Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , I shall not try to determine what kind of phenomenon consciousness is ; the task here is rather to see whether the machine analogy can give us a way of talking about it , whatever it is . |
| 2 | Sara had told her to go to bed , or rather to go and look at the TV programme she wanted to watch . |
| 3 | If an aggravation occurs i.e. an intensification of the original symptoms , at the end of treatment , then the doses must be reduced in quantity and repeated at longer intervals , or stopped altogether to see if the symptoms will continue to disappear by themselves . |
| 4 | ‘ We do not need a peace envoy , thank you very much , ’ Sir Patrick said , before going on to emphasise that what was needed was a settlement from the current all-party talks process . |
| 5 | Time and again a landowner , the man who actually has the most to lose since it is his land , is willing to donate corners of his fields for ponds or tree planting , as his contribution to the environmental compromise of a land-drainage scheme ; but then a letter from his agent arrives , demanding that these corners be heavily compensated or even bought by the water authority , as payment for the concessions made . |
| 6 | They were the merchants , traders and businessmen of the north-east Mediterranean coast who had most to lose if the Shias could establish themselves in the economic life of the Levant . |
| 7 | They found a café down a side-street , and were about to find somewhere to sit when she heard a voice call out to Piers . |
| 8 | I looked from left to right to find somewhere to sit and could see nowhere . |
| 9 | You can do without carpet but you 've got to have somewhere to sit and the least you can make do with is one sofa or two good chairs . |
| 10 | NEW YORK ( AP ) — Computer users around the world waited nervously to see whether warnings of a rogue ‘ virus ’ come true today . |
| 11 | Thus in Ibrams ( 1982 ) there had been considerable ill-treatment and violence by the deceased towards D and his girlfriend , and this led them eventually to plan and carry out a night-time raid on the deceased 's flat , during which they attacked and killed him . |
| 12 | He switched on to see if the set was still working . |
| 13 | ‘ I put my headlights on to see if that would help the policemen who were obviously looking for someone . |
| 14 | I saw one in the box once when she was trying her pearls on to see if they went with one of the dresses . |
| 15 | Hours later an investigation involving firemen and police was going on to see if the fire was arson . |
| 16 | We 'll have a little inspection later on to see if any birds has actually doodled on it . |
| 17 | I 'm gon na put that one on to see if I can get me score down . |
| 18 | It was in advance of yesterday 's recall of Parliament , to discuss the economic crisis , that Government whips felt duty-bound to consult widely to see whether the Tory Party still supported him . |
| 19 | In most research studies of bereaved people it is recorded time and time again that , so long as the people involved have somewhere to go and someone to talk to about this major loss in their life , then they may well cope . |
| 20 | Irene had three much older spinster sisters who adored her , and her one consolation when she was discharged from the Waaf was that she had somewhere to go and three loving sisters to look after her . |
| 21 | Quite apart from Rosa , it is necessary for me to have somewhere to go and think without interruption . |
| 22 | Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council |
| 23 | Post mortem tests are still going on to confirm whether she was already injured before she drowned . |
| 24 | ‘ An ’ the bastard even went on to confirm that the bombs are set on time fuses , just sufficient to allow him an' his staff to escape , but not enough to allow them to be de-activated , or to evacuate the ordinary members from the building … an' most of them are just kids . ’ |
| 25 | It went on to claim that ISC was a ‘ highly cash-absorptive operation ’ . |
| 26 | He goes on to claim that the military are also involved . |
| 27 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 28 | She went on to claim that Elvis wanted to join his beloved mother Gladys , whose death had shattered him beyond repair . |
| 29 | In the early 1980s , this view was attacked by Peter White in a controversial article which questioned whether the Elizabethan church was ever fully predestinarian , and went on to claim that the apparently religious conflicts within England in the late 1620s were in fact primarily caused by the pressures of international power politics rather than by theological differences . |
| 30 | Plekhanov next goes on to claim that the character traits of individuals , whether causally efficacious or not , are ‘ accidents ’ in relation to ‘ the historical destiny of nations ’ . |