Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why I decided to draw Love and Protection to try and raise much needed funds for ETA to continue this valuable work . |
| 2 | This is why I decided to draw Love and Protection to try and raise much needed funds for ETA to continue this valuable work . |
| 3 | It applied equally to the Galapagos Archipelago where the ancestors of Darwin 's finches had on arrival resolutely stuck to their islands and refused to travel short distances across water to interbreed and had consequently evolved into thirteen distinct species . |
| 4 | Despite a Senate vote on Dec. 2 formally to indict him , Collor had refused to resign and had persistently tried to delay impeachment proceedings , most recently by dismissing his two defence lawyers on Dec. 21 ( the day before the trial was due to begin ) to gain a week 's grace while the Supreme Court appointed a public defender . |
| 5 | Children with these conditions will be averse to glare and have severely reduced vision in bright sunlight . |
| 6 | ‘ This refers specifically to the assumed facility of a wholesaler to order in bulk , and to be able to recycle and place previously purchased stock so as to minimise returns . |
| 7 | That was the secret she had always had to keep and had never confessed , not even to the Irish priests who stayed secretly at Roscarrock Hall . |
| 8 | It was this impatience with the manipulative potential inherent in talk of natural rights , and the possibility of its being used to delay or reverse urgently needed measures to ameliorate the lot of the common man , which was Bentham 's reason for dismissing it all as rubbish . |
| 9 | I no longer craved sweet things , no longer felt the need to binge and have only cheated twice ( and I mean one chocolate — not the whole box as before ) . |
| 10 | HOW proud Karen Costen must be of her two-year-old son who battled on after being given two weeks to live and has finally had a kidney transplant . |
| 11 | My mother also had it and when I had previously attempted to diet and had successfully lost weight there was little improvement , if any , to the appearance of my ugly dimpled thighs , that is until I went on my low fat diet . |
| 12 | Like many other service sector organisations , SCOTVEC believes that BS 5750 has much to offer and has therefore embarked on the registration process as part of the Quality Development Programme . |
| 13 | They talked about other Christmas flops and bombs , delaying for as long as they could any mention of TCT 's ‘ T is He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ , which had cost practically nothing to make and had already done 120 million in its first three weeks . |