Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 2 | We shall think that it defies a physical law if we are naive enough to treat it simply as a structureless lump of matter with a certain mass and wind resistance . |
| 3 | His 69 Test wickets cost 38.72 each , and against England he took 28 wickets at 43 — expensive , but good enough to put him high on the list of all-rounders . |
| 4 | Because of properties that we can think of as their ‘ shape ’ , atoms and small molecules tend naturally to pack themselves together in a fixed and orderly manner . |
| 5 | The latter was partly accomplished in your childhood and boyhood ; and it now depends on you alone to raise yourself gradually to a position of eminence , such as no musician has ever obtained . |
| 6 | It is also quick enough to get me somewhere in a hurry if I 'm called out on an emergency . |
| 7 | Just occasionally an electron whose energy is not enough to take it legitimately over the top will nevertheless emerge the other side . |
| 8 | It worried her to think of it , still alive , perhaps to harm someone else in a land she could not name and would never see . |
| 9 | But the move to the climax does n't build with inexorable power , the backward placing of the horns and percussion finds the sound wanting , and the emotional grip simply is n't tight enough to pin you helplessly to the wall . |
| 10 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 11 | Thoroughly out of sorts now , she turned away to busy herself unnecessarily with the tray — anything to get away from those black , compelling depths . |
| 12 | To class housework as manual work is thus to put it higher up the scale of job prestige . |
| 13 | Although he agreed , it was obviously difficult for Adam to let go of the reins , as Lissa discovered when she arrived at Lynx some time later to find him still on the premises . |
| 14 | In practice , it is useful to expose test samples to daylight ( not direct sunlight ) and also to expose them continuously to a battery of fluorescent tubes . |
| 15 | But they had meant it , and he was eager now to bring everybody together in a fine , hard point of resolve , in case zeal slackened and died away in the holiday atmosphere of this soft , comfortable afternoon . |
| 16 | I do not believe that borrowing on that scale is acceptable and I shall be announcing measures today to reduce it progressively over the years ahead . |
| 17 | It was no doubt in part at least to consolidate himself dynastically in the face of the threat posed by Oswine that Oswiu married Eanflaed , daughter of Eadwine and Aethelburh , and therefore of part-Deiran , part-Kentish extraction , c. 644 ( her son , Ecgfrith , was in his fortieth year in 685 ) ( HE 111 , 15 ) . |
| 18 | Well we 're already under pressure to give names , and we are reluctant to give pressure , cos n reluctant to give names because we have n't got them , at this stage , but we need , but at some stage we need to iden as we , as part of the process , this need , there 's a need at least to identify one home within the east of the county . |
| 19 | He wrote recently in the GEC Journal of Science and Technology : ‘ It can be demonstrated that it is significantly cheaper to store fuel for medium to long periods and then to commit it directly to a geological repository , rather than to commit fuel to the reprocessing cycle . ’ |
| 20 | In 1638 the commoners found a champion of their causes in a local farmer whose career was ultimately to lead him far beyond the battles of the wetlands . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't tell you that , Folly , ’ he said at last , raising his head again to look her squarely in the eye . |
| 22 | God was there and there seemed no need to pray or sing hymns either to transport me away from the present reality or to ward off danger by attracting God 's attention . |
| 23 | Tallis cut several strips from the sizzling joints of the wild pig and reached forward to toss them closer to the Daurog . |
| 24 | She even detached herself composedly when he was within , to have both hands free to drop the heavy wooden bar into place and fasten the door , and then took him by the hand again to bring him safely to the door of the undercroft , across the uneven stones . |