Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of us who feel we are too busy or not dedicated enough to set aside time for exercise periods can utilize our daily routine to provide at least some opportunities to keep fit . |
| 2 | Although naturally designed more to draw out signs of abnormality , they nevertheless demand similar mental operations , being open-ended procedures in which , for example , subjects are required to interpret proverbs or sort everyday objects in any way they prefer . |
| 3 | Now , he was more than slightly taken aback to find her in his room . |
| 4 | I should have called round sooner but I 've been on holiday and only returned yesterday to hear the news . |
| 5 | Players with scores of 79 and better qualified automatically to join exempt players Craig Kilgour , Dareen McGee and Adrian Green in the championship proper which gets under way at Heworth Golf Club on June 27 ( four scores of 80 also qualified ) . |
| 6 | Chris avoided tedium very successfully ; he resisted having an agenda for as long as possible and always refused point-blank to have a vote on anything , so meetings never got hung up on procedure , nor were they subjected to much prior lobbying . |
| 7 | Profiled foam is layered and permanently welded together to form a very expensive block of media which Cyprio claim is four to five times more effective at filtration than Flocor and their own Cypripack . |
| 8 | The whole shooting match is being computerised and guides will be held on disc and hopefully updated constantly to ensure the minimum of delay in publishing a new volume . |
| 9 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 10 | There will be a need at some stage for an international agency large , influential and well staffed enough to oversee and monitor measures to reduce green-house gases and perhaps administer aid funds . |
| 11 | It is easy to believe this story , and sadly expertise in such design , principles and skills , devised in our country , have been neglected here and instead developed abroad to give commercial advantage to other nations . |
| 12 | Often the most one can learn from them is that the student stuck out the course and actually learned enough to pass the examination , retaining what he learned long enough to get it down on paper . |
| 13 | As you climb by the road , you see a ring of mountains to your right which you might easily take to be the Cirque de Troumouse , but this is in fact yet a third cirque , that of Estaubé , intermediate between Gavarnie and Troumouse , imposing in its own right if too withdrawn properly to enclose you , as a good cirque should . |
| 14 | Rider Haggard 's mouthpiece through this turgid mixture of heightened passion and exalted mysticism is a middle-aged but still susceptible university professor swayed by Ayesha 's beauty but still detached enough to observe her effect on Leo ( who is , it must be confessed , a bone-headed and highly conventional aristocrat-hero ) and her wilful inconsistencies of mood and intention . |
| 15 | The authors — one of whom , Desiree Moorhead , was his young widow — based their research on Hayter 's own logbooks , but also travelled extensively to study proofs and plates . |
| 16 | Two meetings with Philip during the spring resulted in the truce being prolonged until midsummer but otherwise served only to widen the gap between the two sides . |
| 17 | Early evidence of the musical progress of the two children survives in the form of a small music book ( 3 ) prepared by Leopold , initially for Nannerl 's use , but subsequently used also to indicate the works learnt by the four-year-old Mozart and to record his earliest compositions , K.1a-d . |
| 18 | He then walked away , leaving McFarlane stunned , though not stunned enough to report it . |