Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 2 | Seeing their own children in their teens may bring their own adolescence forcibly to mind , along with its unfinished business . |
| 3 | Less formally it amounts to providing trained and experienced adults with the opportunity professionally to expand ( G.E . |
| 4 | I says er I would n't spend money on to lose weight . |
| 5 | Based on the evidence of those first episodes of Butterflies back in 1978 , which of those two would most of us have put our money on to become a TV star ? |
| 6 | To acknowledge any such standard would be , in effect , to accept a principle that might lead to a lesser religious or other liberty , if not to a loss of freedom altogether to advance many of one 's spiritual ends . |
| 7 | Unfortunately these histories are not always clear owing to the limitations of the human body and its inability verbally to state the problems . |
| 8 | Not least of these is the support of grandparents and friends who raise money locally to help finance Graham 's trips to London . |
| 9 | But after a bit my curiosity got the better of me and I spread my fingers slowly to peep through . |
| 10 | they gon na have to they gon na have to pass a lot of land to build houses on to get the bloody rev revenue back in the town |
| 11 | These later evolved into tribes , and these in turn swelled in size and complexity eventually to become fully-fledged states . |
| 12 | This is an important development , which allows litigants before domestic courts effectively to subpoena the Commission . |
| 13 | It is not unusual therefore for the contract expressly to deal with the time for payment and the time for delivery but to be silent about the time of the transfer of property . |
| 14 | Which you used to light with a taper or something like that and they had little chains on to adjust your light . |
| 15 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 16 | Brooke-Rose attempts rather to use old material in new ways . |
| 17 | and I , I always felt if we have a change onto this er new system of er , of these quilts , I , I you know , I were n't too sure , but once you 've changed I do n't think you 'd ever want to go back because in winter time when it 's a bit cooler and you put more blanket on to keep warmer and then it becomes heavy |
| 18 | However , there is little doubt that a number of facilities already developed will prove of value educationally : devices which allow the user effectively to draw upon the screen , such as the light pen or the graphics tablet , have great potential . |
| 19 | " Tell Basil he rubs milk on to make himself white . " |
| 20 | The British Press habitually looks for an opportunity eventually to knock down the heroes they have created and placed on pedestals , if only to do something new . |
| 21 | Concern about skin cancer and the pain caused by overexposure to the sun are reasons enough to take sensible precautions if sunbathing . |
| 22 | ‘ Previous reports on diet and health have told us we need to eat fruit and vegetables only to provide roughage , ’ says Professor James . |
| 23 | The minister 's entourage and assembled media swept into the narrow office building only to grind to a halt on the stairs while he and Mr Fallon shut themselves off for a brief chat . |
| 24 | Could we be sure in those circumstances that the American president and Congress would be prepared to risk the wholesale destruction of American cities merely to meet our point of view ? |
| 25 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 26 | Donna must now fly ten hours solo to get her pilots licence — which she hopes to have by the end of the week . |
| 27 | Seymour Cray now says that it will be marketed as a front-end to enhance massively parallel processors , in the hope that the combination will appeal to scientists whose problems are too complex for a massively parallel computer alone to solve . |
| 28 | Chaired by Michael Julien , it meets not less than three times annually to review the adequacy of the Group 's systems of internal control including those concerning the Group 's pension arrangements , the scope and findings of the external and internal auditors ' work , the half and full year financial statements prior to their submission to the Board , and the application of the Group 's accounting policies and any changes to financial reporting requirements . |
| 29 | The second is whether , if reference to such materials would otherwise be appropriate , it would contravene article 9 of the Bill of Rights 1688 or Parliamentary privilege so to do . |
| 30 | She 's always having the builders in to fiddle around with something or other . |