Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 2 | She went on to emphasise the growing need to tackle environmental problems : ‘ It is no good proposing that we go back to some simple village life and halve our population by some means that have not yet been revealed . |
| 3 | The Board ordered that they be received into the vagrants ' ward as a temporary measure , and went on to instruct the medical officer to vaccinate all the other unprotected inmates of the workhouse . |
| 4 | I was n't about to miss the parade , and went on to see the whole event , and photographed it — all the red flags , the guns , the cannons , the missiles , everything , including Black September Group marching . |
| 5 | He goes on to connect the semantic change with ‘ the general tendency of the Enlightenment not to accept any authority and to decide everything before the judgement seat of reason ’ ( p. 241 ) . |
| 6 | It is with sincere people such as these in mind that this leaflet has been written — not to ride roughshod over a sincerely held belief but rather to confirm the absolute necessity of finding Purgatory , but not a Purgatory that is arrived at after death which is the popular view , but rather a Purgatory that is found before death which is the proper view according to God 's guide , the Holy Bible . |
| 7 | The shy 19-year-old who married the heir to the throne has gone on to shake the British monarchy to its roots . |
| 8 | The bulk of capital continued , however , to be supplied by the landed interest whose resources and local initiatives did most to provide the improved road network . |
| 9 | If you know such a coach then nominate him/her now because the search is on to find the 1993 Coach of the Year . |
| 10 | And the search is on to find the top dog among an entry of eight hundred collies , German shepherds and even poodles . |
| 11 | Yanto 's head throbbed abominably as he cycled slowly to work the following morning , but at least it was Saturday , he told himself thankfully . |
| 12 | Such evidence is given by phrases including ‘ I saw women with prams obstructed by the offending vehicle parking across a pavement ’ ; ‘ several motor cars had to negotiate carefully and slowly to pass the offending vehicle ’ etc . |
| 13 | In 1843 the Corsican hotelier Zenon Vantini leased them , achieving such success that he went on to establish the first railway refreshment room at Wolverton . |
| 14 | So the teacher finally asks Peggy , who can be relied on to know the correct answer : |
| 15 | Looking round for somewhere to hide the wrecked toy she climbed on to a chair and put the doll on top of the nursery cupboard . |
| 16 | There is a ‘ loop ’ ( ( 5 ) d-(5)f ) while the listener establishes the siting of the aerial but having established the options the speaker then goes on to indicate the next step of the route — ( ( 5 ) i ) . |
| 17 | In 1893 , when American celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus ( a year late ) , the robber barons who banded together to support the Chicago exhibition went on to found the American Academy in Rome . |
| 18 | They are simple to install , for all that is required is that they be level from side to side , and with the lip protruding sufficiently to enable the full body of water to be emptied into the pool rather than on to the surrounding ground ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 19 | Since there is no net escape of RNA polymerase past the identifiable platination site , the most likely explanation of this effect is that the intercalator perturbs the geometry of the coordination complex sufficiently to enable the catalytic site of the RNA polymerase to move slowly an additional one or two bp along the DNA . |
| 20 | Michael made a good recovery , and was well enough to enjoy the international conference given at the time of his retirement . |
| 21 | ‘ We were lucky enough to enjoy the fine weather and gentle hills while raising money for a good cause , ’ he added . |
| 22 | For most people it seems that it is necessary to stay long enough to enjoy the bad weather as well as the good , to gain a true appreciation of the countryside . |
| 23 | Especially to see the wide lady . |
| 24 | Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places . |
| 25 | All you have to do is to understand the right habit or growing style of the crops and time your sowings and plantings with that in mind , ensuring that soil fertility levels are kept high enough to support the extra output . |
| 26 | School parties were bused in to see the existing power stations in action . |
| 27 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 28 | In 1977 , at the time of the Bullock Committee on remoulding industrial relations , Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany had been brought in to instruct the Prime Minister , Callaghan , and Britain 's industrial leaders and trade unionists on the need to frame a new industrial climate as a basis for productive growth and a revived influence in the world . |
| 29 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 30 | He welcomed the European Commission on Human Rights ' ruling that the case of the three IRA members killed by the SAS in Gibraltar was good enough to go the European Court . |