Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EC is spending large sums on projects expressly designed to support cattle farmers : building refrigerated abattoirs in Burkina Faso , improving cattle breeds in Mali and fattening cattle in northern Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana . |
| 2 | Over the years , the traffic swelled to such an extent that La Chapelle eventually expanded to form four separate stations : La Chapelle-lntérieure , La Chapelle-Charbons , La Chapelle-Triage , and La Chapelle-Annexe . |
| 3 | If they sell , they acknowledge a loss which may exceed the discount that secured creditors eventually have to accept . |
| 4 | In deeper channels , black and highly carbonaceous muds eventually form to create anaerobic conditions . |
| 5 | The American frustration is evidenced by the utter confusion as sporadic resistance slowly starts to rise in defence of the fleet . |
| 6 | England 's most endearing footballer badly wants to belong again , and I still believe a half-fit Gascoigne would offer Taylor more in mid-field than has been dished up lately . |
| 7 | This even applies to listed buildings : there is still a worryingly widespread general belief that listing only covers the facade , or perhaps just the exterior , whereas it is of course expressly designed to protect the whole building . |
| 8 | Thus , threatened for his alleged failings as the king 's minister , the archbishop skilfully sought to lay a minefield of principles — clerical liberties and rights of peerage — before the king and his agents . |
| 9 | I suppose in a way it 's a bit like the tail wagging the dog to a certain extent , whereby the er larger institutions rather want to get their two pence worth , er rather than let the Engineering Council take over . |
| 10 | Bristol Rovers ( second in the Third ) make their first change this season against Fulham ( fourth ) because of Alexander 's suspension , with striker Sealy set to face one of his old clubs … |
| 11 | And when you overcome the fear of falling , because it really does n't hurt ( honest ) , your enthusiasm slowly begins to build . |
| 12 | Dropping litter might also be linked with the kind of ceremonial spitting and pee-ing that is a demonstration of claim of territory ( old men sitting on bench at village square or park etc. seem to spit a lot/ the marvellous wide-astride attitude of the countryside pee-er claiming that bit of ground as his for that glorious moment — I am aware it 's different for ladies , but maybe the same mentally , given that fright of discovering be removed ! ) . |
| 13 | Pursuing an entrepreneurial and demand-led strategy , LDDC claim to have leveraged over £4.4 billion of private investment for an outlay of £440 million of public money predominantly applied to land reclamation and infrastructural provision — a gearing ratio of 10:1 . |
| 14 | Allegations made in Moscow suggest that , in contravention of the 1983 London Dumping Convention , Soviet authorities secretly continued to dump thousands of tons of radioactive waste in the sea off the northern coast until 1986 . |
| 15 | GERMANY furiously refused to accept the blame yesterday for Britain 's sterling crisis — and was backed by the International Monetary Fund . |
| 16 | Pascoe staunchly refused to go further than his earlier explanation that he wanted to speak to MacQuillan about finance . |
| 17 | A lot of pop music is cheapened by musicians badly trying to explain what their songs mean . ’ |
| 18 | And as midfielder Ian Crook , who gave a fine passing display against his old team says , the clubs most fancied to topple the Canaries — Villa , Manchester United , and Blackburn — have yet to visit Carrow Road . |
| 19 | Parliament eventually agreed to rescind the royal supremacy in November 1554 , but fears that the papacy might renege on the land settlement persisted . |
| 20 | MCI Communications Corp , the Washington-based phone company , won two contracts worth $30m all told to provide its Vnet voice service and HyperStream Frame Relay data service to the US Congress . |
| 21 | And Wisdom only serves to make her know |
| 22 | With the advance of viticultural techniques the volume of grapes produced in Champagne naturally tended to rise and , always provided that they did not over-produce — a responsibility of ComCon which must be ratified by the non-partisan decree of the minister of agriculture — the quality of the fruit yielded also rose . |
| 23 | ‘ … we are of course much gratified to hear of your safety and that your expedition is progressing so prosperously : at the same time the Letter although a long one does not tell us half the things we most wished to know : it does not say ought of your movements , when we may expect you home , how Mrs Gould is , whether your attendants have answered your expectations , how Mastr . |
| 24 | Providing money is generally acceptable , a person will take it in exchange for goods and services he sells since no difficulty will be encountered in using the money so acquired to purchase other goods and services desired . |
| 25 | A sitting scheduled for Oct. 19 was cancelled , and the UDF deputies only agreed to return to the Assembly after a compromise was reached in crisis talks with Zhelev . |
| 26 | In this case the user only needs to specify the bucket size required from the alternatives provided , as the formatting and addressing have already been carried out by the manufacturer . |
| 27 | If the user only wishes to produce text on the system and is prepared to restrict this to a few styles and sizes then such a device is perfectly adequate . |
| 28 | If the user only wishes to check the consistency of a predetermined set of contigs then a program contigorder may be used instead . |
| 29 | When the chip is incorporated into a smart card and inserted into a mock up cash machine , the user only has to speak into a microphone to be recognized and given the cash . |
| 30 | But what Roger Cook and his researchers entirely failed to do was to use the interesting current developments within WWF to highlight a crucial debate of which we are all a part — namely the values that should now guide the work we do in our respective movements , and how to make those values germane and relevant to people the world over . |