Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 He points out that after the first few days the violence vanished along with the hype and , instead , young black men from warring gangs actually got together to discuss the film .
2 Mike Vessey spotted his brother 's long run and placed a superb long ball in his path which Alan duly put away to set up St Albans ' third appearance in the final and a change of the League and Cup double .
3 This missions , chaplaincies and institutions of the diocese all combined generously to provide the necessary money , grants were secured from SPG and from SPCK , and in just over two years the new building was raised , waiting for the foundation stone to be laid during the opportune visit of the Metropolitan of Calcutta , the Most Reverend Foss Westcott , son of the famous biblical scholar and bishop of Durham .
4 Hughes and McDermott also scored usefully to raise the total to 346 , the Queenslander once off-driving Kapil Dev for six .
5 It is not , so far as the author is aware , a breach of privilege of the House to assure oneself that a Clerk of the Parliaments , stating that a Bill has been consented to by Lords and Commons , actually is a Clerk of the Parliaments duly authorised so to state .
6 I found a niche where a small landslide had left a level lawn with a backing of turf ; and where the breeze still moved enough to allay the midges , and sat down to my picnic .
7 This applies to both the major components which the craftsman deliberately mixed together to form the final product , and also to the trace elements of which he was probably ignorant , but which can indicate the likely source of some of the materials , thus enabling us to distinguish the genuine from the spurious .
8 His majestic iron play gave him birdies at the short second and sixth and in between his putter also worked admirably to acquire birdies at the fourth and long fifth .
9 Downing Street publicly refused yesterday to contemplate defeat .
10 If , as happened very occasionally — for instance in the great boom of 1872–3 — some workers actually earned enough to afford for a brief moment the luxuries which employers regarded as their right , indignation was sincere and heartfelt .
11 Then suddenly into the picture came a woman Patrick clearly loved enough to marry .
12 a ‘ balanced ’ account was ruled out because those editors also worked hard to exclude ‘ balanced ’ accounts .
13 The Jacksons , the Mullers , the Branwhites , and the Fripps all worked together to create a body of work that now stands among the best of British landscape painting .
14 It has been shown above that those with larger mortgages and those on higher incomes benefit most from MITR , but one of the main arguments originally put forward to justify its existence was that it benefited first-time buyers , enabling them to purchase a house which would otherwise have been beyond their means .
15 In his letter to Assad , Bush reportedly promised never to recognize Israel 's 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights .
16 I do not believe frankly that doctors ever worked together to produce one solid coherent agreement that could have convinced the public .
17 France simply refused thereafter to attend any further meetings of the Council of Ministers , provoking what came to be known as the ‘ empty chair ’ crisis .
18 The 4320 jigsaw has a variable speed control mounted in the trigger , a lock-on button to maintain the desired cutting speed and has the air flow cleverly directed forward to clean dust off the cutting line .
19 So are the New FADS really motivated enough to justify their valuable shelf space in rock 's great library when Pop Judgement Day comes around ?
20 The exploratory model earlier put forward to help clarify the workings of the enterprise will be revised in the light of recent developments , comments from other scholars , and subsequent research done by the principal investigators .
21 Edouard never returned there to see the accuracy of his own prophecies .
22 As such , a student may take one or two modules only or a whole set of modules specifically grouped together to meet the needs of a particular industry or employer .
23 On Jan. 14 Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis once again to fight to the death to defend Kuwait , and the National Assembly in Baghdad formally voted unanimously to approve full powers for him to determine both the Iraqi military response to any allied offensive and the handling of any negotiations .
24 The Curries also worked hard to create a welcoming ambience .
25 Zoser occasionally stayed late to help with the charity dispensation .
26 The bridge party duly clubbed together to buy him a dinner jacket .
27 Such colour as there was in Tutilo 's weary face slowly drained away to leave him grey and mute .
28 It was presumably from present-day Manchuria that the Tungus tribes gradually spread northwards to pervade the taiga as far as the Arctic zone , from the Sea of Okhotsk in the east to the Yenisei in the west .
29 MITI clearly pushed strongly to develop certain key industries .
30 The opening scene of the movie features the gangsters discussing the true meaning of the lyrics , with one insisting that it 's about a nymphomaniac who 's been around but has now met up with ‘ some John Holmes motherfucker ’ — in other words a guy well hung enough to make her feel ‘ like a virgin ’ again .
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