Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Realizing the importance of schemas and scripts is the first step , but that in itself gets us nowhere unless we push on to consider how a manager can discover what schemas actually exist and , if they are inappropriate , how to change them . |
| 2 | In practice , ethnographers tend rather to play down the question of whether their particular group is typical of others , but the reader must recognize that the choice of group is a kind of sampling , and the question of representativeness must arise . |
| 3 | How do they feel , those Acas teams , as they sit down to sort out yet another union/management dispute ? |
| 4 | Quarks bind together to make up larger particles such as the protons and neutrons found in the atomic nucleus . |
| 5 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 6 | I have always liked to read the Golden Age detective stories , if you like , the country house murder mysteries , but I would have to admit that reading those is to some extent desire for stasis , a desire erm for a particularly safe kind of world , where everything works out in the end , because that 's usually what happens , and so these days I tend only to take very small doses of that particular medicine . |
| 7 | If you want somewhere to live why not squat . |
| 8 | Yet the stockmarket has rewarded those investors brave enough to venture in . |
| 9 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 10 | It iss better to find out for yourself , our Guider says , than to be told . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well , he would , if I insisted , ’ Mrs McMahon grinned , ‘ only I 'm not fool enough to do so . |
| 12 | Not fool enough to stand aside and watch the best thing that 's ever happened to me wither away because I 'm too scared to let it put down roots . |
| 13 | Press gently to squeeze out a star of icing , stop the pressure , and pull away the nozzle tip so that the icing star forms to a point and breaks off . |
| 14 | Human Touch ( Columbia ) is the worst : an hour of express-way roar with only the odd shift down to break up the nose-to-bumper raunch . |
| 15 | Likewise , other conditions , such as renal artery stenosis secondary to atherosclerosis , which might be expected to occur more frequently in the diabetic , appear not to do so ( Munichoodappa et al , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | Those firms which get caught in the middle appear not to do so well . |
| 17 | I imagined they were old and slow reptiles , too far gone to chase a sprightly private detective around their pit , content just to chew placidly on a hunk of dead cow . |
| 18 | Younger by four years than his go-getting elder brother , Ryan was basically easygoing , with no driving ambitions , content just to get by . |
| 19 | Perhaps they did n't want to scare me and thought it better not to say too much , but I wish they had said something . |
| 20 | ‘ I want tonight to last forever , ’ she murmured . |
| 21 | I want now to look more closely at how business operates and see if in that operation there are any lessons , ideas or strategies that might be the beginnings of the new direction for education . |
| 22 | In fairness to those whose questions come further down the Order Paper , I propose now to speed up a bit . |
| 23 | I propose simply to map out broad characteristics , though the analytical language of contrast tends to suggest categorical qualities which are unintended . |
| 24 | In contrast to such ‘ an increasing grammatization of discursive and textual operations ’ , analysts such as De Lauretis ( 1984 , p. 45 ) want instead to examine how cinema produces its specific effects on spectators through what is specific to images . |
| 25 | Some MEPs want ultimately to take over from the council the main responsibility for passing EC laws , while others want to concentrate on the right to appoint the European Commission . |
| 26 | Horses tend not to use badly sited shelter sheds , no matter how hot or cold it is . |
| 27 | Let us examine the implications of this ; property crime became by far the most common form of crime during the period in which the prison emerged ; therefore forced labour would have become the most common punishment ; forced labour requires incarceration ( people tend not to turn up for it of their own free will ) . |
| 28 | Leapor agrees with Swift that coquettes and beaux tend not to live happily ever after , but she takes an altogether different view of the reasons . |
| 29 | On the whole , such services tend not to serve severely mentally disordered people but to concentrate instead on less seriously dependent people . |
| 30 | Even those that tend not to do very well attract some kind of an advance . |