Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibilities opened up are exceptionally exciting and realisable provided certain strange notions of academic freedom ( in this case often amounting to a student fishing desperately around for an ‘ original ’ and totally useless subject like the history of his old school ) , can be avoided . |
| 2 | Forne of Skirpenbeck took away the bowl , although that was not his business , and came back with a leg of pork , the burnt seaweed still sticking to it . |
| 3 | Could there really be a building site in the middle of this swamp rapidly reverting to nature after a brief and unsuccessful flirtation with civilization , Zen wondered ? |
| 4 | More than 13,000 new policies were completed in that period with new annual premium business increasing by 19 per cent to £7 million , and single premium business almost doubling to £57 million . |
| 5 | Is the hon. Gentleman really trying to be serious , or will he come through the Lobby with us tonight ? |
| 6 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
| 7 | The second gate leads to a road , which you cross to another road opposite leading to Far Arnside Caravan Park . |
| 8 | These policy objectives were regarded as inseparable , with excessive public expenditure allegedly leading to high levels of taxation , borrowing and ( via money supply growth and high interest rates ) inflation . |
| 9 | Today there are probably 12,000 healers in this country alone according to Denis Haviland , the director of the Confederation of Healing Organisations . |
| 10 | Therefore , additional evidence clearly pointing to a causal relation between H pylori infection and gastric ulcer disease has to be provided . |
| 11 | Thus the question raised by the application is whether we should vary the appellant 's implied undertaking and free the documents for limited further disclosure having regard not only to the public interest underlying the implication of the undertaking in the first place , but also the public interest giving rise to the recognised immunity generally attaching to this class of documents . |
| 12 | For this scheme it would seem sensible to order the foci within each facet differently according to the nature of the facet . |
| 13 | Perhaps eight people of various ages will be invited to an agency and will sit around in a comfortable room simply responding to very informal promptings from the discussion leader . |
| 14 | As a result of that demoralising experience Biggs was inactive for more than a year , a cut eye then leading to a stoppage against Francesco Damiani , the Italian he defeated in the Olympic final . |
| 15 | Such a moral order was legitimate since it was consonant with the dictates of Providence or , in different intellectual terms , expressive of the natural order progressively opening to the minds of Enlightenment intellectuals through scientific investigation and freedom of thought . |
| 16 | What he describes is a series of patrilineal descent groups , each person necessarily belonging to one because he has a father ; and necessarily belonging to only one because he has only one father . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 18 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |
| 19 | Sudan had suffered increased isolation internationally owing to its pro-Iraq stance over the Gulf crisis . |
| 20 | His arrival in Bond Street with chips of frozen snow still clinging to his person recalled that epic picture of polar heroism , ‘ A very gallant gentleman ’ , in which Captain Oates staggers out into the blizzard |
| 21 | His arrival in Bond Street with chips of frozen snow still clinging to his person recalled that epic picture of polar heroism , ‘ A very gallant gentleman ’ , in which Captain Oates staggers out into the blizzard . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , Dorothy my dear , there is a poor dog absolutely stifling to death in a car outside . |
| 23 | The Irish attitude , in contrast , tends to be traditional and to regard rugby as a pastime and an international tour mainly adding to the flavour . |
| 24 | The entire village is a children 's paradise , a stimulating world just waiting to be discovered . |
| 25 | A decade ago the Journal of Urology carried an article which included the observation that , ‘ Prolonged intercourse , particularly with the female subject in the superior position , and inadvertent flexion of the erect penis are well-described cases of penile trauma commonly leading to corporeal rupture . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It has been an awful long time just getting to this stage , but it will be worth it if we can succeed . ’ |
| 27 | Two lovely lads I 'll tell you and that concert tonight going to be er absolute corker it 's at the Royal Concert Hall tonight in Nottingham . |
| 28 | Immediately after the climax of the poem — the tremendous lines in which no so saying ‘ A rash hand in evil hour forth reaching to the fruit she plucked , she ate ’ . |
| 29 | It can get busy at weekends — especially Sundays , with walkers , cyclists and horse-riders and the occasional car or four-wheel drive all contributing to the wear and tear of the track . |
| 30 | He started fooling around on stage and brought the house down in the process , the tough audience quickly warming to his gritty humour . |