Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data subject is entitled to access personally or to authorise another . |
| 2 | To cooperate may be defined as to work together or to operate jointly-These terms are therefore not dissimilar , yet co-ordination may be seen to be of a higher level and a more difficult operation than co-operation . |
| 3 | He knew better than to leave that behind . |
| 4 | The men of Ring 's Amusements still worked in Sir Walter Raleigh Park , but the Dynmouth Hards knew better than to engage these men in any form of combat . |
| 5 | But I knew better than to broadcast those ideas around school . |
| 6 | ‘ You ought to know better than to ask that . |
| 7 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 8 | Beryl meant that Adam had been among the previous owners of Wyvis Hall while her husband had not , but she knew better than to point this out . |
| 9 | The hard-bitten men round the table knew better than to make that mistake . |
| 10 | He was mortally disappointed when it was officially declared an accident and there 's nothing he 'd like better than to find some excuse to start ferreting round and upsetting everyone with his ‘ interrogations ’ . ’ |
| 11 | So that to come that way |
| 12 | On the other hand there 's a certain inertia principle operating , it is always easier for an administration to do less than to do more in dealing with the Middle East , and especially with the central Palestine problem . |
| 13 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 14 | And then er that 's one of t the the boss made that cabinet there er it 's got the feet er but and these are what they call astricles These panes of glass are all in er individually you know , they 're all put in and to polish these wee astricles oh you you had to be very deli cos they 're very thin you know , and you had to flay them and polish and they lay them in the thing and then they they were fitted in and then the glass was The doors were sent to the glaziers Certain amount of polish on them and then the doors were sent to the glazers and then they were finished after that you know . |
| 15 | 4 In consideration of the above payments the Publisher will be entitled to distribute the Video worldwide and for an unlimited period of time for non-broadcast use only and to use any still photographs in any books published to accompany the Video or in any publicity or promotion material for the Video and accompanying books . |
| 16 | 4 In consideration of the above payments the Publisher will be entitled to distribute the Video worldwide and for an unlimited period of time for non-broadcast use only and to use any still photographs in any books published to accompany the Video or in any publicity or promotion material for the Video and accompanying books . |
| 17 | In fact , the glances they managed to exchange , glances which played on a wide keyboard of reactions , served both to spin them together and to show each other off . |
| 18 | The second is to give the whole section an extended meaning , so as to embrace all persons , born or unknown , who in any way may benefit [ author 's emphasis ] from assets transferred abroad by others … |
| 19 | which established that in the absence of a prohibition in the memorandum , the articles could be altered so as to authorise such an issue . |
| 20 | Thus , " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified , or so as to be unlike those from whom he wishes to be distinguished " ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 181 ) |
| 21 | This brings us back to Le Page 's hypothesis : " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified " ; only now we can treat " linguistic behaviour " at a micro level , interpreting " from time to time " to mean even at different stages within the same conversation — perhaps even the same utterance . |
| 22 | Putting this another way , what is the mechanism whereby we " create … the patterns of … linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time [ we wish ] to be identified " ? |
| 23 | Here a transfer price of £50 has been set so as to give each division some of the profit . |
| 24 | This would mean an amendment of Further Education Grant Regulations ‘ so as to give less prominence to the length of course as compared with other and equally important criteria ’ such as the quality of teaching and the amount of written work done by students ( Recommendation 10 ) . |
| 25 | If it is impossible to find a frame with a high tone in such a position it is recommended that the first part of the frame consists of 3–4 syllables , i.e. is n't too short , so as to give enough reference points . |
| 26 | His routines were organized so as to facilitate this intellectual process : weekends were reserved for Colombey , where he could take long walks and mull over problems ; workday schedules at the Elysée were strictly adhered to ; he insisted on absolute punctuality and an atmosphere of unruffled calm . |
| 27 | Having obtained the poles of , the relevant physical transfer function is deduced by rejecting poles in the positive half of the s-plane and a network is synthesised so as to generate that transfer function . |
| 28 | It is suggested that in the context of a monogamous union , adultery was elevated to the status of a sin ( or indeed a crime ) and grounds for divorce so as to reinforce this concept of marriage and , in the absence of birth control , to prevent the social ‘ untidiness ’ caused by the production of children not the product of a couple married to each other , with all the inheritance and support complications which could follow . |
| 29 | Northern Tyneside was identified so as to incorporate all types of residential locale . |
| 30 | ‘ You must not deliberately offend so as to invite such punishment , ’ whispered the puissant amputee hoarsely . |