Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents seek right to sue over injury to foetus |
| 2 | During the persecutions those who had most to lose in terms of this world 's goods were the rich Christians , whose property was liable to confiscation unless they ‘ apostatized ’ . |
| 3 | He hoped eventually to concentrate on diseases of the mind so he was constantly analysing people 's actions . |
| 4 | Rose had moved back a little to stand in front of one of the shop windows , scanning the crowd with knowing eyes . |
| 5 | Well more misery for Forest another defeat more injuries less to go from strength to strength and we 'll be right back . |
| 6 | They duly disposed of India in the semi-final , only to lose to Australia in a game they should have won . |
| 7 | Is the management of your venue adaptable enough to cope with changes in your programme or its timing ? |
| 8 | As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ So , here I am , Uncle Orrin , ’ she had said gaily , ‘ your naughty niece , exiled because she was silly enough to fall in love with a poor man who was only interested in her money . |
| 10 | And if she was naïve enough to fall in love with him — so much the better . |
| 11 | Nothing daunted , Havelock Wilson , having just returned from his foreign travels , accompanied by Tom Mann , recently released from gaol following a term of imprisonment for inciting troops to mutiny , set off to visit four or five provincial ports , not only to appeal for funds for the London men , but also to persuade workers at these ports to join in and make the strike a national one . |
| 12 | Weeping became a self-humiliation , an acknowledgement of one 's unworthiness before the god , used only to appeal to Yahweh in the hope of influencing His decisions . |
| 13 | Its newly established corporate sales force is intended only to drum up demand among the Fortune 1000 . |
| 14 | Its newly established corporate sales force is meant only to drum up demand among the Fortune 1000 . |
| 15 | Both of us need a few moments alone to come to terms with things . |
| 16 | The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings . |
| 17 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 18 | Whence it came it will return , perhaps again , to be communicated to some being higher than man , perhaps to pass through gradations of glory from the pale human soul to brighten the seraph . |
| 19 | There are elements of a vicious version of the hermeneutic circle involved : people do n't like poetry because they have n't read enough to come to terms with it , and they have n't read enough because they do n't like it . |
| 20 | By this time Steven was old enough to come to terms with the divorce , but Matthew still found it difficult . |
| 21 | THE MACHO MAN : His present is his presence : his life story , a feel of his biceps , a drunken kiss to any woman who is silly enough to stray within reach of his groping ; and , if he is feeling generous , the promise of a night out at his local . |
| 22 | It is merely to stand at variance with a long established tradition — a long established system of beliefs based ultimately on someone 's speculative interpretation . |
| 23 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 24 | Basically , however , it is our practice only to paddle on Sundays in the fishing season and not even then on certain rivers when the salmon are running . |
| 25 | A Peasants ' Revolt — the workers of Kent and Essex — led by Walter the tiler ( who became known as Wat Tyler ) , occurred in 1381 , in which they refused to pay the Poll Tax , and they gathered together to sweep in revolt into London , Although only a lad , Richard II subdued the revolt . |
| 26 | Or am I just plain incompetent — a liability to anyone reckless enough to venture onto rock with me ? |
| 27 | Your Directors unanimously recommend that you vote in favour of the aforementioned Resolutions , and intend themselves so to vote in respect of their own beneficial holdings totalling 117,180 ordinary shares representing 0.07% of the present issues ordinary share capital . |
| 28 | If it is argued that a man has a moral duty to obey the law and that to break the law of the land is a violation of one 's duty to one 's country , then one has only to point to instances of government policy where it would clearly be immoral to obey the law of the land . |
| 29 | Yeah , but they have only to do with things like national security and and |
| 30 | As strange as it sounds , the great popularity of Hitler already before the war had for the most part little to do with fanatical belief in the central tenets of the Hitlerian racial-imperialist ‘ world-view ’ , and even less to do with belief in the Party , whose leader he was . |