Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff from our businesses and Estates met recently to see how networking works and how it could increase our share of business in the water industry . |
| 2 | TWO-YEAR jail sentences and unlimited fines will face Scottish knife-carriers under Scottish Office plans announced yesterday to toughen up the proposed law . |
| 3 | Some MEPs want ultimately to take over from the council the main responsibility for passing EC laws , while others want to concentrate on the right to appoint the European Commission . |
| 4 | What is unusual is for a number of neighbouring schools to pull together to set up what Anne Mountfield describes as an ‘ education innovation trust ’ . |
| 5 | Many valuable training experiences can be arranged within a single school or agency , or by a group of teachers from different schools meeting regularly to carry out an agreed task . |
| 6 | He also sowed clusters of caltraps , spikes projecting upwards to bring down the cavalry . |
| 7 | While few throughout the country would still be prepared to wager against Rangers , it is interesting to note that the two main contenders have still to meet twice and that the points gap has been reduced to seven . |
| 8 | In some parts of the country Elizabeth 's accession was greeted with spontaneous outbursts of iconoclastic activity , and shortly afterwards a new set of royal visitors began systematically to pull down , smash , or burn any remaining images . |
| 9 | As the data was applied to the design of each section , the various elements began magically to fit together ; most plants or animals would only fit a particular niche in the illustration . |
| 10 | As we can see from Table 7.3 , the share of total incomes going in tax and social security contributions increased sharply to take nearly two-thirds of all income in Denmark and Sweden . |
| 11 | Governments have also to decide how to divide these resources between alternative uses : reducing emission of greenhouse gasses , building sea defenses , and so on . |
| 12 | Looks like most British retailers have yet to clean up their act . |
| 13 | In practice , ethnographers tend rather to play down the question of whether their particular group is typical of others , but the reader must recognize that the choice of group is a kind of sampling , and the question of representativeness must arise . |
| 14 | Yet the stockmarket has rewarded those investors brave enough to venture in . |
| 15 | Studio conditions seemed particularly to bring out these traits , and the need to repeat 78rpm sides certainly brought out the nervous sides of artists . |
| 16 | However , when the opportunity arose to participate in the Programme as a SCOTVEC National Development Officer , the changes began again to figure fairly prominently . |
| 17 | Batty was magnificently constructive throughout but things refused stubbornly to gel up to the interval . |
| 18 | Even now the many and various suppliers of loam-based composts have still to discover how to get their products to customers in a state that is fit to use . |
| 19 | To almost everybody 's surprise , dockers began everywhere to come out in sympathy . |
| 20 | It was perhaps only in the last ten years that Broadstairs had fully come to realise what treasure trove lay buried in its midst , and plaques began enthusiastically to sprout everywhere . |
| 21 | It is likely that the important point is simply that busy junctions take longer to drive through , thus they gave rise to lower average speeds . |
| 22 | During the election campaign Premier John Major promised tax cuts , but Treasury chiefs refused yesterday to rule out the backdoor tax rise . |
| 23 | But Treasury chiefs refused yesterday to rule out the backdoor tax rise . |
| 24 | Oh , what 's the matter with you ? her eyes asked her reflection as she retouched her lips , her boneless fingers taking forever to screw down the tube . |
| 25 | Chorus Systemes SA minority stockholder Unix System Labs has yet to state clearly what it intends doing with Chorus ' technology . |
| 26 | No indeed , this is in fact er about the twelfth meeting in a series , the first meeting was in 1973 , where 75 scientists came together to deliberate about 50 genes which were known at that time . |
| 27 | Earlier still , rumour had it that England selectors needed only to whistle down a mine-shaft for a couple of fast bowlers to arrive in the next cage . |
| 28 | There is a very special reward , however , for those who suffer the rigours of this journey when the cliffs end suddenly to reveal ahead an inviting and welcome crescent of golden sands curving around a lovely bay . |
| 29 | Surprisingly , however , he found that sentences took longer to understand when they were preceded by a context than when they were not preceded by a context . |
| 30 | Demonstrations have quietened down , I gather , and presumably will not flower again in strong colours until the TV cameras and reporters turn up again and I should think that is unlikely before the objectors start seriously to pitch in . |