Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Press habitually looks for an opportunity eventually to knock down the heroes they have created and placed on pedestals , if only to do something new . |
| 2 | Whereas a traditional craftsman would decide what should be done , how it should be done , when it should be done , and to what level of quality , as well as actually executing the task itself , modern management within capitalism takes on all these former conceptual functions , leaving labour merely to carry out the mechanical aspects of performing the manual task . |
| 3 | So are you gon na have to restrict training in er operational flights jaguar at a stretch just to stretch out the hours ? |
| 4 | I used to play football just to get out the aggression . |
| 5 | Only in cases where it is not clear whether or not there is an intention permanently to deprive where the accused acts " without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing " need one look at s.6 . |
| 6 | Planes ca n't take off without the rigger there to pull away the chocks . |
| 7 | But if Herrnstein believes that there is a conspiracy afoot to discount totally the influences of inheritance on intelligence , this is nonsense . |
| 8 | FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of African Unity endorsed a plan yesterday to set up the first pan-African peace keeping force , despite a chronic shortage of money . |
| 9 | Belfast City Council is hoping 110,000 people will take part in some form of exercise today to notch up a hat-trick of victories in the international fitness challenge . |
| 10 | Sep 8 1984 Stark Dadaist design classic , included here because it is the only cover story EVER to carry not a single picture , inside or out . |
| 11 | As in Chapter 2 , there will be room only to open up a few of the many possible perspectives and issues , and to suggest some ways of thinking about them . |
| 12 | Chesarynth almost drank the wine just to fill in the time , but the thought of poison halted the crystal-stemmed goblet half-way to her mouth . |
| 13 | ‘ In the recent AEA Times bulletin I stressed the need to start work right away to work out the details of the forthcoming changes . |
| 14 | Where the adjuster feels there is likely to be a valid subsidence claim he should appoint a Consulting Engineer promptly to carry out the necessary investigations . |
| 15 | There is room here to give only the briefest account of the different kinds of vertebrates . |
| 16 | He gathered the draw chord tight to seal out the damp acid mist . |
| 17 | 2.1.1 " Landlord Approvals " means all approvals consents permissions and licences of any local or other competent authority which may from time to time be necessary to enable the Landlord lawfully to carry out the Works |
| 18 | These corals look pretty disgusting when they shed mucus , and I ca n't be the only person ever to throw out a perfectly healthy specimen thinking that it was decomposing ! |
| 19 | The police now hope to broadcast their video nationally to ram home the dangers of driving fast in fog . |
| 20 | Close by a couple were kissing , holding each other close to ward off the cold wind that had sprung up . |
| 21 | His first job was to start his teams to plough : he had already been on the field the day before to mark out the stetches . |
| 22 | We simply do not have enough evidence yet to back up the claim that ‘ people are almost certainly ill , dead , or dying because of these sloppy waste disposal activities ’ ( Openshaw et al. 1989 : 12 ) . |
| 23 | Benjamin asked , turning his chair slightly to look down the table at Dacourt . |
| 24 | You 're still working your strategy carefully to move down the field , using your back row , using your tight scrummage skills , using your three-quarters to gain some ground , and eventually you might outmanoeuvre the opposition defence and score . |
| 25 | Next month there 's going to be an international conference around reproductive technologies and genetic engineering specifically to bring together the work that women in India are doing against sterilization abuse and population control with the work the women in the West are doing around genetic experimentation and invitro fertilization and egg farming — some of the anti-women scientific advances . |
| 26 | There is an opportunity here to explain why the coastal zone is so special . |
| 27 | I think we 're gon na phone them up tonight , can I have some money please to go down the chippie ? |
| 28 | I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance . |
| 29 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 30 | Anyway , who knows , I may get the odd half-hour just to pop down the gangway and explore those fascinating little shops down there . ’ |