Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj -er] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the BBC 's side they retained a further option to wind up any contract after eight weeks if they elected to replace an artist , or if the show was cancelled . |
| 2 | The formidable Quinnell — he scored two tries in last season 's corresponding fixture — forced his way over in the fall-out of a close-range scrummage as the Welsh pack raised their effort and Williams added a further penalty to eliminate Scottish hopes . |
| 3 | Barnes added a further penalty to give Portadown a comfortable 10-0 lead at half-time . |
| 4 | A reversion to older morality and convention seemed a safer course to adopt , and one that was not necessarily incompatible with the pursuit of political , legal and economic activities along Western lines . |
| 5 | Manchester United last year appropriated a further £250,000 to transfer fee reserve to bring the total up to £2.25m . |
| 6 | The council also passed a further motion to send a deputation to the Southern Board to express their concern . |
| 7 | She made a further effort to sit up , and groaned as a tide of pain engulfed her . |
| 8 | He continued Henry VII 's chapel until its completion in 1519 , and at Windsor undertook a further contract to vault the lady chapel between 1511 and 1514 . |
| 9 | Of the remaining quarter , one in five needed a further year to become pregnant . |
| 10 | However the United Kingdom courts have recently insisted upon more evidentiary support for discretionary decisions , and exhibited a greater willingness to assess the cogency of the reasoning therein . |
| 11 | In London the shares lost a further 40p to close at 528p and it was a similar story in Paris . |
| 12 | Shares in Eurotunnel fell a further 50p to close at 600p , making a 15 per cent drop in the Anglo-French venture 's stock market value in the two days since it disclosed a 50 per cent rise in the cost of the tunnel to at least £7bn . |
| 13 | Overall , the reforms ( particularly the CSFs ) represented a further attempt to move away from the passive form of EC regional aid , whereby EC expenditure was simply added to nationally determined projects , and regional policy was therefore little more than a system of budgetary transfers . |
| 14 | It was the most strident speech Mr Major has made during the campaign and represented a further attempt to underline the differences rather than the similarities between the political parties . |
| 15 | The establishment of the Centre for South Asian Studies in 1989 represented a further move to co-ordinate activities relating to South Asia at Edinburgh . |
| 16 | The serious economic situation and the delicate state of Labour relations demanded a stronger government to hold the ring . |
| 17 | It took a fuller self-knowledge to do something effective about them . |
| 18 | The process of designing the Act took nearly two years ; Butler took a further year to steer it through Parliament . |
| 19 | After lengthy debates in each national parliament , ratification took a further year to complete . |
| 20 | His other forte is in Believe-It-Or-Not items of Russian paranoia : ‘ just as Soviet railroad tracks are a wider gauge than foreign ones to prevent an invasion by train , Soviet VCR 's took a larger tape to prevent an influx of foreign pornography . ’ |
| 21 | Some rays , which took a longer time to travel , left the white hole earlier ( when it was smaller ) while others , which took less time to travel , would have left the white hole later ( when it was bigger ) . |
| 22 | The safety mattress took a shorter time to reach a lower maximum temperature — 84°C — and formed only 50–3 cubic metres of smoke . |
| 23 | Although he made some magnificent paintings and drawings of it he preferred a milder climate to produce his masterpieces . |
| 24 | The Russian government called for a speedier reduction of multiple-warhead ( MIRV ) missiles than was envisaged in the START treaty , possible even their elimination by the year 2000 , while the US side preferred a longer time-scale to enable it to make a more detailed assessment of its perceived nuclear defence needs . |
| 25 | While it was doubtless a noble religion it still had a greater contribution to make to humanity . |
| 26 | Cardiff kept his distance from them , so that the torch beam had a wider angle to illuminate the scene . |
| 27 | Even infants whose mothers were 40 years old or older had a better chance to survive infancy if their fathers were 25–39 years old than if they were 40 years or over . |
| 28 | with the ineffable modesty that , because he stood in the direct line of the Apostolic Succession , he had a better right to preach the Gospel and to administer the Sacraments , and was more a minister of Christ than Dr Dale or Mr Spurgeon or Henry Ward Beecher … what could they do but laugh ? |
| 29 | Out of my 51 working years I spent seven of them with Ira Dilworth and I never had a finer friend to work with ; he was admired by all and his contribution to Canadian broadcasting was tremendous . |
| 30 | Later he had a sterner challenge to face , one which more closely affected his personal sense of honour . |