Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | tenant of area of sea has right to sue for nuisance where pollution killed larvae even though at the time they were killed , tenant had not acquired a proprietary right of action . |
| 2 | On Tuesday the Soviet parliament refused to accept this blanket ban , which it wanted confined to the railways and to other key industries , and only to remain in force until the new law on strikes was promulgated . |
| 3 | Later that over Pringle let a ball or two pass only to freeze in horror as his last snapped back to hit the off stump . |
| 4 | Agnes chose quiche Maxim had n't been in Washington long enough to tire of seafood so he took crab . |
| 5 | But I am sure that a dynamic system which is flexible enough to respond to congestion as and when it occurs and can cope over time with any land use intensity changes without modification , will be more acceptable to the travelling public than rigid systems . |
| 6 | They challenged and gave tongue in delight — only to stop in bewilderment as they reached the point where she had lifted the bag and hidden it again . |
| 7 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 8 | , writes : MY MOTHER , many years ago , used to sing a song about a miner , warned by his daughter not to go to work because she dreamed of a disaster . |
| 9 | Well I , yeah , can I , I 'll have to ask you not to record in school because so much is very |
| 10 | You should , you , you 're advised not to jog on tarmac because the surface is hard and jars and so if you do a lot of it can you see and if , particularly if your joints are not equal to it , then you set up a lot of trouble . |
| 11 | He was told not to smoke on set because it spoiled the image : he smoked . |
| 12 | The survival I had in mind was more huddling with a broken leg under a rock in the snow , trying hard not to die of exposure until some pals bring the Mountain Rescue team . |
| 13 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |
| 14 | She tried not to think about Finn because then she felt weak and hopeless . |
| 15 | I wanted to come home when we finished playing , but it would have seemed rude not to stay to tea when the granny had made it . |
| 16 | For some , entering the market as consumers had more to do with necessity than with a growth in personal income . |
| 17 | In the drawings the lamb appears to have bound feet , and the purport of the piece is surely more to do with sacrifice than deliverance . |
| 18 | The report of that research — Accident risk and behavioural patterns of younger drivers , published last year — showed that more than a third of the men aged 17 to 25 were assessed as ‘ unsafe ’ drivers , and suggested that this had more to do with lifestyle than with driving skills . |
| 19 | So while merchant prosperity was the reverse side of warrior impoverishment , the vested interests of merchants in the Bakufu- han structure meant that they had more to fear from change than from continuation of the system . |
| 20 | My encounters with girls were destined always to end in rejection until I 'd left my teens behind me . |
| 21 | As a vine will generally withstand a temperature as low as -5°C water-spraying systems are set up to come into operation as soon as the temperature drops to 1°C . |
| 22 | In selecting the two period styles most notoriously prone to camp life-style confections and pastiches , Steven Parissien sets out to educate through entertainment as well as to provide sound practical advice . |
| 23 | His domination of the set was only threatened at the death when the Swede , trying anything in a do-or-die effort , pegged him back to deuce from 40-love when Becker served for the set at 5–4 . |
| 24 | If the rate goes higher than your ‘ safe ’ calculation , stop frequently to rest during exercise until you are fitter . |
| 25 | With Sykes about to go at Christmas as well , they were really up the creek . |
| 26 | ‘ I lay down for a rest after lunch and was about to drift into sleep when there was a definite pop inside me , which made me think my waters had broken . |
| 27 | They had been about to leave for Mass when Una had suddenly taken ill . |
| 28 | Remember that it is far better to get down and then to run into obstruction than to stall on to it at flying speed . |
| 29 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
| 30 | What should have been a simple review looked like it was about to turn into techno-confusion when the owner 's manual stated I could find a hook-up diagram on page 42 , and it was n't there . |