Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But mistaken loan decisions or pricing policies swiftly come home to roost in an organisation with a balance sheet of only a few hundred million . |
| 2 | I have seen Koi survive and thrive in the most unlikely ponds , providing their owners provide knowledgeable TLC , and I have witnessed good carp caught by anglers using rods apparently fit only to support runner beans . |
| 3 | 2.2 Subject to all Landlord 's Approvals and all other consents being obtained ( which the Landlord shall forthwith apply for and obtain with all due expedition ) and continuing in force ( which continuation in force the Landlord shall use its best endeavours to ensure is maintained ) the Landlord shall entirely at its own expense in all respects immediately proceed diligently to carry out and complete the Works : |
| 4 | These craftsmen then travelled widely to execute commissions . |
| 5 | He points out that after the first few days the violence vanished along with the hype and , instead , young black men from warring gangs actually got together to discuss the film . |
| 6 | After such experiences , first-time visitors usually vow never to return ! |
| 7 | As the feminist and structuralist critiques remind us , liberal pluralist models also fail adequately to conceptualize political and economic power , and the patterns of inequality that result from its operation . |
| 8 | Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time . |
| 9 | Youngsters often leave home to spend anything from two months to a year on one of the country 's 273 kibbutzim . |
| 10 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
| 11 | It is not , so far as the author is aware , a breach of privilege of the House to assure oneself that a Clerk of the Parliaments , stating that a Bill has been consented to by Lords and Commons , actually is a Clerk of the Parliaments duly authorised so to state . |
| 12 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
| 13 | A gift shop , a snack bar and a petrol station is not exactly a model , thriving Highland community , and the disquieting feeling that these places now exist only to empty the contents of your wallet if you so much as slow down is not a pleasant one . |
| 14 | Government representatives , employers and workers now met together to discuss economic policies . |
| 15 | At its very mention , East European economists today tend simply to roll their eyes . |
| 16 | Consequently , the fate of children 's contributions sometimes had less to do with their quality than with their ability to sustain the teacher 's pre-existing intentions for the session as a whole . |
| 17 | If , as happened very occasionally — for instance in the great boom of 1872–3 — some workers actually earned enough to afford for a brief moment the luxuries which employers regarded as their right , indignation was sincere and heartfelt . |
| 18 | These studies nevertheless tend still to treat individuals and households as people ‘ to whom things happen ’ . |
| 19 | Geraldine rushed to the scene to find ambulancemen still fighting furiously to save Deanne 's life . |
| 20 | ‘ Pigeons always come home to roost , my dear . ’ |
| 21 | a ‘ balanced ’ account was ruled out because those editors also worked hard to exclude ‘ balanced ’ accounts . |
| 22 | It is these changes to the carriage controls that knitters sometimes find hard to master , so let's look in detail at what the carriage controls do . |
| 23 | Bramah quotes Grant Richards as having enquired in the Times Literary Supplement , ‘ Is there really such a person as Ernest Bramah ? ’ and ( Dame ) E. Rose Macaulay [ q.v. ] as having written in the Nation and Athenaeum , ‘ The crude stilted Conan Doylish English of the detective stories certainly goes far to bear out the common theory that Ernest Bramah has a literary dual personality . ’ |
| 24 | The local authorities often fight hard to try to protect their independence . |
| 25 | One of the few factors mirroring lead levels was age of the house , in inner cities often relating also to lead water pipes and old lead-based paint . |
| 26 | The Jacksons , the Mullers , the Branwhites , and the Fripps all worked together to create a body of work that now stands among the best of British landscape painting . |
| 27 | It has been shown above that those with larger mortgages and those on higher incomes benefit most from MITR , but one of the main arguments originally put forward to justify its existence was that it benefited first-time buyers , enabling them to purchase a house which would otherwise have been beyond their means . |
| 28 | Spruce needles certainly take longer to decay than some other leaves , releasing humic acid over a longer period but at a slower rate , but being a long standing constituent of the northern latitudes coniferous belt , spruce ( Picea ) is quite compatible with lakes well stocked with fish . |
| 29 | Unlike us , the horse 's teeth continuously grow upwards to compensate for wear which is why they need regular checking and rasping . |
| 30 | When councillors finally meet tomorrow to consider the proposal their officers will urge them to deny permission . |