Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well-established organisations in non-competitive environments might be able to perform successfully with any type of organisation structure , because they are secure within their environment and can ignore contingency factors ( eg. the Civil Service , perhaps ) . |
| 2 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 3 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 4 | Bodie began to drive slowly past both houses , using his transmitter to speak to the surveillance man . |
| 5 | Prices and rents are likely to fall slowly in most cities , though there could be some serious casualties in the boiling Berlin market as sanity returns . |
| 6 | In order to be sure that our data would be as reliable as possible a decision was made to report only on those countries from which we had received at least three questionnaires among which there was a high level of agreement . |
| 7 | Jarvis managed to bowl only at half pace in the match against Hampshire at Basingstoke which petered out into a draw yesterday and he is still being troubled by a sore hamstring . |
| 8 | If the government decides to cut its expenditure , or if there is a loss of export markets , or if domestic firms decide to invest less at all interest rates ( perhaps because they are less confident about future economic prospects ) , then the unc line will shift downwards . |
| 9 | ‘ I just thought it was a shame to go inside on such a night as this , ’ he continued , ‘ so I persuaded Will to partake of my company for a while . ’ |
| 10 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 11 | Laymon 's star , on the other hand , is rising , and he seems to perform better with each title ; Koontz continues to challenge Stephen King at the top of the pile . |
| 12 | The precise circumstances of the birth of the Universe , perhaps some 15 billion years ago , are still a mystery — and are likely to remain so for many years . |
| 13 | Yet affairs which , perhaps , appeared to be progressing well enough were not to remain so for many more years . |
| 14 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 15 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 16 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 17 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 18 | The problem , it seems to me , is to go much beyond this . |
| 19 | She was to travel the twenty miles by train , into the city , and they were to meet , in the restaurant of Marshall and Snelgrove , to have coffee and talk , to shop together for this and that , a new spring suit , some curtain material , a lampshade and the Ceylon tea nobody would stock in the village , and back for lunch , and then for tea , with aching feet and happy conversation , until their trains home . |
| 20 | Although theory and practice are meant to go together in most accounts of economic endeavour , one area where there seems to be an alarming gap is between tax theory and tax practice . |
| 21 | And the idea of placing party enthusiasts in command of policy advice is likely to appeal only to those who are keen or extreme supporters of the party in power . |
| 22 | ‘ The practical skills and experience I have gained do not appear to differ widely from those gained by my friends in private practice . |
| 23 | They can be easily manoeuvred , but tend to slip downhill on any pronounced slope . |
| 24 | It is unusual to provide expressly for this contingency and the lease is probably best left silent on this point . |
| 25 | Since its inception the Design Museum has been criticised for the way its exhibits fail to distinguish themselves from department store displays ; to some extent the museum has tried to work analytically with this analogy — its inaugural exhibition , for example , was aimed at exploring the relationships between ‘ commerce and culture ’ . |
| 26 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 27 | The newly organised NCC predicted that developing the means and skills to communicate effectively with these groups , with whom it had not previously dealt , would constitute its biggest challenge in its efforts to protect the environment . |
| 28 | Those organizations whose members can find no good reason , whatever the basis of the bargain , to trust one another at a modicum will find it extremely hard to work effectively with each other . |
| 29 | Aware of practitioners ' frustration in not being able to work effectively with these problematic clients , Probation management , in partnership with the voluntary sector , determined to develop an Alcohol Education Course ( AEC ) . |
| 30 | The education and training of Health Care workers should include at least the possibility of working in partnership with people rather than for people , so that the experience of unlearning , deroling and relearning through which the family development nurses had to go in order to work effectively in this way with people , can be avoided . |