Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But such organizations generally prefer to keep a low profile as they peddle Third World prostitution — hoping to attract the attention only of potential customers . |
| 2 | Because of these difficulties and the commercial desire that once a company is to be sold its sale should be completed as soon as possible , the parties usually try to have a simultaneous signing and completion . |
| 3 | The curriculum in secondary schools also began to take a predictable shape , mathematics , English , RE and PE for all plus a ‘ choice ’ from six option columns . |
| 4 | Working-class political parties also came to serve a useful integrative function for monopoly capital . |
| 5 | Denied the comfortable illusion that the League could restrain aggression without killing people , pacifists now had to face a harsh choice . |
| 6 | Their concerns now became far more parochial and ethnic , and party considerations undoubtedly began to play a greater part . |
| 7 | We could stop after one pass through the data , but we can also repeat the running three-median procedure on the values just smoothed to produce a smoother result . |
| 8 | The majority of them had completed one , and sometimes two tours of operations , and to have survived thus far was unusual when most crews rarely lived to complete a single tour . |
| 9 | ‘ The wonderful crowds , the garden setting , the cry of the gulls all helps to provide a special feeling . ’ |
| 10 | The stencil is the master copy , and is cut by a stencil key on a typewriter with the ribbon out of action and the keys thoroughly cleaned to prevent a smudged outline . |
| 11 | Most parents though tend to avoid a secret pirates cave where only members of the Pirates Club are allowed . |
| 12 | The seventy-five years preceding 1066 were a time of great activity in the Canterbury scriptorium , which produced a number of magnificently-illustrated gospel and service-books , as well as many more mundane volumes apparently intended to form a new cathedral library . |
| 13 | An increasing number of Italians now want to adopt a British first-past-the-post system so that there can be a periodic clean sweep , of the kind Britain experienced in 1964 and 1979 . |
| 14 | I spent a perplexing evening in a Georgia bar some years ago endeavouring to persuade a local that I could NOT have driven from London . |
| 15 | ‘ Drug barons frequently seem to have a sixth sense where the police are concerned . |
| 16 | Most of all , after a few days there began to appear a growing chorus of complaint from hosts about the condition of some of the evacuees . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , however , Sharpe , who less than two years previously seemed to have a golden future with United and England , was scared stiff . |
| 18 | Banks therefore require to hold a lower liquidity ratio , and can create more credit . |
| 19 | The planes therefore seem to have a real application to the teaching of woodwork in schools — always assuming the survival of a traditional craft approach under today 's educational policies . |
| 20 | Agricultural institutions also began to play a major role in applying biological theory to the problems of agriculture . |
| 21 | Are not managers constantly exhorted to adopt a fresh approach to their jobs and to ‘ streamline ’ their businesses ? |
| 22 | Mind you , the court-going officers still have to spend a fair amount of time attending trials . |
| 23 | Youth concerts always have to include a major work written in the current ‘ Cantata ’ fashion . |
| 24 | Whilst each House is the sole author of its own Standing Orders , proposals may emanate from any source although initiatives are commonly taken by the Clerk and a common source of proposals is the reports of select committees specially constituted to consider a particular matter . |
| 25 | Such constitutions also tend to have a higher status than ordinary laws thus creating the need for a supreme body such as a supreme court with the power to declare laws passed in contravention of the constitution , invalid . |
| 26 | In any event , the courts now seem to take a softer line on police practice so far as this can be discerned from the undiscussed elements in cases that reach the law reports for other reasons . |
| 27 | Protesters now hope to force a public inquiry over the plan , based on successful schemes in America . |
| 28 | Spittals even managed to impart a patronising rustle to his whirring hands . |
| 29 | As the air temperature drops on a still clear night dew drops that form between the fibres eventually freeze to form a sealed ice cover which traps the air within this space over the relatively warmer soil and prevents the temperature dropping below freezing . |
| 30 | ‘ Users just want to have a good time , ’ he says . |