Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After several years , therefore , when the illness recurred , Margaret sent after Richard only to learn that he had died at the hour she was afflicted . |
| 2 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 3 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 4 | This corporate issuer must review this range of activities carefully to ensure that the risk of underpricing the bonds is minimised . |
| 5 | Indeed , health is a complex and multi-faceted entity which often defies the best efforts of researchers either to define or measure . |
| 6 | Where tin was absent , as in Colombia , it could be used as an alloy for copper to make tumbaga , a kind of gold-bronze easier to cast than tin-bronze and capable of reproducing finer detail . |
| 7 | The proposal , submitted by Mid-Hants Railway plc , will give a group of enthusiasts somewhere to store and repair old buses and coaches . |
| 8 | This suggests that considerable diversification of the vertebrate skeleton had already taken place by Lower Ordovician times and , furthermore , that it is not possible on the basis of antiquity alone to predict whether a micromeric or macromeric skeleton is the more primitive vertebrate condition . |
| 9 | Actually , I was surprised when looking through some book a couple of years ago to find that players like Gray played relatively few game per season , often being injured . |
| 10 | Colin phoned him up , and er , it it he mentioned , how he was starting up , and he said he might be interested , anyway Colin phoned him a couple of weeks ago to see if he was still interested in . |
| 11 | It usually turns into a frustrating , time consuming and exhausting task , particularly when you move pieces of furniture only to find that they do n't fit in the place you wanted to put them . |
| 12 | The second aspect which can be noted is the reluctance of government sometimes to appreciate or accept possible resource implications . |
| 13 | Theories were valuable not as a guide to research , but as a prop to the young sprig : they were good insofar as they made a mass of information easier to handle and to remember . |
| 14 | ‘ Know then that there is a bird of prey here to respect and admire . |
| 15 | Dulles diplomatically expressed sympathy for their point of view only to warn that such a strategy was unlikely to succeed unless the United States expected to win a general war . |
| 16 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 17 | All the family found their grief for Julia hard to bear and to see how their father suffered grieved them still more . |
| 18 | Mr Whitnall reported teaching staff ‘ dismayed ’ by the service from the trade , with titles hard to identify and evaluate and frequently no obvious source of supply for students if texts were recommended . |
| 19 | She would be lodged in the royal palace within the Tower , with servants a-plenty to serve and chaperon her . |
| 20 | Certain duets thus feel like tortuous workshop explorations , with manoeuvres hard to do and awkward to watch , and it is these moments where Page seems to come adrift from the music . |
| 21 | Therefore the said Justice Depute by the mouth of Duncan McIlvory Dempster of Court adjudged and ordained the above named to be taken upon the twelfth day of this instant month of June being Monday next to the ordinary place of execution and then and there be hanged upon a Gibbet till he die the death and his right hand to cut off and to be affixed to the most conspicuous place of the tollbooth of Killvorow in Ila there to continue till it rot or wear away , and ordained his moveables to be confiscated . |
| 22 | Nor can we believe that were we to allow this application , potential future witnesses would be deterred from co-operating in investigations yet to come or the police feel inhibited from giving future reassurance as to the consequences of such co-operation in the self-same terms as at present . |
| 23 | How many times have hard-working men arrived home from work only to find that the house is upside down , furniture completely re-arranged and their favourite chair completely out of kilter with the best view of the TV ? |
| 24 | Compaq Computer Corp and Microsoft Corp came together in Washington yesterday to announce that they have entered into a comprehensive agreement to develop new products and markets and to make personal computers easier to use . |
| 25 | Millions of other Americans — mainly those living in rural areas , in institutions , and in certain housing estates — will have personal visits from census-takers either to deliver or pick up the forms . |
| 26 | In summer readily distinguished from Black Tern by conspicuous white forewing , rump and tail , shorter stouter reddish-brown bill , but in winter hard to separate except by lack of dark spot on side of breast , paler rump or brighter red legs . |
| 27 | In the fourth century , Athenian democracy was curtailed in ways harder to resist than a Hyperbolus , who could simply be got rid of : the institutionalized power of the men who administered the various state funds grew in the course of the fourth century , and as such people got above themselves Athens became a less democratic place than it had been in the fifth century . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But he was so close , his other hand pulling her hard against his naked chest , his face so near to her own that it was difficult for her to breathe — so difficult that she had to open her mouth to draw in air only to find that he 'd taken advantage of the opportunity to deepen his kiss into one of familiarity . |
| 30 | For Locke , it was possible from reason alone to know that there is a God , and the role of revelation tended to be seen as a way to produce belief among those whose reason was undeveloped . |