Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She darted over to embrace Dot so tightly that she could n't breathe . |
| 2 | Since money is seen as one component of total wealth , we can expect the demand for money to be directly related to total wealth so long as money is regarded as a ‘ normal good ’ by wealth-holders. ( b ) Rates of return on financial assets ( R ) . |
| 3 | It is important to observe behaviour as accurately as possible because the more accurate the observation the more this helps you to place a valid interpretation on what you have seen or heard . |
| 4 | As County 's rushes subsided , Francis was able to find space more easily and one shot , left-footed , taken quickly , was a superb demonstration of the striker 's art . |
| 5 | Most of us have tendencies to pass information outwards rather than to allow it inwards . |
| 6 | It is important to assist the patient to change position regularly while in bed and to encourage ambulation as quickly as possible to assist the circulation . |
| 7 | In the tense climate of postwar eastern Europe , the new powers expediently circumnavigated the full truth of their citizens ' wartime collaboration and atrocities in order to consolidate power as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | After their success in the World Cup , Australian administrators and officials are keen to use the game 's newly acquired high profile to promote rugby back home and to make up lost ground on the other two codes — rugby league and Australian Rules . |
| 9 | However , my hair is beginning to look rather dull and I 'd like to get it back to peak condition as soon as possible . |
| 10 | This may well be a pleasurable and interesting occupation but it will not in any way further the quest for the universal philosophy so urgently needed , unless those students and specialist authorities use the opportunities afforded them to serve humanity more widely and wisely than by merely producing yet more literature for yet more students . |
| 11 | The Red Army units had their own dynamic and their own imperative — to reach Kaledin as swiftly as possible , regardless of peasant opinion . |
| 12 | Repealers tended to view sex not merely as male-defined but as male , while women were promoted as the agents regulating immorality — powerful but asexual guardians of the nation 's morals . |
| 13 | Then they make their ale from what they have collected , and those who do not come there to drink and do not give money at the foresters ' will are sorely punished at their pleas for dead wood , although the King has no demesne ; nor does anyone dare to brew when the foresters brew , or to sell ale so long as the foresters have any kind of ale to sell ; and this every forester does year by year to the great grievance of the country . |
| 14 | This move had three objects : to complete the education of our two younger children , Fiona at Fettes ( where my old Highfield playmate Inky Chenevix-Trench was now headmaster ) and Alastair at the Edinburgh Academy ; to have Moira 's mother who was living alone in an Edinburgh flat and becoming increasingly tottery to live with us ; and to own property once again and so benefit from its ever-increasing rise in value . |
| 15 | My only blurred thought was to reach shelter as soon as possible and the good belay spelt one word — abseil . |
| 16 | The new gallery is affiliated to design history both geographically and intellectually in that the V&A houses the joint V&A/Royal College of Art MA course in the History of Design . |
| 17 | Within the cooperative movement consumers were reconstituted as political subjects , for members were encouraged to view cooperation not merely as ‘ grocers shops and savings banks ’ , but as a viable political movement acting in the interests of the working class against capitalism . |
| 18 | Now is surely the time to revitalise a broad , multidisciplinary , high quality programme of basic and applied research in tuberculosis , including clinical trials , all necessary for the development of new regimens to simplify treatment even further and to combat drug resistance . |
| 19 | In the event , however , the groups which came to power in most of these countries determined to restore capitalism as quickly as possible , encouraged in this course by the swarms of ‘ free-marketeers ’ who descended upon them , notably from the US , Britain , Germany and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 20 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 21 | This , and the growing trend in American society to express displeasure more vociferously and outspokenly than in the past , is said to lie at the root of recent player-directed violence ( ibid.:204–5 ) . |
| 22 | These , perhaps by building on parts of Aristotle , will be able to advance knowledge even further than he did . |
| 23 | It was even more important to know when evil gods would be in charge so as to avoid trouble as far as possible by doing nothing at such times . |
| 24 | The object of the court in interpreting legislation is to give effect so far as the language permits to the intention of the legislature . |
| 25 | At the meeting , convened to discuss closer ties , the ministers were reported to have agreed to extend membership as rapidly as possible to other states of eastern Europe ( Bulgaria had been admitted in May — see p. 38930 — while Hungary had joined in 1990 and Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1991 ) and to applicant countries which were formerly part of the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | Reaffirming the promise to privatise the electricity industry within the life of this Parliament , John Wakeham , Secretary of State for Energy , said competition between generating companies would be a massive incentive to use fuel more efficiently and keep costs down . |
| 27 | The new DEClease offerings comprise the OpenVMS Alpha Migration Lease for users that need an OpenVMS VAX but plan to migrate to Alpha at some point , and the OpenVMS Alpha Upgrade Lease for those that wish to incorporate Alpha as soon as possible , but want top-end computing today . |
| 28 | A pupil who is making a constant effort to use vision as fully as possible in school tasks may sometimes find this effort to be somewhat of an overload when his or her general level of well-being is low , for instance , when suffering from a cold or feeling particularly tired . |
| 29 | Culture is so often used to justify nationalism today perhaps because people are a little embarrassed to give the more traditional grounds for believing in the existence of nations : the idea that nations are characterized by common biological descent , ethnic origin or race . |
| 30 | He agreed to do homage so long as it was spelt out that Aquitaine should belong to him and his heirs for ever . |