Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | This research aims to do that and , whilst it will not ‘ value ’ the benefits , these will be itemised and related to those costs and perhaps cheaper ways of producing similar benefits found . |
| 2 | The council wants to renew these and extend them to the whole of those districts and also bring in Pimlico and Westbourne . |
| 3 | Often this process is detrimental as the child starts to eat less and less savoury food . |
| 4 | The Institute strives to achieve this and , in doing so , it deserves the support of its members and of the companies to which they belong . |
| 5 | This conference intends to explore these and other related issues from a number of incisive and contentious angles . |
| 6 | As Tamar progressed to facing easy jumps , her riding began to occupy more and more of her time and her thoughts . |
| 7 | A man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money , but simply to live as he is accustomed to live and to earn as much as is necessary for that purpose . |
| 8 | If the wife 's level of income is sufficient , the mortgagee will probably consent to the release of the husband from liability under the mortgage so long as the wife covenants to assume this and , depending upon the practice of the mortgagee , will specify what clauses it requires in the appropriate conveyance or transfer . |
| 9 | We at Water undertake to supply each and every cherished customer with a product that is clear , cool and healthy to drink , free from contaminants and eminently potable . |
| 10 | The communal rice-pot tends to get fewer and less-exotic additions as the grant dwindles . |
| 11 | As it was , in the weeks that followed Herr Bremann 's death , his lordship began to devote more and more hours to the matter of the crisis in Germany . |
| 12 | Before the afternoon is out , I hope that we shall hear from the Minister how the Government propose to do that and how effective his alternative — if it exists will be . |
| 13 | But as we approach the far bank the hole seems to take more and more of the balls . |
| 14 | Meanwhile his birth comes to seem more and more impossible and Abraham on several occasions brings everything to the brink of disaster . |
| 15 | The cone begins to vibrate more and more — then it explodes into thousands of fragments of light , which fall gently around you . |
| 16 | Graf wants to travel more and change her career before she 's too old . |
| 17 | As the world comes to depend more and more on telecommunications and computer networks , AT&T is striving ever harder to pre-empt or avoid the kinds of breakdowns that have plagued its long-distance network and caused chaos in parts of the US over the past couple of years . |
| 18 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 19 | Because a regression session is longer than one involving simple hypnotherapy , the patient tends to relax more and more as the session goes on . |
| 20 | Since the press seem to take any and every chance they can to doubt his ability to play , this article , and indeed all your support over the last few months , has been more than a pleasure to read . |