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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | We must make sure he has not recoiled only to spring out more strongly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Britain 's Labour Party , though it has moved right , has not moved enough to win power . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | To do otherwise will merely support conservative South Africans in their belief that the country has already changed enough to gain international respectability . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The programme has also run exactly to schedule and within the £1.3 million budget . |
| 16 | He was doubtless selected because he not only commands a vast classical repertoire , essential for one of the world 's great orchestras , but has also worked hard to popularise modern music . |
| 17 | It seems fair to claim this attractive book as a product of Wales because although the author lives in Eastern England and has observed wheatears in many far-flung places , the foundation studies were made on the Pembrokeshire island of Skokholm and Peter Conder has often returned there to keep fresh the memory of his pioneering researches . |
| 18 | It seems fair to claim this attractive book as a product of Wales because although the author lives in eastern England and has observed wheatears in many far-flung places , the foundation studies were made on the Pembrokeshire island of Skokholm and Peter Conder has often returned there to keep fresh the memory of his pioneering researches . |
| 19 | The Farmers Auction Mart has now gone away to look at these and will report back to us . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Major has now flown home to deal with the economic crisis . |
| 21 | But he has now refused either to grant the long-expected pardon or refer the case back to the Court of Appeal . |
| 22 | My husband 's sent for the doctor but he has n't arrived yet to confirm it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's someone who 's lost his job , ’ says Rose , ‘ and he has n't got anywhere to live . ’ |
| 24 | He 's got something malignant , cancer , and he has n't got long to live anyway . ’ |
| 25 | An expert on altitude sickness says he has n't got long to live . |
| 26 | ‘ Mr Newman has n't come here to upset you , ’ she said gently . |
| 27 | Working out of the Novell Inc office in Chatswood , Australia , Brad Jelfs has n't taken long to find the most important distributors for the UnixWare offering from Univel Inc , but his fast work has no doubt brought forth well-hidden explosions at his old office at Epping . |
| 28 | The former Wham ! singer , who is signed to Sony until 2003 , has reportedly threatened never to sing again unless he is freed by Sony . |
| 29 | Wherever it has been tried it has manifestly failed either to produce prosperity or to protect human rights . |
| 30 | She 'd already phoned home to check her answering-machine for messages , now she was free to head north . |