Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Helen told Maureen that they had intended to wait until nearer the time to announce their news , but that seemed the right moment . |
| 2 | These can be amended to taste or completely overwritten . |
| 3 | They were forbidden to preach or even to meet together for prayer . |
| 4 | She was wearing huge aviator glasses , designed to hide but only drawing attention to the palely perfect face , the unlipsticked mouth , the silvery blonde hair fine as maize silk , which was drawn back into the nape of her neck . |
| 5 | More usually , ads for these types of product can be found with extensive and detailed copy — but copy designed to sell as well as , sometimes , inform . |
| 6 | Where the words used by Parliament are obscure or ambiguous , the Parliamentary material may throw considerable light not only on the mischief which the Act was designed to remedy but also on the purpose of the legislation and its anticipated effect . |
| 7 | The single market is , of course , designed to lower and eventually eliminate barriers to the movement of goods , services and people . |
| 8 | This encompasses the design of passenger seats and the methods of body restraint with seat belts , the establishment of the forces they are designed to withstand and even the strength of the seat attachments to the floor of the aircraft . |
| 9 | All teachers should be given time to get to know the machines they are expected to use as well as the materials they will use with them . |
| 10 | They 've come to understand that neither they , nor Britain , are islands — that their personal and national destiny are bound up not just with Europe , but with an ever-tightening world community . |
| 11 | The Law Society and the Legal Aid Board have agreed to introduce a Scheme which is designed to ensure that only competent solicitors ' representatives advise suspects at police stations . |
| 12 | In war it was only the poor who were expected to die and so the death of Earl Patrick came as a great shock to everyone . |
| 13 | She was terrified that one day he might try some moral blackmail and pretend he had come to love as well as respect her . |
| 14 | I 've now come to realise that physically Will is no longer around , although I still like to think that I can feel his presence in other ways |
| 15 | You have come to ask and so I must tell you . |
| 16 | The European Community competition commissioner Karel Van Miert is endorsing proposals — bitterly contested in the more state corporatist member countries — for breaking up national telephone monopolies by 1998 to free markets for calls both within and between member states ; the idea of an interim deregulation that would affect only transborder traffic has now been abandoned ; the UK is the only Community member open to phone call competition ; Denmark will follow suit next year and the Netherlands is expected to move as well ; Van Miert wants the Community to set liberalisation priorities and a timetable by year end , including proposals for regulatory changes by the end of 1994 , with market-opening to start in 1995 . |
| 17 | Within a month of filming the episode she flew back to London — heart of her new global empire — where she planned record and film work designed to guarantee that soon she would never need to work in Ramsay Street — or anywhere else for that matter — again . |
| 18 | Finally , may we emphasise that this letter is not intended to restrict or otherwise affect the quality of our products or service . |
| 19 | the problem more but it tends to be men that cope in that way and women are n't seen to cope as well , maybe they just do n't use things like alcohol |
| 20 | And then there was the attempt not to issue a questionnaire to every household but to reserve the questionnaires in the Town Hall for four week days Saturdays to will honour the people who did n't actually have Friday who were at home perhaps walk in to the City Centre you might be able to pick one of these up and then there was the problem distrib in distributing the questionnaire because despite of the assurance given to the consultants they were nevertheless distributed amongst the numerous St Albans and believe you me even those likely people who did go to the press do sometimes for every that we having suddenly fully congressed to see whether perhaps there might be a consultation questionnaire lurking within it . |
| 21 | erm the roads are really not , not made to cope and so we have to try to get people coming in from different areas and different directions so that we do n't get everybody on one road and nobody on another . |
| 22 | It was only two days ago that she had decided to come and now , as she stood there in the spring sunshine , she could hardly believe she had allowed this to happen . |
| 23 | You will see that this has been written to inform as well as to influence , in order to widen debate on sustainable development in Wales . |
| 24 | Christianity became the official Imperial religion by the Edict of Milan in AD 314 , and thereafter several attempts were made to despoil and eventually destroy pagan monuments . |
| 25 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisdiction to determine . |
| 26 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisiction to determine . |
| 27 | Not immediately , for to do what he would be moved to do if more aware , without trying to become more aware , would be a direct defiance of the imperative . |
| 28 | ‘ I think he 's just slipped out , ’ the girl said , as she had been instructed to do if ever Mr Downs presented himself . |
| 29 | In the secondary modern schools , though in principle it was pursued as a primary goal , as it was in the few technical schools that survived , yet because of the increasing aspiration within the schools themselves that their pupils should be seen to do as well as grammar school pupils , the practical gradually came to be despised there as well . |
| 30 | Until at last there was only one Callanish eagle left , a juvenile whom the others had sought to protect and so had prevented from joining in the fighting even though she had wanted to . |