Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] an [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 2 | With the blessing of both Mr Walesa and senior Catholic churchmen , he is already working to set up an avowedly Christian party . |
| 3 | In turn , the new monarchs tried to build up an economically prosperous bourgeoisie to increase tax revenues and to prevent any reversion to feudal conflicts which would fragment the nation — state . |
| 4 | As an appetiser to the spectacle approaching , the rocks begin to take on an unusually geometric shape , until on turning the jagged headland of Part na Spanaigh , the astonishing site of 40,000 mostly hexagonal stone columns comes into view . |
| 5 | The Rough Guide for Morocco , for instance , suggests that it may help to take along an apparently disinterested friend to the shop or bazaar : in an effort to hurry the deal along , your friend is supposed to express the desire to leave . |
| 6 | Inevitably , because the new organisation was to range over an extremely wide area of activity , the provisions of the Treaty of Rome were necessarily complex , running to 248 articles supplemented by 4 annexes , 13 protocols , 4 conventions and 9 declarations . |
| 7 | However , it is always open to the court to strike out an unusually high rate of interest if it considers it to be unfair . |
| 8 | Members of the Association recognized , for example , potential dangers arising from the loss of aristocratic leadership , and the rise of a cultural market.place which urgently necessitated the use of literary culture to bring about an apparently spontaneous consent to a regenerated leadership . |