Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " 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 | Meanwhile sources report that orders for Sun Microsystems Inc 's SuperSparc-based Sparcstation 10 Model 41 dried up pretty early in the current quarter , because , it is said , the boxes were n't sufficiently leading edge in terms of performance , or priced low enough to satisfy . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , sources report that orders for Sun Microsystems Inc 's SuperSparc-based Sparcstation 10 Model 41 dried up pretty early in the current quarter reportedly because the boxes were n't leading edge enough or priced low enough to satisfy . |
| 4 | On the other hand , scribbling in a note-book , or rushing off somewhere to scribble in a note-book , could easily ‘ kill ’ a piece of action . |
| 5 | They say that although sulphur dioxide may play a role in climate change , its effect is unlikely to be sufficiently widespread or to last long enough to offset the influence of the greenhouse gases . |
| 6 | Seles admits she ca n't lob or serve very well to save her life . |
| 7 | And this causes me difficulties in that I have to either imagine what it was or come back again to see whatever the er item in question is . |
| 8 | They are reluctant to waste money on access when ramblers and landowners ca n't get one and sit down together to agree on what 's needed . |
| 9 | Father , how is that to be distinguished , in such conditions , from a Benedictine brother in dark habit and cowl , if he be young and stepping out briskly to get out of the rain ? ’ |
| 10 | She remembered her last encounter with Alexander and failed yet again to understand her own behaviour . |
| 11 | The episode with the child is a reworking of Svidrigailov 's nightmare immediately before his suicide , in which he finds an abandoned little girl and carries her upstairs and puts her in his bed , and goes back later to see how she is . |
| 12 | He nodded and crept forward carefully to examine the driver . |
| 13 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 14 | Let us hope and pray that we have faith strong enough and trust deep enough to bring the love that our world so desperately needs . |
| 15 | If we can reduce our weight to around that of our youth and eat well enough to give us the energy to work and live our lives to the full , we will all benefit . |
| 16 | I stayed up late to clear things up , and got up early to do the same thing . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't see that I have to ‘ admit ’ anything , ’ she shot back hotly , stung by his words and struggling once again to contain her temper . |
| 18 | TO MANY she 's still the chirpy Cockney who made it on her looks and has little else to offer . |
| 19 | This was echoed by J. H. Matthews , recently-retired Southern District Secretary , who called for fresh efforts to recruit manual workers as voluntary branch members and held that , ideally , Tutorials were the courses which should be provided : ‘ what the WEA has emphasised and needs more thoroughly to practise is the importance of substantial and continuous study , particularly in the social sciences , as the major element in its work ’ although ‘ well conceived short courses will have their place ’ . |
| 20 | What Tolkien wanted to concentrate on , obviously , was death : more precisely perhaps on why people love this world and want so strongly to stay in it when it is an inescapable part of their nature ‘ to die and go we know not where ’ . |
| 21 | At least Dr Neil and Miss Mates were sitting ; McAllister was standing at the kitchen door , and moved sedately forward to answer the urgent bell . |
| 22 | But passengers pursued me along the road , gathering up my garments and vowing aloud never to succumb to the pleas of their offspring for riding lessons . |
| 23 | And that would be that : thousands of years of generation succeeding generation , unable to learn from the experience of the past and dying too soon to benefit from the present . |
| 24 | Marcus went white and jerked round sharply to look at the figure behind him . |
| 25 | Then she raised her head and shouted loud enough to make the man on the other side of the river glance towards them , ‘ With every day they waste , ’ before adding in a murmur : ‘ The thread Sam 's life hangs by grows thinner and thinner . ’ |
| 26 | The mixture was heated to 90°C and cooled down slowly to form the hybrids . |
| 27 | I need time and space not just to get over the appalling things which have happened to me in which you do not seem to show much interest but also to think through where the two of us are at . |
| 28 | It began to prove its value when the members of pupils ' own groups helped each other and came not always to rely on the initiative or instruction of the teacher-tutor . |
| 29 | Mike obviously found out Bernard was alive and came out here to get him . |
| 30 | I left the industry in the early Seventies and came back here to work at the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry . |