Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was relaxing for each not to have to strain for approval in the parade of love . |
| 2 | When the Department of Industry announced its " Microcomputers in schools " , scheme in 1980 , it seemed to Provide an opportunity for Promoting the use of the microcomputer in school libraries and through that further to promote the school library . |
| 3 | She was very careful after that not to take him for granted , even occasionally making excuses to refuse his sporadic invitations , although it tore her to shreds not to be with him at every opportunity . |
| 4 | and er , it was gone eleven I would of thought , anyway he stopped and I slept like a log , got up at twenty past six , but erm , it 's a strange thing because one of those came last evening and it parked outside George 's , now I said yesterday , when Alan goes to work , it 's not long after six normally to go up to London and that |
| 5 | Knocking the arrow seemed after all not to have been the ultimate disaster . |
| 6 | There is after all more to research than can be seen from the tables , and the researcher in interpreting his [ sic ] results is inevitably — and rightly — influenced by all that has gone before , by his acquaintance with the raw material behind the figures and by his own judgement … |
| 7 | Ten days later , Falkenhayn was on the telephone himself , expressing the fear that the British were after all about to attempt a relief operation , ‘ and probably a landing attempt ’ It was hardly surprising that on April 17th Rupprecht — irritated and not keen to be involved in another of Falkenhayn 's half-measure offensives that he deplored — coolly declined his invitation to attack the British , pointing to the strong reinforcements now in the line . |
| 8 | Our teams maybe away … but make sure you 're at home at just after five tomorrow to watch the action on Goals Extra … |
| 9 | But with all due respect is some of that not to do with the guidance their receiving from us as teachers ? |
| 10 | And then they were gon na have cut most of that off to replace |
| 11 | Again it 's Bass , Mid and Treble and each pot has a recommended start setting of 12 o'clock to allow for cut or boost , which makes me wonder why these controls are labelled 0 to 10 — would n't -5 to +5 have been more sensible ? |
| 12 | It acts to foster rather than hinder the material and non-material interests of most groups involved in the planning process , although it may be to the short term tactical advantage of some not to recognise the fact . |
| 13 | Right how much should we take out of this just to learn and concentrate on for all of next week ? |
| 14 | So one of your responses would be to bring in the privatization card and put a lot of this out to tender ? |
| 15 | He played in six series against England and only in the last , in 1963 , did he fail with the bat ; other big scores included 191 not out , again at Nottingham , carrying his bat to help save the third Test of 1957 , and 197 not out at Barbados in the first match of 1959–60 again to ensure a draw after a big England innings . |
| 16 | ’ I could n't think of much else to say . |
| 17 | One of the most promising of the younger brigade is Adam Scowcroft who is one of 10 yet to have first team experience . |
| 18 | I think it 's more when we actually see people doing it , but it 's all , it 's a nice idea to give you a little bit of basic just to think about , and again we wo n't be expecting this to be demonstrated to the on this afternoon 's role page , you done all your preparations for that have n't you . |
| 19 | Without NFS support , environments with large numbers of Unix systems already using NFS will have to choose between changing all of these over to support DCE or being unable to integrate NT systems into these environments easily . |
| 20 | In the morning the two sides shared the four Foursomes matches but therein hides a tale of powerful enough to displace Neighbours at the top of the TV ratings . |
| 21 | Lord Geraint , the former MP who has had a lifetime 's experience as a sheep farmer and dealer , warned however that there were many things to be done again to safeguard the interests of those about to start farming . |
| 22 | An absence of information to aid the identification of those about to face a stressful event who would as a consequence be particularly susceptible to psychiatric disorder is obviously a good enough reason for not considering preventive intervention . |
| 23 | We then consider some of the current and future implications of past changes and of those still to come , both for individuals who survive into what is commonly called old age and for the wider society of which they are a part . |
| 24 | This serves as an explanation of changes already made and as a warning of those still to come . |
| 25 | The Andean pact 's much publicised Decision 24 of 1970 progressively to exclude multinationals was reversed — the official euphemism was ‘ replaced ’ — by Decision 220 of May 1987 , effectively leaving the bargaining up to the individual states ( Bolivia , Peru , Ecuador and Venezuela ) . |
| 26 | Often the seeds of future ill-health are already sown by the age of twenty only to arise many years later . |
| 27 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 28 | The last lockings are at the ridiculously early hour of 4.30 p.m. to give the lockkeepers time to finish duties before their tea . |
| 29 | I counted up all the unbroken sticks of pastel and you cunning so-and-sos had put twice the number of pieces of blue there to catch us out . |
| 30 | Brannen , born on a farm at Sadberge and raised at first Long Newton and then Yarm , moved to Stoke at the age of 20 partly to study a sports and recreation degree at North Staffordshire Polytechnic but mainly to train under the guidance of Jim Talbot , the national decathlon coach . |