Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What kind of slump is it when England 's most expensive striker has yet to go more than two games without a goal ? |
| 2 | Split rings enough to position along each vertical row of tape , and spaced according to the size of the finished pleat ( e.g. , every 20cm ( 8in ) for a 10cm ( 4in ) pleat ) . |
| 3 | It is for the HVS–E1 climber that the crag has most to offer though , and a short tour along the edge taking in the following climbs will not disappoint . |
| 4 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 5 | Over here the practice has yet to catch on but do expect your bureau to charge you more if there are large scanned images . |
| 6 | What has yet to become an accepted methodology in the study of public administration is a perception of organizations , including those in the public sector , as being themselves political systems.l Organization theory , drawing primarily as ever on evidence from private firms and corporations , offers political interpretations of the internal structures and decisionmaking of large-scale organizations which the study of public administration has yet to take up in any systematic manner ( Walsh et al. |
| 7 | This chapter refuses however to take either Bourdieu or his critics at their word . |
| 8 | Nikos 's mind began automatically to turn over the possibilities ; as it always did . |
| 9 | A concrete breakwater stretches away to sink slowly in the dark distance . |
| 10 | Aycliffe coughed , and his glance drifted away to rest unseeingly on the shelves of books as he spoke . |
| 11 | The inclusion of special relativistic accounts of thermodynamics and electromagnetism go far to bear out the author 's claim that special relativity provides ‘ a foundation on which almost the whole of modern physical theory has been built ’ . |
| 12 | Apart from the two young heroes , the remaining cast of Vast Motoryway Services Area : The Movie had yet to turn up . |
| 13 | my veering mind does well to rest on ; |
| 14 | The full sense of loss had yet to sink in . |
| 15 | Twelve months on , the club have yet to do so , despite numerous requests to the City secretary John Westmancoat . |
| 16 | After the introduction of the National Health Insurance Act in 1958 the private sector expanded sharply to cover more than 80 per cent of Japanese medical services . |
| 17 | The windows were sparkling , the ivy stripped away to let in the light . |
| 18 | After the success of the centenary festival it was hoped to hold the sing outdoors again , and for the 101st event in 1987 the committee worked hard to set up the staging and prepare the venue ; but a cloudburst just an hour before it was due to start necessitated a change of plan . |
| 19 | Fate seems rather to depend more on ancestry than position , family rather than friends . |
| 20 | This reflection went far to set up Harry again in his own esteem , for it meant that Isambard had been sure of his victim 's obstinate silence even under torture ; more sure of it , if the truth were told , than Harry himself had been at the worst moment . |
| 21 | They were the original fittings left over from the beginning of the century which the Diocesan Parsonage Committee had yet to get around to modernising . |
| 22 | THE parents of the two-year-old hooked on smoking vowed yesterday to give up the habit . |
| 23 | The piano has yet to catch up . |
| 24 | Each month the Convent is the meeting place for the Secular Franciscan Order and each week the Journey in Faith group meets there to find out more about the Faith and exchange views and ideas . |
| 25 | Yet pragmatics tends only to examine how meaning develops at a given point . |
| 26 | Also , we observed that males close to the breeding site seem deliberately to sit out on roads , where they have a clear view , and wait to jump on females as they pass . |
| 27 | In the United Kingdom , for example , the peerage began seriously to take up directorships of commercial companies in the 1880s : by 1896 directorships were held by 167 members of the House of Lords . |
| 28 | The group that was introduced to the sounds of individual letters was better at spelling than the group trained only to pick out sounds in words . |
| 29 | With little official funding or backing , the team went ahead to establish just such a network . |
| 30 | As of the end of January the main slick had yet to come ashore ( media reports and pictures of onshore damage were of smaller slicks caused by Iraqi shelling of Saudi facilities at Khafji and Mishab ) . |