Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organised collecting , however , on today 's scale , was possible only when nations became sufficiently prosperous to build and staff large national museums . |
| 2 | It has so much to offer and it never fails to excite . |
| 3 | The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise . |
| 4 | The goal was becoming more difficult to reach but the ‘ tide ’ continued . |
| 5 | Flashes of colour exploded in her head behind tightly shut eyelids as the expert stroke of his fingers moved boldly lower to seek and investigate , with utmost sensitivity , the small nub of femininity between the soft golden curls , and then hungrily on down into the moist , secret tightness below … |
| 6 | This study has yet far to go and it would be unwise to be too dogmatic about sources and influences at this stage . |
| 7 | At the same time she remains ‘ isolated from the very social structure which her courage and vitality have done so much to enliven and renew ’ ( Rose , ‘ Women in Men 's Clothing ’ , 389 — 90 ) . |
| 8 | It seemed much easier to sit and do nothing , to pretend that he did n't exist , to empty your mind of feelings so that you felt nothing , nothing at all … . |
| 9 | Ron says : ‘ It 's wonderful that people will do so much to try and help someone in trouble , just because it is the right thing to do . ’ |
| 10 | She was able to take analgesia orally and once her pain was controlled , she became more willing to move and adopt a less tense position . |
| 11 | And I came in one day a few days ago an and running around like a bee on heat with erm cries of oh I 've got so much to do and no time left in which to do it and I went ha I said yes , if you got up early , you know ! |
| 12 | But , with you , we feel you 've got so much to offer and we do n't really wan na just say no and and and it would make you feel oh blow it I 'm not gon na do it . |
| 13 | As Oreste grew he would become more expensive to keep and Ellen might not find his maintenance so easy . |
| 14 | I knew that look too well to mistake or ignore it . |
| 15 | What does it mean if he had n't had too much to drink or a bad hit on the head ? ’ |
| 16 | Lowell had had too long to think and his thoughts were tortuous . |
| 17 | By underplaying the internal conflicts within the Roman aristocracy and the tensions between Romans and non-Romans in Italy , Polybius created an atmosphere in which Roman conquests became both easy to understand and difficult to question . |
| 18 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 19 | Your grandfather 's and father 's legacy enabled you to do just that to study and enjoy the arts . |
| 20 | As the world comes to depend more and more on telecommunications and computer networks , AT&T is striving ever harder to pre-empt or avoid the kinds of breakdowns that have plagued its long-distance network and caused chaos in parts of the US over the past couple of years . |
| 21 | Background Adoption has become a popular solution to the longterm needs of certain children in care , including older children , and Social Services Departments have become more inclined to intervene and terminate access to birth parents . |
| 22 | In the traditional hunting communities , those who were a burden — because they had become too old to hunt or to follow the family as it trekked to a new hunting ground — took themselves off to an ice-floe or an isolated rock and waited for death . |
| 23 | an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting . |
| 24 | It was essential to recruit them over there before they arrived ; if they found it was getting too expensive to advertise and recruit well that was that . ’ |
| 25 | Such a feature should always have somewhere positive to go and here the path leads one on with a genuine air of anticipation . |
| 26 | If the private sector is to contribute seriously to debt counselling then it is likely to want to know how many CAB clients adhere to their repayment schedules and how many emerge better able to cope and more confident after counselling . |
| 27 | the Safety , Reliability and Quality Assurance workforce was reduced partly due to budget and time pressures . |
| 28 | try not to put things off too much as plans may take far longer to arrange and involve more red tape than you might think . |
| 29 | The realist philosophy of social science seems almost ready-made to sustain and rationalize the theoretical directions taken by contemporary materialist interpretations of spatiality . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought it would take too long to do but it was easier than the problems of printing . ’ |