Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It is for the HVS–E1 climber that the crag has most to offer though , and a short tour along the edge taking in the following climbs will not disappoint . |
2 | She needs only to run close to the form which saw her finish second to multiple scorer Kassab over course and distance last month to turn this contest into a procession . |
3 | Leonard has only to play effectively to win a Test place against the All Blacks in the second international in Wellington on Saturday week . |
4 | They may suck on it until it dissolves sufficiently to swallow rather than chew it and so meal-times take a very long time . |
5 | This does not mean that the person needs necessarily to go faster , but that they organize their time more effectively . |
6 | Significantly , the Aviation Museums Association of Australia had applied to the New South Wales Heritage Council in 1990 to have the aircraft protected by State heritage legislation but eight months later it has yet to receive even an acknowledgement from the Council . |
7 | But he has yet to explain publicly how traces of the drug Methandianone were found in a urine sample taken on July 15 . |
8 | What kind of slump is it when England 's most expensive striker has yet to go more than two games without a goal ? |
9 | Chorus Systemes SA minority stockholder Unix System Labs has yet to state clearly what it intends doing with Chorus ' technology . |
10 | Chairman Murray has yet to comment publicly on the situation , but the Roker staff clearly want the issue resolved quickly . |
11 | Tandem is hoping its alliance with Chorus will give it a lever with USL even though USL has yet to indicate officially how it will treat the microkernel . |
12 | Despite a strong domestic market position , general industrial has yet to develop fully its potential in continental Europe and the merger with Cromadex , which has an established network of centres in France and Germany , is seen as a way forward . |
13 | Wilko has yet to find even a place on the bench for either of his two big-money summer buys . |
14 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
15 | She turns away to bustle domestically with mugs and kettle , pausing only to warn : ‘ Do n't try anything cute , sisters ; I do n't have eyes in the back of my head because I do n't need them . ’ |
16 | If we were asking this question of an amphibian or reptile , which lays its eggs and goes away to live solitarily except when the mating season comes around again , we would answer it purely in terms of the physical ecology of the species . |
17 | This amounts to a technology which liberates not only the teacher but the learner and allows both to make more intelligent connections between the worlds of school and the wider community . |
18 | This chapter refuses however to take either Bourdieu or his critics at their word . |
19 | She admits that she trusted him totally and went along with his judgement — a fact , she tends today to regret somewhat . |
20 | Howard smiles , and frowns , and thinks about it seriously as they all have tea in the orchard , and Miriam , in her dark glasses and clothes for motoring out to the country in , smokes furiously to keep away the insects , and chatters on about what happened when they went to dinner with the Chases the previous week , and Michael Wayland forgot Prue 's name . |
21 | A concrete breakwater stretches away to sink slowly in the dark distance . |
22 | For both left and right visual fields it takes longer to reject as " illegal " , in a lexical decision task , pseudo-homophones ( letter strings that do not constitute words but sound like real words , e.g. " bloo " , " rayne " ) than letter strings that look like real words but do not sound like real words . |
23 | But in 1966 the Lord Chancellor , Lord Gardiner , with the concurrence of the Law Lords , announced that in future the House would regard itself as free to ‘ depart from a previous decision when it appears right to do so ’ . |
24 | Since the Lord Chancellor 's Practice Statement [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 77 the House of Lords has considered itself at liberty to depart from its own previous decisions when it appears right to do so . |
25 | Lastly , let me assume that Viscount Dilhorne 's statements have the character of a ‘ decision ’ as that word is used in the Practice Statement ( Judicial Precedent ) [ 1966 ] 1 W.L.R. 1234 , which intimated that this House would depart from a previous decision ‘ when it appears right to do so . ’ |
26 | Fate seems rather to depend more on ancestry than position , family rather than friends . |
27 | The FDA is also willing to consider approval from other countries and hopes eventually to approve automatically any drugs already approved in the EC . |
28 | Nothing in psychology hopes ever to work perfectly . |
29 | But if a cat is cornered and can not run away , even though it wishes fervently to do so , it may then make a sound which transmits the message : ‘ I fear you , but do not push me too far , or I will turn on you despite my fear . ’ |
30 | Similarly , in Leechian terms , he upholds the Politeness Principle when he interrupts Hollar again ( p. 54 ) because he does so to affirm enthusiastically that he too remembers Peter Volansky , thus obeying Leech 's maxim of agreement , " maximise agreement between self and others " ( Leech 1983 : 132 ) . |