Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | who wants to go somewhere when the channel tunnel |
| 2 | Anyone who wanted to fight a battle to keep a right to report rather than a statutory duty can forget it . |
| 3 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 4 | Premier John Major is prepared to lead an unprecedented series of bruising encounters at Number 10 to allow warring departments to agree on where the Treasury axe will fall . |
| 5 | But sportsmen must retire ; their bones insist upon it , and most try to do so if not at the height of their powers — that is too much to ask , no matter how determined the vows of youth — at any rate a day before they are asked to go rather than a day after . |
| 6 | The task was to report verbally whether the dividing contour in the 9.5°x3.2° rectangle matched the probe line , which was presented immediately below the rectangle following its offset as shown . |
| 7 | When we write the stories of people we know , we often fall into the trap of identifying too strongly with our subject and not giving the reader enough to go on because the material is too familiar to us . |
| 8 | Explain why you might expect division to perform better than a ‘ perfect ’ randomizing algorithm , and by how much . |
| 9 | Is a nominated subcontractor really likely to perform better than the subcontractor 's own subcontractor ? |
| 10 | Three out of four independent economic forecasting bodies expected the Scottish economy to perform better than the UK economy both last year and this year . |
| 11 | He 'd have plenty of time to drive down when the target vehicle came into sight . |
| 12 | For example , if you wish your ‘ commanding ’ child to wait patiently until a more convenient time for her demands to be met , you could reinforce ( reward ) her for waiting for ( say ) ten seconds , subsequently you would reinforce her for waiting for a longer interval of time , gradually increasing the interval each time you ask her to wait . |
| 13 | A secret agreement was made for the marriage to continue only after the Queen held the most extraordinary royal meeting in history in her drawing room at Windsor Castle when the monarch personally saved the marriage . |
| 14 | Chief Supt Baker added : ‘ The carnival is too big for Handsworth now and there are more suitable parks , big and accessible enough to cope better than the cramped Victorian streets of Handsworth . |
| 15 | They told me not to bother to go in until the contractions became regular . |
| 16 | It involved hard work and long discussions , dealing with fears , anxieties and practical problems , which needed to continue long after the child had been placed . |
| 17 | I set the lower limit to 50bpm and willed my resting pulse to go down till the bleeper sounded , by which time I was breathing deeply and totally relaxed . |
| 18 | If the foliage was closely arranged around the figure this would allow for the cutter 's inability to carve deeper than the distance between its projecting edge and the body of the angle grinder that powers it . |
| 19 | Because of its reduced jaws , its teeth often fail to meet properly when the mouth is closed . |
| 20 | She turned on the charm to all she met and grinned at cameramen , seeming to know instinctively when the best pictures were being taken . |
| 21 | They soon learned not to talk when just a look would do , and even when separated , each seemed to know instinctively when the other was in trouble . |
| 22 | They tend to work effectively when a balance of roles is present in their composition . |
| 23 | The problem revealed by the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee led unquestionably to a view of family allowances as incentives to work rather than an encouragement to depend unduly on unemployment benefit . |
| 24 | Those areas which had shown the greatest price increasing during the boom tended to suffer most when the boom ended . |
| 25 | But security lighting is a different matter , as you 'll probably want a lot of light to come on when an intruder approaches . |
| 26 | That little girl had to struggle on because the flat rent had to be paid , she had to struggle on because she had a car , kids had to go to school , until she died . |
| 27 | Try to find somewhere where the interviewee can feel reasonably relaxed and you yourself can feel confident . |
| 28 | If you need a long term home we will help you to find somewhere where the costs can be met by the Department . |
| 29 | They could n't get me to come in until every marshal 's flag on the circuit was flapping . |
| 30 | The Art Gallery of Ontario 's C$58 million expansion and renovation has created one of the largest museums in North America , but the fiscal crisis that forced the provincially sponsored Gallery to close its doors last summer , and to fire more than half its 445-person staff ( The Art Newspaper No.22 , November 1992 , p. 7 ) , will continue to reverberate long after the enlarged institution reopens 24 January . |