Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You could n't so much as bruise the mosses on it but I 'd know . |
| 2 | The droppings they create will need to contact flies which in turn will be to the spiders whose garden of webs will soon bale the windows . |
| 3 | Did you design the plans ? |
| 4 | The men and their jobs — the individual building blocks — are to be glued together by supervisors who will absorb the uncertainties and variabilities that arise in the work situation . |
| 5 | To help absorb the effects , BP set up a company called D'Arcy Developments , which aimed to help the unemployed set up in business . |
| 6 | McGregor wrote that ‘ since no important decision ever pleases everyone in the organisation , he must also absorb the displeasures , and sometimes severe hostility , of those who would have taken a different course ’ . |
| 7 | But occasionally a company may absorb the shares into one of its own funds . |
| 8 | Therefore , it seems shareholders should absorb the risks of an enterprise in preference to management doing so . |
| 9 | A Because Henna is a plant , it can absorb the minerals from the soil in which it is growing . |
| 10 | These salts need to have a high ‘ Biological Availability ’ ie the horse has to be able to efficiently digest and absorb the minerals . |
| 11 | You should , however , absorb the recommendations of sections 2.1 — 2.5 , which ensure that your report will be well based . |
| 12 | Since most university students work from books to hand and find it impracticable to wait for inter-library loan requests — and you can not browse an inter-library loan book before it arrives , any more than you can browse the contents of books in the memory of an ‘ on-line ’ catalogue and not on a shelf in front of you — the result is a major diminution of standards . |
| 13 | Anyway , you 've got your chiller , let's price the pipes and let's go on Alright |
| 14 | And it does n't spare the blushes of Sean Connery , Roger Moore and the others who have been issued with the secret agent 's famous licence to kill . |
| 15 | We will spare the blushes of those forecasters ' who notched up the biggest errors . |
| 16 | She is , of course , renowned for her critical essays punctuated with cusses on the male of the species and does n't spare the blushes or the punches when exposing them to ridicule . |
| 17 | TO THE WOODS KEVIN MY GOOD MAN AND DO N'T SPARE THE HORSES ! ! |
| 18 | It has been the starting-point for many a vintage Sherlock Holmes adventure — ‘ London Bridge Station , cabby , and do n't spare the horses ’ . |
| 19 | He could have bought a return ticket because he knew that inserting a scintilla of doubt would spare the feelings of those close to him . |
| 20 | If Lancaster , with its castle and harbour , could have been garrisoned for James it could have provided a connecting link with France , but Forster could not spare the men and had to press on south , through wretched weather and along increasingly miry roads . |
| 21 | None of them came back , you see : the Americans could n't spare the trucks and the farms were n't allowed to use their petrol for anything but getting food to market . |
| 22 | Article 20 of the Brussels Convention provides that where a defendant domiciled in one Contracting State is sued in a court of another Contracting State the court shall stay the proceedings so long as it is not shown that the defendant has been able to receive the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence , or that all necessary steps have been taken to this end . |
| 23 | That was more a reflection on Dead Certain 's ring rustiness than her stamina and Asmussen said : ‘ She 's a very good filly and I 'm sure she 'll stay the Guineas mile because she 's got such a lovely relaxed temperament . ’ |
| 24 | We ask that You , Lord , will stay the hands of those who use violence against their fellows , in fighting , amongst the prisoners , and in camps . |
| 25 | A five-metre scrum in the closing minutes saw them splinter the Quins pack for Charles to touch down . |
| 26 | Soon Britain will be worrying about rising inflation ; not long after , it will rediscover the difficulties of conducting an anti-inflationary monetary policy without an exchange-rate peg — and will begin to wonder about rejoining the ERM . |
| 27 | A recent study by the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland concluded : ‘ Major problems in the hill farming business could consign the valleys to excessive tree planting with the danger that uneconomic holdings would be left . |
| 28 | The ECSC and EDC , it was believed , would finally consign the shibboleths of nationalism to a tardy grave . |
| 29 | Maybe next time we shall consign the polls to their proper place alongside the racing tips , but somehow I doubt it . |
| 30 | It was known about a year that they were gon na bump the prices up on karaokes except |