Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Realizing the importance of schemas and scripts is the first step , but that in itself gets us nowhere unless we push on to consider how a manager can discover what schemas actually exist and , if they are inappropriate , how to change them . |
| 2 | A cropped and fitted jacket nips in to show off a neat waist and looks trim with a long line skirt . |
| 3 | French plastic manufacturers and bottle suppliers have joined together to set up a recycling company , " Valorplast " , which intends to recycle around 1 billion plastic bottles by the year 1996 . |
| 4 | Detectives praised the help they received from the public , saying the artist 's impression of Katherine 's attacker helped greatly to bring about a conviction . |
| 5 | She kicked aside some of the mess , bent down to pick up a crisp packet , dropped it again and leaned against a wall , overwhelmed . |
| 6 | Press gently to squeeze out a star of icing , stop the pressure , and pull away the nozzle tip so that the icing star forms to a point and breaks off . |
| 7 | Publishers will need deliberately to set aside a proportion of ‘ play money ’ , which they can afford to lose , but on which they will seek to recuperate the large returns that go with true risk investment . |
| 8 | In fairness to those whose questions come further down the Order Paper , I propose now to speed up a bit . |
| 9 | In New York , meanwhile , the UN Security Council was expected today to pass unanimously a resolution establishing the first war crimes tribunal since 1945-49 . |
| 10 | It is designed , say its publishers , ‘ to help people who want to know how to set up a sound production office and how to make wise decisions about buying print . ’ |
| 11 | If you need more information , ring Rape Crisis on 071-837-1600 ( do keep trying if you ca n't get through ) , and if you want to know how to set up a group in your area , write to Incest Survivors in Strength , c/o 34 , Margate Rd . |
| 12 | Campese , definitely unlike Best , says he would n't know how to chat up a girl , though Best did n't have to do much chatting . |
| 13 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
| 14 | Significantly , the Aviation Museums Association of Australia had applied to the New South Wales Heritage Council in 1990 to have the aircraft protected by State heritage legislation but eight months later it has yet to receive even an acknowledgement from the Council . |
| 15 | Wilko has yet to find even a place on the bench for either of his two big-money summer buys . |
| 16 | The EEC structure was designed therefore to bring about a closer collaboration between the Commission and Council . |
| 17 | Turner in his studies of Ndembu symbols and ritual ( 1957 and 1967 ) tried explicitly to bring together a sociological and a psychological explanatory framework for the understanding of ritual . |
| 18 | Our other research has shown that some adults would prefer not to take up a full-time course and so lose the income from a full-time job . |
| 19 | The European Commission agreed not to claim back a DM175m ( $111m ) loan from Klöckner-Werke , a German steel and engineering group , saving it from bankruptcy . |
| 20 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 21 | As she grew older she came slowly to understand how a sensible , level-headed woman like her mother could have her head completely turned by unaccustomed glamour . |
| 22 | Jennie on the other hand was thrilled when the Girls announced wedding plans and there was always a warm welcome from her when they dropped in to show off a baby . |
| 23 | She stooped down to drink where a stone had been set for a firm landing beside a foot-wide pool . |
| 24 | These days many people know that they should bend their knees when they bend down to pick up an object , but this is only half the story . |
| 25 | Use the five steps and chart below to work out a reasonable estimate of the cost of rebuilding your home . |
| 26 | Because I mind our Dad saying : ‘ She 'd do better to take on a class o' twelve-years-olds than take on Walter Machin ! ’ |
| 27 | The bed that Boy climbed into that morning , knowing that he would n't sleep , but wanting just to lie there a while , was on the twentieth floor of a council block right close by the river on the east side of the city . |
| 28 | USAFM hope also to take on a series of former Desert Storm aircraft in the wake of recent retirements . |
| 29 | Weissman carried on courageously with a complex but fascinating lecture on RNA splicing , ignoring the loud hubbub and intermittent squawks from his own microphone , and pausing often to wait out an eruption of roars and whistles from next door . |
| 30 | Many valuable training experiences can be arranged within a single school or agency , or by a group of teachers from different schools meeting regularly to carry out an agreed task . |