Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 2 | And then it may become very angry , and then few would he strong enough to hang on to that leg ! |
| 3 | Still , ‘ Arry Boy was good enough to dress up as Old Father Time for our exclusive picture . |
| 4 | Judith Chegwidden , of Putney CLP , said a Labour government must be tough enough to face up to special interest groups and those , including herself , who had ‘ dangerous consumerist tendencies and want to own motor cars in urban areas — cars that pour out pollution and make people 's lives a misery ’ . |
| 5 | It would seem highly unlikely , except at the times when falling piece rates forced them to , that domestic workers averaged such hours through the week , although they must have worked them on some days , if only to make up for slacker work early in the week . |
| 6 | The other alternative is just to go off in that corner over there . |
| 7 | It is no longer to come down on one side or other of the fence as the entire poem was so clearly designed to do , but to say following the ways of God will mean this . |
| 8 | America , having no domestic jet development programme to match either of these two aircraft , was struggling just to keep up with large French and British orders of existing fighters and light bombers let alone worry about ‘ jets ’ . |
| 9 | Not only are there competing social sciences , but everyone has to be something of a social scientist just to get by in this world . |
| 10 | Germany 's Seizinger , narrow leader in the battle for the World Cup overall title , fell on the second leg of a giant slalom in Are , Sweden as she tried desperately to make up for lost time . |
| 11 | ‘ There is a lot more to come out about this flight . ’ |
| 12 | We had undertaken to collect birds and mammals for the Natural History Museum in London and we soon collected several specimens of blue-winged goose near the Sandfords ' farm ; the museum authorities had asked us specially to look out for this bird since they only had one specimen , collected in 1868 during Napier 's Magdala expedition . |
| 13 | For basic shapes though , and it is better always to start off at that level , the paper pattern is the right approach . |
| 14 | Yet somehow the message has still to get through to British Rail that the communication of travel information is no longer a luxury , to be fed in titbits to grateful passengers . |
| 15 | But genuine co-operation between colonies seems always to boil down to pure parasitism . |
| 16 | I 'll have to work a bit harder to make up for lost time when I get there . |
| 17 | This was an entirely legitimate and historically well-founded practice , but Nixon carried it to extreme lengths , seeing it as a way both to cut back on federal expenditure and to impose his own order of spending priorities . |
| 18 | Many people seem simply to grow out of heavy drug use , rather as many young drinkers mature out of heavy drinking . |
| 19 | Your sound engineer should mix the out-front sound at every gig and attend rehearsals regularly to keep up with new material . |
| 20 | These doubts , hard to pin down , because reason easily disposed of them all , crystallised around the fact that Comrade Andrew too often smelled of drink ; she could not bring herself to criticise him for his partiality to the goose-girl , because she had learned so long ago and so thoroughly simply to switch off in this area . |
| 21 | She remained well clinically to follow up at one year after onset of her colitic symptoms . |
| 22 | I suddenly wanted very badly to get out of that room . |
| 23 | When the trade unions established the Labour Party as a parliamentary voice for organised labour , they likewise established the ‘ duty to win ’ — to achieve power in Parliament and then to hang on to that power come what may , or put more bluntly , regardless of socialist principle . |
| 24 | The need , however , was for a permanent body to deal with matters affecting Nonconformity , to encourage unity amongst the various denominations or at least to cut down on needless competition , to present a united Nonconformist ‘ witness ’ when required and to give a ‘ Nonconformist ’ answer to political questions whenever possible , that is , when this could be done without alienating the Methodists , especially the Wesleyans . |
| 25 | The ARFU 's decision has still yet to sink in with many rugby traditionalists but Channel Ten displayed instant commitment to their new deal when they televised the tickertape parade live throughout Australia . |
| 26 | Could the implication be that today the Christian at work is quietly to put up with any kind of abuse or ill-treatment ? |