Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then either let your hair dry naturally or use a diffuser . |
| 2 | Do n't over-dry your hair — whenever possible , let it dry naturally or use a diffuser . |
| 3 | Whether the day follows a pattern of group discussion alone or involves an element of competitiveness by dividing the overall group into smaller groups with set targets to achieve , you should bear in mind a few good rules . |
| 4 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 5 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 6 | I can not do better than quote a semi-paragraph from The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz ( English translation 1971 ) : |
| 7 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 8 | If you must , then you ca n't do better than to buy a plastic ‘ Snake ’ ; but we doubt if you 'll have the same degree of reverence for it as for our other suggestions in nylon . |
| 9 | Landgrebe , only the second graduate employed by the company , had taken over Peter Revers ' job when the latter went to New York and had responsibilities for scheduling and managing shops , but knew better than to express an opinion on artistic matters . |
| 10 | Perhaps that needs a stalk in the middle . |
| 11 | To this is often ( but not always ) added an idea that a cause makes its effect happen , implying perhaps that to find a cause is to show why the effect had to happen as it did . |
| 12 | Obviously that had a fire risk to it as well . |
| 13 | So that put an end to that … no more dances down at Cotherstone for me . |
| 14 | It 's not quite the pressure , I mean I always find those two pages which is facts and that 's it but that 's the new dimension to it so that helps a lot . |
| 15 | Mechanically , it works almost as well on land as it does in water , so that providing a creature can find a way of breathing , there is little to prevent it walking straight out of the sea and up the beach . |
| 16 | It is fair to say that in the last instance , it will not actually produce a design with the colours separated out into their appropriate rows , but will make a card design showing the colours so that punching a card from this is made easier . |
| 17 | So that creates a sub-directory , off your root directory , called put . |
| 18 | Fundamental to the development of headhunting was the general acceptance of the payment of fees on a retainer basis , so that employing a search consultant was rendered comparable with that of engaging accountants , solicitors , or any other outside professional advisers . |
| 19 | It also offers 3D spreadsheets so that changing a value on one spreadsheet automatically changes a related value in another one . |
| 20 | The monks used to be responsible for the education of the boys , teaching them the three Rs and the elements of Buddhism , the learning being almost entirely by rote , so that approaching a village one could often hear from a distance the shrill boyish voices as they repeated the lesson after their teacher . |
| 21 | So that created a problem and we then found that a number of people were leaving Brothers to seek their fortunes elsewhere because the work that they liked to work on and you know traditionally they 'd been on it for years , er was no longer there and er subsequently there was a slip in the numbers employed . |
| 22 | It was power alone that made a man attractive . |
| 23 | ‘ It confirmed that I don ‘ t exercise enough and suggested a programme of swimming and walking . |
| 24 | As a preliminary to the ceremony , the Northern Ireland Royal Marine Band will march through Middlesbrough at 2pm and give a performance on the Russell Street boulevard . |
| 25 | But , Prof Richard De La Rue , of the university 's department of electronics and electrical engineering , and his team hope to go 20 times better and develop a cable which will transmit ten billion pulses , or two million simultaneous telephone calls . |
| 26 | He got up suddenly and placed a pile of clothes on the end of the bed . |
| 27 | Now the place has an aura which is so enticing and unexpected in this quiet rural area that few people can pass by without stopping to go inside and become a part of the idyllic scene . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , come inside and have a cup of tea , ’ she said , and showed me into the front room of the house . |
| 29 | ‘ Come inside and have a cup of tea , ’ suggested Jenny . |
| 30 | For the second period of ten years again I discount down the full agency rates , totalling fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds and ninety six pence year yearly , to the sum of forty thousand pounds annually and to apply a multiplier of six , producing the figure of two hundred and forty thousand pounds for the second period . |