Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asking guest Medau Teachers to teach at rallies please check that she holds own private insurance cover otherwise let the Office know at once so that cover can be arranged for her . |
| 2 | However , to be on the safe side , we will find the value of resistor that will yield at least twice this value . |
| 3 | All competitors ' bowls are judged against the International Bowling Board master bowl and must show at least as much bias as the master . |
| 4 | As the train leaves , with an unnatural casualness they will separate with never so much as a pressure of the hand ; others there are who , oblivious of the world around them , stand gazing into each other 's eyes , spending their last few moments clasped in each other 's arms — matching a succession of last kisses — to separate with a look of bewildered agony on their faces . |
| 5 | But in one important respect the Earth and Venus would differ : the atmosphere of the new Earth would contain at least as much water as there is CO 2 in the present Cytherean atmosphere . |
| 6 | There seems to be a lot of anger locked up in a sense of competition that he apparently directs first and foremost against himself ; and it is clear that his endless tampering with his swing must have at least as much to do with mind-control as with bodily mechanics — either that , or Faldo has a very perverse and forgetful body indeed . |
| 7 | The gutter size also depends on where the downpipe is : gutters with the downpipe in the centre can cope with twice as much water as those with a downpipe at the end . |
| 8 | Such is his make-up that he will come for just about any centre because he believes he can reach the ball . |
| 9 | It may seem like that early this week as one apparent catastrophe follows another while emotional fever runs high . |
| 10 | However , after an uncomfortable night with hardly any sleep , a rudimentary wash at the station , an hour 's work , a long train journey , a long walk to a day centre for a shower , and then with another long walk ahead of me , the return train journey , a further hour 's hard work and another uncomfortable night , day in , day out — I 'm a sprightly so-and-so but something else on top of all that did seem like perhaps too much of a good thing . |
| 11 | I know it goes underground , but it does n't seem to so much these days . |
| 12 | I think I shall add at least as many more species as are at present known . ’ |
| 13 | But the contrast would seem at least as much to reflect the differing circumstances and attitudes of the times about which each was writing and in which each lived . |
| 14 | He promised himself that he would devote at least as much attention to the father as to the son . |