Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are probably wrong , however , to see this as happening on a large scale or as a particularly significant development in many areas . |
| 2 | It may also be necessary to begin keyboard skills in the last year of primary school and to continue this as required at the secondary level . |
| 3 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 4 | And of course heating your house in the middle of the night is not what everybody wants , so there has to be an attractive price to persuade people to do that and to invest in the storage heaters , hence the half price electricity . |
| 5 | Cameras and sound recording equipment were discreetly sited in the shop so as to record all that occurred over the counter . |
| 6 | The absence of any prospect of being able to do more than survive on the finances available to them can be deeply depressing . |
| 7 | In 1957 , costs were too uncertain and experience too limited in putting together so complex a weapon system for the Treasury to do more than impress on the Air Staff that the TSR 2 must be accommodated within the Air Ministry 's financial ceilings . |
| 8 | He was himself later to acknowledge the inadequacy of a production policy that drew so heavily on stage plays , particularly at a period before the arrival of sound when it was impossible , for example , to do more than allude to the savagery of Noël Coward 's attack on his social set in The Vortex ( 1927 ) . |
| 9 | To ignore this and focus on the false antithesis of punctuation versus gradualism , with no mechanism to explain either , is to engage in a scholastic war of words largely devoid of scientific content . |
| 10 | If so , you 'll have to spend more and invest in a Flare or a Roller , which would be our second-stage recommendation . |
| 11 | He failed to achieve this but remained in the country with his friend John Bell . |