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 | But thanks to some detective work by a helpful contact in Fiji , Alf traced his friends and has just flown out to see them . |
| 9 | But they did n't realise that the bronze-winged Pionuse parrot has just discovered how to talk . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | To do otherwise will merely support conservative South Africans in their belief that the country has already changed enough to gain international respectability . |
| 12 | He has already learned how to curse . |
| 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 | The judge has also decided not to go ahead with a preliminary trial on two key issues in the case , scheduled to begin on January 15 , which would have broken new legal ground . |
| 17 | She has also decided not to have a second baby . |
| 18 | Washington has also threatened not to recognise the poll result if Congressional observers are barred from joining those of the UN , the OAS , and the Jimmy Carter foundation . |
| 19 | Washington has also threatened not to recognise the poll result if Congressional observers are barred from joining those of the UN , the OAS , and the Jimmy Carter foundation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The National Heritage Memorial Fund has also set out to encourage the creation of individual charitable trusts for such houses . |
| 22 | It has also promised not to build any new hydroelectric dams , the source of the rest of the country 's electricity . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Farmers Auction Mart has now gone away to look at these and will report back to us . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Major has now flown home to deal with the economic crisis . |
| 27 | But he has now refused either to grant the long-expected pardon or refer the case back to the Court of Appeal . |
| 28 | Norris , still clad in his white lab coat , was one of those medical students whom fate has seemingly marked out to spend the bulk of their studies and initial training suffering from quite stupendous hangovers incurred through the intake of near-fatal levels of alcohol the night before , and their subsequent professional careers sternly finger-wagging at any member of the general public who dares to consume over the course of a week what they themselves had been perfectly happy to sink during the average evening . |
| 29 | The former Wham ! singer , who is signed to Sony until 2003 , has reportedly threatened never to sing again unless he is freed by Sony . |
| 30 | The judge has reportedly decided not to hear oral arguments , cancelled the hearing set for July 20 and will base his decision , due in 30 days , on the documents at hand . |