Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 2 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 3 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 4 | Similarly , the halt and lame , vividly portrayed in Les invalides in book 2 of the same collection ( 1716–17 ) , are surely destined to proceed slowly rather than at the ‘ fast triple time ’ suggested by Geoffrey Chew in the article ‘ Notation ’ ( 111 , 4 ) in New Grove , where the opening bars of this piece are reproduced in facsimile ( xiii , p.376 ) . |
| 5 | It was then she remembered how he had once called her ‘ chicken ’ — the time he wanted to go somewhere else when she was under orders to go to the Moon . |
| 6 | The frustration turned to anger on more than one occasion . |
| 7 | SPURS star Gordon Durie hopes to carry on today where he left off with new striking partner Teddy Sheringham . |
| 8 | She was wearing what appeared to be a borrowed jacket in place of her own heavy overcoat and shawl , something light enough to allow her to carry on even though the sun might go behind a cloud every now and again . |
| 9 | One thing I will commend you for , it took a lot of ball to carry on even when you had lost the thread . |
| 10 | But the site prepared to let me work , to carry on then as s they ma and I would n't claim my pension until I 'd finished . |
| 11 | This may prove a major challenge to clinicians expecting to carry on much as before . |
| 12 | His remarkable doggedness led him to carry on regardless when two stink bombs broke everyone else 's concentration . |
| 13 | Garland , however , seems to go rather further than this in suggesting that , in Britain at least , the emergent prison system never really embodied a ‘ reformative ’ alternative to classicism and neoclassicism at all . |
| 14 | He 'll want things to go on just as before , while he helps himself to a share of the takings . |
| 15 | Please remember that life has to go on abroad as well as at home . |
| 16 | The crashing seemed to go on forever as tiny broken fragments bounced with a dainty tinkle across the brick floor . |
| 17 | Any accountancy fiddles ( e. g. notionally splitting units into several ‘ farms ’ to claim on more than 50 LUs ) would need vigilance by the Agriculture Departments . |
| 18 | Different rates of use are expected of ‘ serious , and ‘ recreational ’ fiction — and within these groupings certain types of works ( e.g. Bulgarian novels in translation ) must be expected to issue less frequently than others ( e.g. novels by Graham Greene ) . |
| 19 | I am very reluctant to go so far when we — or rather you — could be so near a better resolution . |
| 20 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
| 21 | But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have . |
| 22 | But though none might be prepared to go so far as that , all British parties would quickly realize that apparent discrimination against women in their lists would do them a lot of harm . |
| 23 | However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality . |
| 24 | Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue . |
| 25 | Indeed , even without having to go so far as the Commission of the European Communities did at the hearing in arguing that registration itself already constitutes a form of establishment , it must be observed that in any event registration is a precondition for taking up and pursuing activities in the fisheries sector . |
| 26 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't like to go so far as to predict anything for Sunday but you can be certain I am far more confident about the race now than I was . |
| 28 | ‘ I am not myself convinced that the Government will be so foolish as to go so far as to privatise water . |
| 29 | Men can ring the changes by wearing a different shirt or tie if they do n't want to invest in more than one suit . |
| 30 | Perhaps you 'd like to sit down rather than sort of hover at the back , it 's up to you entirely but you may feel that you 're slightly uncomfortable . |