Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zimbabwe skipper Dave Walters and Jenkins then swopped penalties , but having scored 20 points in 15 minutes , Wales went to sleep and had to wait for outside half Adrian Davies to drop a goal with virtually the last kick of the half for their next score . |
| 2 | According to Chomsky , we are genetically pre-programmed to search for just this sort of structure underlying the sentences that we hear as infants . |
| 3 | ‘ I have always wanted to write for as many people as possible , I want my books to be on the general fiction shelves as well as the feminist shelves . ’ |
| 4 | It is these duties that are approximately laid down in their conditions of service : to work for so many hours , to teach those classes , to attend these meetings , to undertake these extras . |
| 5 | Even if by chance we happened to conceive of just these members of the series , it is surely not in virtue of that fact that they count as correct continuations . |
| 6 | It is not going to disappear like so many initiatives that start well but fade away . |
| 7 | What I really would have liked would have been to disappear with as little fuss as possible . |
| 8 | Preparing the soil in this way means that you are less likely to suffer from too many plant deaths where the roots of young plants have found it impossible to penetrate the soil . |
| 9 | So land vertebrates in particular tend to come from relatively few sites , which become exhaustively collected compared with most invertebrate localities . |
| 10 | Nor would it do to come to too many conclusions on the evidence of yesterday 's romp in the sun on a well-grassed but hard pitch . |
| 11 | erm I think first you have to relate to so many teachers erm as a parent of a secondary school child , and this is obviously a much more complicated procedure and also I think parents , many parents feel that they know a little bit less about what their children are doing at school at the secondary stage , it 's all that little bit more advanced , that little bit more different perhaps from what they had in their own education . |
| 12 | None of the theories proposed for the phenomenon is wholly satisfactory but there is evidence that requires us to accept at least some aspects of several of them . |
| 13 | * Western countries need to provide at least another £4.1 billion to make former Soviet-bloc pressurized water reactors safe , according to the head of the German Siemens group energy division . |
| 14 | Those of us who feel we are too busy or not dedicated enough to set aside time for exercise periods can utilize our daily routine to provide at least some opportunities to keep fit . |
| 15 | Noting in passing how conclusively the ‘ frigifaire paten ’ rules out any notion of a translation of propertius ( unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or ‘ put-down ’ — and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound 's poem in that way ) , some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order — ‘ Happy who ’ , ‘ Stands genius ’ — especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted . |
| 16 | In punting , too , I have had a tendency to reach for too much length and so have been prone to slicing my kicks . |
| 17 | Here was the genesis of the myth , destined to lead to so many follies and disasters , that Britain was rich , as well as powerful , because of her Empire . |
| 18 | ‘ I stopped occasionally to photograph a design branded upon a distant hillside made up of countless squat semi-circular walls protecting a meagre crop ; or limp onion plants resemblant of hieroglyphs upon a furrowed wall ; or a track which seemed to lead to only more emptiness ’ |
| 19 | She ‘ ran away ’ to London in order to get sleep and rest and not have to talk to so many people every day . ’ |
| 20 | Thirdly , even if people were inclined to shop around actively for credit , the practices of lenders themselves are likely to set at least some limits to their ability to do this . |
| 21 | The bishops were to look for exactly these deficiencies ; synods were to be held ; the clergy were to be better educated , responsible and not ignorant . |
| 22 | It was to consist of as much land as Gloucester was able to win in the Scottish dales along the west march . |
| 23 | It was to consist of as much land as Gloucester was able to win in the Scottish dales along the west march . |
| 24 | He had the capital , but did he have the inclination to buy into yet another business in order to help one of the managers out ? |
| 25 | Many of the dichotomies traditionally employed in this area — for example between constraints operating through reasons and constraints due to other factors — are formulated with individual subjects in mind , and so do not apply , while others , which were originally intended to apply to only some properties of individuals and collectives , must bear extra weight . |
| 26 | - Nigel Lawson , Chancellor of the Exchequer ‘ Politicians are poor prophets , but the unlucky creatures have to try , because we are elected to look at least some distance ahead . ’ |
| 27 | And not to go into too much depth , basically if I can find the switch . |
| 28 | Otherwise the tt building will have deemed to not comply to B one of the building regulations which I do n't want to go into too much detail but basically what it is that with effect from nineteen ninety one the smoke alarm smoke detector bill came into er operation and it was brought in into the nineteen ninety two building regulations when they were amended from the nineteen eighty five regulations that states now any new build homes shall have and be fitted with a mains operated , with battery backup , smoke detection system . |
| 29 | Inventor Claude Tardieu , an engineer and former rower , of Accastillage & Greements du Sud-Ouest , was reluctant to go into too much detail about the Agsostart Kano but he was keen to find buyers to recover the $100,000 it has cost to produce the 18 prototypes . |
| 30 | As the hon. Gentleman has said , Mrs. X has indicated that she may be taking proceedings further , so it would be most improper for me to go into too much detail on this case . |