Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday police used teargas to break up protestors blocking aid lorries near Zenesa . |
| 2 | In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week . |
| 3 | ‘ It will be a pleasant change to do so . ’ |
| 4 | It simply it simply does n't serve a purpose for me to allow that division to open up . |
| 5 | The research programme was thus to have a broad base to provide broadly applicable results . |
| 6 | Application of grammars requires knowledge of the grammatical behaviour of the words of the language ( stored in a lexicon ) and a parsing algorithm to specify how to apply the knowledge of the grammar and the syntactic behaviour of the words to the input . |
| 7 | All that money to come back again . |
| 8 | Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster ? |
| 9 | Divisional commandant George Kane said : ‘ Classes can help women be more aware of their surroundings , to know what possible dangers to look out for and to be more confident when out alone . ’ |
| 10 | Divisional commandant George Kane said : ‘ These classes can help women be more aware of their surroundings , to know what possible dangers to look out for and to be more confident when out alone . ’ |
| 11 | Whether your hair has been chemically treated or not , you should take extra rich products to put back the moisture removed by the sun , sea and chlorine . |
| 12 | Pulling over to the right lane to turn right down the Royston Bypass |
| 13 | When war broke out in 1914 , Harrison was sent to France to join the British Expeditionary Force and regarded this as a heaven-sent opportunity to move away from the subject of the venereal diseases . |
| 14 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 15 | A group of 25 communicators , sociologists and people from the religious communities of North America and Asia have agreed on specific plans to work together for a more just global communication environment . |
| 16 | Whether specific plans to follow up the lesson have been made . |
| 17 | Several bombs have gone off in Latvia ; the locals think these were planted to give the army a possible excuse to move in . |
| 18 | The outburst follows the allied decision to set up an exclusion zone to protect Shi'ites in Southern Iraq . |
| 19 | England and Scotland , neither of whom have ever won the title , already have a nine-shot deficit to make up . |
| 20 | As there was no other business the Conference concluded quickly after its momentous decision to set up a national organisation of the deaf and dumb . |
| 21 | The ordinary expectation is that the tenant will be entitled to occupy all that space between the floor of his demise and the underside of the floor above , unless there are cogent reasons to assume otherwise ( Graystone Property Investments Ltd v Margulies ( 1983 ) 269 EG 538 ) . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ I 'm happy I made the right decision to go back . |
| 23 | If any wonder whether they made the right decision to come home and marry a British man , Dolly Howard who danced round the world had the wittiest appreciation of the difference between the continental men and the boys back home : |
| 24 | He has asked the bank 's 160,000 shareholders to stump up another 90 billion roubles to finance modernisation . |
| 25 | Another suggestion was that the electrolysis caused the liquid level to drop as more of the liquid turned into gas ; this exposed the top of the palladium above the liquid surface and gas began to leak out , releasing in a rush the considerable energy that had been stored with the trapped deuterium , sending the temperature up above the melting point ( 1554 degrees Celsius ) or even boiling at 3000 degrees . |
| 26 | Younger son , very much so ; brothers Army , one already out in France ; chilly place in Northumberland ; little money to go round ; parents chilly too , as well as proud and stiff . |
| 27 | I learned that my wife had been released but had very little money to live on . |
| 28 | His homosexuality made him an outcast , he had no job to do , very little money to live on , and ended his days in an alcoholic haze clinging desperately to his Old Etonian tie as the last link with his sordid past . |
| 29 | This is simply an agreement by each creditor to hold off and not to press his claim for settlement for an agreed period as long as the other creditors do likewise . |
| 30 | Brian Wisenden and Miles Keenleyside , of the University of Western Ontario , have spent the past two years studying the convict cichlid Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum ( named for its distinctive stripes ) , a species already known to have the common cichlid habit of forming monogamous pairs to bring up the next generation . |