Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy enough to identify features that are likely to provoke laughter and were presumably intended to do so amongst the common attributes of the fabliaux . |
| 2 | This difference is significant ( p <0.05 ) ; however , the two groups did not differ significantly in their ability to recognise speakers 1 and 3 , whom they overwhelmingly failed to identify as black . |
| 3 | The patients charter is aimed at improving the quality of the delivery of health care in Scotland and at making patients aware of their rights , thereby helping to improve even more the delivery of the health service . |
| 4 | Moreover , most users saw the centres as somewhere to go to get out of the house rather than somewhere to learn . |
| 5 | Philip Mairet , the editor , who was sympathetic to my views , tried to persuade Eliot to contribute his , and he eventually agreed to do so . |
| 6 | They eventually agreed to walk down the driveway and pose for pictures . |
| 7 | Hence Dahl argues against Walker that ‘ he insists upon interpreting as if they were normative or deontological certain writings that were mainly if not wholly intended to set out descriptive empirical theories ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I badly want to run well again over 10,000m . |
| 9 | When there is port bias on the line you will rarely need to start right at the pin end . |
| 10 | If you have spent a twelve hour day coping with the daily realities of road accidents , the elderly incontinent , housing the homeless — usually with inadequate resources — I promise you that you rarely want to go home and read about it . |
| 11 | England 's most endearing footballer badly wants to belong again , and I still believe a half-fit Gascoigne would offer Taylor more in mid-field than has been dished up lately . |
| 12 | Not till the dawn he heard it , and slowly blanched to hear How , Bess , the landlord 's daughter , |
| 13 | If we turn to the history of man 's creation in the sacred volume , we find that his mission was simply to dress and keep the garden of Eden and to serve and obey his Creator … and that , so far from having any mission to pry into the laws by which the Almighty governs His creation , he was expressly forbidden to do so . |
| 14 | Said she wanted somewhere better to bring up her baby . ’ |
| 15 | With most punters having travel passes with those twee colour pictures on their identity cards , the conductors rarely bother to come upstairs to collect fares any more , so you can get a fair amount of free rides in if you 're prepared to keep moving . |
| 16 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 17 | Crealy Country , which eventually wants to build up a data bank on tortoises , can be contacted on 0395 233200 . |
| 18 | We can go to London tomorrow — I 'd much prefer to drive there with you than go by train . ’ |
| 19 | L would myself much prefer to wait on just one diner , even if he were a total stranger . |
| 20 | They compelled officials to investigate matters they would much prefer to keep out of : all for the administration of a basically unworkable rule . |
| 21 | There were paintings stacked at the side of the room — whether finished or not , she did not know — but the thing that was most touching , the thing that stopped her forward momentum was a chair by the lower window , obviously placed to look out over the valley and the distant forest . |
| 22 | He shifted his grip on his sword and , as the leading rider drew near , stepped out onto the road with a hand held up and his face set in a grin nicely calculated to reassure yet threaten . |
| 23 | We 're only limited to go up to forty really are n't we ? |
| 24 | And I did so want to dig up a few artichokes this evening . |
| 25 | Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia . |
| 26 | The directory will then be made available to students , trainees , and researchers who are better placed to carry out the studies . |
| 27 | The division of the YJ Lovell group says the move leaves it better placed to cash in on work it is currently bringing in from South Yorkshire . |
| 28 | Internal structures modelled on the " organismic " organisation , ( Burns and Stalker 1961 ) with flexible project-based teams , are better placed to respond rapidly to change than fixed hierarchies . |
| 29 | I believe that Wales is much better placed to ride out the worldwide recession than it has been and I can give the hon. Gentleman this pledge : I and my ministerial colleagues will continue to do everything that we can to attract investment to Wales . |
| 30 | This simple but effective method of steam generation eliminates the need for a boiler so helping to cut down the incidence of scaling while also reducing water consumption by up to 80 per cent . |