Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that many of the serious stall/spin accidents are caused by poor planning which leads to situations involving difficult manoeuvring near the ground , putting the pilots under stress so that they make mistakes or fly badly enough to stall and spin in . |
| 2 | Is it all right to eat or drink before a session ? |
| 3 | Sean took his eyes off the road long enough to turn and give her an astonished look . |
| 4 | The nature of these changes , then , can be seen as some confirmation that the trends identified by Dearlove were genuine enough , but that working them through has taken much longer to achieve and involved much more upheaval than his initial analysis would have suggested . |
| 5 | The important feature of both initiatives was that people who normally work independently from each other and who shared a common vision and interest , were brought together also to share and benefit from each other 's expertise . |
| 6 | I hope that , given the work done so far to design and cost the scheme , you can have tenders to hand by then on the basis that construction would begin on site very soon after a decision at that meeting . |
| 7 | This is proved by a letter from one Mr. Wildhagen to Sir William le Fleming and dated the 19 October 1721 : " hellip ; your honr know it is impossible for the men to work att your Fells of Conistone in the winter season for long as their houses are unbuilt , they haveing so far to come and go to thir lodgings … |
| 8 | Nevertheless , they are useful enough here to employ as starting points for an examination of ways in which real people can be studied by the social investigator . |
| 9 | as if she had heard her , Agnes swallowed the spirit , only immediately to splutter and choke and cough . |
| 10 | We at first wanted to know each other , then knowing became friends , and every day as our knowledge increased , greater liking , deeper sympathy , and so on to love and feeling our love , knowing it to be true , pure , and everlasting ; then the desire for the perfect life of unity , and then of giving the world the benefit of our love by a little child . |
| 11 | To commemorate these key events in world history , Saga is looking into organising various reunions and commemorative tours , gathering together those who fought so gallantly to revisit and remember those events of nearly 50 years ago . |
| 12 | Because the total numbers of animals on islands tend to be small , large predators in general find it impossible to exist at all — except , of course , for creatures such as seals and sealions , which feed at sea and come ashore only to breed or bask . |
| 13 | This was Eilean na Roin , the Island of the Seals , and the grey seals came ashore here to breed and to bask . |
| 14 | Her father , quiet , humorous , stubbornly determined , gone now , no longer there to consult and confide in . |
| 15 | The disclosure letter is sometimes drafted in such a way as effectively totally to modify or negate the negotiated warranties . |
| 16 | Their subordination to adults in general is minimized by what might almost be called an avoidance of them : from the age of five or six , they return home only to eat and sleep , and spend the rest of their time in unsupervised gangs . |
| 17 | The technology available within the next five to 10 years — optical disk storage , text recognition , voice recognition , image processing , and graphical interfaces — should allow doctors more easily to capture and use clinical information electronically . |
| 18 | It 's a fairly basic question — what colour is your car going to be , because that 's one thing that people always like to know when watching Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon after the race is over . |
| 19 | The church had , of course , been put there deliberately both to use and to nullify the site of the previous religion . |
| 20 | The summit also now has a television mast , which can but be one of the most visible of its kind anywhere in the world , serving at once both to identify and to pollute the poor Pic du Midi . |
| 21 | There is more here to enjoy than to carp about , abut as with the Chopin Waltzes , the rather close digital piano image seems slightly artificial in its bright presence . |
| 22 | The staff were always there to help but did n't impose themselves . |
| 23 | The power and effectiveness of such discrimination , however , is eroding as the ‘ national champions ’ increasingly go offshore either to produce or to procure technologies . |
| 24 | Fires are lit once again to subdue and intimidate the elephants . |
| 25 | If IBM 's domestic operations have finally been pared down far enough to permit the company once again to grow and prosper , it should be able to export its success , ameliorating its problems in key foreign markets . |
| 26 | For some , the war was brought much nearer home when the French ( with their Castilian allies ) began once again to attack and plunder towns and villages on the south coast of England , the legitimate activities of English fishermen being among those which suffered from such raids . |
| 27 | Together they walked slowly up towards the great house , Artemis lagging slightly behind to try and avoid conversation . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're both here to assess and observe , ’ said Rohmer . |
| 29 | Also there to entertain and educate the 150 sixth-formers was The Chaucer Man , alias Trevor Eaton . |
| 30 | Members of such groups are usually very friendly and so grateful that people turn up to their performances that they are quite often there to smile and chat to visitors at the door . |