Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | True , some of these seem expressly designed to bring the country into confrontation with America . |
| 32 | Every watch that comes on has to do a drill . |
| 33 | Coun Dixon said the corporation 's support proves that Darlington is widely considered to have a housing crisis . |
| 34 | Long hair has been delicately feathered to frame the face . |
| 35 | Even more profound changes happened in the internal structures of the brachiopods , partly those concerned with supporting the lophophore — these changed from simple loops to complex ‘ doubled back ’ structures , or to fantastic spirals and whorls — all presumably designed to increase the ways of food-gathering , and its efficiency . |
| 36 | Not least BARRY MOONCULT who went so ape-dropping crazy , he was spotted stumbling out of the party while it was in full swing armed with a stash of joke bombs , which despite being pretty harmless ( containing about as much genuine explosive as your average cap pistol ) make a loud enough bang to put the fear of God into the most ardent of atheists . |
| 37 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 38 | We will go further , and will create a Scottish Environmental Protection Agency to bring together powers to ensure the quality of our air , rivers and bathing waters . |
| 39 | Sandwich was better situated to meet a threat from Scandinavia ; Wight , where Harold 's ships awaited William the Conqueror long and unsuccessfully in the summer of 1066 , implies a connection with the south or west , and perhaps particularly Normandy . |
| 40 | He could n't get an immediate break-down of where the money had gone so asked to see the manager . |
| 41 | Hour by hour , they were of course sizing things up : nobody was better placed to judge the feeling in the House . |
| 42 | The new centralised system will also be better placed to improve the quality of the figures , which seems to have deteriorated sharply in recent years . |
| 43 | The corollary is that some areas will be better placed to initiate a shift away from the isolated role of special schools . |
| 44 | Kingfisher 's 700-plus Woolworth outlets and the Superdrug chain are better placed to weather the slowdown . |
| 45 | The big companies will also be better placed to finance the development of new technologies , turning this traditionally low-tech industry into something closer to chemical engineering . |
| 46 | From his present position , Larsen would be better placed to keep a lookout for trouble and provide backup . |
| 47 | Nobody is better placed to understand the pain and loneliness of the stand-up comic better than Steve Martin . |
| 48 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 49 | A man better placed to gain the support of the Visigoths was Avitus , praetorian prefect of Gaul from 439 . |
| 50 | As Dysart 's employee and Mallender 's daughter , who could be better placed to smell a rat ? ’ |
| 51 | Probably because it started the 1980s with a fleet of new 125mph HSTs which had made a major impact on its market , the East Coast main line was far better placed to withstand the rigours of the recession than its West Coast neighbour . |
| 52 | Holding the mussel with both forefeet , it begins pounding it on the rock until it is sufficiently broken to allow the otter to extract the flesh with its teeth . |
| 53 | The useful , though subordinate , role which litigation might be expected to play in this mobilisation process extends to publicising areas of law such as tax diversion which stand in need of reform , and so helping to politicise the issues and raise the general level of political awareness on the part of peace protesters and the general public alike . |
| 54 | Yeah he said , but the girl that was with him said that you were very highly honoured to have a letter that length cos usually she gets dear oh I her name 's what her but dear whoever , got loads to tell you , love Mario . |
| 55 | So she said you 're highly honoured to have a letter that long . |
| 56 | Outside investors are apparently clamouring to have a share of the service , which is expected to launch later this year . |
| 57 | In the meantime , drivers Frank Galashan and Danny Hopkins are keeping the Waste Recycling lorry moving by taking it in turns to drive the vehicle to Leslie . |
| 58 | Class of Year Six children People take it in turns to guard the key to the spaceship . |
| 59 | Instead they have taken it in turns to chair the committees . |
| 60 | Take in turns to throw the dice . |