Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few trips outside , you should plan only to go a short way , so that the patient can get used to the distracting sights and sounds . |
| 2 | It does seem unfair that a wheatear or pipit , having survived all the dangers of migration , should arrive home to find a merlin has set up house in its territory ! |
| 3 | But when too many nutrients flow into bodies of water , in sewage ( right ) , fertilizers , or perhaps in detergents , algae may grow excessively to form a ‘ bloom ’ ( left ) . |
| 4 | I mean I 'd prefer really to find a teenager . |
| 5 | We asked anyone who could do so to write a short statement about what the chapter was about . |
| 6 | I 'd like now to have a word with all the Lab staff in the library and then Inspector Massingham and I will start the preliminary interviews : Howarth , the two women , Angela Foley and Brenda Pridmore , Blakelock , Middlemass and any of the others without a firm alibi . |
| 7 | A picture of the American family began to be glimpsed as a super-mobile group that could get together to grill a hamburger only if it drove to the appointment . |
| 8 | The Secretary for Constitutional Affairs , Michael Sze , said yesterday that he hoped Sino-British talks could start soon to end a long-running row over Hong Kong 's future which has shaken the colony . |
| 9 | ‘ If a co-ordinated effort is not made as quickly as possible , the death toll could increase dramatically to become a major catastrophe , ’ said Mr Demoze Kebebu , regional representative of Ethiopia 's Bureau of Refugee Affairs . |
| 10 | Yorkshire Holly is on a down path over hurdles , but on his best Flat form remains on a workable mark , while good jump winners Bonanza and Marlin Dancer would need only to show a glimpse of that ability to be dangerous off bottom weight . |
| 11 | Demand for second-hand equipment is high , and British dealers would do well to take a look at the opportunities , he adds . |
| 12 | Any smallholder would do well to join a local ATB group , particularly if he has taken on his own farm with relatively little experience . |
| 13 | It contains an extraordinary collection , beautifully presented , and any hon. Members who find themselves in Carlisle would do well to spend a few hours there . |
| 14 | He concluded his forty-five minute address by commenting on the political factors which influenced investment location decisions and emphasised that future multi-national planners would do well to have a much more sensitive appreciation of the social and political implications of their actions . |
| 15 | All the acts on tonight 's bill ( and a few others around the country ) would do well to have a long and critical look at what they 're doing and decide if people really need another adequate pop/rock/whatever band ! |
| 16 | He would do well to have a quick refresher on Marxist economics . |
| 17 | If television is going to be with you , you will need to arrange stronger lights on the key focal points — you would do well to get a set of four ‘ redheads ’ ( 800 watt TV lights ) . |
| 18 | It is only fair to add that some lawyers play exactly the opposite role , persuading clients who are itching for a zero sum fight that they would do better to reach a nonzero sum settlement out of court . |
| 19 | We would do better to adopt a direct approach and tackle the problem at its source by attempting to reduce the risk of police mistakes in the first place . |
| 20 | The success of our work , with the full support of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , leads us to believe that the American Government would do better to adopt a plan similar to our own . |
| 21 | The meeting resolved to form a " co-ordination committee " which would meet regularly to ensure a united Arab stance in the forthcoming negotiations , and called for an immediate halt on Jewish settlement-building . |
| 22 | He would pause only to take a meal in the dining-room , where he would sell his pens to visiting salesmen . |
| 23 | There were times when every man of this team would come together to work a single major warren system which might extend over as much as 50 or 60 acres . |
| 24 | This came into being when the very first change in the first cell took place , and that change , which was the first biochemical action , ultimately proved to have been , or must be acknowledged to have been , taken to initiate the process which would continue indefinitely to produce a living being with an ever-increasing capacity to enjoy life . |
| 25 | Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them . |
| 26 | From what we know , it seems that the prudent PC user will do well to wait a while and see what other goodies DOS 6 will provide and then upgrade as quickly as possible . |
| 27 | The church planter will do well to set a goal of identifying and releasing others . |
| 28 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 29 | However , providers will require either to establish a partnership with an employer , enabling access to a workplace , or will have to establish a simulation which has a high correspondence with workplace conditions . |
| 30 | COUNCIL workers will strike today to join a march and rally in London in protest at cuts in services and jobs in the capital . |