Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no the English news only comes on at half past ten at night and then you 'll get what they wanted to hear , so you do n't have to listen to the World Service |
| 2 | The potential meaning of to with the infinitive can therefore be diagrammed in the following manner : The potential meaning of to as described above fits in with that of the bare infinitive in the following very simple way : the latter evokes that which defines the end-point of the movement denoted by to . |
| 3 | Having lacked the opportunity to create a new constitutional framework afresh from first principles , Britain now stands out as one of the few nations lacking such a document . |
| 4 | Autoquote , regarded as a world leader in the field of accident repair software systems , is described as being so comprehensive that if one coughs in one of Heggie 's workshops it immediately shows up on one of the system 's screens with a cost attached . |
| 5 | She then immediately switches back to Creole to " link up " with the first part of her turn . |
| 6 | Bourner and Hamed ( 1987 ) in their study of CNM graduates have reported that degree performance improves with age until students reach the age of about 40 and then declines back towards that of younger students . |
| 7 | The accusation that poststructuralism neglects history undoubtedly harks back above all to the work of Althusser who , more than anyone else , appears to have attempted to eliminate history . |
| 8 | After resting for a while , it suddenly gets up , looks around and then sets off on one of its mad dashes . |
| 9 | When the term is used in relation to the human figure , the camera distance then comes down from hundreds of yards to tens of feet . |