Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposal was blocked when some deputies stayed away to prevent a quorum . |
| 2 | After many years when some ensembles seemed hesitant to apply them to appropriate passages of slow and moderate conjunct movement , thus depriving such movements of the vitality their composers surely intended , some performers seem now to apply inequality at all tempos , including the recklessly fast . |
| 3 | 1.4 We should now immediately take account of the fact that few words serve solely to identify entities that a speaker wishes to mention . |
| 4 | Some MEPs want ultimately to take over from the council the main responsibility for passing EC laws , while others want to concentrate on the right to appoint the European Commission . |
| 5 | In the following pages , some companies brave enough to make these claims tell you how they back them up . |
| 6 | It may be this kind of experience that led some Minoans to submit willingly to sacrifice . |
| 7 | Use has thus evolved on a pragmatic basis : casual observation by the author showed that vehicles rarely crossed the junction at more than 15 km/h ; that they gave way to walkers and cyclists in nearly every case ( Figure 6.15 ) and indeed that some pedestrians failed even to bother to look for traffic before crossing . |
| 8 | Some writers appear still to feel that the criterion remains one of recognition by the government of this country , the difference being that , whereas before 1980 the government would say expressly whether it recognised the foreign government , now it is to be left to be ascertained as a matter of inference : see Professor J. Crawford ‘ Decisions of British Courts during 1985–86 involving questions of Public or Private International Law ’ ( 1986 ) 57 B.Y . |
| 9 | Some undergraduates seek simply to broaden their horizons and develop analytical skills ; others wish to acquire a more specialised knowledge to be used in a subsequent career . |
| 10 | It has been noticed that a few teachers have still to pay their Society membership for 1981 … |
| 11 | Few women earned enough to pay their own contribution . |
| 12 | How well these grants reflect the amount of exchange activity in the landscape is not clear , since some grants seem never to have been taken up and others clearly did not persist . |
| 13 | Some beats had more to offer than others . |
| 14 | One of the few collectors dedicated enough to go for the company context is Peter Card , whose collection of 400 old bicycle lamps is without equal . |
| 15 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 16 | It might also be argued that the treatment of language in terms of sentences has been quite successful in revealing how language works , that within the sentence we can establish rules and constraints concerning what is and is not allowed , whereas beyond the sentence , such rules seem either to disintegrate or turn into rules of a different kind — social rules or psychological rules , which are not within the area of linguistic study at all . |
| 17 | It is less easy to see , for instance , how the meaning of a loss such as bereavement could be so readily reinterpreted , or whether such attempts do much to reduce the risk of depression . |
| 18 | Although such volumes endeavour valiantly to stress her various charitable works , especially among the enslaved and oppressed Indians , and her experiences of a mystical marriage to Christ , Rose of Lima 's real claim to fame and sanctity was the extraordinary life of violent and self-inflicted penance which she maintained from extremely early in her childhood until she died . |
| 19 | Such statements serve only to confuse and prevent artists from being creative . |
| 20 | Such gestures failed dismally to ratify his authority . |
| 21 | In these cases , a school 's philosophy acquired a life of its own : paraded for governors , advisers , parents and visitors , reflected superficially in those aspects of practice like display and decor that such outsiders tended immediately to note , but seldom followed through . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , in Danzig these policies took longer to establish themselves as specifically Nazi ideas because there were already several local political parties with a similar outlook , but with less ruthless and less violent leaders . |
| 23 | They then drew up rules , based on the data , showing how these acts combine together to form moves and how moves combine to form various kinds of exchange — rather as grammarians formulate rules describing how words combine into phrases , or phrases into clauses . |
| 24 | In my view these characteristics serve only to require the court to be more than ever cautious before concluding that Parliament really intended to exclude one of the immunities which I have listed ; and as I have suggested , the words of the Act of 1987 admit of no doubt . |
| 25 | The citizens of these countries have somehow to find forgiveness for each other and for themselves as part of the process of grieving and healing . |
| 26 | These posts take longer to arrange than a full term pregnancy : a cot death could therefore also deprive a mother of her domestic commitment before her job has finally been arranged . |
| 27 | These origins continue characteristically to put their imprint even on contemporary cinematic productions . |
| 28 | The Report establishes the following principles to be observed in conducting such interviews ( para 12.34 ) and these principles apply equally to abuse of any nature . |
| 29 | It looks as if she 's had these things put there to support her rather than actually casually sitting on them . |
| 30 | These arguments have yet to sway public opinion . |