Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Office earned plaudits for roping in so many ministers ( a total bag of 80 ) , while Mr Ridley 's visit to China in January was responsible for the important participation of the Chinese . |
| 2 | It remains true that sport is really all about competing well rather than winning , but when defeat becomes too common , particularly in activities in which we think we should excel , the moment may have come to do something drastic . |
| 3 | Has this got ta stay on here ? |
| 4 | I know it , I looked in there and that was cos they 've got ta stay here now have n't they ? |
| 5 | 2.35:KEEN Hunter finished just two lengths runner-up to Mr Brooks in the Prix l'Abbaye at Longchamp on Arc weekend , but is worth opposing over today 's extra furlong . |
| 6 | Based very loosely on the Pat Barker novel Union Street — so loosely in fact that the Robert De Niro character Stanley does n't exist in the original — Stanley and Iris manages for most of its length to say a great deal about struggling along just above the poverty line . |
| 7 | Here is an opportunity for using not only your imagination but also your coloured pencils . |
| 8 | In addition , you 'll find this exercise is good for your alternate plucking and for building up both your left and right hand techniques . |
| 9 | The man I am talking about got up slowly . |
| 10 | This should provide a basis for suggesting how best to manage the transfer of knowledge and personnel from research to commercial exploitation while ensuring the health of scientific research is maintained and promoted . |
| 11 | Your special time for catching up together can not be shared with exuberant teenagers , the unexpected caller or a visiting relative . |
| 12 | Now you 've got ta got there yet . |
| 13 | Although the ancestor 's body is a dot , like a bacterium in the primeval slime , hidden inside it is the potential for branching in exactly the pattern of the central tree of Figure 3 : it is just that its Gene 9 tells it to branch zero times ! |
| 14 | At the other end of the tape pull out 4cm ( 1 ½in ) of cords and leave free for gathering up later . |
| 15 | 5 I think owl 's eyes are adapted for seeing in very low light . |
| 16 | Hodge was frequently criticised by contemporaries for his inability to grasp the finer points of the problems confronting him and for reacting in too blunt a manner . |
| 17 | They were sheep who had decided that this was no time to waste energy panicking when it could be used for galloping away as fast as possible . |
| 18 | ‘ One , ’ Maria admitted shortly , despising herself for confiding even that much . |
| 19 | A new London Bus Executive will be responsible for bus-stops , stands and stations and for contracting out socially necessary services . |
| 20 | I think you deserve the full 40 lashes for sticking up fiercely for liberal values — I 'm always liberal with my whip ! |
| 21 | There is a methodological issue worth drawing out here , for this business of replicating — or failing to replicate — someone else 's research findings is of course what ‘ the scientific method ’ is supposed to be about , at least according to the standard philosophy-of-science text-books . |
| 22 | To use an analogy from short sight : people who wear glasses are relieved of the effects of their short sight for as long as they continue to wear them and for as long as they remember that there are still some things ( such as seeing clearly underwater ) that they can not do even if they are wearing glasses . |
| 23 | ‘ Unless your reason for hanging around here is simply to irritate me with your unwelcome presence . ’ |
| 24 | Which makes new Gold for Cooking just about the only way you can cut down on fat without cutting out most of your favourite dishes . |
| 25 | This trailer will be ready for pick up about three . |
| 26 | Because trying to meet this criterion has occupied so much of my research time in the past two decades it is worth spelling out again that to adopt a reductionist methodology in research strategy — that is , to try to stabilize the world that one is studying by manipulating one variable at a time , holding everything else as constant as possible — is generally the only way to do experiments from which one can draw clear conclusions . |
| 27 | There is still a good case for booking ahead now , but look for high resorts , preferably with a glacier as well as access to some non-skiing activities . |
| 28 | He had been stopped by the police several times for driving too slowly . |
| 29 | This seems to me to make parody and irony worth understanding more precisely . |
| 30 | Well you 've got to react you 've got ta act fairly quickly on that though have n't you . |