Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the buildings can not be used for such purposes ‘ other uses are preferable to allowing the buildings to remain empty or grossly under-occupied ’ . |
| 2 | For added safety , we will fit miniature circuit breakers to provide reliable and easily operated protection when using any electrical equipment . |
| 3 | They are playing on the fact that most of us do not like to appear ignorant or ill informed . |
| 4 | As a result , the initating member has been asked to contact the participating member to elicit general or specifically defined acquisition advisery assistance , which could take the form of : |
| 5 | Having formed the habit of buying lots of fresh fruit and vegetables , fish , white meat and low fat alternatives to dairy products , we need to cook interesting and attractively presented dishes . |
| 6 | Under the reforms the FDA will continue to use its own inspectors to review innovative or badly needed drugs , but will use outside contractors ( from the pharmaceutical industry ) to review more routine products such as antibiotics . |
| 7 | Our usual joke is that for a Hungarian novelist to get published and widely read , he has first to be sent to prison . |
| 8 | I was trying to think fast and barely heard what he said . |
| 9 | ( For instance ) over the years retailers have accessed Census statistics with increasing sophistication to evaluate site and market potential and to target new and expensively developed retail propositions . |
| 10 | In a study of metal development such as this it is essential to examine datable or chronologically ordered artefacts . |
| 11 | It is easy to explain small and tightly defined areas of activity ; the problems lie in trying to connect the smaller areas together into wider groups of phenomena , and to explain these within one theory . |
| 12 | This in itself caused her to feel guilty and so added to the distress she already suffered . |
| 13 | Thus they hoped to co-ordinate public and privately financed welfare with the efficiency which the COS had sought throughout its existence . |
| 14 | Egypt was to become shaped and then dominated by European developments of both a political and economic character . |
| 15 | The only dish that we did not like was fish cooked a la Galego , which seemed to mean boiled and then doused with spicy olive oil . |
| 16 | The existence of putative tissue-specific splicing factors in muscle cells has gained support particularly through work on such genes as α-tropomyosin ( 19 ) and troponin T ( 20 ) which are known to produce tissue-specific and developmentally regulated isoforms . |