Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | He was astute enough to see that in some ways they shared the same experiences . |
| 3 | We were trained less to kill than to be killed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was shrewd enough to know that to be too greedy with Jared Tunstall might lose him everything . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Conversely the make-up girls had less to do than in the black-and-white days . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Our plan formed to become intimately involved in our community , and where better to start than via a group like our community association ? |
| 17 | Where better to start than in California . |
| 18 | And where better to settle than in the richest and nearest capitalist paradise ? |
| 19 | That would n't be time enough to think but at least it would give me a chance to calm down . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | The ‘ battle of the sexes ’ has penetrated into the heart of modern family life , leading not only to change but to role confusion . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Where better to begin than at the top ? |
| 26 | They were despatched exactly to schedule and from that date further deliveries were also made exactly to programme . |
| 27 | The programme has also run exactly to schedule and within the £1.3 million budget . |
| 28 | I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation . |
| 29 | If the wage were £25 per week , the firm would employ three workers ( the fourth and fifth workers would clearly add more to cost than to revenue ) . |
| 30 | It is difficult to imagine , now that the Red Planet is knee-deep in silicite replicas and sentimental re-creations of the ‘ Ancients ’ owing more to fancy than to archaeology , but at the time of the Big Step the only vestiges of that once proud race of architects and engineers were the great canals . |