Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failing to do all the IMF wanted was one thing : escaping the exigencies of dependence on foreign credit , if only to continue financing of trade , was quite another . |
| 2 | The child was agile enough to seem filled with helium , as if he had mass without weight . |
| 3 | She was not sensitive enough to have died in childbirth like the women in nineteenth-century novels . |
| 4 | Patients with the following characteristics were excluded : ( a ) women of childbearing age ; ( b ) patients with one or more of three established significant diabetic complications — namely , nephropathy with creatinine concentration >150 µmol/l ( proteinuria was not in itself an exclusion ) , ischaemia severe enough to have resulted in gangrene or amputation , and retinopathy worse than background in one eye . |
| 5 | Some 65,000 cars a day are illegally parked and anyone unlucky enough to get caught in future could lose their driving licence for a time . |
| 6 | It 's only to get rid of junk though mind . |
| 7 | Off went the man into the woods only to return screaming for help with a huge grizzly gaining on him with every stride . |
| 8 | And if you do n't resign then there 's no reason for you not to continue to act as adviser to Carlisle Flint . |
| 9 | For the moment the Angevin dominions remained quiet and the new King of France was too busy elsewhere to go looking for trouble . |
| 10 | They have an equal right not to dread going to bed alone , or waking up alone ; there need be no loneliness on quiet Sundays . |
| 11 | The next day she left for Amsterdam , earlier than expected , after asking him not to try to get in touch with her there . |
| 12 | That suggests that a credit crunch is taking place , especially since banks are still under orders from the central bank not to increase lending to property companies beyond the overall rate of loan growth , which has itself been restricted since October . |
| 13 | It is n't too soon to start thinking of summer and what you 'll look like in a swimsuit . |
| 14 | I have n't got money left over to start whacking in money into a pension scheme . |
| 15 | That means I 've all the kitchen tasks and the washing to do , not to mention acting as lady 's maid to both — and everything else besides ! ’ |
| 16 | It was imperative , as he knew , not to get embroiled in politics , and he had been utterly furious when it appeared that architect Rod Hackney had done it for him . |
| 17 | ‘ But the point was not to get rid of English , ’ says Antonio Garcon an active Spanish-speaking parent with three children in the Toronto school system . |
| 18 | There is a tendency not to offer housing to dementia sufferers ( especially where known behaviour problems exist ) , but on the other hand to try to help tenants who develop dementia as long as is reasonable . |
| 19 | It clearly existed in Bedfordshire , because of Shearman 's perception of its importance ; it was evident in the Kettering scheme because Miss Green instinctively knew its significance to fellow disadvantaged adults ; it appears not to have emerged in East Suffolk possibly because it was not assiduously pursued . |
| 20 | He was the only one of the game players not to have fooled around quick-drawing our paint guns as soon as we had got them . |
| 21 | It was relaxing for each not to have to strain for approval in the parade of love . |
| 22 | And I 'd had a car crash and it was quite a relief not to have to worry about performing . |
| 23 | … if the expert added up his figures wrongly ; or took something into account which he ought not to have taken into account , or conversely : or interpreted the agreement wrongly : or proceeded on some erroneous principle . |
| 24 | Amanda said I 've got to sto , she 's not to stop going to night school . |
| 25 | That was after Joe , HISY 's lawyer had claimed at a previous hearing that yet another G Tec rival , Scientific Games , had been told not to bother bidding by lottery officials . |
| 26 | The schemes , to be prepared within a period of three years from that date , were still to relate to land in course of development , or earmarked for development . |
| 27 | Up on Bowderstone Crag , Dave Birkett climbed the arête of Inferno directly to give Bleed In Hell , E7 6c a desperate and fingery problem . |
| 28 | Every two months or so , have half an inch trimmed off to get rid of dryness . |
| 29 | By the fifteenth-century , the ducal patronage that supported the Renaissance had provided one of the finest artistic climates ever to have occurred in world history . |
| 30 | The second attempt was much shorter and hit off , I thought , the right balance between regretful practicality and yet sufficient affection and desire for her still to want to climb into bed if I got half a chance . |