Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nobody was to know that Germans had made it onto British soil . |
| 2 | This explanation is then offered to others with the intention of getting them to agree that circumstances conspired to prevent you from performing with the excellence and flair that you would , in the normal course of events , have displayed . |
| 3 | A cynic will remember that research into the opinion-forming powers of newspapers has tended to conclude that readers expect to have their existing views confirmed . |
| 4 | Informal methods are fine for small numbers of students ( say less than 20 ) , but for larger numbers some more formal mechanisms are necessary to record that students have submitted their work , and that it has been marked . |
| 5 | And fireworks are expected to fly as ministers battle to protect their cash plans in the light of a strict 244.5bn pounds spending limit . |
| 6 | Police refused to intervene as protesters attempted to drive their cars to the point on the Atlantic coast where conservationists yearly attempt to count the birds before the hunters move in for the kill . |
| 7 | The wider issues were to show that politicians had blown it , for dragging America into Vietnam , germ warfare , ABM and all those other starting points of peace protesters . |