Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was still tired enough to go to sleep standing up , but he felt his mind fizzing with ideas . |
| 2 | If , in an unregistered title , a company is one of the parties to a title deed , search after exchange , on investigating title ; but when buying direct from a company , better to search before exchange to confirm that the company has power to sell under its articles , etc . |
| 3 | She felt bereft , but a part of her still sane enough to try for self-preservation pulled her away from him and drew a deep breath . |
| 4 | Those trapped in the crush at Hillsborough who were fortunate enough to escape without injury have no claim in respect of the distress they suffered in what must have been a truly terrifying experience . |
| 5 | Visualise a senior executive switching on a notebook PC in a hotel room , plugging the modem into the telephone socket and then settling down to tap into information stored on any of the organisation 's computer systems , anywhere in the world , through a simple click-and-point action of the mouse . |
| 6 | It is a faith that believes it has only to ask in order to receive : e.g. in the cure of the leper ( Mark 1:40–5 ) . |
| 7 | Cureton would surely do better to rely on syntax to determine rhythmic grouping at this level . |
| 8 | They notified the applicant of their decision not to appeal by letter dated 23 November 1990 . |
| 9 | He decided not to appeal in order to highlight what he regards as the absurdity of the law in light of the increasing acceptability of direct and indirect contacts between Israelis and the PLO . |
| 10 | A wife 's promise not to go to court to seek maintenance from her estranged husband was deemed to be void as being contrary to public policy and , consequently , the husband 's promise to pay her money in consideration of her agreeing not to go to court was made without consideration and also void : Gaisberg v. Storr [ 1950 ] 1 K.B.107 , but see now , Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , S.34 , below , p. 220 . |
| 11 | ‘ We decided not to go into debt to take part but it was still hard just to be a spectator , ’ said Steve . |
| 12 | You therefore have no excuse , even if you have no garden facilities at all , not to experiment with flower pressing ! |
| 13 | just to lie in bed Wishing it would stop |
| 14 | When the use of the term ‘ reading readiness ’ in education is examined , it will be seen not to refer to readiness to read , nor even to readiness to learn to read , but to quite a different state of affairs , namely readiness to cope with reading instruction . |
| 15 | ‘ You are not to think of making do with a collation on Ash Wednesday ’ , he said to me . |
| 16 | He flashed signals back to me and then ran downstairs to check by telephone to see if the message had been sent and received correctly . |
| 17 | Even so , the mortality rates for abortion tend generally to rise with age beginning with the 15–24 class , showing among other things , a probable increase in unwanted births with age and , therefore , with rising parity . |
| 18 | We went on to look at ligand gated channels , and in particular three different classes , acetylcholine gated , glycine gated , G A B A gated . |
| 19 | THE only Football Supporters candidate ever to stand for Parliament has issued his touchline manifesto to the North-East 's election candidates . |
| 20 | This was more to do with window dressing and the government 's need to be seen to be doing something , rather than a serious attempt to tackle the problems . |
| 21 | As ever , historians have much to offer the modern technical society in which they find themselves and still more to do in order to catch up with it . |
| 22 | The disabled lobby in the arts must take credit for the work they have done in making galleries more accessible , but there is a great deal more to do in order to encourage and demonstrate the creative talents of older people that undoubtedly exist . |
| 23 | Looked at on a year-by-year basis , the sum of money we must set aside to pay for decommissioning represents only 4% of our annual turnover . |
| 24 | Bret , more determined than ever to get to Earth to warn the authorities that Chen is a traitor ( he has Marc Cory 's tape ) , has to work with Steven on some rapid repairs to the space vessel when it is forced down onto the prison planet Desperus . |
| 25 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 26 | Er er really to precipitate on traffic calming really it 's going over the authorities , over . |
| 27 | Depression audiences were given a hero who first fights in the World War and then finds it difficult to settle back into a factory job ; this innocent man is then twice sentenced to a chain-gang , the second arrest coming after a period during which he had succeeded as a respectable businessman ; the film ends with him still on the run and having now to depend on crime to keep himself alive . |
| 28 | I ca n't see the education committee , with their lack of money , paying for transport for children out here to go to hospital to do a garden |
| 29 | Just as the interwar prophet of Blitzkrieg had also been a lobbyist for the professional army , so , in the late 1940s and early 1950s , de Gaulle was not content simply to wait for disaster to strike . |
| 30 | To help a social worker clear a framework for how to proceed in family work some theoretical ideas may be helpful . |