Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My lack of means is extreme , granted , and I look bad , skin white , mouth chapped , body apparently even shorter than usual , eye roaming and I daresay a bit fretful , trousers in bad shape , attention astray for a book lying around to pinch or even an old magazine , since I sold a few volumes I should now like to have kept , in exchange for a slug of what turned out to be the world 's nastiest though cheapest whiskey . |
| 2 | We often visit schools that are involved in testing teaching units to discover that overnight a new program has been written by a teacher to use in his afternoon lesson . |
| 3 | I was surprised , therefore , to discover that quite a busy programme had been arranged for me . |
| 4 | The question is held to be one for the unrestricted discretion of the jury or magistrates who are allowed to find that even a bruise is enough . |
| 5 | This is probably one of the most difficult factors for the young diabetic to accept and undoubtedly a great advantage of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion is that it permits the patient greater flexibility in relation to the timing of meals with manual boluses of insulin 30 minutes beforehand . |
| 6 | Although few patients under investigation for iron deficiency anaemia will be found to have bleeding from the small intestine , these lesions can be difficult to find and therefore a disproportionate amount of time is spent in investigating these patients . |
| 7 | There 's nothing worse to come but just a different perspective which will probably put this whole thing into a new light . ’ |
| 8 | I agree with the judge that " What is required for this purpose is not an intention to own or even an intention to acquire ownership but an intention to possess , " that is to say , an intention for the time being to possess the land to the exclusion of all other persons , including the owner with the paper title . |
| 9 | Having been involved in a substantial amount of this sort of work for 15 years , I believe it is correct to aver that once a person reaches 60 there is an unwritten rule or convention which determines that he or she shall not receive a first appointment . |
| 10 | Before looking at the implications of this plethora of orbits , it remains to state that only a few of the homoclinic orbits known to occur in the Lorenz equations are displayed in Fig. 6.2 . |
| 11 | They you can provide a plastic jug full of ‘ tea ’ ( actually water ) to pour and even a real picnic . |
| 12 | They soon learned not to talk when just a look would do , and even when separated , each seemed to know instinctively when the other was in trouble . |
| 13 | Only by retaining an experienced independent consultant can a farmer make first a judgement about which way to go and secondly an objective purchasing decision . |
| 14 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 15 | This meant that a large part of the lesson time was wasted getting on buses and to and from the slopes instead of learning to ski and also a lot of walking around in boots and carrying skis . |
| 16 | The remaining men were just preparing to leave when suddenly a young man called Laban Tall rushed into the malthouse , almost too excited to speak . |
| 17 | Erm we are making more money in favour to them and our resolution is to ensure that even a , a profile of work to be carried out , so that it 's quite clear what 's been done , the time scale , the er the amount of resources that is going to be needed . |
| 18 | The designer , aided by the development process must try to ensure that only a small proportion of teachers fall at each fence — a forbidding challenge . |
| 19 | It did not come to much : but it was perhaps essential before Britain obtained major allies to believe that somehow a revolutionary movement could be incited to grow in occupied Europe . |
| 20 | They are clearly approaching a shrine or altar of some kind , or they would not be behaving in this way ; in addition , our new view of the whole of the Knossos Labyrinth as a temple allows us to argue that even a staircase , as part of a temple-complex , might well be in a general sense dedicated to a presiding deity . |
| 21 | He said within minutes Hawkins and Talbot started to argue and then a fight broke out . |
| 22 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
| 23 | In fact his university post followed the foundation of Scrutiny by only four years , in 1936 , and his college fellowship too ; he always , unlike most of his colleagues , had a private income ; and his birth and upbringing , as the son of a prosperous tradesman , was well up to average and perhaps a little above . |
| 24 | These are just an example of the excellent trips available in gran Canaria — they cost around £15 each , less if you buy the whole package , and most trips include plenty to eat and often a free bar ! |
| 25 | The first clinical signs are dullness , reluctance to eat and usually a temperature rise to 103F–105F together with a runny nose which starts watery but soon becomes a very thick yellowy discharge down both nostrils . |
| 26 | Angry John refused to pay and yesterday a spokesman for the bank at Ashton-under-Lyne admitted : ‘ There was a bit of a mix-up . ’ |
| 27 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 28 | Another way of formulating this criterion is to say that only a semantic deviance can be taken as a ‘ figure of speech ’ . |
| 29 | Now , to be fair , you 'd have to say that only a few of these are going to be wacky enough to go for the fridge compilation album , but which ones ? |
| 30 | It is not difficult to show that even an apparently high level of detail in a criterion does not specify the test items unequivocally . |