Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young otters do not like the water and quite often , mum has to forcibly shove the reluctant infant into the river for its first lesson ! |
| 2 | Using fleece covers to completely cover a crop down to the ground will significantly improve water retention by the soil . |
| 3 | While Labour seeks to simply snatch the language of one nation from the Tories , the danger here can only grow and it is compounded because it is by no means clear how far a reconstituted and emphatically ‘ un-loony ’ socialism may go in negotiating its own language of toughness on immigration and nationality , even perhaps on humane socialist repatriation . [ … ] |
| 4 | At about the time the new clock was commissioned , I became seriously ill with a heart condition , and it proved not possible to undertake the extensive research required to faithfully replicate the old clock . |
| 5 | Belinda Jones , ’ the owner of the name said simply , and waited while Dr Russell 's sister seemed to fully take in her presence for the first time . |
| 6 | Although this is welcome , taken together with demographic changes and the likelihood of Lothian Health Board wanting to directly purchase a fair amount of nursing home beds , it underlines the need to maintain a stable market . |
| 7 | But you were saying about er Australia and that I I think at that particular time more so than now whatever was happening in the British pop scene seemed to just happen all over the world you know . |
| 8 | They smashed vital equipment used to intravenously feed toddler Stuart Masters , slashed his cot mattress , wrecked his toys and tipped his special diet food over the floor . |
| 9 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 10 | Physical contact by means of drenching the soil to a requisite depth is expensive in terms of quantity needed to thoroughly soak deep enough , and the consequences from those it does not reach . |
| 11 | THE Premier Division from which Andy Roxburgh yesterday took all 21 members of his squad for next week 's friendly with Germany may yet be the cause of the national coach having to drastically review his plans before the arrival of the world champions . |
| 12 | To be able to add this latest accreditation to what may already be a substantial collection of brandings and certifications , a vendor has to successfully complete a set of tests and checks , buy a distribution source licence for the specific OSF technology , and agree to a royalty structure for products shipped under the certification seal . |
| 13 | This logical identifier has to uniquely identify the record , and its actual address can also be obtained by looking up a table containing the addresses of all the identifiers . |
| 14 | The record seemed to openly encourage the backlash which , amazingly , The Smiths had thus far avoided . |
| 15 | The amount of protamine needed to actually shrink the tumours , however , was toxic and killed the rats ( Nature , vol 297 , p 307 ) . |
| 16 | IN A MOVE bound to both surprise and delight Didcot-based Castle , 5029 ‘ Nunney Castle ’ is to make a three-month visit to the East Lancs-Railway at Bury . |
| 17 | Viruses attach themselves to EXE files , so if anything untoward happens and a file tries to illegally write itself onto drive C , ViruSTOP will give a warning message . |
| 18 | They addressed the well-attended Public Meeting held to officially launch the Group at Stourbridge in late summer . |
| 19 | Two years ago I planted over sixty daffodils , they all seem to have come up , produced plenty of foliage , quite a few had flower buds , but only a handful managed to actually flower . |
| 20 | In September 1939 , a request came to fully convert the two brake vehicles for each train by the provision of the necessary cupboards and other amenities required the LMS to provide 15 trains . |
| 21 | Now he had nearly reached the point where darting mist roared to almost touch his head , like stabbing , jabbing tendrils of motion . |
| 22 | This facility helped to further enhance the rapidly expanding ship building and repair trade within the port . |
| 23 | He went about the difficult pre-tour planning with the England management team without saying a word although he had confided in friends that he and his wife planned to quietly separate when the tour finished . |
| 24 | THREE people were treated in hospital today after passengers and crew had to swiftly leave an aircraft by emergency chutes when smoke appeared in the cockpit . |
| 25 | When Richards finally emerged — as ever it was no gladiator 's entrance ; just the usual shambling , dishevelled Deano — the game seemed to suddenly shift England 's way . |
| 26 | The man , once derided and jeered by Arsenal fans , earned instant immortality with the latest of late goals in a 2–1 replay win to finally end the interminable Wembley saga and break the hearts of luckless Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 27 | The librarian had to carefully plan aspects of the project , in which the students would create their own information database on local pubs and clubs using the MICROVIEWDATA software , to cover aspects such as the involvement of other staff , the amount of supervision needed by students , the appropriateness of using the software for this kind of information i.e. was the project information-led or technology-led ? |
| 28 | and so provided that there 's proper procedures , I mean I do n't suppose the commission wanted to actually act as a , a review body for every person excluded from the market in Europe , and so they said well one 's got to have a certain faith in the national courts as being an independent review , and such as that person is excluded from the market there must be a very good reason and he was an a competitor |
| 29 | The occasion of the most recent serious attempt was in 1968 when a Bill designed to further limit the power of the Lords received a second reading in the House of Commons but it foundered . |
| 30 | The MI5 man seemed to suddenly shake his bulk to wake himself up and remind himself that the chief inspector was still in the car with him . |