Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon my working day was over , but the night had only just begun , the streets and piazzas just beginning to hum with life . |
| 2 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 3 | When alarmed , these animals usually try to make for cover , seeking out their burrows or some other hiding place where they can wedge themselves in as tightly as possible . |
| 4 | But behind his large smiles and large cigars , his eyes often seemed to brim with regret . |
| 5 | Second , why are the meanings of words often felt to change from context to context , and how is successful communication possible if such instability exists ? |
| 6 | But her mum refused to hand over a penny — and Chris 's parents finally decided to go to court for the cash . |
| 7 | Their administrators then proceeded to act in accordance with what they took to be the finest traditions of their service and stood up for them . |
| 8 | Residential workers are not involved in decisions as to whether , when and where to admit children into care ; fieldworkers fail to provide basic information about the personal histories of the children and young people admitted to care ; young people are admitted to care precipitously , without warning or preparation ; fieldworkers sometimes fail to keep in touch with the young person and the residential staff once the child is admitted ; discharge for the young people can be as sudden as their arrival . |
| 9 | Current awards now have to fall in line with that figure , always , of course , taking into account any subsequent decline in the value of money . |
| 10 | Improbable though it may seem , birds also manage to dig into stone . |
| 11 | The Treuhandanstalt would guarantee creditors against losing money lent to businesses unsuccessfully attempting to adapt to unification . |
| 12 | When the time comes that relatives actually begin to cry for help — damage done within the relationship ma be irreversible . |
| 13 | It came into Wexford 's mind that money metaphors often have to do with water , gushing , springing , and that business men talk of liquidity and cash flow . |
| 14 | Indeed , the setting of money market interest rates often appears to happen by convention with no visible sign of the intermediate stages we have described . |
| 15 | Both metal bashing and circuitry are technologies well suited to benefit from CAD . |
| 16 | USERS ONLY HAVE TO RE-CODE FOR PROGRESS 7 GRAPHICS ENHANCEMENTS — OBJECT LINK EXPECTED IN JUNE |
| 17 | You know how guitar players always say to listen to saxophone ? |
| 18 | This is not only simplistic but it is even ignorant of pain-provoking peripheral nerve fibres now known to exist in man . |
| 19 | A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any . |
| 20 | Secondly , there was no settlement agreed by the parties involved — the Union and the National Coal Board ( NCB ) ; the strikers simply decided to return to work in March 1985 . |
| 21 | Pupils often volunteer to continue after school with their project and practical work or they take advantage of links which the Department has built up with local industry and further education establishments . |
| 22 | Rather , it is an expression of the rights and liabilities generally held to attach to ownership : more exactly , the right subject to the general law to determine whether and how the assets and resources owned will be used , and the liability in certain circumstances to answer for the consequences of that use . |
| 23 | Apart from the ‘ George And James ’ and ‘ Stars And Hank Forever ’ album , Goldmine claims that the project got no further than the ‘ It 's A Man 's Man 's Man 's World ’ video and 45 , adding : ‘ It 's not quite clear whether or not The Residents ever got to work on Volume Three — which would have featured the compositions of Bob Dylan and Sun Ra — but leftovers from the earlier volumes occasionally crop up as rare treats , such as ‘ I 'm So Lonesome I Could Cry ’ on the ‘ Potatoes ’ folk song composition . ’ |
| 24 | And filmmakers also began to argue for government legislation to protect the industry against marauding Americans . |
| 25 | The salt crystals spontaneously began to change to fern shapes whenever the experiment began . |
| 26 | Sometimes crystals spontaneously start to form in solution . |
| 27 | Before printing , you can rotate the image , alter its height/width , adjust the print shades , position on the page , and the wide range of options even extends to control of printer styles . |
| 28 | Their application to mergers therefore tends to lead to uncertainty and instability , instead of providing the orderly framework and timetable essential for the conduct of public share acquisitions and takeover bids . |
| 29 | In both Britain and America , the educational preparation of librarians includes all these aspects and more , although individual librarians naturally tend to specialize in depth in only a selection . |
| 30 | The nights really begin to swing into action with regular party nights in the bar . |