Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On occasion the animators got sufficiently carried away to draw in additional detail . |
| 2 | After releasing a couple of singles on their own Hag label in 1989 , they signed for Musidisc the following year and released a debut album in ‘ A Weapon Called The Word ’ , which has since gone on to earn them a silver disc . |
| 3 | Lorcan Wyer who has since gone on to become one of the most stylish jockeys in England was associated with most of the Scott winners in those days . |
| 4 | ‘ All the money that has been raised , whether it was a 50 pence piece , a child 's pocket money or a substantially larger donation , has all gone together to make this enormous total , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course , ’ he said , ‘ she has only come in to die , but I think that had she been removed before , much of her suffering would have been saved . ’ |
| 6 | Firstly , whenever you were absent from your office , the subordinate would very probably read his newspaper — in effect , the subordinate has merely learned not to read his newspaper when you are around ! |
| 7 | The Video Electronics Standards Association in San Jose is not too pleased with one of its members , Dell Computer Corp , which has suddenly jumped up to claim that some VL-Bus products to its standard infringe one of Dell 's patents : ‘ We are both surprised and saddened that one of the companies involved in ratifying the VL-Bus standard would take such an action , ’ said Association chairman Scott Vouri ; the patent appears to claim rights to a computer system receptive to a board that plugs into both a system input-output bus and a high speed expansion memory bus ; Dell has been a member for over a year , having joined the club in February 1992 , and voted to approve the standard ; the group also says that like all the other members , Dell signed a statement indicating no knowledge of any conflicts with its patents . |
| 8 | We must make sure he has not recoiled only to spring out more strongly . |
| 9 | Even in this regard however it could be argued that physical geography has not reacted sufficiently to undertake research on major global problems such as the increase of atmospheric CO 2 , the incidence of acid rain , the demise of the Amazon rainforest , the implications of world soil erosion , or the general field of environmental pollution . |
| 10 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares have been soaring on the hope that it will be able to raise its charges , and the company says it is keen to raise rates on all inter-city telephone calls including those from pay phones , but has not decided when to apply for permission from the Ministry to do so . |
| 11 | Britain 's Labour Party , though it has moved right , has not moved enough to win power . |
| 12 | COUNCILLORS have decided a city painting firm should be banned from working for the district for two years because their work has not come up to scratch . |
| 13 | When the United Kingdom did eventually join , therefore , she joined a well-established existing organisation , the original six members of which had developed an understanding and evolved an attitude towards the Community which the United Kingdom has not come easily to share . |
| 14 | Berti Vogts is acutely aware of how close that match was in Sweden and he knows his side has not come here to take on the equivalent of a San Marino . ’ |
| 15 | A person 's autonomous choices call for respect only as long as they do not seriously impinge on another 's enjoyment of his autonomy and that other has not agreed beforehand to give up certain of his choices as a condition of practising medicine in , for example , the National Health Service . |
| 16 | If the expert is obliged by earlier agreement to give reasons , then he must do so : if he has not agreed beforehand to give reasons , he can not be compelled to do so : see 13.7.8 . |
| 17 | Trying to introduce solids at a later age is often extremely difficult as the child has not learned how to chew and manage solid food . |
| 18 | He has not learned how to love properly , how to relate with a woman in a caring sense but , above all , he has not learned how to differentiate between an adolescent who is feeling the first stirring of her hormones and a fully-grown woman who is properly able to make her own emotional and sexual choices . |
| 19 | Romania still has not learned how to look after its own . |
| 20 | He has not learned how to love properly , how to relate with a woman in a caring sense but , above all , he has not learned how to differentiate between an adolescent who is feeling the first stirring of her hormones and a fully-grown woman who is properly able to make her own emotional and sexual choices . |
| 21 | NADIA KARMALI , a 12-year-old exchange student from British Columbia , has not taken long to impress her teachers and fellow pupils at St Mary 's School , Melrose . |
| 22 | It argues that even though the Italian authorities may no longer bail out any old bank that gets into trouble , the likelihood of government support for big banks has not changed enough to affect its ratings . |
| 23 | But thanks to some detective work by a helpful contact in Fiji , Alf traced his friends and has just flown out to see them . |
| 24 | But they did n't realise that the bronze-winged Pionuse parrot has just discovered how to talk . |
| 25 | In addition to the secretary of state for the environment , the director-general of water services , and the EC commissioners , regulators include the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( which has already stepped in to prevent unwelcome mergers ) ; the local authorities ( responsible for monitoring and controlling the standard of clean water supplies ) ; the Drinking Water Inspectorate ( the auditor of technical standards ) ; the National Rivers Authority ( responsible for monitoring and controlling pollution in rivers , lakes and coastal waters , and for maintaining sea walls ) ; Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , HMIP ( which grants consents for the release of toxic substances into the environment ) ; and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ( responsible for granting consents for disposals at sea ) . |
| 26 | To do otherwise will merely support conservative South Africans in their belief that the country has already changed enough to gain international respectability . |
| 27 | He has already learned how to curse . |
| 28 | He has always worked hard to present himself as a rounded political being and flung himself into debates on law and public safety , the environment and unemployment . |
| 29 | It also published its statement on nutrition which , after reappearing in various forms , has probably done more to confuse the public than any other single pronouncement in the whole heart-disease field . |
| 30 | The programme has also run exactly to schedule and within the £1.3 million budget . |