Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I do play some , but I 'm not like ‘ the solo guy ’ because I think a good song is much harder to come by than a good solo . |
| 2 | It began to look as if a wee riot might be in order . |
| 3 | They need to focus on whether a report is addressed to funders , potential funders or someone else . |
| 4 | They have little to do with whether a given sequence is or is not grammatical . |
| 5 | He imagined a policeman with nothing more to go on than a tiny , once brightly embroidered , label , a square inch of bloodstained , earth-stained , half-rotted cloth , hawking it round boutiques in Kilburn and West Hendon , narrowing the field , finally coming to an importers ' warehouse … |
| 6 | A government committee is to report on whether a cash value should be placed on environmental features threatened by road building schemes . |
| 7 | When things go wrong , they will want more to turn to than a toll-free telephone help-line . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , as was suggested in the last chapter , it is often difficult to decide on whether a word should be treated as complex or simple . |
| 9 | There are a few pairs of words ( minimal pairs ) in which a difference in meaning appears to depend on whether a particular is syllabic or not , for example : But we find no case of syllabic where it would not be possible to substitute either non-syllabic ( type a ) or ( type b ) ; in the examples above , ‘ Hungary ’ could equally well be pronounced and ‘ adulterous ’ as . |
| 10 | In terms of the simple free volume concept each chain end requires more free volume in which to move about than a segment in the chain interior . |