Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we must make it a positive step forward that this council not only goes forwards to build but it goes forward to use that building and give the firemen of this county the right tools , or firewoman , the firemen and the firewoman of this county the right tools to work with . |
| 2 | Despite the lack of wind , over the past hour a swell had built beyond the reef — a strange , almost oily swell that rose in long humps only to collapse back on itself as if exhausted by the effort . |
| 3 | Nor is it flippant liberalism to point this out — though there may be significance in the fact that anyone who does so has immediately to excuse himself , as I find myself doing . |
| 4 | Enough survives today to give a compelling impression of the extent to which the crown supplied visual evidence to its subjects of the splendour of Scottish monarchy ; the buildings may be small-scale by comparison with those of wealthier kings , but they are also lovely , and imposing , and above all utterly fashionable . |
| 5 | The 8-byte instruction buffer in the CPU decomposes the highly variable instruction format into its basic components and constantly fetches ahead to reduce delays in obtaining the instruction components . |
| 6 | + final sentence : sums up the paragraph ( and perhaps tries also to link the paragraph with what will come next ) . |
| 7 | For a person who 's dedicated it must be a very rewarding job , but for someone who only comes here to work it must be blooming hard . |
| 8 | Go straight uphill in second field , initially with right edge and the barn 100 yds away ; the route finally veers right to leave field by far right-hand corner . |
| 9 | She reversed in a reckless sweep , scraping the Range Rover with a hideous scream of metal , then tore off down the hairpin bends of the drive , blinking away tears furiously to see where she was going . |
| 10 | It is an S-shaped curve ( See Meadows ) , which shows increasing growth at first , then slows down and finally tends asymptotically to approach a maximum . |
| 11 | The aggressive fighter is often weak on defence and generally prefers just to smother your attack so that he can proceed with his own . |
| 12 | Life there is so inexpensive that it just takes longer to get it all done . |
| 13 | Killing people simply in order to satisfy hunger is hardly one of humanity s more endearing habits ( and anyway seems always to have been rare ) , but the consumption of dead heroes can be seen as a mark of respect , in that the eaters may hope to inherit some of the admired qualities of the deceased . |
| 14 | He soon learns either to give you misleading information or delay sending in the document . |
| 15 | A realistic genre has less obtrusive conventions , but still has always to recognize that it can never evoke as real unless the audience welcomes rather than shrinks from the awareness . |
| 16 | With only 26 analysts , mostly banking specialists , it still has far to go . |
| 17 | But recycling still has far to go : Japan , with little land to spare , recycles 40% of its solid waste . |
| 18 | The doppelganger stands right behind its owner and always moves swiftly to dodge out of sight . |
| 19 | It usually works best to make outings as normal as you can — ie , go with just two or three people to a concert or the theatre rather than with a whole organised group which will stand out . |
| 20 | No wonder no woman ever comes forward to seek help if this is the sort of justice the army say it is . |
| 21 | Ruether , who is by training a historian , and politically of left-wing convictions , quickly comes simply to embark on a description of certain threads which she believes to have run through history . |
| 22 | Once again the novel repeatedly turns inwards to examine its own nature , presenting itself as a kind of palimpsest . |
| 23 | It also needs somewhere to store them . |
| 24 | But it is not a solution However successful the Board is in identifying development opportunities , providing capital and training , buildings and equipment , giving assistance with promotion and marketing , every enterprise set up has still to pay the penalty of remoteness , and will go on paying it long after any injection of grants and loans has been exhausted . |
| 25 | The company also intends eventually to produce Asynchronous Transfer Mode products , but is waiting for the specifications to be finalised before it makes its move . |
| 26 | It also takes longer to ask " open-ended " questions and to record the responses . |
| 27 | Another firm , Keith Bayley Rogers & Co ( 071–378 0657 ) also continues only to charge commission on transactions , and stresses that it has a large and long-established client basis and no need to churn portfolios . |
| 28 | This 1853 analogy , once it has got going , also proves hard to stop : it is still running in a letter to George Sand of 1868 . |
| 29 | But functionalism also operates specifically to deny housework 's status as work ; indeed , one of its main premises is that the feminine role in the family is opposed to the masculine role precisely on this dimension . |
| 30 | The musicians grouped in the centre of the canvas were initially composed in different positions : the central violinist originally leant to the right to read a sheet of music and now sits upright to play . |