Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday police used teargas to break up protestors blocking aid lorries near Zenesa . |
| 2 | In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week . |
| 3 | ‘ It will be a pleasant change to do so . ’ |
| 4 | The research programme was thus to have a broad base to provide broadly applicable results . |
| 5 | Application of grammars requires knowledge of the grammatical behaviour of the words of the language ( stored in a lexicon ) and a parsing algorithm to specify how to apply the knowledge of the grammar and the syntactic behaviour of the words to the input . |
| 6 | Divisional commandant George Kane said : ‘ Classes can help women be more aware of their surroundings , to know what possible dangers to look out for and to be more confident when out alone . ’ |
| 7 | Divisional commandant George Kane said : ‘ These classes can help women be more aware of their surroundings , to know what possible dangers to look out for and to be more confident when out alone . ’ |
| 8 | Whether your hair has been chemically treated or not , you should take extra rich products to put back the moisture removed by the sun , sea and chlorine . |
| 9 | Pulling over to the right lane to turn right down the Royston Bypass |
| 10 | When war broke out in 1914 , Harrison was sent to France to join the British Expeditionary Force and regarded this as a heaven-sent opportunity to move away from the subject of the venereal diseases . |
| 11 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 12 | A group of 25 communicators , sociologists and people from the religious communities of North America and Asia have agreed on specific plans to work together for a more just global communication environment . |
| 13 | Whether specific plans to follow up the lesson have been made . |
| 14 | Several bombs have gone off in Latvia ; the locals think these were planted to give the army a possible excuse to move in . |
| 15 | The outburst follows the allied decision to set up an exclusion zone to protect Shi'ites in Southern Iraq . |
| 16 | England and Scotland , neither of whom have ever won the title , already have a nine-shot deficit to make up . |
| 17 | As there was no other business the Conference concluded quickly after its momentous decision to set up a national organisation of the deaf and dumb . |
| 18 | The ordinary expectation is that the tenant will be entitled to occupy all that space between the floor of his demise and the underside of the floor above , unless there are cogent reasons to assume otherwise ( Graystone Property Investments Ltd v Margulies ( 1983 ) 269 EG 538 ) . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ I 'm happy I made the right decision to go back . |
| 20 | If any wonder whether they made the right decision to come home and marry a British man , Dolly Howard who danced round the world had the wittiest appreciation of the difference between the continental men and the boys back home : |
| 21 | Another suggestion was that the electrolysis caused the liquid level to drop as more of the liquid turned into gas ; this exposed the top of the palladium above the liquid surface and gas began to leak out , releasing in a rush the considerable energy that had been stored with the trapped deuterium , sending the temperature up above the melting point ( 1554 degrees Celsius ) or even boiling at 3000 degrees . |
| 22 | Brian Wisenden and Miles Keenleyside , of the University of Western Ontario , have spent the past two years studying the convict cichlid Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum ( named for its distinctive stripes ) , a species already known to have the common cichlid habit of forming monogamous pairs to bring up the next generation . |
| 23 | There have not yet , however , been any far-reaching attempts to tie together the insights of the different disciplines and perspectives . |
| 24 | had been given ample opportunity to respond constructively but had palpably failed to do so . |
| 25 | In other words , we must motivate our learner to think , and give her ample opportunity to do so . |
| 26 | You 've had ample opportunity to do so . |
| 27 | So my visits to the Ainsworth home were frequent but undemanding , and I had ample opportunity to look out for the little cat which had intrigued me . |
| 28 | The son of legendary martial arts star Bruce , Brandon gets ample opportunity to show off his inherited skills in Rapid Fire , which opens on November 20 . |
| 29 | He made it possible for the duke and his eight-months pregnant duchess to rush back from Germany to Kensington Palace for the birth , putting up the royal cavalcade at his home in Shooter 's Hill on the way . |
| 30 | Conversely , the wafer-thin ears of many bats act as sound frequency filters allowing all but the most ultrasonic frequencies to pass right through . |