Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like two other pits in Nottinghamshire , this driveage was cut skin to skin or immediately next to old workings . |
| 2 | As it was , they merely added to Government borrowing while allowing the recession to continue as before . |
| 3 | As you requested , your identity will be preserved in the approach letter and interested parties will be asked , in the first instance , to contact MAS , who will assess the parties ' willingness to proceed and then report back to yourselves . |
| 4 | If they do , then we may wish to explore this issue of ideology to see whether socially dominant groups use their power to impose ideas and patterns of behaviour on their subordinates . |
| 5 | I think we 've got mum to thank as well for erm convincing the doctor to send him into Southwold . |
| 6 | In action research the researcher is actively involved in planning and introducing some change in policy , and then in using their research expertise to monitor and possibly to evaluate its effect . |
| 7 | Ten minutes to go and then … |
| 8 | President Bush had reason to use military force to protect Americans because thousands were scattered around Panama and Gen Noriega 's troops had shown a willingness to harass and even kill them , Mr Goldman said . |
| 9 | For those who like a time check once in a while , it was now 9.30 hours to go and still counting down . |
| 10 | Ivanov was capable of using his considerable social skills to cultivate and subsequently exploit successfully the acquaintance of a susceptible person engaged in strategic work . |
| 11 | Those wishing to set up are often afraid that they will lose entitlement to benefit and so not be able to meet their families ' basic expenditure . |
| 12 | The long-term decline in the participation of older people , particularly older men , in the workforce can not be attributed to changes in the individual characteristics of older people themselves — their health , attitudes to work and so on . |
| 13 | For many feminists resist the relativist conclusion in this case to demand that both women and men shake themselves free of their conditioning . |
| 14 | They would be unable at times to concentrate or even to stay awake , It is very noticeable that Barratt required " as far as possible " the attendance of the children at school during the winter " when they are unemployed " . |
| 15 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 16 | On his death there were then no freehold estates to pass and therefore no liability to feudal dues . |
| 17 | Has my hon. Friend considered consulting people such as members of the Secondary Heads Association to see whether all the heads of comprehensive schoools in my constituency would relish the idea of paying an extra 9 per cent . |
| 18 | Once again the Padre urged his listeners to repent because now the most dangerous time of all was at hand , and he repeated the words he had read earlier : " His fan is in his hand , and he will purge his floor , and gather his wheat into the barn ; but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire . " |
| 19 | That is what attracts investment from abroad and makes it profitable for domestic industry to invest as well . |
| 20 | Suppose that a Labour Prime Minister , A , with an overall majority gives notice of his intention to retire as soon as a new Leader is elected ( following the Wilson precedent of 1976 ) . |
| 21 | They are , for example , given frequent opportunities to mate but only with mares . |
| 22 | They would first have inspected judicial practice to see whether almost all other judges were agreed either that the words of a statute must be given their " literal " meaning , even when that was not what the legislators intended , or the opposite , that the words must not be given their literal meaning in these circumstances . |
| 23 | It is a pleasure to see that so many museums still have free admission and free events but if you are dropping in on a favourite , remember that many close at Christmas and New Year and booking is advisable . |
| 24 | If a student asks a question to which the tutor can not give a satisfactory answer on the spur of the moment , he/she should make no attempt to bluff but frankly admit ignorance , and , possibly with the help of the class , set to work to find out the answer , or else undertake to find the answer for the next class . |
| 25 | Here we wanted kids to know that physically Kylie is real . |
| 26 | There are , however , no good data to indicate whether reproductively fit mothers produce reproductively fit offspring . |
| 27 | He never committed an army to the field without being sure that he could bring overwhelming force to bear and never fought a battle without being sure he could win it . |
| 28 | This is probably one of the most difficult factors for the young diabetic to accept and undoubtedly a great advantage of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion is that it permits the patient greater flexibility in relation to the timing of meals with manual boluses of insulin 30 minutes beforehand . |
| 29 | They have no enforceable right to enter British territory , and in some cases the Government is authorized by Statute to exclude and even expel them from the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | He has his own truth , but the role is merely a Jewish fantasy figure : the successful failure , the yearned for anti-self of all dissatisfied successes , a figure to cosset as well as patronise . ’ |