Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We saw common guillemot , Brünnich 's guillemot , razorbill , black guillemot and puffin : it only needed little auk to complete all the auks on the European list ! |
| 2 | After a further series of internal meetings taking several days , they eventually agreed to pay half the sum , provided another organisation would put up the other half . |
| 3 | It was also reported that work was under way to clear Iraqi mines from the coastal waters around Kuwait , in preparation for the amphibious assault which was widely expected to accompany any allied ground offensive . |
| 4 | Managers and clinicians had rather come to view each other as protagonists in the constant battle for resources . |
| 5 | We may eventually need to relate these factors to one another or to other events in a child 's life , such as educational progress , length of stay in care or destination on exit . |
| 6 | Because you 're secretly dying to press that delightful body up against me and find out how it feels ? ’ |
| 7 | Having acquired a dominant position in a market , a firm will presumably seek to exploit that position , unless it is constrained by the threat of potential competition . |
| 8 | Guards should properly refer to ‘ switching on the darks ’ , since what they call lights seem expressly designed to suck all traces of illumination out of the carriage , casting shadows into every corner . |
| 9 | A group of shearling rams , currently being prepared for sale this season , is widely considered to contain some of the best sheep the flock has ever produced . |
| 10 | Well , er , equity accounting , James is better placed to answer that question than me . |
| 11 | The institutions themselves , being closer to the work in question , were much better placed to fulfil that responsibility . |
| 12 | It is probably true , its probably the case that every single person in the room is better placed to write this procedure then Jenny . |
| 13 | First , Britain 's position in world trade in 1950 resulted from a temporary advantage since , despite enormous difficulties , she was better placed to make some immediate recovery from the effects of the world war than the devastated economies of Europe and Japan [ Milward , 1984 ] . |
| 14 | It was to change the nature of France 's regime , so that the nation would be better placed to meet any challenge or resolve any problem that it might have to face . |
| 15 | ‘ It does n't look a big enough building to house this lot , ’ D'Arcy observed . |
| 16 | " Senator and Madame Sherman , I am highly honoured to welcome such a distinguished family as yours to French Indochina , " he said , speaking sonorously in his own language . |
| 17 | Europe , with its temperate climate and its vegetation greatly modified by cultivation , is less calculated to stimulate such observations ; in moist tropical forests , in the Sahara , and in the tundras , the close connexion between the character of the vegetation and the conditions of extreme climates is revealed by the most evident adaptations . |
| 18 | Bob Henry , you must be aware of some of the criticisms which were levelled at the companies which were put out by arts associations , where they say really it 's very self-indulgent and nobody much goes to see this particular type of dance group . |
| 19 | Forty patients with active duodenal ulcer disease and H pylori colonisation of the gastric mucosa were randomly assigned to receive either omeprazole ( 20 mg twice daily ) and amoxicillin suspension ( 500 mg four times daily ) for two weeks ( group I ) or bismuth subsalicylate ( 600 mg three times daily ) , metronidazole ( 400 mg three times daily ) , tetracycline ( 500 mg three times daily ) , and raniditine ( 300 mg in the evening ) for two weeks ( group II ) . |
| 20 | Forty patients who qualified for admission to the study ( Tables I and II ) were randomly assigned to receive either omeprazole ( 20 mg twice daily ) ( Antra , Astra Chemicals , Wedel/Holstein , Germany ) before meals and amoxicillin suspension ( 500 mg four times daily ) ( Amoxypen suspension , Grünenthal , Stolberg , Germany ) before meals and at bedtime for two weeks ( group I ) or bismuth subsalicylate ( 600 mg three times daily ) ( Jatrox , Röhm Pharma , Weiterstadt , Germany ) before meale , metronidazole ( 400 mg three times daily ) ( Clont 400 , Bayer , Leverkusen , Germany ) and tetracycline ( 500 mg three times daily ) ( Hostacylkin 500 , Hoechst , Frankfurt , Germany ) after meals , and ranitidine ( 300 mg at night ) for two weeks ( group II ) . |
| 21 | Occupational types , for example , whether crofters , fishermen or merchants , are together presumed to have more in common than they have to divide them . |
| 22 | By the time of Anselm 's death the question was essentially settled and Anselm 's successor Ralph was fighting in a hopeless cause : by the time of Ralph 's death , the instruments of universal government had become sufficiently highly developed to make all that Lanfranc and Anselm had stood for in this aspect of their work a thing of the past . |
| 23 | You will only want to do this on rare occasions . |
| 24 | This involves finding a language for the goal of contemplative life — " I vate wele desyres to here some special poynt of luf of Jhesu Criste , and of contemplatyf lyfe " [ vate wele : know well ; here : hear ] ( 6.102 – 3.214 – 2 ) — to bridge the gap between doctrine and reality . |
| 25 | The netting thrown over the tree in the background is obviously intended to trap these newcomers as they arrive to mob the owl . |
| 26 | I only mean to preface this discussion of cultural difference with an awkward question : in the world we have , is it possible for us — any of us — not to have at least some inferior others ? |
| 27 | This list is by no means exhaustive and is only intended to illustrate some of the most commonplace reasons for the non-reporting of crime . |
| 28 | But this elaborate operation it 's claimed only goes to prove that hooliganism rather than disappearing is just lurking beneath the surface . |
| 29 | It only goes to show that compared to the mid-80s , when there was just Eddie Hemmings and I battling for an England place , there is now much tougher competition at the top . |
| 30 | Now I do n't necessarily want to stop all of it , but I do want to control the sort of mail I get . |