Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 2 | If there is more than a certain amount , gravity will in due course draw the galaxies back together . |
| 3 | The financial forecasts assume that the University will in due course succeed in recovering from the research councils the funds which it is expected will be lost from its HEFCE grant under the DR-shift . |
| 4 | And , as it is also obvious that this tendency is becoming a worldwide one , it means that the game will in due course suffer everywhere as it has suffered in South Africa . |
| 5 | But Aoun seems sure that , if he just hangs on regardless , some other miracle will in due course come to the rescue . |
| 6 | The House will in due course consider the report . |
| 7 | His job now was to let the allied headquarters know what he had seen : that the French had crossed the frontier and that the campaign had therefore begun . |
| 8 | The group of gentlemen who prepared the list and signed the covering letter to Panmure , however , emphasised that unless Panmure wrote the letters in favour of James Milne which they had requested , then their friend would withdraw ‘ & let your declared oposers run away with what they could not , were you either present or your intrest heartily interposed ’ . |
| 9 | Instead , you held your head high and let a glazed look mask your eyes . |
| 10 | Merciful saints , she had let a complete stranger hold her , kiss her … |
| 11 | She had stubbornly defied both her solicitor and Glyn and here she was letting a complete stranger dictate terms to her . |
| 12 | ‘ And the villagers let a complete stranger drive off with a machine that could play music from the future … ’ |
| 13 | That is true , but in this picture the golfer has n't lifted his head and is going to top by letting the right side straighten on the downswing or by getting too far ahead of the shot at impact . |
| 14 | Do they not let the stable lads know so that they do n't have an advantage over picking a winner ? |
| 15 | It was a total letting go . |
| 16 | Leaning on the edge of his table , he let his hollow eyes rest on Nicholas . |
| 17 | I , I think we should let old projects run the , run the course frankly . |
| 18 | Let old Shallot tell you this : when you 're in real trouble the women will help ; most men are cowards . |
| 19 | Duke wrestled with the torrential whitewater , spinning his Papa nui — a sixteen-foot , hundred-and-fourteen-pound semi-hollow Tom Blake board — upside down in an Eskimo roll to let the broken waves pass over him . |
| 20 | He grunted with annoyance and sat down in the sparse grass with his back to the worn stone and let the meagre sun warm him . |
| 21 | Do n't forget to let your old auntie know how the other things are progressing , but I 'm sure everything will work out just fine . ’ |
| 22 | Hard tried not to giggle with triumph , Elizabeth leaned tremulously on Bridhe 's shoulder , and let the old lady comfort her . |
| 23 | If the old man was dying they 'd maybe let the old lady come and see him or vice versa . |
| 24 | Can signers from different countries communicate with each other even if they do n't know each others ' sign languages ? |
| 25 | It seemed that , every time she resolved not to let her wayward emotions get the better of her , he said something that had her responding to him like a fourteen-year-old star-struck teenager all over again . |
| 26 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 27 | This fabliau makes explicit a linkage between vagina and mouth that we find implied elsewhere amongst the fabliaux : e.g. in Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons , " The knight who made the cunts talk " , or Berengier au lonc cul , " Berengier of the long arse " , where a woman disguised as a knight makes her recreant husband kiss what seems to him to be her exceptionally long arse . |
| 28 | Drawing the heavy , lattice-patterned curtains across the window , she let the damp towel slip to the tiled floor , and lay full length on the bed , the matching pale blue and melon lattice-print bedspread soft and welcoming beneath her . |
| 29 | That Henry was now thinking of Richard 's keeping his duchy is suggested by the plans he was making to install John as King of Ireland , but what price would the Old King demand in return for this concession ? |
| 30 | Let the old things die . |