Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] and [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In deep water the travelling wave may be only a few feet high : but on those rare occasions when such waves reach shallow water , or coastlines , they can rear up and explode with fearful consequences . |
| 2 | The majority of teachers in state schools accepted as inevitable that boys and girls would behave differently in school , would find different forms of knowledge congenial , would achieve differently and aspire to differing occupations . |
| 3 | It is a good idea to list the positive and negative consequences of dieting on an index card , which you can then carry around and refer to prior to eating , or exercising . |
| 4 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 5 | This involves discussing how the client could respond differently and looking at specific verbal and non-verbal characteristics of an assertive response . |
| 6 | Most reef fish , when large enough , whether herbivores or carnivores , will also hunt down and feed upon small fish or fry . |
| 7 | You 've got no police record and there 's no reason you should n't go back and live with ordinary people . |
| 8 | In the summer we can go out and draw from direct observation , but in winter it is too cold , but when we get back to the classroom we can draw from memory the tree we have just examined and put down on paper as much as we have learned and remembered about the tree , its form , its colour , and its texture . |
| 9 | This magnet for unwanted paper will fill up and overflow with monotonous regularity and should be abolished . |
| 10 | At night I would often get up and go for long walks in the school grounds , especially when the moon was full and I felt particularly restless , enjoying the silence and solitude of the woods . |
| 11 | Which I will then turn around and put to good use , most probably in Manchester . |
| 12 | This was one occasion when the sons of Cain , the killers , would not turn round and claim with mocking innocence , ‘ Are we our brother 's keepers ? |