Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb base] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early models , for example , made little attempt to show the dynamic forces at play between the elements , while it has always been necessary to question the basis of the model construction in order to avoid the perpetuation of a flawed assumption . |
| 2 | Advocates of the popular front made little attempt to build a single co-ordinated organization . |
| 3 | We 'll need somewhere dry to spend the night if we 're not to go down with pneumonia . |
| 4 | Together the Yamato-1 's two SEMP drives provide enough punch to push the 185-ton ( 525-cubic metre ) experimental craft through the water at eight knots . |
| 5 | I 've a fair idea , ’ and here he smiled a benign leer which long ago Mary had learned to repulse but still — unawares — could cause her to coil up in herself in shame , ‘ they 've come here express to see the Beauty . ’ |
| 6 | The flaps were pegged half open to let the air into my sleeping-bag . |
| 7 | It is said to have made no provision for the protection of sea lochs , to operate without an overall development plan , and to have made little attempt to monitor the farms it has approved . |
| 8 | Perhaps the retention of the State Paper Office and its adjacent houses led Scott to this asymmetrical composition , but he seems to have made little attempt to relate the design of his central tower to Soane 's Italianate structure even though it would have been only approximately 20 feet ( 6.096 m ) away . |
| 9 | Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact . |
| 10 | Well we hope that erm by coming here you 've demonstrated that you do n't live in fantasy land so I 'd like to welcome you to the real world and in the real world we know that open systems despite the progress they 've made still struggle to replace the mainframe . |
| 11 | The decisions that are made also help to determine the kind of people who will eventually live in the houses that are built and therefore the nature of the village community . |
| 12 | of its shareholders and directors reside and are domiciled there serve to prove the existence of a real economic link between the operations of the vessel and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries . |
| 13 | He experimented with chain drive and finally selected direct drive to run the propeller . |
| 14 | And should United yet manage to acquire a top frontman — attempts to sign Alan Shearer and Dutchman Dennis Bergkamp failed — then Hughes might yet be the player sold to help fund a massive financial outlay . |
| 15 | DOCTORS may be closer to solving the mystery of why Frenchmen who eat rich , fatty food , take little exercise and smoke heavily manage to escape the consequences of heart disease . |
| 16 | It is these attitudes which reflect the fundamental problem with the UK economy , and I think your questioner should have received short shrift to say the least . |
| 17 | By using it in Ealing in West London in 1979 , we recruited enough help to win the borough council election and to take the parliamentary seat from Labour . |
| 18 | There 's a long waiting list and those who get there have to run a gauntlet , which not all survive . |
| 19 | Sanipet certainly seem to have a promising future ahead of them . |
| 20 | You can fiddle with brightness settings , depending on which scanner you use — and WSP supports most — should you need to , but we have found little need to adjust the settings unless a page of text has been particularly light or very dark . |
| 21 | 2.1 Following detailed discussion at the Council 's Advanced Courses Policy Sub-Committee , it has been decided that SCOTVEC should now proceed beyond the pilot programme to implementation of the new system : it was felt that the work to date on the pilot courses has provided enough experience to confirm the adoption of the Policy Paper 's principles as the basis of the new operational system . |
| 22 | The class of games analyzed above seem to have a number of possible applications to economics . |
| 23 | It would take further work to determine the relative contributions of chance , male competition , and female choice , to the variabilities of reproductive success of male and female fruitflies in Bateman 's experiment . |
| 24 | Or the protective that we have now , and they would have sometimes have to weigh the whole . |
| 25 | His career of sado-sophistication , or ‘ snobbery with violence ’ as it was dubbed , brought his sales up to eighty million copies and does not need chronicling again except to point the contrast between him and his forbears in popular secret agent fiction . |
| 26 | Owners and vets rarely like to consider the possibility of psychosomatic problems with horses , in much the same way as people do not like to admit to suffering from them themselves . |
| 27 | mass forms of musical practice which are based on the musical activity of many people interacting at the same time and in the same way — forms which structure bodily movements and processes , and which enable bodily experience to become an aesthetically mediated pleasure ( ibid : 228 ) . |
| 28 | Parents and others try yet fail to restore the children to their natural selves ; the father , Alvarez , cries angrily : |
| 29 | Many university professors were paid less than labourers in the eighteenth century ; if not clerics , they were forced , as were academics throughout the nineteenth century , to seek outside work to gain a living . |
| 30 | Tennis courts lit pointlessly except to inform the driver of the sheer dimension of the leisure complex burst into life . |