Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today I no longer work in the grant-aided sector and a great number of women who were my colleagues and contemporaries have moved on to work in broadcast or cable television . |
| 2 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 3 | you know , so to go before hand and fetch her here back with us |
| 4 | He made no sketches in advance but got straight down to work with pencil and ruler , drawing the outline before filling in with emulsion paint . |
| 5 | I received a strong impression that it was not enough to know about injustice and suffering ; practical solutions had to be found . |
| 6 | I was just going to say , I was just saying , that I saw the posters that erm parents and carers should erm , go along to talk about parenting and at the bottom it said , erm , will be selling multi-racial toys and dolls and things like that . |
| 7 | The quality of anal continence was assessed clinically by two doctors who questioned each patient about faecal leakage by day and during sleep , the need to wear a pad , anal soreness , the ability to defer defecation for longer than 15 minutes , and the ability not only to discriminate between flatus and faeces but to release flatus safely without having to visit the lavatory . |
| 8 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 9 | But , miraculously , everything seemed suddenly to fit into place and we managed to put all the horror behind us and start again . |
| 10 | Director Peter Smallridge claims this was less to do with ideology and more for the benefit of service users . |
| 11 | It 's only in the last ten or twenty years that people have had the time or the money to have hobbies , especially to do with music or painting . |
| 12 | Their theme , as given in the conference invitation , was : ‘ Can some modern nation show the way to a change that goes deep enough to deal with hate and fear and greed ? |
| 13 | This produces the heavy inflexible armour of the beetles , and mouthparts sharp and tough enough to gnaw through timber and even cut metals like copper and silver . |
| 14 | But you also find disappointing examples of companies which still perceive marketing to be all to do with promotion and little to do with profits . |
| 15 | It 's all to do with memory and word association . |
| 16 | But yesterday 45-year-old Keith insisted : ‘ I know some people are going to say it 's all to do with Ecstasy but , honestly , it 's not . |
| 17 | This is easy enough to use in theory and works effectively . |
| 18 | A Wolves penalty miss lets in Stoke Derby dig in to hold off Palace and Peterborough put Birmingham on the spot . |
| 19 | Again it 's Bass , Mid and Treble and each pot has a recommended start setting of 12 o'clock to allow for cut or boost , which makes me wonder why these controls are labelled 0 to 10 — would n't -5 to +5 have been more sensible ? |
| 20 | People , they said , would do better to stay at home and contemplate the teachings of the Koran . |
| 21 | U S factory is booked , bulk order , pushing delivery out to twelve weeks , Deutschmark sixteen ki kilos unlikely , could only break our offer down to price per piece or packet . |
| 22 | The first larvae to hatch have to be fed by their parents , but once they are big enough to forage for food and build walls of mud , the royal couple devote themselves entirely to the production of eggs and the colony is founded . |
| 23 | These narratives do not work only to unite across space and time . |
| 24 | ‘ Ai nt no VietCong ever called me a nigger , ’ was his simple , but penetrating , reason for not accepting the draft for which he was stripped of his world title and forced into inactivity for three years ( only to return from adversity and carry on boxing , often successfully , for world titles until aged 38 ) . |
| 25 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 26 | Chief Inspector Chips Salter was one of the officers they had been sent in to bring under control and Salter both guessed this ( although all such information was supposed to be highly confidential ) , and naturally — resented it . |
| 27 | These include sincerity , honesty ( not to indulge in plagiarism or cheating ) , truthfulness , the avoidance of self-contradiction , a determination to be comprehensible , the intellectual courage to develop and hold a position of one 's own , a willingness to be subject to the demands of reason and evidence , an openness to other viewpoints or ways of going on , and according due ( but not undue ) respect to teaching and other staff . |
| 28 | Concentrations of sulphur dioxide from burning of low-grade coal at the region 's power stations led to a heavy smog in mid-February ; children were told not to go to school and some pregnant women were evacuated . |
| 29 | I 'd love to make a black version , in which some kids from South Central LA , who get bussed out to the Sand Fernando Valley ( affluent LA suburb ) , decide not to go to class and start tramping around Fernando doing what they did in that movie . |
| 30 | Now it seems to me with erm with great respect from the view of the taxing officer , that er it 's quite clear that er both parties were holding han were holding their hands in relation to a question of taxation because negotiations were going on between the parties and indeed the defendants were being requested er not to proceed with taxation but to see if they could obtain an overall assessment and the point was met to the defendants barrister , telling quite frankly there would n't be much advantage in the defendants pushing on with erm taxation because they 'd only , they would have to look to his interest in the property to get payment , it seems to me in those circumstances that it can not be said that erm the plaintiffs were in any way acting improperly and not seeking to have the costs taxed during the period while the negotiations were being carried on er because effectively and |