Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on to refer to legislation in 1980 in West Germany and in 1982 in Italy whereby post-operative transsexuals are deemed to belong to their chosen sex and have the rights and duties of that sex . |
| 2 | It then goes on to say of course new development in relation should be sensi sensitively related to existing settlement patterns . |
| 3 | He goes on to say of course federal laws were not being obeyed in the confederacy because they 'd rejected the entire panoply of federal laws and Lincoln goes on to point out must they these laws and the confederacy be allowed to state the question more directly , are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the government itself to go to pieces less that one be violated . |
| 4 | In a similar vein , the book goes on to review off balance sheet finance , capitalisation of costs , capital instruments , brand accounting and currency mismatching . |
| 5 | Businessmen are banding together to bring to book those who illegally dump wagon loads of waste , and the Merseyside Development Corporation have backed the initiative with the introduction of video cameras to monitor the twilight activity . |
| 6 | We tend naturally to concentrate on effectiveness — everybody does despite the evidence from curriculum development projects in all subjects that take-up is a far greater problem . |
| 7 | Its newly established corporate sales force is intended only to drum up demand among the Fortune 1000 . |
| 8 | Some pages had apparently been torn out and separately burnt ; the brittle fragments of black ash had floated down to lie on top of the debris under the grate , old twisted matchends , coal dust , carpet fluff , the accumulated grit of years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One is driven to the conclusion that here , too , the charge has most to do with symbolism . |
| 11 | By the means/ends equation , I mean the assumption that what the learner has eventually to achieve by way of language ability should determine what he does in the process of acquiring that ability . |
| 12 | In addition to its obvious use as a cultural asset , we might also provide part-time courses for local people to come in to learn about Art History and to use the collections in the Barber as their source material . |
| 13 | A shrewd theologue said that personality has all to do with function . |
| 14 | An early contestant for the role of heir apparent , Aleke Banda , a minister in the 1960s , was restricted to his village for several years before being partially rehabilitated only to fall in disgrace again in the mid 1980s . |
| 15 | It is a faith that believes it has only to ask in order to receive : e.g. in the cure of the leper ( Mark 1:40–5 ) . |
| 16 | One has only to travel by train from the north-east of England to see the land which has been set aside , squeezed between the railway lines , to realise what the farmers are doing . |
| 17 | The government finally agreed to fresh negotiations and promised not to proceed with legislation on banning strikes for two years . |
| 18 | If such links are not built , schooling will suffer from being not only detached from the lifelong vision of education and retraining which is foreseen by the CBI , the TECs and the NCVQ but also from appearing not to care about continuity , feed-through and quality assurance . |
| 19 | She could hear cars and lorries swooshing past and tried desperately to call for help but she had no breath . |
| 20 | Dot fingered her victory badge and tried not to listen in case it seemed like prying . |
| 21 | Hard tried not to giggle with triumph , Elizabeth leaned tremulously on Bridhe 's shoulder , and let the old lady comfort her . |
| 22 | She tried not to think about Finn because then she felt weak and hopeless . |
| 23 | She had dropped off to sleep in spite of herself , and now it was a black night with a wind getting up that was making the beech trees creak and rattling a shutter on one of the upper windows . |
| 24 | ‘ Growing older may mean you have to work harder to stay in shape , but it can be done — think of all the glamorous film stars who are in their fifties ! ’ |
| 25 | Maggie had been amazed at her own fury , rocked by the power of Fenna within her , breaking through the cool disdain she tried always to preserve in front of this loathsome woman . |
| 26 | On this basis he may by all means erect a system of imperatives logically interrelated with statements of objective fact , and elaborate it to any degree of complexity he pleases , but to confirm or correct it he has always to return to subjectivity , to his own spontaneity in the concrete situation . |
| 27 | One has always to bear in mind that for very many people in early-modern England — in the towns as much as in the countryside — the home was also the place of work . |
| 28 | In one case , which has still to come to trial , it is not clear which hat the salesman was wearing when he made his deals : his own or the life company 's . |
| 29 | Seagull partly to blame for jockey 's death |
| 30 | Yet conventional categories can be modified also to allow for change in concepts and attitudes . |