Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [conj] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , I shall not try to determine what kind of phenomenon consciousness is ; the task here is rather to see whether the machine analogy can give us a way of talking about it , whatever it is . |
| 2 | Here is Collimore Phillips down the right flank he was offside that was unlucky from Forest 's point of view and Collimore dumped to the ground when he played the ball away then and er he 's just holding er his shin just above his ankle there and Cooper is still in trouble from that er shoulder he injured moments ago Cooper 's all right to continue and the Forest physio Graham Myers busy treating Collimore . |
| 3 | Similarly there is no assumption that repeated use of a ruler in 4c is more demanding than single use of it in 4b , but this and similar instances need to be examined empirically to see if the task differences concerned are also difficulty factors . |
| 4 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 5 | If it is in a smooth plastic pot , and there is insufficient root coming through to prevent movement ( i.e. the plant is pot bound ) , it should be possible to slide the pot away just enough to see if the root ball is held intact by root action . |
| 6 | Even after the selection of this team I went home , switched on the television news , only to find that the weather forecast predicted blizzards in Scotland . |
| 7 | I am reminded of the time when we were leaving Italy after a while in the Dolomites and spent all our Italian cash in the last café making a phone call , only to find that the café owner was adding a surcharge to the bill . |
| 8 | I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word . |
| 9 | Many time we have set up a tank containing large and heavy items as part of the decor , only to find that the undergravel filter has either collapsed flat or broken in half . |
| 10 | Filip said that figures for all of 1992 were not clear enough to state if the workstation business was profitable in the year but in the fourth quarter , even assuming a margin of error in accounting for the workstation operations as a distinct business , the operation clearly was profitable . |
| 11 | Charles stayed at the meeting long enough to hear when the rehearsal call was for the Monday ; if he accepted Paul 's offer of an understudy job , then he 'd have to be there . |
| 12 | The new claim comes on the day the princess returned home from a disastrous tour to South Korea only to hear that the baby son of a close friend had died . |
| 13 | So to ensure that the tip panels were reflexed , and the trailing edge was taut , extra stand-offs or stretchers ( Flexifoil called theirs ‘ Flexors ’ on the Scorpion ) came into vogue . |
| 14 | USL won the day by persuading Open Software Foundation chief , David Tory , to speak , revealing that USL and OSF were working together to ensure that the OSF Application Environment Specification and SVR4 would be aligned and compatibility maintained . |
| 15 | The tribunal stressed throughout that its role was only to assess whether the health authority had followed proper procedure . |
| 16 | But I do actually , I do actually think it 's fair enough to say that the parish council can be , and should be , more clear , more direct in telling people what it 's doing . |
| 17 | It is not enough to show that a screening test detects disease early , or even that it will probably save some lives . |
| 18 | Economists say it 's too soon to say if the shopping boom marks the beginning of the end of the retail recession . |
| 19 | Just to show that the JS carrier bag is doing well and holidaying in Spain . |
| 20 | It may seem surprising nonetheless to claim that the infinitive event is represented as a mere potentiality in uses with the modal auxiliaries in past contexts such as : ( 9 ) When he was young , he could swim across the lake and back in 10 minutes . |
| 21 | ULSTER Unionist leader Jim Molyneaux urged the British government yesterday to accept that the talks framework is dead . |
| 22 | Mr Robertson suggested the possible end of timber-cutting in 62 out of 156 national forests , covering 24m hectares ( 59m acres ) of land , where cutting has been costing more to administer than the Forest Service has been able to recoup from sales . |
| 23 | Monaco also had several demands to make of Otto and was present at his coronation on 12 July 1198 , possibly to seek that the Lombard cities should be free from imperial encroachments . |
| 24 | Therefore , if were incorrectly derived from an acoustic waveform that in fact corresponded to an intended production of thanks for sending me your letter , the syntactic/semantic component would not only have to reject all the improbable competitors such as thanks force ending knee your letter , but also to identify that the word knee has been incorrectly derived instead of me . |
| 25 | It is worth checking carefully to ensure that the links links are strong ones . |
| 26 | Last year , after publicity about Mead missing the English Schools Championships , the rule was amended slightly to say that a county champion could be excused missing the Inter Counties but no-one else . |
| 27 | Designers should check locally to determine whether the Local Act is still operative in the area proposed for building a high- bay warehouse . |
| 28 | This review was reportedly to determine whether a US general should continue to exercise overall control of NATO forces in Europe . |
| 29 | Would it not have been a pipedream only six weeks ago to think that the Berlin Wall would be knocked down ? ’ |
| 30 | Er yes chair , I 'm not going to repeat the point I made yesterday but simply to clarify that the proposal Mr has outlined is not a proposal incorporated in the deposit U D P . |