Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 2 | But the commune also served a major coercive function since the majority in each village stood to lose should an individual either fail to meet his share of the payments due or take to flight . |
| 3 | I wanted to say , as I believed , that the consul was an English person of good sense with a proper grasp of facts , but I was too well brought up to state unequivocally that all foreigners , including Nour , were superstitious and given to exaggeration and unnecessary alarms . |
| 4 | Our first winner was Debbie Moseley and when Debbie told the guys at Feature You she would like to do modelling but thought she was n't good enough , they decided to prove her wrong and set to work on a dramatic transformation . |
| 5 | Work-group norms are usually more subtle and less universal and relate to behaviour within a part of the organization . |
| 6 | Mary Tudor rode to London in order to claim the throne and with the intention of reinstating the Roman Catholic Church , but the fact that she was married to Philip of Spain and wished to make him King of England , was also not acceptable and led to hostility in London . |
| 7 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 8 | An observation statement , formulated in a public language , will be testable and open to modification or rejection . |
| 9 | When it then comes to assessing the efficacy of preventive interventions , the goals of the model are not only clear but open to evaluation . |
| 10 | As it sought to serve a predominantly rural region in which the WEA in earlier years had found its own main strength in urban areas , the rural areas were relatively untouched and open to university initiatives when the 1932 Adult Education Regulations were introduced . |
| 11 | She starts small children in group classes of three or four , introducing them to instruments and devising musical games which involve listening and responding to music . |
| 12 | It was warm and sprang to life immediately . |
| 13 | Caroline was delighted and set to work transforming her straight , shoulder-length hair into a glamorous new look . |
| 14 | What I need is a New Testament Christianity that speaks to the modern man that I am now ; a faith , in short , that is real and challenging to modernity . |
| 15 | Norm would sit watching TV , she would glance up at it and back at her book , but he tired early and went to bed . |
| 16 | But the notion that it is one of the rights of man to spend a fortnight , or a month , at Margate , or on the riviera , or in Santander , or Florida ; and that it is wrong and immoral and damaging to health to prevent it — this is modern . |
| 17 | The European Commission did n't prove that helpful either : Hinsley makes no secret of his frustration with the Esprit parallel processing projects , which he sees as obsessed with making Unix parallel — a quest that he sees as fundamentally misguided and doomed to failure in the long term . |
| 18 | The European Commission did n't prove that helpful either : Hinsley makes no secret of his frustration with the Esprit parallel processing projects , which he sees as obsessed with making Unix parallel — a quest that he sees as fundamentally misguided and doomed to failure in the long term . |
| 19 | These was felt to be an excessive use in the Act of phrases such as ‘ consult ’ , ‘ challenge ’ , ‘ take note of ’ and ‘ reasonable ’ , which were thought by many to be vague and open to interpretation . |
| 20 | At the time of Domesday the manor was not unlike a small kingdom or a dominion within which the lord was a superior over subjects of different ranks , his power though being not absolute but according to custom and law . |
| 21 | Lady Dedlock , lacking the life of the affections , is not bored but frozen to death ; the Victorian angel of domestic happiness has gone to shelter beneath a humbler roof . |
| 22 | Father and son , he reported , kissed each other as usual and went to sleep in their separate bivouacs . |
| 23 | More generally , he was certainly the most effective in making his mark abroad ; he was the most sought-after of them all in the European marriage market , which was both highly profitable and rewarding to morale when this Scottish king succeeded where an English one failed and Mary of Guise became James 's second wife , rather than Henry VIII 's fourth . |
| 24 | Therefore , when producing vacuum tubes , the manufacturer pumps out the atmosphere from the glass bottle of the tube with an ion pump , until there is a minimum acceptable vacuum to guarantee the tube will be stable and operate to spec . |
| 25 | Next morning he was found comatose and taken to hospital . |
| 26 | If Olwyn did not go of her own accord she was taken , undressed and washed and put to bed forcibly . |
| 27 | The hot beat springs alive and turns to copper and bronze , ringing like a sunken bell , glowing apricot and orange : all the warm fruits of the south . |
| 28 | At his trial for acting with Waddell in the murder of Mrs Chipperfield , Gentle was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 29 | At their trial in Pristina in February 1989 , all were found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 30 | He was found guilty and sentenced to death , and , after his appeal to the House of Lords was rejected , he was hanged at Wandsworth prison 3 January 1946 . |