Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I resolved to remain alive in an unofficial capacity , which of course annoys them all immensely . |
| 2 | The much vaunted privatization of state companies , scheduled to begin in July , was repeatedly postponed due to legal and technical difficulties , and the promised cut of 360,000 civil service posts failed to materialize due to the constitutional safeguards protecting their employment . |
| 3 | Any scheme which attempts to remain stable over an extended time period will in some sense be a compromise . |
| 4 | Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term . |
| 5 | We loll around sweating profusely , sluglike , to fall asleep in a hot embrace . |
| 6 | What would it be like to fall asleep in the protecting shelter of his arms ? |
| 7 | They were haunted by the fear of another Dunkirk and were anxious to remain strong in the Middle East . |
| 8 | If there is a tail of two or more syllables , the normal pitch movement is for the pitch to fall on the tonic syllable and to remain low until the last stressed syllable in the tail . |
| 9 | This is more prominent in the early stages of the diarrhoeal illness , and returns to near normal by the fourth day , by which time the faecal weights are coming down . |
| 10 | Joe Turi , the first to go clear in the jump-off , was pushed back to third place on Country Classics Vital . |
| 11 | In a programme ranging in character from Willie was a Wanton Wag to the Englishman William Boyce 's rather inadequate attempts to sound Scottish in A Scots Cantata , Anderson 's understandable shortcomings could surely have been further compensated for by violinist Richard Gwilt , but inconsistent articulation coupled with a lack of incisiveness negated much of the music 's subtlety . |
| 12 | On the other hand , if the rug is allowed to remain damp over a protracted period , the colours may run and , more seriously , mildew may form and cause permanent damage to the foundation or pile . |
| 13 | It is possible , in certain circumstances , again if leave is obtained , to appeal direct from the High Court to the House of Lords , leapfrogging the Court of Appeal . |
| 14 | His bid started to go wrong at the 12th hole and spluttered out at the 17th , the Road Hole , where many an aspiration had been snuffed out in the past . |
| 15 | ‘ Mine has been buried beneath your determination to remain free of the female species . ’ |
| 16 | The plot spins endlessly but few people are going to have the stamina to remain interested in the final turns . |
| 17 | The delicate balance of cooperation between them — occurring across the corpus callosum and involving some kind of filtering process — is therefore of crucial importance in allowing the left hemisphere to remain responsive to the right hemisphere 's influence , yet sufficiently in control to avoid overloading of conscious , directed thought . |
| 18 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |
| 19 | Some poor Dutch guy was being ordered by his woman to stand right in the steamy fumes for a photo . |
| 20 | Over a number of sessions the proportion of subjects showing a right-ear preference for verbal stimuli tends to increase due to the greater probability of change among subjects showing an initial left ear advantage ( Blumstein , Goodglass and Tartter , 1975 ; Shankweiler and Studdert-Kennedy , 1975 ) . |
| 21 | The fading light gave way in a matter of seconds to a moist , velvet blackness , as if a curtain had been drawn swiftly across the sky , and the shadows beyond the glow of the hurricane lamps immediately began to come alive with the shrill vibrations of the jungle night . |
| 22 | Country cotton weavers claimed in 1756 to have been long accustomed to meet weekly at a public house to discuss trade matters and that their friendly society or " box club " had developed from this and in its turn found itself exercising trade-union functions . |
| 23 | For a short while , the threat drove some Sussex labourers to pull free of the restrictive local consciousness and join the mainstream of English social protest in the 1830s . |
| 24 | She was rested until October , when she beat the Derby winner Slip Anchor by three lengths in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket , showing brilliant acceleration to pull clear of a top-class field which also included Commanche Run and Helen Street . |
| 25 | United still need the points to pull clear of the dropping zone . |
| 26 | It was difficult , trying to appear dignified in an old dressing-gown . |
| 27 | VIC JOBSON , the Southend chairman , has vowed to stand firm against the growing protests of supporters who want David Webb , currently serving out his notice , to stay as manager . |
| 28 | If everything else failed , Nizan was convinced that the Soviet Union could be depended upon to stand resolute against the rising tide of fascist oppression . |
| 29 | A flicker of hope came when three West Indian wickets went down for 69 , but then it was Haynes ' turn to come good after a disappointing series . |
| 30 | But there was a feeling of peace and quiet in those old towns , a silence that was almost tangible , and it was impressive to stand alone beside the fast flowing river and know that one was surrounded by deep forest for hundreds of miles in all directions . |