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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ : |
| 11 | Checklists may be used not only to determine a child 's current level of functioning , but also to establish the focus for subsequent intervention . |
| 12 | The hands should be pre-set slightly forward to encourage a descending strike . |
| 13 | PEST exterminator Frank Murray was called on yesterday to SAVE a swarm of wasps . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The ommatidia are packed closely together to form a multi-faceted compound eye . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I think he was brought in just to do a good production job . ’ |
| 19 | And it is likely that there would have been thousands more if more people had known exactly how to raise a complaint with him . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | I 've already eaten enough today to do a man for a week . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In late winter they should be cut back hard to leave a few cm ( in ) of stem , otherwise they can become rather straggly . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've taken long enough to do a simple errand , I must say . |
| 27 | The chemical structure of the polymer is also an important feature in the crystallization ; for example , polyethylene crystallizes readily and can not be quenched rapidly enough to give a largely amorphous sample whereas this is readily accomplished for isotactic polystyrene . |
| 28 | A long line of reporters lined up dutifully to have a few words with him . |
| 29 | Having the crust to attempt a poem in 100 or 120 cantos long after all mankind has been commanded never again to attempt a poem of any length , I have to stagger as I can . |
| 30 | The idea was that this was a way of ironing out minor disputes , but the clause was worded widely enough to cover a dispute arising out of wrongful termination of the contract . |