Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffith 's intention was to condemn the hypocrisy of wealthy do-gooders and just by way of illustration he brilliantly made real the experience of industrial warfare . |
| 2 | We 'd better make sure no more of this sort of thing is going on . ’ |
| 3 | It is the fact that if you change the goalposts you 'd better make sure the ball still goes between 'em . |
| 4 | Then , turning towards the kitchen , she said , ‘ We 'd better make sure the urns are full of water . ’ |
| 5 | monoxide , nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide , so make sure the kitchen is well ventilated . |
| 6 | You know so make sure the units are the same and the scale is the same so you 're using the same number of squares for each one . |
| 7 | Thick coats of polish cause unsightly cracking , so make sure the brush is n't overloaded when applying . |
| 8 | The harddisk and floppy disk data cables will fit on the card the wrong way round , so make sure the red edge of the cable goes to Pin 1 ( which is marked ) of the connector . |
| 9 | Near Exeter , the old Exeter to Crediton road had been doubled in width ( from nine and a half to twenty feet ) and so made necessary a new bridge over the Creedy . |
| 10 | The polytechnics were having to carry into the 1970s a defence and assertion of their particular — though not necessarily homogeneous — values and procedures , and in doing so made necessary a constant reaffirmation of the vocational or service roles that had aroused fierce passions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as new institutions and new sectors had come into existence in many countries . |
| 11 | If the projected examination schedules are retained in the computer , printouts can be obtained of the examinations scheduled for the next day or week , so rendering unnecessary the use of a manual diary for the control of test schedules . |
| 12 | Now if you look in front of you you 'll all see little a green tray with lots of objects . |
| 13 | Clients now became appreciative of specialisms and saw the basic good sense of employing the building specialist , not only to put right a defect , but also to refurbish entire buildings . |
| 14 | It 'd be good if the home crowd could sing a bit , if only to keep alive the myth that Leeds create an intimidating atmosphere . |
| 15 | But Jane had always been close to her mother and , almost inevitably , there came an evening when Mrs Connachan inadvertently prised open the floodgates . |
| 16 | The 1973 Act provided for community councils to operate at a similar ‘ grass-roots ’ level , and in so doing introduced a new concept into British local government — a statutory body without statutory functions . |
| 17 | Of the half dozen or so packages available the two sent for test were InteCalc and InteWord ; a spreadsheet and word processor respectively . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not leaving you forever , only making sure the servants have no reason to talk . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps making sure the same number of people came out as went in ! |
| 20 | Soap was unheard of at the time so to get clean the hot , sweaty skin was rubbed with oil and then scraped with a strigil — a scraper made of wood or bronze . |
| 21 | However , it is too simplistic a reaction to suggest that French poststructuralism can therefore be invalidated by judging it against the claims of a comparable endeavour in Germany , a procedure which can only operate by turning the former into a failed version of the latter , which obviously leaves open the possibility of exactly the reverse argument being made . |
| 22 | Yvor Winters pronounced , in characteristically forthright manner , that Even C. L. Barber found that ‘ sometimes the activity of the poetry alone makes endurable the passivity of the attitude expressed by the poet ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd be good enough to make sure the fire 's safe before you turn in ? |
| 24 | First , it is the only kind of theory now available that is precise and predictive enough to make investigable the nature of a semantics/pragmatics boundary , or the interaction between the two components . |
| 25 | One evening in December I gently pushed open the old kitchen door , and there , sitting by the fire next to Joe , in my old place , was — Pip ! |
| 26 | He he very rarely played truant a boy did n't it 's er in fact I er I do n't think I ever did , to my knowledge played truant at all during school . |
| 27 | It soon became apparent the way we were being footed about , we would have more chance of convincing Rupert Murdoch to stand as a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party . |
| 28 | Also , in the meantime , a military revolt had taken place in the Spanish army , lead by General Franco , and it soon became clear the division of the contending sides were , on the one side , The Nationalists who were strongly supported by Italy , Germany and Portugal , and on The other side , the government forces , supported by Communist Russia , which led to that side being referred to as ‘ Republicans ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Just make sure the wallet goes back into the pocket , Vi , or there 'll be hell to pay . |
| 30 | just make sure the , R C's are round the right way |