poor discarded animals are bounced down the road only to fall under a passing car . |
| 23 | I used to stagger off to work like a complete zombie until I decided to take a lesson from the Chinese . |
| 24 | Thousands of people turned out at the Royal Showground today to protest against a private members bill which aims to abolish blood sports . |
| 25 | Hayman knew he could n't afford to have the man around to answer to a Congressional enquiry if the shit hit the fan . |
| 26 | She stooped a shade awkwardly to rub behind a black velvet ear . |
| 27 | However , she also found wide variation in the extent to which different social workers used the referral either to assess for a specific resource or to undertake a more general assessment of need and circumstances . |
| 28 | So I decided that in order not to appear as a bad-tempered harpy , I would agree with everything Shirl said and then add : ‘ But … ’ |
| 29 | There is an implied structure here to do with a competitive outdoing of the teacher 's role by the pupils in terms of information and experience . |
| 30 | One is for the representative not to vote as an individual , but to cast for each position or proposition the number of votes cast for it by those ( s ) he is there to represent . |