Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vitamin E level would have had to fall much further to produce a deficiency and this would have been unlikely to happen in Alan or anyone else unless they are eating a very poor diet indeed . |
| 2 | It is considered better therefore to have a longer set of allowable candidate strings which includes the correct word although this may often include rarely occurring words . |
| 3 | ON the eve of the most significant European Community summit of recent years , the French and West German governments moved quickly yesterday to avert a damaging split over plans to move to full European economic and monetary union . |
| 4 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 5 | Indeed , Jip and Zab have lost their almost telepathic ability to communicate , and , as witnessed by the outcome of the novel , the world is unable to communicate well enough to reach a full consensus or enforce a communal decision . |
| 6 | Most of the functions attributed to rises are nearer to grammatical than attitudinal , as in the first three examples given below ; they are included here mainly to give a fuller picture of intonational function . |
| 7 | How these claims and dependencies are reconciled , how the views of the different disciplines fit consistently together to give a total picture of the one world of experience is a problem both vast and baffling . |
| 8 | Urgent talks began in London and Brussels as the UK tried yet again to negotiate a way round the EC rules . |
| 9 | One recoils from the obvious answer , which is that the Home Secretary wants yet again to produce a cheap headline in the popular press such as ’ Crackdown on crime ’ , by producing , as the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook said , a modest and short Bill . |
| 10 | One of the words that the Bible uses most often to describe a Christian 's relationships is this word ‘ respect ’ . |
| 11 | She says everyone 's done so well to raise a quarter of a million pounds — we 're just wondering what we 're going to do next ! |
| 12 | She was studying at the Royal College of Music when she moved into Coleherne Court with Diana , and then went on to become an opera singer , pausing only recently to have a couple of children . |
| 13 | The morning passed by in a flurry of activity , and she barely saw Dane , except for a fleeting moment as he rushed headlong along the corridor , pausing long enough to drop a kiss on her lips that turned her knees to water . |
| 14 | Greg had seen the posters around for some days , and on the evening before opening day he made it his business to pass by the warehouse and go in , for he was a paid-up member of the club , and lit seemed easy enough to fake a mistake about the members ' viewing day . |
| 15 | On Theuderic 's death in 533 Childebert and Chlothar united once again to exclude a nephew from his inheritance . |
| 16 | I came here today to have a look but I did n't think it would affect me the way it has . |
| 17 | When this has been tested and discussed and agreed , we will do well clearly to commission a team for the work . |
| 18 | When the four remaining parts of the lower dome have been built high enough to form a complete circle within the walls of the square , this circle provides the basis for supporting the actual dome . |
| 19 | But , to return one final time to Bakhtin , in case he is appropriated yet again to legitimate a selective and ludicrously ahistorical celebration of ‘ carnival ’ : |
| 20 | Does it end when we turn off the set or when we look away momentarily to accept a cup of tea being handed to us ? |
| 21 | As we shall see in later sections , HARPY made sure , by structuring the grammar in particular ways , that a narrow portion would occur soon enough to prevent a combinatorial explosion of hypotheses . |
| 22 | The problem in West Yorkshire is that it costs more there to put a police man on the beat , and the authority spends more per head of the population . |
| 23 | They arrived early enough to consume a vast spaghetti carbonara and a litre of house wine before the little Italian place became crowded . |
| 24 | It now costs significantly less to buy a computer — or a ‘ work station ’ as it is known in the trade — than it does to pay someone to sit behind it . |
| 25 | It was inconvenient for a villager to walk that far to report a theft , especially since he often had to make the trip several times if he wanted to complete a prosecution . |
| 26 | He reminded those who felt such concern that " since the war , Japan has dedicated itself to a purely defensive posture under our peace constitution and vowed never again to become a military power such as might pose a threat to other countries " . |
| 27 | The hands should be pre-set slightly forward to encourage a descending strike . |
| 28 | If that does n't score highly enough to win a contest the next stage is to grapple on the ground until one player wins by holding down an opponent for 30 seconds . |
| 29 | If everyone in the developed world made energy efficiency a priority in all parts of their lives , the carbon dioxide we add to the atmosphere could drop quickly enough to make a real difference to global warming . |
| 30 | In the last few years , however , the Government began more frequently to provide a formal written response , and last year they undertook to respond in writing to all reports within two months of their publication . |