Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zimbabwe skipper Dave Walters and Jenkins then swopped penalties , but having scored 20 points in 15 minutes , Wales went to sleep and had to wait for outside half Adrian Davies to drop a goal with virtually the last kick of the half for their next score . |
| 2 | Well , we 're getting them to go for a hundred , which sounds a lot , but the ground 's quite variable so , you know , some of it is really good planting land and some of it is n't , so , you know , it 'll be up to the teams to go for as many as they can . |
| 3 | According to Chomsky , we are genetically pre-programmed to search for just this sort of structure underlying the sentences that we hear as infants . |
| 4 | However , it is not the world 's statesmen that we have to thank for even this limited achievement in arms control , but the women and men whose political activity has ensured that some action must be taken . |
| 5 | ‘ I have always wanted to write for as many people as possible , I want my books to be on the general fiction shelves as well as the feminist shelves . ’ |
| 6 | It is these duties that are approximately laid down in their conditions of service : to work for so many hours , to teach those classes , to attend these meetings , to undertake these extras . |
| 7 | As a result , there are a lot of out-of-work would-be finance directors willing to work for much much less than their previous salaries , not that that appears to have had any effect on those in stable positions . |
| 8 | And really that should be er a secure portfolio that you do n't need to worry about too much . |
| 9 | Even if by chance we happened to conceive of just these members of the series , it is surely not in virtue of that fact that they count as correct continuations . |
| 10 | It is not going to disappear like so many initiatives that start well but fade away . |
| 11 | What I really would have liked would have been to disappear with as little fuss as possible . |
| 12 | Preparing the soil in this way means that you are less likely to suffer from too many plant deaths where the roots of young plants have found it impossible to penetrate the soil . |
| 13 | Plant , we 'll you 've got to have your crea creativity from somewhere your ideas have got to come from somewhere that 's the plant . |
| 14 | So land vertebrates in particular tend to come from relatively few sites , which become exhaustively collected compared with most invertebrate localities . |
| 15 | Nor would it do to come to too many conclusions on the evidence of yesterday 's romp in the sun on a well-grassed but hard pitch . |
| 16 | Er two sixths add one sixth is going to come to how many sixths would you have ? |
| 17 | Microsoft Corp is spraying statistics in all directions to try and convince the industry of NT 's success : 60,000 software development kits have been sent out , it says , 25,000 dealers and the like should be trained before the launch , and it has commitments from developers that over 500 applications will be ready by the autumn — however it absolutely refuses to comment on how many copies it expects to sell . |
| 18 | Microsoft Corp is spraying statistics in all directions to try and convince the industry of NT 's success : 60,000 software development kits have been sent out , it says , 25,000 dealers and the like should be trained before the launch , and it has commitments from developers that over 500 applications will be ready by the autumn — however it absolutely refuses to comment on how many copies it expects to sell . |
| 19 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
| 20 | erm I think first you have to relate to so many teachers erm as a parent of a secondary school child , and this is obviously a much more complicated procedure and also I think parents , many parents feel that they know a little bit less about what their children are doing at school at the secondary stage , it 's all that little bit more advanced , that little bit more different perhaps from what they had in their own education . |
| 21 | None of the theories proposed for the phenomenon is wholly satisfactory but there is evidence that requires us to accept at least some aspects of several of them . |
| 22 | First , it is technically possible to predict patterns of cultural diversity , expressed as the ethnographic curves , from a knowledge of individual cognitive development , and also to perform the reverse : to infer at least some of the principal properties of cognitive development from a knowledge of the pattern of cultural diversity . |
| 23 | It is clear that the lexical representation is flexible enough to meet at least some of the demands of real speech , and certainly adequate for the experiments that will be described in the following chapters . |
| 24 | In one sense they are the British equivalent of political advertising on American television ‘ but they differ from such advertising in three very important ways : first , PFB broadcasting is free ( although the parties have to bear at least some of the production costs — indeed , all of the production costs if they wish to use private production facilities ) ; second , the number of PEB broadcasts is fixed by agreement between broadcasters and the parties to reflect ( roughly ) the current popular standing of the parties ( in 1987 Labour , the Liberal-SDP Alliance , and the Conservatives got exactly equal time for PEBs while other parties received very much less ) ; third , the broadcasters have insisted , against the politicians ’ wishes , that PEBs be short programmes typically ten minutes long , rather than high-impact adverts of perhaps twenty or thirty seconds ' duration . |
| 25 | Similarly , mechanisms to excrete at least most of the excess salt that we eat , since most of us consume about ten times the amount necessary for our bodily needs . |
| 26 | * Western countries need to provide at least another £4.1 billion to make former Soviet-bloc pressurized water reactors safe , according to the head of the German Siemens group energy division . |
| 27 | Those of us who feel we are too busy or not dedicated enough to set aside time for exercise periods can utilize our daily routine to provide at least some opportunities to keep fit . |
| 28 | I get the feeling that I begin to know my way around , to know at least most of the chess moves of it . |
| 29 | As the other side of Russell 's artistic coin , it is intriguing to come across so many interesting and unexpected ‘ truisms ’ or Plattitudes . |
| 30 | Everything else being equal ( which it wo n't be , of course ) , payroll taxes and social-security contributions would have to increase by as much as 40% . |