Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) The tenant should resist a provision not to agree the reviewed rent under the underlease without the landlord 's approval , as the time it could take to obtain such approval could result in the undertenant changing its mind . |
| 3 | She was surprised , because she had thought that she had a vocation not to marry . |
| 4 | It 's important to take a case just to try , but we 've never won such a case yet . |
| 5 | This book does not cite all the cases on the subject , and does not cite a case where to do so would serve only to record the existence of that case , with no other purpose . |
| 6 | In such a case better to accept whatever penalties the Church might impose , however harsh , for theft and deceit , rather than fall into the hands of the secular law , my law , ’ said Hugh firmly , ‘ where murder is a hanging matter . |
| 7 | Where A demands money from B in retum for not disclosing B 's wrongdoing , A will usually be guilty of blackmail contrary to section 21 of the Theft Act 1968 and , if ‘ the offer ’ constitutes a crime , it dearly can not lead to a contract ; but what if B , without any demand , express or implied by A , offers A money not to disclose B's wrongdoing , and A accepts ? |
| 8 | I 've been retired from playing for five years , although this season I messed about a bit just to keep in touch with what was going on , and I really do think that someone else should have the honour of captaining the team . |
| 9 | Mars takes a bit longer to revolve on its axis than the Earth , so a Mars afternoon would be a bit longer than an Earth afternoon . |
| 10 | ‘ That gives us a bit more to go on . |
| 11 | Chop that up and you 'll get a bit more to go with it . |
| 12 | Two hundred and seventeen poll tax with a bit more to go on it . |
| 13 | I 'll sa I 'll have a bit more to say about stimulus response coupling in a second . |
| 14 | Um also by that time er perhaps with a bit more experience of the world you 've got a bit more to compare it with and you 've got a strong sense that this is unjust , unreasonable and that other people do n't have to suffer from it . |
| 15 | In fact , Conservative opposition in the Lords is proving very important , and if Colonel is concerned about the future level of the police budget , why does n't he do a bit more to stop this nationalisation of the police going through parliament at the moment , and I just want to quote the , the words of Conservative Chairman of the Sussex police authority , over the years from nineteen eighty-two to nineteen ninety-three , four of them , and the most senior of course , who led the Association of County Councils for the Conservatives . |
| 16 | ‘ He was n't put on contract because we felt he had to do a bit more to earn one . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , we 've quite a bit more to do before dinner-time . ’ |
| 18 | I did the Maastricht one well as which is a bit more to do . |
| 19 | I 've still got a bit more to do , you know ? |
| 20 | Ken 's got a bit more to do then ? |
| 21 | He saddles Wajiba Riva in the Coventry and warned : ‘ Stonehatch will have a bit more to beat than he did when winning at York . ’ |
| 22 | Learning it type is a full business and I for one need a bit more to keep me interested . |
| 23 | In practice , however , share prices would have to rise by a bit more to convince holders to convert warrants into shares , since by switching from bonds into equities they would be taking an extra risk . |
| 24 | Well he 's like that different taste , never sort of with Christopher stands for what he likes and what he does n't like , shall we mix it round a bit more to mix in ? |
| 25 | It 's a bit far to take her to near Berwick . |
| 26 | He says it 's a bit far to come but he thinks they pay expenses , so it 's nice . |
| 27 | I 'll have to work a bit harder to make up for lost time when I get there . |
| 28 | We 'll take it a bit gradually to begin with . |
| 29 | At about seven months of age the average baby is quite skilled at removing obstacles to prehension ; is well able , for example , to pull a cushion away to reach a rattle behind it . |
| 30 | He was as psyched up as a footballer about to step out on to the field on Super Bowl Sunday — but he would be sustaining this level of feverish anticipation all winter . |