Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 6 The group pauses every so often to check how they are getting on . |
| 2 | I recall her pacing the sitting-room while I am doing my homework , pausing every so often to stand at one of the windows and look down into the busy street below . |
| 3 | On the eve of the Lord 's Test , though , he was relaxing , hoping son Shoaib would be recalled before he returned to Lahore , pausing every so often to throw a plastic ball at his bat-wielding , knee-high grandson . |
| 4 | Occasionally it turned a little inland to pass through beech forests , leaving large tracts of green , wooded land bounding on to the sea . |
| 5 | He went out of the orchard most uneasily , turning every so often to look at her as she contemplated her hens . |
| 6 | The best bet is that the Chancellor will confine higher allowances against tax to the lowest grade , thus asking the better off to pay a bit more . |
| 7 | Several concessions have been introduced which allow the better off to avoid their full tax liability . |
| 8 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) , I have personal views about some of those matters , but we should await the report , when we will have a little more to go on about the circumstances and how this could have happened . |
| 9 | Perhaps they 'd have a little more to contribute on this very awkward point when he came back . |
| 10 | A lonely place , though the porter caused some light comedy with his staggering and drunken curses , stopping every so often to wave Ranulf on , urging him to hold the lantern horn higher . |
| 11 | Slowly they advanced , stopping every so often to bark and be barked back at , then reorienting themselves . |
| 12 | In its humped posture it runs along in a zigzag path , quivering its wings and stopping every so often to make sure that it is being followed . |
| 13 | It 's much better to add a little up to drop the nose . |
| 14 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 15 | By section 12 , the senior police officer is empowered to impose conditions on the proposed march if he reasonably believes that it may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or alternatively that the purpose of persons organising the march is to intimidate others ‘ with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do . ’ |
| 16 | The wording of section 12(1) ( b ) is , however , slightly unfortunate in requiring the intimidation of others ‘ with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do . ’ |
| 17 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 18 | For the ‘ principle of parsimony ’ applies as much to our forward-looking human rights theory as it does to utilitarianism : offenders have a right not to have their freedom gratuitously diminished to a degree greater than is necessary to produce the desired reductivist results . |
| 19 | ‘ People , ’ he says , ‘ have a right not to know , and it is a more valuable one . ’ |
| 20 | But then we have a little more to give . |
| 21 | At a press conference following the meeting , Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Adamishin reacted to Ukrainian and Turkmen hesitation over the terms of the charter by saying " let those that are ready for closer integration integrate " , and that the others " have every right not to join " . |