Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one asked the matron if she thought the boy might have done this to silence Charley rather than avenge his mother . |
| 2 | Phone back within twenty-four hours to report progress even if you do not yet have the answer . |
| 3 | She had the cheek to say he ought to cancel meetings only because of ill-health or for work opportunities , not because he 'd decided to go out with someone else . |
| 4 | At the age of around thirty-five , we start to lose calcium faster than we can replace it — a process accelerated by hormonal changes during the menopause . |
| 5 | Suzy , an obese 3-year-old girl , was failing to lose weight even though her mother had been given a strict diet . |
| 6 | So do n't miss our feature on dieting which will help you to lose weight steadily while ensuring that you eat well throughout the year . |
| 7 | A global perspective allows firms both to spot opportunities faster than others and to build networks of supply that combine the strengths of various locations and so further reduce total supply costs . |
| 8 | Difficulties with navigation and equipment tend to affect walkers more than climbers , largely because there are so many more weekend ‘ Munro-baggers ’ . |
| 9 | If — as appears to be the case — detected offenders typically start from a position of social disadvantage ( which means that the obligation to obey the law weighs more heavily upon them than on others ) then punishment will tend to increase inequality rather than do the opposite . |
| 10 | These men were taste-makers , whose judgements were important ; but the time available to them for writing was limited by the demands of negotiation and administration , so that they tended to write essays more than books , catalogue entries rather than articles . |
| 11 | The Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lane , admitted that it did a bench of magistrates no ‘ credit if their clerk continues to affix standard conditions to bail forms even while applications are being made for unconditional bail ’ . |
| 12 | However , excitement can quickly turn to anxiety when the time it takes to conceive takes longer than originally expected . |
| 13 | Their aim is to provoke change rather than to enhance awareness . |
| 14 | One young lady , disguised as another , would be unlikely therefore to provoke censure even if recognized . |
| 15 | Voight first got to know Dustin well when he was playing Rudolpho in A View from the Bridge in January 1965 , on which Dustin had been assistant director . |
| 16 | Mr MacKay told the conference , organised by the Institute of Welsh Affairs , that parts of Gwynedd would find it difficult to attract investment even when the upgrading of the A55 had been completed . |
| 17 | He had n't thought further than that and he did n't want to worry Lucy more than he had to . |
| 18 | The aim of the new welfare authorities was to provide homes rather than institutions and so private houses were acquired and converted and then modern purpose-built homes were constructed . |
| 19 | Tammuz managed to catch Roirbak just as he was making the finishing touches to his evening regalia : black , matt silk suit with thread-wide yellow pinstripe , understated gold adornments , I-Ching earrings . |
| 20 | aid is essentially a substitute for saving and … a large fraction of foreign capital is used to increase consumption rather than investment . |
| 21 | A number of the 150 people who have contacted Age Concern England about the debt they face took up their scheme before this date and will not be able to obtain compensation even if they are granted an award through arbitration or private legal action . |
| 22 | However , individual members could be faced with a deterioration in their balance of trade if the trade creation effect were to increase imports more than exports . |
| 23 | They were less involved in thinly rationing existing services than is often necessary in social work and more able to concentrate help so as to provide a relatively complete service capable of achieving significant change for some people . |
| 24 | The study of UFOs has tended to attract cranks rather than scientists , for good reasons . |
| 25 | The CML accepted the force of this objection , and proposed instead that any rule , if introduced , should require solicitors simply to inform lenders immediately if it were evident that completion would be delayed by more than 3 days — a view which appeared to be supported by a considerable number of other respondents . |
| 26 | It is introduced as a hypothesis which can bring coherence and understanding into this area — a piece of speculation which has continued to worry empiricists ever since it was first developed since it does not seem to be based on facts . |
| 27 | Every social worker has a responsibility to stand up for their own profession , to accept criticism humbly when it is due , and to explain why things are done in certain ways . |
| 28 | Both sections 12 and 14 allow the senior police officer to impose conditions only if he ‘ reasonably believes ’ that the stipulated events will occur , and the Government White Paper expressed the view that the new law would ‘ ensure that demonstrators have an effective means of challenging any decision by the police to impose conditions which is not justified by a real risk of serious disorder , disruption or coercion . ’ |
| 29 | Greenbaum and Quirk posit a principle of end-focus to account for the tendency to process information' so as to achieve a linear presentation from low to high information value' . |
| 30 | I 'm sure I can arrange to meet Mrs somewhere as well . |