Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on to report that on the previous Saturday , Field 's case had come before Mr.Justice Heath ; three of the four witnesses had been examined and there had been no evidence to prove that the deceased had received blows on her stomach , the diseased state of which organ caused her death . |
| 2 | We can go on to observe that since the middle of the twentieth century there has been a big revival of informal street music , produced in non-literate , often amateur performance and through the public dissemination of recordings ( see Prato 1984 ) ; this has , of course , gone along with a wave of amateur music-making , centred on the guitar and on non-literate modes of production , whit h in the rock 'n' roll , ski Me and ‘ beat group ’ periods ( the late 1950s and the 1960s ) swept across the whole of Europe and North America . |
| 3 | In addition to emigration out with the United Kingdom , many of the best products of their excellent education system have gone to the mainland for university studies , and then stayed on to work because of the dearth of suitable employment opportunities in the islands . |
| 4 | It is merely to affirm that in the end if education is to grow deep roots in the working-class , they will be nourished more by what people learn than how they learn ’ . |
| 5 | He was astute enough to see that in some ways they shared the same experiences . |
| 6 | We were trained less to kill than to be killed . |
| 7 | Peach , who often sat on the chestnut leaf table , marking it no more than if he had been a fluffy cushion or a nightdress-case cat , watched gravely from the basket in which he was wise enough to sit when at home on Sundays . |
| 8 | She seated herself in the row in front of me , but before she did so she looked round , perhaps to see if after all there was anyone present whom she recognised . |
| 9 | They flung the ball wide down the right , defenders raced in to support and in a sequence far too rapid for Dave Seaman 's comfort , Brett Angell and Ian McInerney contrived four chances . |
| 10 | I say this not because any holder of judicial office should ever regard it as an affront to be overruled by an appellate court but merely to emphasise that as a practical matter the chances are that the visitor probably will get it right . |
| 11 | He was shrewd enough to know that to be too greedy with Jared Tunstall might lose him everything . |
| 12 | It could be of interest , so taking a piece of cotton waste out of my pocket , I cleaned the accumulated filth off it , only to discover that on it was stamped ON-OFF . |
| 13 | Suppose now , however , that B , having accepted S 's repudiation in June , sees the market beginning to rise rapidly in July and , in an attempt to minimise his loss before the market rises further , buys replacement goods on July 15 at £115 per ton — ; only to discover that by the delivery date under the original contract ( December 1 ) the market price has fallen back to £110 per ton . |
| 14 | He tried making snowballs as he had in Britain only to find that in these low temperatures he was left with a handful of flour-like snow that simply blew away when he threw it . |
| 15 | The incredible ruined cities , many more of which still remain to be discovered in the jungle areas , are one fascination , if only to speculate as to how they were built in a civilisation which had no beast of burden bigger than a llama , no wheels , and no cutting edge except stone . |
| 16 | Conversely the make-up girls had less to do than in the black-and-white days . |
| 17 | I had not only to Testify as to how , where and when the Lord Jesus had entered my heart but also give the punters a detailed account of the innermost secrets of my heart . |
| 18 | The kindness of Cinzia Miletti 's heart was a quality Zen had considerable difficulty in imagining where Ivy Cook was concerned , but he found it easy enough to believe that in her husband 's absence Cinzia had been feeling bored and had welcomed any excuse for going into Perugia . |
| 19 | Now that the Government is committed to a national healthy eating policy , we need to examine school nutritional standards — and where better to start than with milk ? |
| 20 | Our plan formed to become intimately involved in our community , and where better to start than via a group like our community association ? |
| 21 | Where better to start than in California . |
| 22 | And where better to settle than in the richest and nearest capitalist paradise ? |
| 23 | That would n't be time enough to think but at least it would give me a chance to calm down . |
| 24 | So to summarize that in terms of a of of a kinetic diagram , we can basically write that channels exist in closed and open states . |
| 25 | I wish only to add that in my judgment I have , after some hesitation , come to the conclusion that it is impossible to extract a general discretion to rectify the register from section 82(1) ( h ) of the Land Registration Act 1925 beyond that necessary to cover some unusual error which did not fall under paragraphs ( d ) to ( g ) . |
| 26 | The ‘ battle of the sexes ’ has penetrated into the heart of modern family life , leading not only to change but to role confusion . |
| 27 | If you ever asked Ian to keep a debate going in committee ( while the front bench caught up ) he would do so to order and with a style 1 have never seen equalled . |
| 28 | It 's not good enough to say that by becoming international stars they are compensated by the kudos this brings with it and that their personal fame enables them to cash in . |
| 29 | Jasper had cut in to say that of course he understood this : " Everyone did . " |
| 30 | Where better to begin than at the top ? |