Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flues can be erected inside or outside to house , but indoors there is a lot of extra work necessary — trimming floor joists and providing fire resistance , for instance . |
| 2 | It can be wound clockwise or anti-clockwise to give a left or right hand . |
| 3 | This means that other people have to wait longer than necessary to see a doctor ; if we could charge non-attenders , as dentists do , it would help . |
| 4 | They are generally operated on a fixed cycle , so that , when a known volume of water has passed through the plant , a valve is turned so as first to backwash the bed to cleanse the zeolite , and then to pass in brine for a fixed time to regenerate the material . |
| 5 | ROBERT JONES has done more than enough to eclipse the new Moon that is rising in Welsh rugby . |
| 6 | As is turned out , Gold Award winner Fairbrother 43 at the time had already done more than enough to guide his side towards a commanding score on a pitch where stroke play was never easy . |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of people down south were suggesting before our matches against Leeds that we were not up to it , but I think we 've done more than enough to show that we are . |
| 8 | He has done more than most to stimulate thought on matters of faith among ordinary people . |
| 9 | The irony is that Dr Oliver has done more than most to document the real reasons why conductive education is attractive to parents from Britain and many other Western countries . |
| 10 | On the first night Rose Lipman came backstage as usual to wish the cast good luck . |
| 11 | The pilotari or players took to wearing more elaborate gloves or other prosthetic aids in propelling the ball , and what had once been a lo wish wall at the end of the playing area was built higher and higher to contain the far greater velocities , while the courts themselves became longer , until some of them are said to have reached 100 metres . |
| 12 | He sat motionless , swathed in a greatcoat despite the day 's oppressive heat , and with his face concealed by the peak of his hat that he had turned fore and aft to shadow his eyes . |
| 13 | If a covenant goes further than necessary to protect the value of the transferred business , it is conceptually very difficult to see how there will be scope for exemption under Article 85(3) . |
| 14 | Humiliated enough and ready to dig in her heels , Flavia said , ‘ What 's bad about it ? |
| 15 | But I like to be independent as much as I can , and they 've got more than enough to do with the people that ca n't help themselves . |
| 16 | I 've got more than enough to do . |
| 17 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 18 | This distance is important since it relates to the size of the ferret 's head ; it can be adjusted slightly if necessary to fit the head of the particular ferret to be used . |
| 19 | For his pains he was highly commended and posted to another air field on the east coast , one of several which were used exclusively by crippled aircraft limping home and unable to make base . |
| 20 | Koestler and Orwell met and became friends during the war , but it takes more than two to make a coterie , and in conversation Koestler denied having taught Orwell anything important about communism : it was a meeting , not always entirely harmonious , of like minds . |
| 21 | It is in this future that perhaps partnerships can be seen for what they are , a new kind of relationship in which power is shared rather than used to fight others . |
| 22 | Smaller companies , unable to compete effectively and unable to generate the profits necessary for future investment , have tended to stagnate , sometimes propped up by national governments . |
| 23 | The other committees are convened only when necessary to conduct the special business for which they are appointed . |
| 24 | ‘ It may take longer than that to find out who sent you that letter , ’ he said rather shortly . |
| 25 | But I 'm very proud of you , and your mother would have been , too … you worked harder than most to get that degree , my dear , even putting your health at risk … ’ |
| 26 | Though theoretically any discharger is subject to the scrutiny of field men , enforcement activity is focused further and patterned to reflect a variety of assumptions held by agency staff about the likely location of pollution . |
| 27 | But it seems it will take more than 1992 to set the Continental palate tingling to the tune of mushy peas . |
| 28 | This ferry must be pulled apart if necessary to find out what went wrong . |
| 29 | Even today there will be readers who will be glad to know of a formula for dealing with a salmon or a piece of one received as a present , too big to be consumed immediately and likely to prove wearisome if eaten cold day after day . |
| 30 | One was reminded of some hapless Victorian consumptive , fading away and unable to do anything about it . |