Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potential Labour voters are coming to accept that an increasingly confident ( but mercifully less cocky ) Neil Kinnock has rumbled the fundamentalists too , and is neither impressed nor cowed by them . |
| 2 | While not wishing to examine the pros and cons in detail , enough is presented to establish that the much vaunted ‘ facts ’ of any situation are seldom that . |
| 3 | Rainbow trout are more docile and easier to catch than the more popular brown trout and members of the Savernake Fly Fishing Club complained that the arrival of the rainbows ruined their season . |
| 4 | She had fast come to discover that the most difficult part of running the nightclub was the inevitable mountain of bookwork she had to contend with . |
| 5 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that a slightly depressing statement , that of Ayer 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could perhaps immediately follow that by saying ‘ Just because there 's a word for it maybe , you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self- validating in a sense ? ’ |
| 6 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 7 | I was much encouraged to find that the most unlikely audiences appreciated modern poetry , and Eliot 's perhaps most , though that was perhaps due to my own advocacy . |
| 8 | We were surprised to find that the supposedly meatier dry cures did n't come out tops . |
| 9 | Further , it makes me angry with myself to find that the perfectly natural and utterly unfair result is that I begin to dislike Paxford , no exercise of the will convincing me that it is not the unfortunate P. who is boring me with his views on everything under the sun . |
| 10 | Chapter 9 considers who can act as an expert : as the answer is anyone whom the parties appoint , safeguards are built into the expert clause to provide that a suitably qualified person is likely to act as the expert . |
| 11 | The fact that after the Great War the Liberal party went into decline and the Labour party emerged as a governmental party seemed to indicate that the most interesting developments must have been taking place on the left of British politics , even before the war . |
| 12 | There is a substantial body of evidence to indicate that the most effective schools — the schools that are high-achieving , highly regarded and adaptable — are those which have found ways of involving teachers in decisions , and hence in the ownership of them . |
| 13 | It is true that in some respects the two institutions were assimilated , but enough has been said to indicate that the most fundamental disparities , in structure and in procedure , remained unchanged . |
| 14 | While these may look impressive the experience within other subjects seems to indicate that the most common outcome of such systems is the over-assessment of pupils and an unacceptable burden on the teacher . |
| 15 | However , I have used them enough to observe that the properly selected remedy works deeply , quickly , smoothly , and without initial aggravation . |
| 16 | But we must hurry north , pausing only to observe that the most dramatic survivor from the early Middle Ages , and perhaps the greatest of all the cities of Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries , was Cordoba , then in its heyday under the caliphate and its first Indian summer . |
| 17 | I would like to know if an easily accessible written package , with information on topics such as diagnosis , psychiatric drugs and their side effects , how to adjust to living with mental health problems in the family and so is available , or if there are any leaflets on the subject . |
| 18 | While they haggle over the prices in the Trusts , you must continue to suffer and the socially deprived remained bottom of the waiting lists . |
| 19 | Perhaps death rates will have to suffice until a more serious attempt is made by health care professionals to ascertain the regional variations in disease independently of treatment . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll know what she wants you to know and no more . |
| 21 | Following this , a single probe letter was presented to one or other visual half-field and the subject 's task was to respond , using the left hand , as fast as possible to indicate whether the visually presented letter was or was not a member of the auditorily presented memory set . |
| 22 | Worse was to come when no less a person than Khomeini called for their execution should the deed prove to be deliberate . |
| 23 | Even the most myopic Teuton must have been able to see that the politely inquisitive Englishman being entrusted with these confidences had to be an Intelligence man . |
| 24 | In the early 1980s , this view was attacked by Peter White in a controversial article which questioned whether the Elizabethan church was ever fully predestinarian , and went on to claim that the apparently religious conflicts within England in the late 1620s were in fact primarily caused by the pressures of international power politics rather than by theological differences . |
| 25 | Such brief ‘ thumb-nail ’ sketches do give some indication of the essence of sociology , but ultimately it is both necessary and perhaps more fruitful to emphasise that the most important and distinctive feature of sociology is not so much what is studied but how it is studied , i.e. it is important to indicate what is the particular perspective of sociology , its distinct way of looking at the individual and society . |
| 26 | In the 1920s and 1930s , doctors in the UK and USA began to realize that a very high proportion of their lung cancer patients had been heavy smokers . |
| 27 | And if it seemed surprising to reflect that the supremely versatile Hampshire trainer has not yet struck in our Classic races , it was even more incredible to learn from the man himself that Dead Certain 's victory in the richest two-year-olds race ever run in this country was his first success in a group one event . |
| 28 | It is important to remember that a very confused person lives just in each moment , the ‘ now ’ , even if they do n't remember what happened five minutes ago . |
| 29 | It is important to remember that a very large percentage of jobs never come on to the open market but are filled from within the firm , by people applying ‘ on spec. ’ or by people who hear about a vacancy from friends or colleagues working in the same field . |
| 30 | That may be a drastic example but it is as well to remember that the less we use our muscles the less efficient they will be . |