Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles was acting quite legally in initiating the quo warranto proceedings against borough charters , and his primary aim appears not so much to achieve royal control over the borough electorate — boroughs which did not return MPs were also subject to attack — but rather to drive Nonconformists and their sympathisers out of the local magistracy and to secure the empanelment of juries who would be prepared to act against the Dissenters . |
| 2 | The eye begins eventually to see pockets and spaces within the greys , the whites , the after-images of after-images of vibrant , sumptuous colour : the bands then begin to buckle and warp , blend into each other ; a kind of visual melt-down occurs as the retina tries to encompass this searing tension . |
| 3 | The well-built and massively thick brickwork walls continued effectively to exclude wind and rain although an attack of dry rot had affected the suspended timber ground floor . |
| 4 | As will become clearer , each State may have its own mechanisms enabling its courts to authorise the service of process or the taking of evidence outside its territorial jurisdiction ; there may also be measures of compulsion available against persons within the jurisdiction which enable the court effectively to secure evidence or information even though the primary sources of information are abroad . |
| 5 | Wolves in fact have done more than most to provide evidence that the game is ridding itself of violence . |
| 6 | But he managed very effectively to isolate Benn and others who leaned towards a siege economy . |
| 7 | The angel goes on to inform Mary that she is to have a child . |
| 8 | Much research is going on to discover causes and treatment . |
| 9 | The articles themselves have buttons with arrows on to indicate words that have a separate entry in the Encyclopedia , these are accessed by clicking on the button . |
| 10 | But Mr Pannone said that while the Director of Public Prosecutions had decided eventually to prosecute P & O European Ferries and directors and employees over the Herald of Free Enterprise tragedy , he had decided against prosecutions over the King 's Cross fire . |
| 11 | We are not only to include pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action in estimating its rightness or wrongness , but pleasures and pains liable to be prevented by it . |
| 12 | In the meantime I intend to stay healthy enough to enjoy success when it comes and you 'd be wise to do the |
| 13 | The mustard seed produces a shrub about eight to ten feet tall , with branches strong enough to support birds and give them shelter . |
| 14 | At the same time , the committee believed , some West Indian parents did not do enough to support schools and teachers . |
| 15 | Well in the end she took a stack and went in to see Miss and Miss tried to change the subject , subj |
| 16 | Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him . |
| 17 | We went in to see Jennie before we left . |
| 18 | Walking past the vicarage , she wondered whether to call in to see Mark and Sophia , but judged that they were probably busy doing their packing . |
| 19 | So as we were going along she was just going into the paper shop and she was on her way up to the one o'clock bus , so I called in to see Jackie and had a coffee and then we come home . |
| 20 | Remember , we want you not only to lose weight but to feel really healthy with your body in good nutritional balance . |
| 21 | Both pockets are large enough to carry guidebooks or passports etc , without spoiling the line of the trousers . |
| 22 | Better to lose face and be open about not understanding the cryptic message , than to lose sleep at night over it . |
| 23 | ‘ I realise that the audience have to suspend belief somewhat to enjoy plots but this was asking too much . ’ |
| 24 | Those whom our staff judge as being able competently to carve gybe and water start may continue sailing till safety cover finishes . |
| 25 | This is despite the fact that around 40,000 visitors enter the Magic Kingdom daily to see Mickey and Co at a cost of £23 for adults and £15 for kids . |
| 26 | The housing surely explains a great deal : neither good enough to promote happiness nor bad enough to produce hopelessness . |
| 27 | It is even sophisticated enough to perform spot and process colour separations to a PostScript printer — a feature that also separates it from the majority of budget drawing packages . |
| 28 | A magnification of × 7 is just wide enough to include Gamma and Nu . |
| 29 | yet , as Lancaster observes ‘ Librarians do not exist merely to acquire books or to maximise the work load at the circulation desk : presumably libraries are in some way concerned with certain uses of books and with certain desired outcomes of the reading process. , |
| 30 | Then in chronological order came the following : Hemel Hempstead ( 1947 ) replacing Redbourn as proposed in the Abercrombie plan , was designed to fill in the area between Harpenden , St Albans and Remel Hempstead itself ; Harlow ( 1947 ) , 23 miles north-east of London , expanded a small settlement of 4,500 people ; Crawley ( 1947 ) , a town of 9,500 population , lay astride the Brighton Road , 30 miles south of London ; Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City ( both 1948 ) lay very close to each other 18–20 miles north of London ( Welwyn was already a sizable town of 18,500 inhabitants ) ; Basildon ( 1949 ) met rather different objectives , planned not only to accommodate overspill but to tidy up an untidy area of shack development between London and Southend ; Bracknell ( 1949 ) replaced Abercrombie 's proposal for White Waltham , three miles south-west of Maidenhead , west of London . |