Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Over billions of years it will slowly fizzle out to become a black dwarf . |
2 | Only five events qualify for inclusion in this study — four individual eruptions , and a series of three closely spaced events in 1902 which together add up to produce a large dust veil . |
3 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
4 | We may merely set out to determine the main policies in the areas in which we are interested . |
5 | Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had , to a great extent , succeeded . |
6 | This core of lava may continue to flow for a long while , but when the supply of fresh lava slows down at source , there will not be enough coming through to fill the whole volume of the core , so an empty space will be left , and this will form a long tube or tunnel running along the centre of the flow , sometimes for many kilometres . |
7 | The safest way to proceed with a project that uses any unusual components is to buy these components first , and to only go on to buy the remaining components once you actually have the ‘ hard to find ’ items in your possession . |
8 | It is almost impossible to generalise about the sorts of disturbances which will necessarily reach back to affect the monetary sector and the flow of bank lending . |
9 | The six note left hand rhythm is literally punched out to lend a strong , exultant ring to the proceedings . |
10 | Peggy rather hoped that Rosalind was not all dressed up to meet a new boy-friend , but with a letter going off to Richard it looked as if she were . |
11 | Towards the north these turn into pine forests and eventually thin out to form the grassy plains of Kislev . |
12 | It 's as lazy as a cat in hot weather , with the lyric amounting to a mere two verses before the vocals just sit down to let the languid groove take over . |
13 | Far better to catch the parent in the playground or corridor and ask them to spare five minutes when it 's convenient just to pop in to have a quiet little chat . |
14 | The hidden costs of being in hospital — lost income , the cost of employing someone to look after the children , the cost of having someone to look after the home if your partner works , even your partner 's lost income — can soon add up to become a severe financial burden during an already difficult time . |
15 | Horse-hoeing a field above part of the forest that would soon come down to form an additional hundred acres of pasture for Handley Farm , Seb listened to the growing hubbub . |
16 | Long grains usually cook up to give a dry , fluffy dish , whereas the shorter grains cook wet or sticky and have a tendency to cling together . |
17 | I swooped it so that on each pass it caught the top of the dam wall with one corner , gradually producing a nick in the sand barrier which the water was able to flow through , quickly going on to overwhelm the whole dam and the sand-house village beneath . |
18 | ‘ But she is an adaptable and intelligent girl and will survive this episode and hopefully go on to lead a trouble-free life . ’ |
19 | A national NUJ official says it 's a major achievement , but insists that the fight will still go on to get the sacked journalists their jobs back.Nick Clark reports . |
20 | He still went on to do an enormous lob over Coton 's head , and what seemed like half an hour later the ball sneaked itself over the line . |
21 | Proteins are strings of 20 kinds of amino acids , which usually fold up to form a large globular molecule . |
22 | But the Hornets deservedly held on to win a fourth-round trip to Blackburn , leaving the FA Cup as Leeds 's only realistic hope of silverware this season . |
23 | They soon had to leave the School Cottage where they had lived , but they were granted a payment of £5 for " the bath and fittings " left in the cottage , which was quickly rented out to provide a valuable £35 a year of extra income . |
24 | For example , Clarke scorns those who argue that mankind will not eventually move out to colonise the vast expanses of space . |
25 | Money may have disappeared down a black hole ( the budget was $40m according to Hurd , though industry sources put it nearer $50m ) , but it has all been spent on spectacle , not marquee names : Ed Harris ( from Jacknife ) and Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio star as an oil-rig foreman and the project engineer , both brought in to rescue a striken nuclear submarine . |
26 | Royal Athlete later went on to run a cracking race into third in the Cheltenham Gold Cup and must have a marvellous chance at the weights . |
27 | And the critic Richard Findlater , who later went on to become a dear friend , said , ‘ How dare the English equivalent of a national theatre employ a schoolgirl , whom none of us has heard of , and who ca n't do it ? ’ |
28 | When using stripes of weaving , the design should be fairly simple , like Card 1 or Design 1 ( above ) or carefully worked out to include the blank areas . |
29 | Well it probably rounded off to have a total VIF I mean , re-date the IFUT from there . |
30 | At the same time , some smart security companies have wised up and realized that such people are bad for business and they have duly set out to recruit the New Bouncer , who is trained to smile and defuse , rather than scowl and disembowel . |