Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | tenant of area of sea has right to sue for nuisance where pollution killed larvae even though at the time they were killed , tenant had not acquired a proprietary right of action . |
| 2 | While this solution lurked in the consciousness of a large number of US citizens and was eventually to appeal to Hitler and the SS , it was not the kind of thing the Americans admitted or believed about themselves , and was certainly not the kind of solution they wished to offer to their civilised European cousins . |
| 3 | Today I no longer work in the grant-aided sector and a great number of women who were my colleagues and contemporaries have moved on to work in broadcast or cable television . |
| 4 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 5 | Roy moved in to lodge with Rita and her unsuspecting husband , Steve , 50 . |
| 6 | you know , so to go before hand and fetch her here back with us |
| 7 | Even Sybil seemed pleased to see her and immediately she was pulled down to sit between Danny and Belinda , while David resumed his seat beside the driver . |
| 8 | On Tuesday the Soviet parliament refused to accept this blanket ban , which it wanted confined to the railways and to other key industries , and only to remain in force until the new law on strikes was promulgated . |
| 9 | Later that over Pringle let a ball or two pass only to freeze in horror as his last snapped back to hit the off stump . |
| 10 | He made no sketches in advance but got straight down to work with pencil and ruler , drawing the outline before filling in with emulsion paint . |
| 11 | I received a strong impression that it was not enough to know about injustice and suffering ; practical solutions had to be found . |
| 12 | Hounslow then began to play like a team that were third in the table , forcing United 's mid-field backwards , only to come against Shepherd and Wilson in the centre of United 's defence , neither of whom put a foot wrong all afternoon . |
| 13 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 14 | It must be practical enough to reach between rocks and plants . |
| 15 | Agnes chose quiche Maxim had n't been in Washington long enough to tire of seafood so he took crab . |
| 16 | Answering this question requires a fuller investigation of the availability and remuneration of work for women and children in both the agrarian and manufacturing sectors of the eighteenth century , but there are no series comprehensive enough to talk of trends and movements in women 's wages . |
| 17 | I was just going to say , I was just saying , that I saw the posters that erm parents and carers should erm , go along to talk about parenting and at the bottom it said , erm , will be selling multi-racial toys and dolls and things like that . |
| 18 | The quality of anal continence was assessed clinically by two doctors who questioned each patient about faecal leakage by day and during sleep , the need to wear a pad , anal soreness , the ability to defer defecation for longer than 15 minutes , and the ability not only to discriminate between flatus and faeces but to release flatus safely without having to visit the lavatory . |
| 19 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 20 | They take groups of school children in to look at experiments and techniques that are far too complicated perhaps , expensive perhaps , or even dangerous , to run in a school — like X-ray crystallography and infra-red spectrometry . |
| 21 | Ingrid , who joined her at Howard a couple of years after leaving college , got hauled in to help with Brownies and go camping in grass shelters the girls had built . |
| 22 | Enthusiastic parents and even grandparents will run the football training sessions and volunteers can be roped in to help with recorders and other music making activities . |
| 23 | But , miraculously , everything seemed suddenly to fit into place and we managed to put all the horror behind us and start again . |
| 24 | She did turn her head then , but only to smile at David and marvel that he could look so happy ; but even as she watched his face seemed to grow colder and he nodded . |
| 25 | The dry slope was dotted with rabbits — some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes , others pushing farther down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed . |
| 26 | Mr. F.W. Dee ( Company Secretary at the Brewery and brother to found Harry Dee ) had been down to play for Henley but had to withdraw ‘ having arranged to play for Peppard ’ . |
| 27 | According to some papers , Lazio are annoyed that the England international jetted out of Rome on Sunday to visit EuroDisney with his girlfriend — particularly as he was judged not fit enough to play against Torino because of 'flu . |
| 28 | The legal costs will be paid from your Estate so there will be less to divide between relatives and other beneficiaries . |
| 29 | Director Peter Smallridge claims this was less to do with ideology and more for the benefit of service users . |
| 30 | According to French reports , however , the main cause of the deadlock , centring on oilseed production , had less to do with France than with Germany , the EC 's largest producer of rapeseed . |