Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the drawings the lamb appears to have bound feet , and the purport of the piece is surely more to do with sacrifice than deliverance . |
| 2 | ‘ Wet and cold 's quite enough to know in a lifetime full of fish ! ’ |
| 3 | Behind the scenes at its National Training Centre at Roland Garros , work is already underway to capitalise on France 's magnificent Davis Cup victory over the United States in Lyon in December . |
| 4 | The tendency in the Council is therefore always to lean towards a choice of legal base requiring unanimous voting . |
| 5 | The anxiety is often more to do with getting rid of people who have exhausted their gifts , lost their way or , not unheard-of , should not have been appointed in the first place . |
| 6 | Where the auction is expressly advertised subject to a reserve price , s57(6) expressly preserves the seller 's right not to sell below the reserve price . |
| 7 | The evidence for this conclusion is hard indeed to discover in the adult sea squirt , but more visible in its larva . |
| 8 | The sparkle of spray , the glassy mist hanging over the water were pretty enough to taste on the tongue . |
| 9 | This enterprise is no longer to depend on discourses drawn from outside . |
| 10 | This large mass loss rate is probably enough to compensate for the inflow driven by the bar . |
| 11 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
| 12 | It happened at Christmas 1975 and the surgeon was just about to leave for a holiday with his family East . |
| 13 | Unlike in the Reich , where the Nazis had sealed off the German people and the NSDAP membership from foreign scrutiny , and where investigative journalism , hostile comment and moral concern were all about to disappear into the camps , leaving the party accountable to no-one , Danzig was never able fully to apply these principles simply because the city remained a ward of the League of Nations . |
| 14 | The towering 25-year-old Dungannon man is now about to break through the elusive century barrier on the Sony ladder . |
| 15 | What you will eventually be working towards is a fusion of instinct and technique , and training is very largely to do with improving technical skills . |
| 16 | The Plec is certainly partly to blame for the decline of your Amazon Sword plants . |
| 17 | Submission to central authority was deeply ingrained in its 150 years ' history , and the hospital was only now to throw off the last traces of its even more ancient deterrent purpose . |
| 18 | The food 's quality is not improved by the fact that the watch is rarely there to eat on time . |
| 19 | However you do the sums , the levy is clearly there to pay for history ; the Select Committee said it is ‘ indefensible that so much of the burden of discharging the pre-April 1990 liabilities should be placed on electricity consumers within one eight-year period ’ . |
| 20 | But the greatest advance in regularity was soon about to descend on the world in which I found myself : the introduction of a complex railway system which depended on exact and uniform timing over whole countries , not on the vagaries of a church steeple or a parson 's watch . |
| 21 | The idea was just about to occur to him . |
| 22 | ‘ Willard is just about to propose to Angelica ! ’ |