Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten minutes to go and then … |
| 2 | For those who like a time check once in a while , it was now 9.30 hours to go and still counting down . |
| 3 | Ivanov was capable of using his considerable social skills to cultivate and subsequently exploit successfully the acquaintance of a susceptible person engaged in strategic work . |
| 4 | The long-term decline in the participation of older people , particularly older men , in the workforce can not be attributed to changes in the individual characteristics of older people themselves — their health , attitudes to work and so on . |
| 5 | They would be unable at times to concentrate or even to stay awake , It is very noticeable that Barratt required " as far as possible " the attendance of the children at school during the winter " when they are unemployed " . |
| 6 | On his death there were then no freehold estates to pass and therefore no liability to feudal dues . |
| 7 | Once again the Padre urged his listeners to repent because now the most dangerous time of all was at hand , and he repeated the words he had read earlier : " His fan is in his hand , and he will purge his floor , and gather his wheat into the barn ; but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire . " |
| 8 | They are , for example , given frequent opportunities to mate but only with mares . |
| 9 | Here we wanted kids to know that physically Kylie is real . |
| 10 | We often visit schools that are involved in testing teaching units to discover that overnight a new program has been written by a teacher to use in his afternoon lesson . |
| 11 | They will make the models which include sheep , giraffes , elephants and rhinos , for craft and gift shops to sell but also hope to receive commissions for shop window displays and from firms wanting the models as promotional displays . |
| 12 | Where a defendant is tried before judge and jury , both have their roles to play and together they constitute the court of trial . |
| 13 | any way I got to the last one and it was two combinations combined together , so you 've got two separate combinations to do and then you 're to put those two together in with a different rule |
| 14 | But it seems clear that some people , perhaps the members of the monastery themselves , thought it was a serious possibility , and they took steps to ensure that neither Lanfranc nor anyone else would be able to carry out this sweeping measure of reform . |
| 15 | A pathetic attempt to use proto-scientific methods to ascertain and then apprehend the transcendent . |
| 16 | The nip of alcohol causes the blood vessels to dilate and so warm the skin and make us comfortable in spite of being out in the cold . |
| 17 | Repeatedly the UK passed over opportunities to join or even lead the emerging European Common Market , now the European Community ( EC ) . |
| 18 | This means that these devices actually allow pregnancies to begin and then abort them , a notion out of line with biblical concepts . |
| 19 | We might extend this in many church investigations to state that even when the statistics prove your point , your next course of action is to gather yet more statistics . |
| 20 | It 's a natural material so it breathes , allowing the feet to breathe as well . |
| 21 | As with Brian , and I hope myself , Terry worked on these areas to try and even off the rough edges . |
| 22 | Jackman upset seedings to qualify and convincingly beat the fourth-seeded Michelle Martin of Australia . |
| 23 | Yeah , erm , I mean , I think , what you 've , what you 've actually done is identified quite a lot more areas than they , they had four , which which they did in in some detail , and they got the stories classified , erm , what you 've actually thought of , is is far more areas , which I think 's good , erm , and maybe other areas to consider as well . |
| 24 | It is the duty of the police in most countries to ensure that only authorised people have access to the accident site , and the fire and rescue services should be properly briefed not to disturb wreckage unnecessarily when removing victims , baggage or mail . |
| 25 | Its two most recent decisions on the Government 's power to restrain publications by former Crown servants — Spycatcher and the Cavendish Memoirs — were marked by references to the Convention and by an obvious desire manifested by most of the judges to ensure that both the law they were declaring and the decision they were taking in accordance with it would be seen to comply with Article 10 . |
| 26 | As I approached it I reached out my talons to land and perhaps the prey I was holding obscured the view for I should have seen sooner what had been put on top of the post by Men . |
| 27 | As agreed in August 1988 [ see pp. 36294-95 ] New Zealand and Australia on July 1 , 1990 , abolished all remaining barriers to trade and thus completed the closer economic relations ( CER ) agreement which provided for completely free trade in goods , services and other commercial dealings between the two countries . |
| 28 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |
| 29 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
| 30 | The controversies and speculations will no doubt continue for many years to come and only the briefest notes will be given here to suggest some of the possibilities , without prejudice but also with realism . |