Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is considered better therefore to have a longer set of allowable candidate strings which includes the correct word although this may often include rarely occurring words . |
| 2 | Many scientists saw at once its far-reaching implications and a whole spate of major papers were published in 1967 and 1968 , which quite suddenly added up together to make a completely new way of looking at the Earth 's main working parts : Plate Tectonics . |
| 3 | If necessary rescheduling should be carried out either to give a new completion date or to increase resources ( or reduce time allocated ) in order to get back on schedule . |
| 4 | Most of the functions attributed to rises are nearer to grammatical than attitudinal , as in the first three examples given below ; they are included here mainly to give a fuller picture of intonational function . |
| 5 | " They have a first class officer who has leant over backwards to establish a low profile in dealing with immigrants . " |
| 6 | She says everyone 's done so well to raise a quarter of a million pounds — we 're just wondering what we 're going to do next ! |
| 7 | He was instructed not actually to conclude a sale without first referring back to his principal ; he was to receive commission if a sale was concluded . |
| 8 | Added to this the partner of the black hole must have swollen to the giant stage in order that material can be transferred rapidly enough to give an accretion disc that produces detectable numbers of X-rays . |
| 9 | Repetitions and variations can be easily built up easily to create an atmosphere like this . |
| 10 | Foley , stony-faced , told him that the dirty tricks brigade , led by Charles Fraser-Smith , had turned up earlier to make a replica of the prisoner 's uniform , correct in every detail . |
| 11 | When the four remaining parts of the lower dome have been built high enough to form a complete circle within the walls of the square , this circle provides the basis for supporting the actual dome . |
| 12 | Indeed , if the results in London had been repeated throughout the country , Labour would not have done well enough to gain an overall majority in a putative general election . |
| 13 | But , to return one final time to Bakhtin , in case he is appropriated yet again to legitimate a selective and ludicrously ahistorical celebration of ‘ carnival ’ : |
| 14 | Mood lighting can be used not only to create an atmosphere , but also to highlight features of the house , such as decorative cornices , ornaments ( especially inside glass-fronted cupboards ) , or pictures . |
| 15 | Checklists may be used not only to determine a child 's current level of functioning , but also to establish the focus for subsequent intervention . |
| 16 | The hands should be pre-set slightly forward to encourage a descending strike . |
| 17 | PEST exterminator Frank Murray was called on yesterday to SAVE a swarm of wasps . |
| 18 | The Amble lifeboat was called out yesterday to take a crewman with a gashed hand off an oil rig support ship in the North Sea . |
| 19 | It was tolerated well enough to become a useful drug , but it had a very brief period of action ; 6-MP is attacked by the enzyme xanthine oxidase , a normal constituent of the human body ( and of widespread occurrence elsewhere ) and is converted to a substance , thio-uric acid , which is not active against tumours . |
| 20 | The ommatidia are packed closely together to form a multi-faceted compound eye . |
| 21 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 22 | I think he was brought in just to do a good production job . ’ |
| 23 | And it is likely that there would have been thousands more if more people had known exactly how to raise a complaint with him . |
| 24 | If that turned out to be possible , it might suggest there is access from a higher level to quite remote lower-level translations , unless one was prepared to redescribe such a phenomenon in terms of our ( levels of programming language ) metaphor as ‘ This patient has found out how to access a highest level command GROW A NEW NERVE TO YOUR LEFT FOOT though without , of course , having any access to the translation of that command in terms of the nerve cell processes themselves . ’ |
| 25 | I 've already eaten enough today to do a man for a week . |
| 26 | Even so , she had lingered long enough to watch a tanker ploughing a parallel course , though in the opposite direction , probably bound for the big oil refinery . |
| 27 | She had gone along once to pay a casual visit and found one of Nenna 's youngsters , the little one , cooking some kind of mess for him in Dreadnought 's galley . |
| 28 | As before , a little water was used to thin the acrylic to the consistency of cream and most of it was gone over twice to get an even coverage of bright intense colour . |
| 29 | In late winter they should be cut back hard to leave a few cm ( in ) of stem , otherwise they can become rather straggly . |
| 30 | He had hoped then also to find a publisher who was prepared to offer a comparable insight into the operation of an academic publishing house , but no publisher had accepted the brief , possibly for fear of revealing intimate company details . |