Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the State Department and the White House both set crisis management operations in train , and President Bush urgently conferred with top officials , FMLN statements — that the guests , except for the armed Americans , were not hostages and were free to go as soon as a ceasefire was arranged — were almost ignored . |
| 2 | The there are parish ministers who are willing to listen and long before it reaches the stage of lawyers and divorce . |
| 3 | I was careful to behave as well as possible , to persuade the King to give me my freedom . |
| 4 | It 's wrong to assume that just because a cream says it contains plant extracts it 's better for your skin . |
| 5 | Although Angel was free to marry or not as he wished , he did not want to hurt his parents , and he accepted their advice . |
| 6 | It is also interesting to note that even though the fertility rate of female textile workers was low from the beginning of the period , this was not the case in Preston , probably because the women weavers tended to be married to general labourers rather than to fellow textile workers , again suggesting that it was the occupational status and attitudes of the husband that were more important . |
| 7 | He says this was partly due to counsel and partly because she was happy busying herself with her domestic duties . |
| 8 | Sanyo 's range of hand-held Dictation Systems are your ‘ pocket-sized P.A. ’ Easy to use and there when you want them . |
| 9 | Humane destruction is not easy to face and even if your pet drifts off peacefully in your arms , you can still be left with a feeling of guilt . |
| 10 | To see them together now it 's hard to believe that less than six months ago Tanya ’ Pret chen ska ’ from Russia thought of giving up her baby . |
| 11 | If the building is closed up and not properly ventilated , the perfect conditions for dry rot are likely to arise as soon as the weather gets warm . |
| 12 | If it is thought that the growers of any kind of grain in any part of the world have been losing money , and are likely to sow a smaller area for a future harvest ; it is argued that prices are likely to rise as soon as that harvest comes into sight , and its shortness is manifest to all . |
| 13 | The fish affected continued to grow as well as the others in the shoal . |
| 14 | " I think I shall be able to go as well as the others now . |
| 15 | There may have been no understanding whatever of the concept of not being able to see as well as other people . |
| 16 | At this very moment in time we are on the verge of having video telephones through which users will be able to see as well as talk to the person at the other end . |
| 17 | Petards were unreliable and apt to detonate as soon as a match came anywhere near the fuse , resulting in the hapless sapper being blown up or ‘ hoist by his own petard ’ . |
| 18 | It is very important to know that less than 6 per cent . |
| 19 | It is important to remember that even though a test result would be ‘ negative ’ during the ‘ window ’ period , a person would be infectious at this stage , if they have HIV . |
| 20 | In the building accounts of the Queen 's College , Oxford , Townesend is referred to as ‘ architecto ’ whereas his father , who had worked there previously , was described as ‘ lapicidae ’ , a distinction which reflects the fact that , like others of his kind , he was certainly able to design as well as to build ; but the extent to which he did so unaided is not entirely clear , many of the projects in Oxford at this time evidently being the work of more than one mind . |
| 21 | ( It is important to realise that even where management controls Newco within s416 the institutions investing in Newco may also control it under s416 . ) |
| 22 | Kerry ) , deliberately developed the breed as a small animal able to fatten as well as to give house milk , probably by selection from the local mountain dairy cattle , and gave his name to the breed by the early nineteenth century . |
| 23 | Under this system students are also able to graduate as soon as they have met the requirements of an award and do not have to wait until July each year . |
| 24 | And they were able to place that subsequently because it was a , was a relevant thing that people wanted to read , and it was recognized as such by the organizations concerned . |
| 25 | We feel that boys , including ourselves , are able to dance as well as anyone , may that be male or female . |
| 26 | We feel that boys , including ourselves , are able to dance as well as anyone , may that be male or female . |
| 27 | It is important to note that even though back variants of /a/ are strongly emblematic of vernacular speech , they are nevertheless spreading to higher-status groups in the wider community . |
| 28 | The recruitment of those officers began immediately , and my hon. Friend will be pleased to know that more than 100 additional RUC and RUC reserve recruits were taken into training in December . |
| 29 | While this issue has not been expressly considered , it seems fair to assume that rather than incur the risks inherent in giving the board so wide a discretion , and relying on the usually well-founded assumption that the shareholders ' dominant purpose is to increase their individual wealth , the court , at the price of some distortion , would define the interests of the members exclusively in terms of their personal financial well-being . |
| 30 | With all this it is rather slow to grow and frequently when the culture plate is examined for evidence of gonococcal growth it will be found to be overgrown by other bacteria or yeasts , making it difficult or impossible to identify the gonococcus . |