Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pinch of salt is taken for granted in many cake recipes and is added simply to bring out the flavour of the other ingredients . |
| 2 | We tested the Super Dustbuster ( HC431 ) , which is easy to handle , has an additional power boost , and is designed specifically to clean up after jobs such as wood planing and sanding , as well as being able to pick up broken glass or small nails . |
| 3 | Such a person is detached enough to think clearly and to advise without bias . |
| 4 | But in addition there is an immediate opportunity for the authorities concerned to reformulate , in collaboration with the Law Commission , the appropriate limits to recovery , on a coherent system of principles suitable for modern society , in terms which can ( if it is thought right to do so ) embrace the unusual circumstances of the present case . |
| 5 | But he 's acted swiftly to snap up ex-Dungannon players Bertie McMinn ( yes , he 's still going strong ) , goalkeeper Brian Hutchinson , striker Ricky Ruddock and sweeper Maurice Devine . |
| 6 | In the Edinburgh system , all word possibilities are stored on the word graph and higher level knowledge is used only to filter out possibilities , rather than to dictate the set of possibilities . |
| 7 | This f is used only to detect when the algorithm has reached a summit or plateau . |
| 8 | The rejection of further talks means Apap now is bound officially to press ahead with industrial action , even though many of the union 's members already have supported the action being taken by others . |
| 9 | Already , Cohen has isolated more than a thousand contigs , each containing an average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes ( YACs ) and covering more than 70 per cent of the genome , while the number of markers on the map that Weissenbach and his colleagues reported last year has since been more than doubled and is set shortly to double again . |
| 10 | This is observed experimentally to occur around , where ta ; is the total boundary layer thickness ( defined , say , so that U = 0·99 U O ; at y = δ ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Vulcan is trained only to lash out at someone who threatens him . ’ |
| 12 | It is meant both to set out extraordinary expenditure which was how it arose but at the same time John pointed out that it might be a good thing if we also had an indication of the routine procedures and so therefore they are now set out in one document and are for your er final approval . |
| 13 | The example is chosen simply to demonstrate how sadly lacking we are in the very facilities which historians require most — mechanisms of exchanging data between different processing environments . |