Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a backbencher he is currently the politician the voters most want to see as prime minister . |
| 2 | As we made clear in the previous chapter , its definition of temporary workers might well include people whose jobs are available on other than a temporary basis , but who only intend to stay in these jobs for a limited period of time . |
| 3 | I only want to speak at this juncture on the element of that which is due to lower mortality as I call it , I E deaths and this is addressed in paragraph five and in the table at the bottom which shows an effect of about two thousand er extra households , due to lower mortality rate assumptions in our projections . |
| 4 | I only pause to observe at this stage that the decision , although obviously of great importance , was not concerned with the terms upon which interim relief in the form of an interlocutory injunction should be granted . |
| 5 | She gave us much rein to pull in any direction , but never failed to pull us up and say , in effect , ‘ what the hell are you up to ? ’ or ‘ stop that carry-on at once ! ’ |
| 6 | Giving more than a passing nod to the Amiga classic Sensible Soccer , Graeme Souness International Soccer is played on a vertically scrolling pitch viewed more or less from above , but with just enough tilt to allow for detailed player graphics instead of a bird's-eye head-and-shoulders shot . |
| 7 | No , cos you only have to go round five times do n't you ? |
| 8 | Thus , schools not only have to deal with financial delegation but they have to be very aware of market forces . |
| 9 | Indeed , we only have to think of such people as Einstein , Picasso , Michelangelo , Goethe and George Bernard Shaw to realise that the brain is definitely capable of functioning — and functioning to great effect — well into one 's eighties or nineties . |
| 10 | ‘ You only have to look at unmanned stations like Thornaby , Stockton and Seaham to imagine the scale of the problem . |
| 11 | The ‘ take-away ’ industry has grown suddenly and dramatically , as has the consumption of vast quantities of junk foods — you only have to look at all those supermarket trolleys piled high with packets of crisps and cans of fizzy drink . |
| 12 | We only have to look at two key areas of education ( the curriculum and teacher training ) , to see the reality of segregation within the integrated environment . |
| 13 | Darlington Civic Theatre YOU only have to look at young Roald Dahl booklovers , eager to see the stage play , to wonder at the gap in theatre material for such a ready audience . |
| 14 | For a confirmation of this , you only have to look at some of Turner 's paintings of the Dales and compare them with the reality to see how much poetic licence has been taken for the sake of the " phantasmagoric " . |
| 15 | We only have to look at some of the long-term deals , the single union deals and changed working practices to see that . |
| 16 | And we only have to look at those who are afflicted in any one of these areas to see which people seem to be evolving in spite of ( or perhaps because o ? their difficulties . |
| 17 | Competition , the price of alternatives etcetera and then you only have to look in any travel agent 's window to see that that 's an important factor today . |
| 18 | You only have to walk into any art gallery these days to see that the real action is in the shop . |
| 19 | It is far easier from their point of view if they only need to deal with one entity and they will probably prefer that to be the purchaser as it is the purchaser that has taken over the business . |
| 20 | The 1.5kg device has a large enough handle to grip for long periods . |
| 21 | Writers constantly have to deal with this prejudice , and it is well worth remembering this before discussing writing with casual acquaintances . |
| 22 | Formal studies of code switching thus tend to deal with idealised or edited data , to which syntactic theories are applied : e.g. Phrase Structure Grammar ( Joshi 1985 ) ; Government and Binding ( Di Sciullo et al. |
| 23 | Well that , that 's what I 'm saying is that , I think what we have to start doing and I 'm not suggesting you 're not doing , but I just want to talk about this in , before we practically kick off on the course proper , I think what , I mean that comes off , and then the oil starts dripping out of it , and the minute the oil starts dripping out , then we become quite a good artist are n't we ? |
| 24 | There 's just this , it 's just really funny cos I sound really wrecked yeah and I say look hello , hello look Norwegian people I just want to apologize for all this mess and all this crap on this tape but I mean yeah like you know , fuck it |
| 25 | I just want to look into that antique shop . |
| 26 | The plot of Home Alone 2 is the plot of Home Alone 1 , with bungling burglars Harry and Marv — Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern — wandering the streets of the Big Apple planning a toy store robbery on Christmas Eve when they just happen to run across Wee Mac , who proceeds to foil their plans again . |
| 27 | Diaries soon begin to look like this : |
| 28 | Finally get to sleep at five , thinking : ‘ I do n't care who runs the country , as long as he does n't wake me before noon . ’ |
| 29 | Generally speaking the businesses that obtained government-guaranteed loan funds have produced problems : They require greater monitoring and supervising than the banks normally like to devote to small businesses and , as the type of support is very often a last resource , they must be considered more risky than the norm . |
| 30 | Yet what we normally get to see on British cinema screens represents a small slice of what is produced globally . |