Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flight We are in the mountains , on an expedition/fleeing a tyrant/trying to find somewhere safe to live after an earthquake has destroyed our town ; we come to a ravine . |
| 2 | The goal was becoming more difficult to reach but the ‘ tide ’ continued . |
| 3 | As in the teaching of science or music , for example , the scientist or the musician has far more to offer than the non-scientist or the non-musician . |
| 4 | The society believes that good freelance editors and proofreaders are becoming increasingly hard to find because the pool from which they are drawn — editors leaving full-time employment — is drying up as a result of a lack of inhouse training and the general reduction in numbers . |
| 5 | But it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain that the behavioural products of human imagination and of ape imagination are wholly different in kind . |
| 6 | Life is full of ups and downs , but you should enjoy it more if you are able to think about the good times and you 'll feel better able to cope when the bad times are around . |
| 7 | Schools seem less reluctant to accept that the difficulties some children experience may well point to a more general problem in school or classroom interaction ; and teachers who have been helped to respond more appropriately to those pupils whom they had found most difficult to teach , have found that in the process they were becoming better teachers to their other pupils as well , with their job satisfaction rising accordingly . |
| 8 | And I came in one day a few days ago an and running around like a bee on heat with erm cries of oh I 've got so much to do and no time left in which to do it and I went ha I said yes , if you got up early , you know ! |
| 9 | For large tensile specimens most test machines use swivelling or gimbal grip mountings to avoid such effects of non-axiality , but when small specimens are used , of a few millimetres in cross-section as is common with polymer tests , axiality may become more difficult to achieve because the mass of the swivelling grip requires considerable stress to rotate or move it into the axial position . |
| 10 | Yeah , but she 's only got as much to learn as the girl that girl |
| 11 | Even moderate Muslims agree that Mr Azam 's question will become increasingly difficult to answer if the war drags on for months and if the allies damage some of the holy sites of Shia Islam in Iraq . |
| 12 | What does it mean if he had n't had too much to drink or a bad hit on the head ? ’ |
| 13 | It would have been expecting too much to imagine that the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ might disappear overnight in 1945 , disintegrating along with the mortal remains of the Führer himself and being scattered with the ashes of the Third Reich . |
| 14 | They longed for deliverance from Roman oppression , and were encouraged to think that they would not have much longer to wait as the prophetic voice was heard once more in the land after centuries of silence . |
| 15 | Central Council thanks all those Branches and individuals who worked so hard to ensure that the Association 's contribution to this Appeal was so substantial . |
| 16 | But few celebrities worked so hard to ensure that the proceeds from the golden years all ended up in her coffers . |
| 17 | It is for this reason that the CDP has advocated direct government funding , an advocacy which seems extremely unlikely to succeed as the government will surely want to try out the new system for a few years before sanctioning any radical alteration . |
| 18 | However , it seems more justifiable to claim that the RSVP technique is not testing the normal comprehension of sentences . |
| 19 | There may be difficulties in particular law centres in finding the right balance between assisting clients in individual cases and taking on group work or projects , but it seems unduly restrictive to deny that the latter was a proper role for lawyers to play . |
| 20 | For example , it seems perfectly natural to claim that the quantifier some in ( 23 ) means " some and not all " : ( 23 ) Some ten cent pieces are rejected by this vending machine and that would be the basis of the natural interpretation of a notice with this message , attached to the machine . |
| 21 | Upon turning back towards the track I felt strangely relieved to see that the car was still there . ’ |
| 22 | It may seem wholly arbitrary to assume that the association acquired by A should lose its effectiveness when that acquired by the X representation does not . |
| 23 | Unit trust experts are mystified why this discrepancy should have taken so long to identify and the role of the trustees , Midland Bank and Coutts , who are supposed to hold the assets and keep a check on the sales and purchases . |
| 24 | Unit trust experts are mystified why this discrepancy should have taken so long to identify and the role of the trustees , Midland Bank and Coutts , who are supposed to hold the assets and keep a check on the sales and purchases . |
| 25 | Those of use who have worked so hard to ensure that the UK retained its position as one of the world 's leaders in fast reactor technology must register disappointment following the Government 's decision to cease funding our participation in the European Fast Reactor R&D programme . |
| 26 | Many agree however that to maintain that the Report argued for a single worker appropriate to all situations is false , and would endorse Hey in her suggestion that generalist , even general purpose , may be the more appropriate term for the individual the Committee envisaged . |
| 27 | Market purchases by the bidder and persons connected with it may therefore not be advisable and the 75 per cent threshold becomes more difficult to achieve if the promoters already hold significant numbers of shares . |
| 28 | Tim Flowers in the Southampton goal had n't much to do before the first Leeds goal was scored . |
| 29 | As the winter continues it becomes too cold to work and a day off is in order . |