Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the teachers lingered a few minutes in the staff room , not from any affection for the place , but to allow the unruly mob of boys to get down the long road that led to Cullbridge , and thence to disperse to the bus station , to Wimpy bars , the library or their various homes . |
| 2 | It develops the ‘ ability to operate within the boundaries of sentence meaning , on the meaning expressly represented in the sentence per se , and thereby to operate within the boundaries of an explicitly presented problem ’ ( ibid. pp. 8–9 ) . |
| 3 | The fair is to be kept ‘ … upon the fourth day of July , being St Martin 's Day , and so to continue for the space of seven days … ’ , but the date changed to the 15th July when the Gregorian Calendar was adopted . |
| 4 | The reason for such an uncompromising policy is made plain : ‘ … that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices which they have done in the service of their gods , and so to sin against the Lord your God ’ ( 20.18 ; see7.4 ) . |
| 5 | In those days the infant Crocker had run up paths lightly and gleefully to bang on a knocker or ring a bell and , elated with an enormous naughtiness , hidden behind a hedge to see the angry householder erupt and curse . |
| 6 | The pressures to evade the tax — a new imposition bearing particularly hard on poor people in deprived , high spending areas — will encourage some people to disappear from all public record and perhaps to keep on the move to avoid detection . |
| 7 | It was an old thing with spikes and flaps which you could lift up and down to get at the mechanics . |
| 8 | Of course , it is necessary constantly to review policy and constantly to keep in the forefront of our thinking the need for the security forces and the police to have all the resources necessary to do the job that they do on behalf of all of us , the need for which has been so tragically illustrated again in the last 24 hours . |
| 9 | It had less and less to say to a home-owning , share-owning , bourgeoisified population , at least so it seemed . |
| 10 | The IPR 's main objectives are : ( a ) to promote the development of public relations for the benefit of the practice in commerce ; industry , central and local government ; nationalized undertakings ; professional , trade , and voluntary organizations and for the benefit of all practitioners , and others concerned in or with public relations ; ( b ) to encourage and foster the observance of high professional standards by its members and to establish and prescribe such standards ; ( c ) to arrange meetings , discussions , conferences , etc , on matters of common interest , and generally to act as a clearing house for the exchange of ideas on the practice of public relations . |
| 11 | In subsequent speeches the same day , Hitler exhorted the Party and nation to maintain discipline , and not to depart from the path of legality in the matter . |
| 12 | Mozart wrote often to his wife , admonishing her not to fall in the baths , not to go out walking alone , and not to gamble in the casino . |
| 13 | Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health . |
| 14 | Where these guarantees are not in place it is always easier and certainly cheaper not to train and not to rely on a production system which requires highly skilled workers . |
| 15 | Those manufacturing or marketing computer software or hardware are advised to register a distinctive name or mark as a trade mark and not to rely on the law of passing-off which requires an established reputation . |
| 16 | It is important to consult these tables in conjunction with the later faculty sections and not to rely on the tables alone . |
| 17 | ‘ She decided it would be very much more sensible to conserve her energies for her programme later in the summer and not to go to the races . |
| 18 | Cloke said his instructions on Vaguely Artistic were to sit upsides the favourite , Market Leader , and not to go to the front too quickly . |
| 19 | Throughout both books , the main characters , Celie and Ponyboy true to find themselves — to create their own individuality and not to conform to the stereotypes of their class . |
| 20 | He says to shower for at least 10 minutes and not to opt for a bath . |
| 21 | The Bond camp , which owns 58 per cent of Bell Resources , has also agreed to appoint an independent chairman and not to vote off the Adsteam representatives until a A$1.2billion loan from Bell Resources to Mr Bond 's master Bond Corporation is repaid . |
| 22 | Whilst demonstrating all too clearly her feeling that la Sologne belonged to her family , and I had no real place in it , she was able to discuss with Jean-Claude and me what we could reasonably expect from the area today , and lay down , precisely , what it was appropriate to do and not to do among the Solognats . |
| 23 | If the new husband 's financial status is not acceptable to the mortgagee , so that the mortgagee is only prepared to agree to a conveyance of the property to the wife and new husband if the husband remains liable under the original mortgage , then it would seem reasonable for the husband to comply only with the terms of the court order or matrimonial agreement ( to which of course the new husband is not a party ) and not to convey/transfer to the wife and the new husband . |
| 24 | However , I have argued that Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge is based on a social conception of human being ; he is extremely careful not to reduce thought to individual minds and not to conceive of a group ‘ mind ’ based on the prior conception of individual mind ( Mannheim 1936 : 2 , 44 ) . |
| 25 | The key , however , will be to move toward a more market-oriented basis and not to look to the government for protection . |
| 26 | Sue Harvey urges parents to think before they buy and not to play into the hands of the clubs : |
| 27 | The local soviets of the Khodjent ( formerly Leninabad ) and Kulyab oblasts ( regions ) voted on May 20 to refuse to recognize the new coalition government and not to contribute to the republic 's resources . |
| 28 | It is advisable to leave the bucket loosely covered and not to skim off the yeast head . |
| 29 | The commander explained to the Dictator that the ship had come only to ensure the safety of British subjects and not to interfere in the situation in Madeira . |
| 30 | Certain critics like Hourcade and Allard , who did not realize the importance of what Picasso and Braque were doing , continued to take a broad view of Cubism as simply a return to a more sober , classical form of art , and thus to include within the movement a large number of artists who were not strictly speaking Cubist but had been slightly influenced by the style . |