Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political decisions may also be taken suddenly and drastically to increase school enrolments . |
| 2 | From the example of the cows before me it seemed that they were designed only and eternally to eat grass and , left to themselves , would never do anything else . |
| 3 | For those universities producing the largest numbers of theses , it was considered that personal visits to their libraries for examination of the consultation records was desirable , so as also to study storage conditions , ease of access , and to discuss regulations on access , loan , and copying with the relevant library staff . |
| 4 | The class will take place at the Dolphin Centre on Sunday March 29 between 10.30am and 12.30pm to earn cash for Darlington Day Care Centre Appeal . |
| 5 | But ‘ overtly and freely to express opinion ’ implies some opportunity and machinery for making that opinion known , and therefore implies some kind of a suffrage , some kind of a voice or vote … ( 3 ) In matters of contention between sections of public opinion it is the majority opinion that prevails . |
| 6 | The man continued to smile and then , with a quick , balanced movement , which in so bulky a man was nimble he moved backwards and sideways to allow Tallboy through the narrow porch into the house . |
| 7 | Which is very light so to compensate for this a ply line is used this is a rubber line which is quite thick and the rod is flicked backwards and forwards to let line out . |
| 8 | In the meantime voluntary organisations and community groups are urged to work together locally and regionally to coordinate information gathering and analysis through existing networks and development agencies ( e.g. CVSs , NCVO , associations , federations , church bodies or other ) . |
| 9 | Earlier in the month the human rights organization Amnesty International had warned that the prospects for a peaceful transition to democracy in South Africa would be seriously threatened if the government failed to intervene effectively and impartially to stop violence and curb the excesses of the security forces . |
| 10 | Wolves in fact have done more than most to provide evidence that the game is ridding itself of violence . |
| 11 | Spurred on by the successes of ‘ great experimenters ’ like Galileo , they came more and more to regard experience as the source of knowledge . |
| 12 | Christianity seemed more and more to mean clericalism and once the Second Crusade of 1147 was over the popular religious fervour that had been channelled into it needed a new outlet . |
| 13 | Here and in the United States , most experts now agree that a doctor is not obliged either ethically or legally to continue treatment when it 's refused or is useless or has become a burden to the patient . |
| 14 | In truth , the number of individuals who have emigrated solely or mainly to save tax is small . |
| 15 | The most subtle strategy available to a teacher is that of teacher-in-role , for this device is flexible enough to have any one of the three functions ; it can take the pupils ' attention off themselves by allowing them passively or actively to use teacher 's role as a projection , or it can be non-projective and challenge the pupils to interact . |
| 16 | In the water , it breathes with its gills like any normal fish , but like the bichir it uses its lungs too , rising every now and then to gulp air from the surface , a talent which is particularly valuable when the water in the pools becomes tepid and foul and loses most of its oxygen . |
| 17 | It could reach both upwards and downwards to pluck vegetation from all directions on a vast scale , and so lost little time ( or energy ) moving about . |
| 18 | He asked them to come up today or tomorrow to start work on the er pipe work again . |
| 19 | They also support the plans of London Underground to have , under the powers of this Bill , extensive work carried out at King 's Cross to improve facilities there and also to improve commuter services — the Thameslink services which run north-south through King 's Cross . |
| 20 | But he says that BICC 's businesses are well positioned strategically and financially to take advantage of any economic upturn . |
| 21 | In the event , Mountbatten remained as Governor-General of India , in which capacity , at the invitation of the Congress leaders , he was briefly and secretly to resume executive power in 1947 to deal with the communal violence which threatened to destroy the infant state . |
| 22 | The UN will have to understand the complexities completely , and act firmly and sensitively to encourage re-unification and co-operation . |
| 23 | But Beccaria took a narrow view of how to manipulate the human tendency freely and rationally to choose deviation : he saw it only in terms of the effectiveness of the operations of the criminal justice system . |
| 24 | Last year was no disaster she placed sixth over 200 metres at the World Student Games and was a member of Britain 's silver medal winning 4 x 100 metres relay team but she will have to run faster than ever to earn selection for Barcelona . |