Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says er I would n't spend money on to lose weight . |
| 2 | ‘ Previous reports on diet and health have told us we need to eat fruit and vegetables only to provide roughage , ’ says Professor James . |
| 3 | Arsenal ace opens his heart only to Mirror Sport |
| 4 | Ferry companies need to get their acts together to make ferries safe . |
| 5 | He rejects the idea that industry ought to keep workers on simply to fulfil a responsibility for maintaining full employment and he also argues that it will be impossible to increase the tax base enough to create employment in labour-intensive services such as health and education . |
| 6 | We will bring private sector skills in to enhance efficiency and increase value for money . |
| 7 | The track was inspired by a documentary about an American woman who has ground her teeth down to gum level . |
| 8 | In his innocence he had allowed the salesman in to discuss doors . |
| 9 | This brought Gower in to join Smith , and these two forged the most productive partnership of the innings , adding 85 in 20 overs . |
| 10 | What makes the situation especially difficult in the case of homosexuality is that there are those who arm their homophobia by ignoring the first dimension described above — an exile which generates critique — insisting only on the second — the exile who flees one kind of discrimination only to reproduce others , and who is seen to do so in virtue of the alleged ‘ predatory ’ nature of the homosexual desire , now quintessentially defined as a desire to exploit the disadvantaged . |
| 11 | He urged the parliament swiftly to pass legislation including the abolition of trade monopolies , faster privatization ( especially of shops ) , agrarian reform and tighter credit and monetary policies . |
| 12 | In 1979 Manchester television personality extraordinaire Tony Wilson scraped enough money together to start Factory Records and open the Factory Club in Hulme , consequently rejuvenating the Manchester rock scene . |
| 13 | Jess could n't see except when the birds rose up an instant only to fall back , this time with Damocles mounted and digging in his spurs . |
| 14 | The prouder and more articulate seaman had seen his pay and status in continuous decline from 1815 when , at the , end of the Napoleonic wars , " the government , without the least consideration for those who had battled on the ocean in defence of their king and country , disbanded the Fleets and cast adrift some thousands of Seamen suddenly to find employment in the merchant service " . |
| 15 | After all he 's put the money in to pay pensions and the beneficiaries ought to have a strong hand in saying how that money is used , so we see half the trustees coming from the employer , the other half from the members of the pension fund , and we 've got a pension fund with the very heavy weighting of er pensioners and not so many employees and we would like to see the remaining seats er half the trustees elected , partly from the current employees , partly from the deferred pensioners and partly from the pensioners and reflecting in a broad way the numbers in each of those categories . |
| 16 | But a curious deterrence this , which aims to restrain states only to unleash peoples , to intensify rather than mitigate conflict and make the world safe for revolution rather than order . |
| 17 | I then used some lovely red single shrub roses and some white Japanese anemones , placed upside down to take advantage of their silky backs , with some potentilla centres . |
| 18 | Dinah thanked her salary for the latter 's white-painted existence , and the fact that she had thrashed Lilian enough to ensure silence among the rest . |
| 19 | Many years ago scientists tried to develop machines that produced speech from a vocabulary of pre-recorded words ; the machines were designed to join these words together to form sentences . |
| 20 | PLAYERS CLUB TOGETHER TO CO-HOST ENTERPRISE ‘ 93 |
| 21 | This restricted freedom revolted Steven Morrissey , and his passion turned to the sixties when the ‘ George Best set ’ particularly liberated the city by proving that escapism is there for all who had eyes enough to avoid entrapment . |
| 22 | Later she recovered consciousness enough to tell police that her attacker was a ‘ young man ’ . |
| 23 | Is a pound enough to get Lion bars ? |
| 24 | All contemporary accounts suggest that eighteenth century seamen , brutal and violent as they could be under provocation , were hardly lacking in the capacity to organise in support of their claims , and by the standards of the day , to do so peaceably whenever the authorities kept their heads sufficiently to allow mediation to proceed . |
| 25 | And send your card in to take part in our great lucky draw to win any unclaimed prizes |
| 26 | The unit does nothing this turn while the Bosses crack heads together to restore order . |
| 27 | While they chased the business of a few gambling councils , some City lawyers were already arguing that councils could enter into swaps only to hedge interest-rate payments on normal borrowings . |
| 28 | There is strong lobbying pressure for the governments that control portions of the polar ice caps not to build settlements there . |
| 29 | Telling Dora not to leave Roziac . |
| 30 | It has taken Fraud Squad officers months just to obtain clearance from the Egyptian authorities for an evidence-gathering trip . |