Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities claim that investment is needed not only to build new homes and replace dilapidated housing , but also to renovate deteriorating buildings , and thus improve the existing housing stock . |
| 2 | With regard to Bancroft 's second point , our research was designed not only to quantify sexual practices but also to understand why people put themselves at risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases , especially AIDS . |
| 3 | In east Africa wage-paid labour was confined almost entirely to entrepôt ports such as Mombasa and Zanzibar . |
| 4 | We saw that this term was used very generally to describe various sorts of tension which arise in social practices , or between them , and which may provoke changes in the structure of society . |
| 5 | So the law is intended not simply to regulate conduct in an imperfect world , but to show up our imperfections and so lead us to Christ . |
| 6 | Just as just all that oxygen is used up just to burn it , erm But if you do n't give it enough air what will happen ? |
| 7 | The exception occurs in the region of the keel where the core is set back further to clear the outboard ends of the floors . |
| 8 | The little Hindu girl is brought up carefully to prepare for her role as a wife and mother in an alien family . |
| 9 | Sadly , the Board was virtually alone in this support , and to understand why , we must return for a moment to the sixties , when the test was used almost exclusively to curb the spread of erotica . |
| 10 | A restoration lab was set up nearby to treat the bronzes immediately they came out of the water to prevent deterioration . |
| 11 | The outlet of a P-trap or bottle trap is angled slightly downwards to allow for this . |
| 12 | The unrest was taken sufficiently seriously to prompt vigorous attempts by senior members of the government to dampen this constant speculation about the leadership : for example , Sir Geoffrey Howe , among others , publicly denied that there had been any Cabinet-level discussion about the Prime Minister standing down . |
| 13 | In an undercover police operation in London a shop was set up purportedly to buy and sell jewellery commercially ; it was staffed solely by undercover officers purporting to be shady jewellers willing to buy stolen property . |
| 14 | The body was moved once more to make the pockets accessible and Fox searched them — there were only those in his trousers ; he was wearing a cardigan in place of a jacket . |
| 15 | Either the Director was empowered not only to pose questions but to compel an answer , or she was not . |
| 16 | Note 2.4.4 The rather pedantic observation that ( ab ) c = a(bc) is included here only to emphasise that the associativity of unc depends heavily on that of . |
| 17 | The ommatidia are packed closely together to form a multi-faceted compound eye . |
| 18 | The rules of the road are designed not only to produce the orderly and unhampered movement of traffic , but also to protect property , safety , and lives . |
| 19 | This legislation is designed not only to counteract the violence by harsh , emergency measures , but also to undermine the political nature of the violence by characterising it as mere criminality ; the hope being that it will diminish the level of public support for those involved . |
| 20 | The Amble lifeboat was called out yesterday to take a crewman with a gashed hand off an oil rig support ship in the North Sea . |
| 21 | The idea was that this was a way of ironing out minor disputes , but the clause was worded widely enough to cover a dispute arising out of wrongful termination of the contract . |
| 22 | An aggressively commercial approach was required not only to solve some short-term problems but to provide a record of profit that would possibly be attractive for future tender . |
| 23 | When it opened Tendring and Colchester were recognised blackspots for teenage pregnancies and the clinic was set up expressly to reduce the number of gymslip mums . |
| 24 | Central banks from round the world were drafted in yesterday to stop the pound 's slide . |
| 25 | Recalling Marshall McLuhan 's dictum that ‘ the medium is the message ’ , the novel posits the possibility of an obligatory shift in the primary medium of communication from oral and cybernetic forms to a ‘ secondary literacy ’ in which the world is required once again to rely on the written word . |
| 26 | Their protagonists argue that the law of murder is so important socially that derogation from the principle of maximum certainty should be allowed in favour of more accurate labelling by the courts ; opponents argue that the principle of maximum certainty is needed here specifically to reduce the risk of verdicts based on discriminatory or irrelevant factors , such as distaste for the defendant 's background , allegiance , or other activities . |
| 27 | When , in desperation , this kind of badly pruned bush is cut back hard to retrieve the situation , the base is so old and hard , that any dormant bud buried within is quite incapable of awakening and breaking out . |
| 28 | We can convey cereals at up to 700 tph but malt is loaded more slowly to ensure minimum damage . |
| 29 | The Canterbury spar is raked over occasionally to break up any ‘ dead spots ’ in the filter and surface mulm is syphoned off once every fortnight . |
| 30 | Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormous impact of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry on biology . |