Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is also quick enough to get me somewhere in a hurry if I 'm called out on an emergency . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |