Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says his pay-off has left him comfortable , although he will eventually want to find a new career , possibly even returning to journalism . |
| 2 | Firstly , the council could have opted for a significant increase in the er I five allocation and to go on to see to identify a site in the local plan . |
| 3 | CASS was also encouraging the development of part-time degrees , a policy which won an expression of DES approval for these and other CNAA efforts in this direction , since they would appeal to married women wishing to return to study ( and presumably helping to solve a shortage of school teachers ) . |
| 4 | I 'm still sufficiently optimistic about the country in which we live to suppose that most of us here in Scotland would vastly prefer to pay a little more income tax , than have the least advantaged of our fellows dropped further into poverty . |
| 5 | I squeezed into a minute dining-room , where there were no TV sets and nervously tried to join a group of people . |
| 6 | Arab peacemakers will presumably seek to find a successor to Muawad . |
| 7 | Arab peacemakers will presumably seek to find a successor to Muawad . |
| 8 | But this omission is a consequence of my claim that individualism is fundamentally designed to sustain a conception of individuals as agents . |
| 9 | Every watch that comes on has to do a drill . |
| 10 | Coun Dixon said the corporation 's support proves that Darlington is widely considered to have a housing crisis . |
| 11 | In a Commons statement , Mr Clarke said : ‘ We would very much prefer to see a full accident and emergency service provided by trained ambulancemen , but that is impossible while the unions continue to insist on the 14 conditions which they have imposed . |
| 12 | Sandwich was better situated to meet a threat from Scandinavia ; Wight , where Harold 's ships awaited William the Conqueror long and unsuccessfully in the summer of 1066 , implies a connection with the south or west , and perhaps particularly Normandy . |
| 13 | There was little mirth among the film crew , least of all from Raymond Cusick whose job it suddenly became to pull a last minute rabbit out of the hat . |
| 14 | The corollary is that some areas will be better placed to initiate a shift away from the isolated role of special schools . |
| 15 | From his present position , Larsen would be better placed to keep a lookout for trouble and provide backup . |
| 16 | But in the search for such pacts or agreements , the opposition parties will necessarily be drawn closer together , and the campaign for tactical voting will gather force and develop a presence that will make it better placed to make a major impact in the next election . |
| 17 | And if Jardines sought to sell out of Hongkong Land , it would be better placed to demand a hefty premium for offering effective control without the need to buy out smaller shareholders . |
| 18 | As Dysart 's employee and Mallender 's daughter , who could be better placed to smell a rat ? ’ |
| 19 | Yeah he said , but the girl that was with him said that you were very highly honoured to have a letter that length cos usually she gets dear oh I her name 's what her but dear whoever , got loads to tell you , love Mario . |
| 20 | So she said you 're highly honoured to have a letter that long . |
| 21 | Outside investors are apparently clamouring to have a share of the service , which is expected to launch later this year . |
| 22 | The last delivery from the Royal Oak Colliery in South Wales had amounted to only half the tonnage ordered the rest apparently diverted to fulfil a similar order from another preserved railway . |
| 23 | When I was at school , we used to take it in turns to visit a former pupil , a woman in her twenties , who lay in hospital incurably handicapped . |
| 24 | Although using a road map , she managed to lose herself and so stopped to ask a young man the way . |
| 25 | This is such a diverse field and so open to personal preference that I only intend to say a few words about it . |
| 26 | ‘ I only intend to stay a few minutes . |
| 27 | Baldwin merely intended to fly a policy kite at Plymouth . |
| 28 | Subsequent investigators have attempted to read deep , allegorical , psychological , and even transcendental meanings into the book ; it is more likely that Stoker merely intended to write a popular horror story by taking an ancient legend , placing it in a contemporary setting , and garnishing his tale with blood , thunder , and damsels in distress . |
| 29 | The seventy-five years preceding 1066 were a time of great activity in the Canterbury scriptorium , which produced a number of magnificently-illustrated gospel and service-books , as well as many more mundane volumes apparently intended to form a new cathedral library . |
| 30 | In celebration of his new appointment Mozart apparently intended to write a large scale missa solemnis in D minor , of which one movement , a Kyrie previously thought to date from much earlier in his career , survives . |