Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Press habitually looks for an opportunity eventually to knock down the heroes they have created and placed on pedestals , if only to do something new . |
| 2 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 3 | First , there seems at present less to complain about in most of our primary schools than in secondary or tertiary education . |
| 4 | An hour , and an hour perhaps to get back into the town — still plenty of time , as she had judged it , to catch the ten-forty-five for Bleasham . |
| 5 | Now — who hates your son-in-law enough to kill off his wife and kids ? ’ |
| 6 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
| 7 | Marcus has been kind enough to come here . |
| 8 | ‘ And I doubt the princes , poor lads , have freedom enough to carry out any mischievous forays ! |
| 9 | In a fierce , raw and , at times , downright nasty battle , Barnes led his besieged troops to glory only to hit out in a variety of directions afterwards . |
| 10 | IT IS pretty rare to come across a football manager brave enough to hold up his hands the day after a beating and invite criticism . |
| 11 | Waves burst over the cockpit into the saloon only to pour out through the manhole each time the bridge-deck broke free for a moment . |
| 12 | The only alternative would be to require the new unitary councils to club together to carry out this and other strategic functions , but that begs the question : Why abolish the counties in the first place , only to recreate them in a less accountable form ? |
| 13 | Whether it was being referred to that week as The Tea Room , The Oasis or The Hole ( I liked that one too ) , it was always basically night inside , A Good Night Out ; not black as jeweller 's velvet exactly , except on a good night , but always when you stepped in off the street it was truly night inside , a night dark enough to dream in and on which to meet strangers , whatever the variations on where and when this particular night had fallen . |
| 14 | He always wore a plain white shirt with the sleeves rolled back off his splendid forearms , and he had eyes dark enough to look truly black in the lighting of The Bar . |
| 15 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 16 | Whereas a traditional craftsman would decide what should be done , how it should be done , when it should be done , and to what level of quality , as well as actually executing the task itself , modern management within capitalism takes on all these former conceptual functions , leaving labour merely to carry out the mechanical aspects of performing the manual task . |
| 17 | The whole kit is neatly housed in a semi-circular , strong plastic , self-locking carry-case , which can be strapped next to the spare wheel in many cars , and is both convenient and light enough to carry around . |
| 18 | By now you will have stimulated the circulation enough to move on to the next stage , which is kneading . |
| 19 | So that if even if they reach through they 're going to have to break the lock just to get in . |
| 20 | So are you gon na have to restrict training in er operational flights jaguar at a stretch just to stretch out the hours ? |
| 21 | I used to play football just to get out the aggression . |
| 22 | and proposals and I 'd like to start with a vote just to find out what kind of hundred this is , do you have a driving licence ? , button one for yes and button two for no seventy two of this hundred have a driving licence which I think is some way above the National average , let me ask you do you have the use of a car or other vehicle whenever you want it ? , button one for yes and button two for no and of seventy two er licence holders , sixty three have the use of a car which again I think is some way over the National average , now what cars do you have ? , now let see what people are driving here there |
| 23 | Some market research just to see how many times you swear at me . |
| 24 | Come over here and spent his silver wedding just to come here and his golden wedding ! |
| 25 | And since many credit card issuers have introduced an annual charge of around £8 to £12 , it may not be worth getting a credit card just to take on holiday , although there are additional benefits such as travel insurance if you use the card to buy your ticket . |
| 26 | MISS World flew back to her Russian homeland yesterday to face up to profiteers trying to cash in on her success . |
| 27 | Bill Clinton had come to their shrine on Memorial Day , the first president ever to do so . |
| 28 | THE Salvation Army began a High Court action yesterday to recover more than £6 million it believes was stolen from its accounts in a huge fraud . |
| 29 | Only in cases where it is not clear whether or not there is an intention permanently to deprive where the accused acts " without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing " need one look at s.6 . |
| 30 | There 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through , an awful lot of people to see , an awful lot of red tape really to get through , first , I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards . |