Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if a wife were expressly to agree to sexual intercourse on demand , such a promise would not in English law be contractually binding upon her . |
| 2 | But this common-carrier principle has produced little such trade because negotiations were soon bogged down in technical committees full of engineers from the very monopolies that stood most to lose from cross-border competition . |
| 3 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 4 | Heating water etc. to cope with large quantities of laundry made for a periodic need to bring in extra labour over that maintained in the household . |
| 5 | The expenses incurred by the college were all incurred necessarily in order properly to provide for these pupils . |
| 6 | He had studied the latest Russian , German and French film theories , spent six months mixing with movie people in Hollywood , then gone on to train at British Instructional Pictures , a maker of successful non-fiction films which moved into drama production in the late 1920s . |
| 7 | The worker was eventually to benefit from better conditions of work ; for the moment , electricity probably affected him most by providing transport for travel to his work from greater distances . |
| 8 | Is English law right to define rape in this way , and thereby to exclude from this offence such conduct as forced oral sex ( fellatio ) , cunnilingus , and buggery ? |
| 9 | After the intensive twelve months support with the project , girls need somewhere to come with any problems that may occur later . |
| 10 | Another person we thought of using as a front man was Midge Ure — who I went on to work with straight after The Pistols , in The Rich Kids . |
| 11 | Unable to investigate further the boundary between body and spirit , Crookes moved on to work on that mysterious borderland , as he called it , of matter and energy . |
| 12 | Nick warmed up his caddie career from 1971 to 1974 carrying Archer 's bag , and then moved on to work for Australian Bruce Crampton until 1977 , when he moved on to another Australian , Graham Marsh . |
| 13 | A considerable number of Remploy workers do move on to work in open conditions but many remain semi-permanently in the sheltered environment . |
| 14 | The title and format might lead the casual observer into expecting just another general text ; but closer inspection reveals that the book assumes some basic knowledge of the subject and then goes on to concentrate on those aspects of geology of most direct relevance to society — seismic and volcanic hazards , landslides , erosion , subsidence , groundwater , and so on . |
| 15 | I lay the shotgun down to attend to that other chore — and , inevitably , out comes the rabbit . |
| 16 | May the author once again intrude upon whatever mood his narrative might have established long enough to report on current events ? ’ |
| 17 | Initially , he sounded reasonable enough to appeal to some Unionists , but then he started discussing joint administration as an option . |
| 18 | Trotting confidently out of his burrow into a jungly , prehistoric world , he is rescued by bats from slimy , groping creatures , only to fall into cavernous waters and swim out to sea , from where he is plucked by a vulture-like bird whose hungry chicks he has ‘ fun ’ avoiding before tumbling safely home . |
| 19 | From that moment they have gone from strength to strength and last year reached the final of the Pilkington Cup only to lose in extra time . |
| 20 | The American pair built a seemingly impregnable 6-1 , 4-0 lead , only to lose in three dramatic sets . |
| 21 | He 's probably a prosperous American businessman prosperous enough to go to international conventions : try all the American and international reference books in our library then the London Library . |
| 22 | Melanie was furious , and desperate enough to go to any lengths to terminate the pregnancy . |
| 23 | Drying time : most of the fabric was dry enough to wear within three hours in a warm room , but the elasticated waistband and cotton pockets took considerably longer . |
| 24 | Labour 's National Investment Bank , operating on strictly commercial lines , will bring public and private sector together to invest in long-term regional and national infrastructure projects . |
| 25 | As you near the end of your first video safari , the low-battery warning in your viewfinder may begin to flash , indicating that you have not long to go before switch-off for the day . |
| 26 | This makes it well suited to road use while it is still sturdy enough to cope with bumpy paths and tracks . |
| 27 | If she denied fitzAlan 's story so she could have the solar to herself , she would become lost in a morass of other lies and explanations , and her mind was n't clear enough to cope with such a task . |
| 28 | It is recommended that your database is large enough to cope with current LIFESPAN data plus an allocation for future data . |
| 29 | ‘ I think the squad is good enough to cope with any injuries we might suffer . |
| 30 | The bandwidth of such a system is wide enough to cope with high-definition television which requires around 30 MHz , instead of 8 MHz , per channel . |