Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An announcement in May confirming the selection of Glasgow removed earlier uncertainty , although final confirmation has to wait for a further consultation period until the end of June . |
| 2 | Mowing can usually be done less regularly during September as the grass starts to grow at a slower rate . |
| 3 | He has one small child and wants to move to a bigger home in order to have some more . |
| 4 | The nature of the organisation and the staff it employs tends to lead to a greater commitment to any investigation and subsequent changes , particularly if it is felt that they could eventually benefit the residents . |
| 5 | When under attack — as Protestants should know so well — a beleaguered community tends to retreat towards a harder line . |
| 6 | Any increase in overburden pressure in an unconsolidated sediment tends to result in a denser configuration of that sediment by movement between the individual grains and the consequent grain reorientation . |
| 7 | We have already seen several speakers — Susan , Stephen and Joan — whose " Patois " seems to consist of a larger or smaller number of adaptations of LE in the direction of JC . |
| 8 | The very empathy ( charity in the broadest and best sense of the word ) with which he observes his characters seems to point to a better way forward . |
| 9 | Not content with spending an extra half hour after training running through his technique yesterday , when two wayward kicks brought immediate self-rebuke , the 26-year-old Aucklander aims to put in a further 50 or 60 shots in his Arms Park warm-up . |
| 10 | The research aims to contribute to a greater understanding of the relatively poor performance of British industry in sustaining momentum in the exploitation of technological innovation . |
| 11 | But whereas the administration likes to talk about a greener and more internationally competitive car industry , Detroit wants to spend any available support on overcoming bread-and-butter engineering obstacles in complying with environmental legislation . |