Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Code is very persuasive for a number of reasons : ( 1 ) Any company listed on the London Stock Exchange which does not comply with the Code can have its listing suspended or withdrawn ( although the Panel has rarely had to use this sanction and it can have the effect of injuring innocent shareholders ) . |
| 2 | With his splendid physique and proud , noble head his presence is such as to give him an instant advantage over any bowler , and he has rarely failed to put that advantage to use ; spinners in particular have suffered at his hands , but when he decides that he wants to score runs it is virtually impossible to bowl to him . |
| 3 | Psychology has rarely tried to correct this bias . |
| 4 | The outcome is that an industry which has skilfully managed to convert a chemical with meagre medical justification and considerable potential for harm ( Grinspoon and Hedblom 1975 ) into a legitimate drug , remained free from federal control to go on manufacturing , distributing , and advertising it . |
| 5 | They could spell the end of national wage agreements and the sinking of clinical grading before it has properly begun to swim . |
| 6 | Describing himself as ‘ very wary of the concept of history ’ , Derrida has rather attempted to shift the problem away from the conceptual analysis of history as an ‘ Idea ’ which , perhaps more than anything else , has proved to be Hegel 's most enduring legacy , towards an analysis of the interstices in the implications of the general system in which it operates . |
| 7 | After describing the controversies about the teaching of grammar in the past , the article continues : ‘ Common sense has since begun to prevail . |
| 8 | It has since grown to include dealing in all the major currencies , and become particularly important when oil price rises created huge world surpluses and deficits . |
| 9 | The publishing and printing house has since grown to become self-financing , with a staff of 214 employees and an output of over 850 titles a year . |
| 10 | Hodkinson 's defeat was only his second loss in 24 contests and he has since vowed to regain his title . |
| 11 | Fairly good evidence has since appeared to show that Burt faked his results in order to bolster his case , although he still has some apologists . |
| 12 | Its initial growth was interrupted by the subdued stock trading that followed the 1987 stock market crash , though it has since resumed to trade in reasonable volumes . |
| 13 | The Latin America Institute has since expanded to become ‘ the largest , and probably the most prolific , research centre devoted exclusively to Latin America in the world , with over one hundred full-time researchers ’ ( Blasier : 1983 , p. 171 ) . |
| 14 | The family has since continued to search for Nuri ‘ Abd al-Karim and his sons at various detention centres , police stations , prisons and hospitals but the three remain ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 15 | ( Fashanu has since attempted to visit the Yorkshire Ripper , Peter Sutcliffe , without success . ) |
| 16 | He joined the East and North Yorkshire Badger Protection Group , which has over 500 families in it , and has since helped to form an umbrella group for Stokesley and district , of which he is chairman . |
| 17 | The Home Office handed the BBC that monopoly only last year and the BBC has since agreed to pay a British satellite consortium , Unisat , £22 million to use satellites to make use of its supposed monopoly . |
| 18 | The European Community ( EC ) has since agreed to stabilise or reduce emissions by 2000 . |
| 19 | Every failing that we pointed out has since proved to exist : those failings have emerged every year since its implementation . |
| 20 | In a press statement , visiting Capital House Chief Executive Norman Riddell — who has since left to join Invesco Europe as Chief Executive — and the Manx subsidiary 's Managing Director Bob Straskiewicz said that Capital House was a truly world-wide operation . |
| 21 | I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe . |
| 22 | The UK government has since tried to use Acheson 's opinion to argue for an upwards revision of the 50 mg/litre limit . |
| 23 | Environment Secretary , Chris Patten , has since tried to compensate for the ill-favoured move with assurances that the new bodies would have the resources to perform at least as well as the old NCC . |
| 24 | That was presented , last July , to yet another secretary , Lord Young , who has since refused to publish it . |
| 25 | A Darlington couple paid over £2,000 to Mr Round last October for a kitchen that was never delivered ; Alan Dodsworth has since had to borrow from his father to get the job done by another contractor . |
| 26 | Largue has since had to give up his job as an apprentice turner and is now re-training as an electronic engineer . |
| 27 | The Anti-Slavery Society has since had to adapt Victorian values to the post-Victorian world . |
| 28 | Gonzalez has little cause to complain about the supply of British parts for Exocet and the frigates . |
| 29 | It takes little thought to see that someone who is physically crippled and confined to a wheelchair may still lead a very full life if his mental and higher faculties are in good order whereas a physically fit but totally demented person has little left to give and little capacity to receive except for physical care and a little love . |
| 30 | With its shares trading at a premium of 54 per cent to net assets , RBS has little need to worry about a bid from Lloyds or any other bank for that matter . |