Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flues can be erected inside or outside to house , but indoors there is a lot of extra work necessary — trimming floor joists and providing fire resistance , for instance . |
| 2 | Now that their operation had actually started everyone was keyed up and eager to go , and the whole force quickly gathered round the sheriff 's car for a final briefing . |
| 3 | We are all of us at the mercy of our adrenaline , and there is a very fine dividing line between being justifiably keyed up and ready to do your best and being rendered helpless by panic . |
| 4 | ‘ I take it that everything 's sorted out and ready to go ahead , then ? |
| 5 | It can be wound clockwise or anti-clockwise to give a left or right hand . |
| 6 | They are generally operated on a fixed cycle , so that , when a known volume of water has passed through the plant , a valve is turned so as first to backwash the bed to cleanse the zeolite , and then to pass in brine for a fixed time to regenerate the material . |
| 7 | ROBERT JONES has done more than enough to eclipse the new Moon that is rising in Welsh rugby . |
| 8 | As is turned out , Gold Award winner Fairbrother 43 at the time had already done more than enough to guide his side towards a commanding score on a pitch where stroke play was never easy . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of people down south were suggesting before our matches against Leeds that we were not up to it , but I think we 've done more than enough to show that we are . |
| 10 | He has done more than most to stimulate thought on matters of faith among ordinary people . |
| 11 | The irony is that Dr Oliver has done more than most to document the real reasons why conductive education is attractive to parents from Britain and many other Western countries . |
| 12 | The pilotari or players took to wearing more elaborate gloves or other prosthetic aids in propelling the ball , and what had once been a lo wish wall at the end of the playing area was built higher and higher to contain the far greater velocities , while the courts themselves became longer , until some of them are said to have reached 100 metres . |
| 13 | He sat motionless , swathed in a greatcoat despite the day 's oppressive heat , and with his face concealed by the peak of his hat that he had turned fore and aft to shadow his eyes . |
| 14 | Humiliated enough and ready to dig in her heels , Flavia said , ‘ What 's bad about it ? |
| 15 | But I like to be independent as much as I can , and they 've got more than enough to do with the people that ca n't help themselves . |
| 16 | I 've got more than enough to do . |
| 17 | ‘ When I came to Ampeg I had a whole book full of design ideas — everything drawn out and ready to go — which I presented them with , and the amps that you 're seeing right now are almost exactly what was in that book . |
| 18 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 19 | This distance is important since it relates to the size of the ferret 's head ; it can be adjusted slightly if necessary to fit the head of the particular ferret to be used . |
| 20 | Mr Garner-Gray , a member of the branch executive of the National Unilever Management Association part of the Institute of Professionals , Managers and Scientists said staff were too shaken up and surprised to react immediately . |
| 21 | Mr Garner-Gray , a member of the branch executive of the National Unilever Management Association part of the Institute of Professionals , Managers and Scientists said staff were too shaken up and surprised to react immediately . |
| 22 | It is in this future that perhaps partnerships can be seen for what they are , a new kind of relationship in which power is shared rather than used to fight others . |
| 23 | The other committees are convened only when necessary to conduct the special business for which they are appointed . |
| 24 | Though theoretically any discharger is subject to the scrutiny of field men , enforcement activity is focused further and patterned to reflect a variety of assumptions held by agency staff about the likely location of pollution . |
| 25 | I might need to be set up and ready to go , with up to £600 to spend . |
| 26 | She 'll be all prettied up and ready to go two hours from now . |
| 27 | The book is very well set out and easy to read . |
| 28 | The documentation is straightforward enough , but is badly laid out and awkward to read . |
| 29 | The manual is well laid out and easy to follow . |
| 30 | The screens are well laid out and easy to understand . |