Example sentences of "[adj] to [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're also prone to dredging up the wounding words and cutting critiques others have directed at you recently . |
| 2 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 3 | Currently , one of the rather loosely applied definitive differences between plant and animal life is that plants can be propagated in either of two ways , sexually by means of seed , which involves male and female contributions from different plants or from different parts of the same plant , or asexually ( vegetatively ) by means of cutting and layering , which is analogous to cutting off an arm or a leg and growing an entirely new individual from such a part into a whole new body . |
| 4 | 2.3 If the Landlord is unable to obtain at a reasonable cost any of the materials referred to in the Building Documents the Landlord may [ ( subject to notifying promptly the Surveyors of its intention to do so ) ] in carrying out the Works substitute for them alternative materials as nearly as may be of the same quality |
| 5 | The process is consequently one more akin to topping up the various activity boxes with water , with flows being initiated from one to another once selected levels have been achieved . |
| 6 | He described the task of reproducing the mosaic as ‘ something akin to piecing together a 1,500,000-piece jigsaw with the picture to be copied only half complete ’ . |
| 7 | He said nothing , forked another fish , swallowed it with the same indifference he might appropriate to putting out the rubbish . |
| 8 | Eccleshall , from a scenic village north-west of the county town , are more accustomed to propping up the league than heading it . |
| 9 | We have become accustomed to writing off the engineering industry as one of the casualties in the reshaping of British industry during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 10 | Combined operations became the commando 's métier and he would become as accustomed to calling up a battleship 's gunnery officer or the leader of a flight of rocket firing Typhoon aircraft as he might be radioing for mortar fire from his own Heavy Weapons Troop . |
| 11 | They are more than equal to thrusting uphill the light mass in front of them . |
| 12 | Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve . |
| 13 | It was cleaned by Gorton shed prior to taking out a southbound express and adorned with wreaths , it would enter Victoria just after the service had begun . |
| 14 | I will name some of D Q M's prior to setting up the meeting . |
| 15 | Occasional mute mind-wiped drones trudged by on some robotic task , perhaps simply ordered to exercise their zombie limbs prior to cleaning out a toxic sump ; and cyborged Servitors trundled here and there . |
| 16 | It is also important to drawn up a job description , and that will take up senior management resources , to consider the job requirements and the profile of the ideal candidate . |
| 17 | Apart from burn marks on her clothes and hair , the only noticeable effect of the explosion was a dried , strained voice and occasional coughing , due to breathing in the smoke . |
| 18 | ‘ This government 's policies are not conducive to bringing about the end of the recession , ’ he said bluntly . |
| 19 | My grandfather had died early , so she was used to bringing up a family on her own . |
| 20 | Bradshaw 's technique , his whole life , was built on the twin pillars of strength and stamina ; he was used to taking on an unbeatable opposition and winning . |
| 21 | You may have a good deal of ups and downs and hard work ahead of you , but sweating on a ridge is , in my opinion , far preferable to plodding up a hillside or toiling along a zig-zag path to a top . |
| 22 | In this Dream , that was tantamount to putting out a contract on God . |
| 23 | Doing so , they argue , would be tantamount to giving up the intifada and accepting the continuation of military rule , without a firm promise that Israel would eventually withdraw . |
| 24 | Friends of Knighton believe he is close to putting together a deal which would see at least some of the shares resold within four months of a take-over . |
| 25 | Medical researchers believe they could be close to pinning down the cause of hereditary asthma . |
| 26 | CORNARD United were desperately close to pulling off a famous victory , with cup holders Sudbury being saved by a late goal to force a replay , writes ALAN COCKSEDGE . |
| 27 | And on the night of the final reaping , there 's a great harvest supper , after which the men would stay guard around the great heaps of grain which were ready to winnowed early the following morning . |
| 28 | If you only have a very limited amount of clerical back-up at least see that this is devoted to taking away the paper and putting it where you will be able to find it again if necessary . |
| 29 | Another eight months was devoted to working out the spacing between characters . |
| 30 | Much of the book is devoted to demonstrating scientifically the progress of students using the Progress Chart of Social and Personal Development ( PAC ) which Gunzburg pioneered and which was meticulously used at Wentwood . |