Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purposes of completing this project and covering some grand skylines in Snowdonia , the Lakes and Scotland — I had to take time out from my more usual pastime to actually walk those mountain crests . |
| 2 | Plymouth1 SUNDERLAND continued along their unpredictable road to Wembley when they allowed bottom-placed Plymouth to comfortably record their first win at Roker Park last night . |
| 3 | These new measures will actively encourage unscrupulous employers to further exploit over two and a half million low paid in this country , mostly of them women . |
| 4 | We are also dealing with a man who has shown a marked inability to ever grow up . |
| 5 | The voice recordings were shipped to London where MI6 had to set up a totally new department of 250 specially recruited Russian-speaking experts to slowly work their way through the material . |
| 6 | The bottom turn should be sharp enough to bring you back up to the top of the wave whereupon you perform what is known as a ‘ cut-back ’ in which you use all your weight on the windward rail to violently turn the board back down the slope of the wave . |
| 7 | MI5 's initial task was to counter alleged German plans to secretly invade Britain by infiltrating thousands of spies . |
| 8 | Faced with that counter-attack , Murray stubbornly refused repeated appeals to simply say under which Law he took the unprecedented action . |
| 9 | Leon Trotsky argued in the run-up to the short-lived 1905 uprising that Russia could telescope together two revolutionary stages — first , the ‘ bourgeois ’ political revolution to topple the feudal apparatus of Czarism and establish a liberal constitutional regime ; and , second , the working-class social revolution to decisively overthrow capitalism . |
| 10 | One , one point that was made to me is , is it might be , it might be too late for this , but it might be helpful for some staff from residential establishments to actually get to understand what official visits are as well . |
| 11 | The reactor automatically shut down and , most critically , a pressure relief valve jammed open , allowing cooling water to steadily escape . |
| 12 | The need of schizophrenic patients to sometimes withdraw would then be explicable as a protective response from further stimulation . |
| 13 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 14 | Perhaps we should decide that it 's a high priority to actually do a proper job , like this . |
| 15 | Of the initiatives which have been undertaken to enable would-be teachers to better understand the nature of children , that pioneered by Frank Coles ( and latterly by Roger Tingle ) at the Urban Studies Centre , Poplar , East London , is perhaps one of the most significant . |
| 16 | It is a new A5 size printed in three different languages to directly appeal to WASL 's growing European network . |
| 17 | [ That this House is appalled at the mistreatment and murder of street children in Guatemala ; and calls on President Serrano and the Guatemalan Government to urgently deal with this problem and in particular to support the work of the Casa Alianza and other agencies working to bring education and support to these children . ] |
| 18 | South Africa has such a congested international itinerary over the next few season that there is going to be little opportunity for this country 's top players to even think in terms of county contracts . |
| 19 | Whatever uses it may serve within descriptive linguistics , and there is clearly some advantage in dividing up and abstracting fields of study for specific purposes , it is quite a different matter to then take such abstract categories as ‘ language-systems ’ rather than language uses as the basis for cross-cultural comparison , particularly when what is being compared is such a socially charged concept as ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 20 | British local governments have not yet shown any marked ability to effectively manage change outside their own organizations . |
| 21 | and that is also why , going back to a point earlier on , why I think erm counselling and alternative medicine , and so on , is marginalized it would be such a rock to the social order to actually acknowledge that people are in distress because it 's the social order that 's causing that distress . |
| 22 | That was probably the understatement of the decade , she acknowledged ruefully some hours later , as she grabbed the first opportunity of the entire afternoon to simply stop moving and stand still in one place for longer than ten seconds . |
| 23 | You could use a chronic adulter to actually write it a bit easier but er I did n't know about that when I wrote these slides many many years ago and it 's carried on since . |
| 24 | Most artists use graphite , but only as the preliminary means to a further end , for a simple sketch to then cover with paint . |
| 25 | Most artists use graphite , but only as the preliminary means to a further end , for a simple sketch to then cover with paint . |
| 26 | Cremer and Ashton ( 1981 ) required subjects to alternately tap with a rod two small metal targets . |
| 27 | The tactile grooming experience also appears to be enjoyed in much the same way a dog likes to be scratched and stroked , and many predatory species forgo the chance of a quick meal in favour of a good grooming allowing the tiny cleaner to even clamber around inside their mouths without harm . |
| 28 | Still , there was always food here at the blood bank as well as plenty of sweetened fluids to quickly restore energy . |
| 29 | As well as being subjected to extreme temperature changes outside , having to constantly leave a warm room to either make a cup of tea or go to the toilet , for example , meant that they were doubly exposed to cold stress as well as to daily stress . |
| 30 | This theory of the global system , then , revolves around the perceived necessity for global capitalism to continually increase production and international trade , to guarantee the political conditions for this to occur uninterruptedly all over the world , and to create in people the need to want to consume all the products that are available , on a permanent basis . |