Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was customary for boxers to box frequently , and Lynch had twenty-five contests in his twentieth year , by which time he was acknowledged to be the best ‘ wee ’ man in Glasgow . |
| 2 | After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m . |
| 3 | Some community organisations are concerned that Compacts might : a ) be a means of encouraging young people to leave school too early to perform menial jobs ; b ) be an opportunity for employers to recruit selectively without using proper procedures ; c ) allow discrimination according to gender , race and disability ; d ) discourage the development of different philosophies springing from different cultural backgrounds and points of view ; e ) develop an unchallenging , potentially exploited , workforce . |
| 4 | Terry Eagleton , oddly , dismisses evidence from Daniel Defoe that in the coffee houses of London it was not uncommon for mechanicks to hold forth on issues of the day . |
| 5 | Ironically , one of Mr Yeltsin 's critics , Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , speaker of parliament , might have swung him a few votes by appealing at the start of the session for deputies to behave responsibly , seek compromise and encourage ‘ dialogue , not monologue ’ . |
| 6 | For helices to entwine together they must be of the same handedness , like the strands of a rope . |
| 7 | A clearance rebounded off Cusack , Steve Gaughan beat two men and released David Cork into the box , and he pulled the ball back for Cusack to drive home . |
| 8 | We were too busy with hospital visits for despondency to last long , however , and the family and friends continued to visit . |
| 9 | She felt an aching need for Fernando to soothe away the pain of desire from her loins . |
| 10 | This bifurcating messenger system operates throughout the life of a typical cell , beginning with gametogenesis , fertilization , cell proliferation and early development and continuing through differentiation to perform very precise control functions in a whole variety of specialized cells in both animals and plants . |
| 11 | Suppose that one set the pendulum in motion , waited long enough for transients to die away , and then attempted to predict ( on the basis of previous experience ) what one would observe if one looked at the pendulum . |
| 12 | The stress on the primitive chain at time t is found as where is the disengagement time , that is , the time required for chains to disengage completely from surrounding entanglements ( it is the longest relaxation time for a chain ) , c is the number of polymers in unit volume so that cN is the number of chain segments in unit volume , and is a function of the deformation . |
| 13 | I have sent for Stirling to report here on his return when I shall make the new procedures clear to him . |
| 14 | No I asked you for formally for permission to go ahead and go ahead with the . |
| 15 | Further sorting within these primary groups was also possible , for instance to bring together specific categories of information ( eg FI , RI ) within the ordered list of activities , and so on . |
| 16 | Extraordinary that the Soviets had not already grilled and broken this man , unbelievable that they had permitted a trial for espionage to go ahead without the evidence of a confession . |
| 17 | This made it possible for Germany to develop economically and socially , and enabled Barbarossa to consolidate and extend his imperial and personal power throughout the German kingdom . |
| 18 | This he does at the highest level in the HERMS file structure , defining boxes in the work file for sub-teams to work within and inputting technical details as text in the technical file ; this latter entry could be considerable . |
| 19 | It clearly does not fall into the easy trap of arguing that for crime to exist there must first be intention . |
| 20 | It has been known for Goblins to get so ambitious that the entire catapult springs from its mounts and hits the Goblin splat in the face , putting paid to the whole device . |
| 21 | The substitution worked both ways as Surgeon drove in a low cross for Canning to crash home a spectacular equaliser in the 64th minute . |
| 22 | For schools to exploit fully the potential of enhanced staffing after a century of working on the basis of n class teachers plus the head , they needed the imagination to conceive of alternatives ; a shift in attitudes away from the entrenched belief in the inviolability and supremacy of the traditional twin roles of head and class teacher ; and the will to enact such alternatives and live with the discomfort which the changing of professional roles inevitably generates . |
| 23 | The acceptance of a contract which sets out detailed conditions of service , hours worked and parents met is unlikely to provide the flexibility that is required for schools to respond quickly , humanely and sympathetically to family needs . |
| 24 | One way of ensuring a fairer distribution of additional resources is for schools to work together on joint fund raising . |
| 25 | Hick fittingly ended it all by racing in to run out Aqib , to leave Malik forlorn and a class apart , 84 not out , having steered his side to a lead of 98 , 50-odd short of what Waqar said last evening would be enough for Pakistan to defend successfully . |
| 26 | She placed them in a casserole dish and then shouted for Piers to come inside and eat . |
| 27 | In the US there is a general call for dentists to become more holistic and to see dentistry as an integral part of health rather than treating patients as walking sets of teeth . |
| 28 | Finally the settling time is the time taken for oscillation to decay so that the system is within 5% of the target . |
| 29 | The requirement was for vessels to operate habitually from a national port ( p. 222 , para. 28 ) and , hence , for vessels to be present at national ports with a certain frequency ( p. 224 , para. 40 ) . |
| 30 | An order made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department under section 43(1) of the Shops Act 1950 would only lift the requirement for shops to close ordinarily by 8 pm on Sundays . |