Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gastric varices are particularly difficult to diagnose during active bleeding . |
| 2 | Moreover , a certain prominent Liberal Democrat candidate in both elections found energy to spare for some strenuous Christian Aid , thus earning the gratitude and admiration of his fellow church members . |
| 3 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 4 | Apart from the lugger and the recovery of the bomber , we have to wait for three other things . |
| 5 | The usual advice is to wait for three menstrual cycles to go by , which is roughly the same as three months . |
| 6 | She said , ‘ What am I going to wear for this old party tomorrow ? |
| 7 | The Government say that in all this , one of their main aims is to go for greater local accountability , er but this h people can hardly claim to know more about the community than the elected representatives , or more for example about educational or social service activities which can be relevant to police concerns and there are many local government member as enquiries have shown who can claim outside management and financial expertise . |
| 8 | As for Monica Seles , her desire to play at Wimbledon this year , coupled with the fact that she already has the Australian title under her belt , might be all the incentive that she needs to go for that Grand Slam this year , that same Grand Slam which she passed up last year with her refusal to play the British leg of the four majors . |
| 9 | Or do you strain every sinew to go for that elusive target set on a small plateau ? |
| 10 | So if you look at individuals making erm decisions about punishment or some decision where there 's a consequence or an element of risk , you 'll find that groups quite often tend to go for more extreme behaviour than any one of the individuals in the group . |
| 11 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 12 | I mean there 's no reason because we have n't got men 's issues , because all issues are men 's issues , nobody expects a male Prime Minister to go for any particular issue , but why should we expect a woman Prime Minister to go particularly for certain issues ? |
| 13 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 14 | beautiful , we used to go for some lovely walks did n't we ? |
| 15 | Er I 'd like to go for some little light relief at this time of the day , and look at sources of supply . |
| 16 | Specifically , he notes that lenders like banks have an interest in the firm 's undertaking projects that carry little risk of default even if the expected return is low , whilst if it is true that shareholders in general hold diversified portfolios , they would want the firm to go for high expected returns . |
| 17 | The Army spokesman added : ‘ It was pointed out to the convoy that it would be madness to try to drive through that particular part of the road , but they pushed on . ’ |
| 18 | Roderick Macdonald , QC , prosecuting , told the High Court the victim had tried to drive between two parked cars . |
| 19 | On the grounds that these seem to be used paradigmatically for ordering , questioning and asserting , respectively , one might argue that it is pointless to search for internal linguistic motivations for these three sentence-types : they recur in the languages of the world because humans are , perhaps , specifically concerned with three functions of language in particular — the organizing of other persons ' actions , the eliciting of information , and the conveying of-formation . |
| 20 | I gave warning in 1987 that it is part of Gorbachev 's character to search for absolute personal power . |
| 21 | Because low profits also militated against the use of available funds for productive investment , investors were encouraged to search for short-term speculative ‘ killings ’ . |
| 22 | Like Kant , he leaves theologians with two broad choices : either to accept this account of the situation , with its absolute distinction between the relativities and contingencies of history and the truth of religion , or to search for some other framework within which to set up the question . |
| 23 | In keeping with the grand design , the sewers designed by Haussmann and his great engineer Belgrand were so magnificent that to this day they form part of the tourist 's Paris , for it is possible to cruise through these huge well-lighted caverns in a boat . |
| 24 | These images also interact with other texts , particularly newspaper accounts of similar conditions , and combine to confirm for many White spectators that the truth is that housing and employment problems and so on will not go away unless Blacks are sent away or at least have their entry to Britain severely restricted . |
| 25 | I was n't left to ramble through this new realm for long . |
| 26 | Tales are starting to circulate about Common Open Software Environment meetings getting huffy ( actually the way we heard it ‘ degenerating into shouting matches ’ ) over Hewlett-Packard Co pushing SNMP , the de facto Simple Network Management Protocol standard — as embodied in its OpenView systems management software — and HP OpenVUE as COSE 's network and system management interfaces : in support of its cause , reports also suggest Hewlett-Packard is readying new additions to the SNMP-based OpenView that will enable the simultaneous management of mixed Hewlett , IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc kit . |
| 27 | Jesuit leaders said , however , that those on trial had been " scapegoats " and that the search had to continue for those high up in the military who had masterminded the operation . |
| 28 | Have to sit through another healthy dose of SCUM arse licking . |
| 29 | Fourteen ( 15% ) of the control group failed to be seen again in a hospital diabetes clinic during the study period compared with only three ( 3.4% ) of the prompted patients who failed to attend for clinical diabetic review ( p=0.013 ; table IV ) . |
| 30 | Erm in the early stages , I mean you 've got to go through all the ranks , you 've got to go through that physical side , even if you want to get on , there 's no direct promotion into the higher ranks so you 've got to go through it , every Chief Officer , every senior officer that you , you come across in the fire service , has started as a fireman and will start as a fireman on like er the forces where you get direct entry into the forces , you do n't get them in the Fire Service . |