Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have tried to sell the shares on several occasions through Harvard , having been told " now is not the time to sell , " and " best I can do is 5p ! " |
| 2 | Remember , the one thing you ca n't do is duck the issue . |
| 3 | Yet all you can do is carp and criticise . |
| 4 | I know I 'm so they they eat you see they 've eaten fish and chips and it goes through the air conditioning and it comes into the studio you all you can smell is fish and chips . |
| 5 | [ The minimum amount you can invest is £500 ] . |
| 6 | Other species which may occur are Alchemilla alpina and Salix herbacea . |
| 7 | The only thing they 'll understand are people out on the streets demonstrating . |
| 8 | Another possible condition which can occur is purpura haemorrhagica . |
| 9 | When I look back at my golden youth all I can remember is people trying to hang poor old Shallot . |
| 10 | The only dish that we did not like was fish cooked a la Galego , which seemed to mean boiled and then doused with spicy olive oil . |
| 11 | I mapped out our plans — the Palladium , the TV series — must have been £50,000 of work . |
| 12 | The council tax bill would have been £706 , making the bill £1,120 less under the council tax . |
| 13 | The council tax would have been £588 , a reduction for his constituents of £549 . |
| 14 | We might have been livestock that he was assessing for slaughter . |
| 15 | Sommer and Zeger have estimated that if full compliance had been achieved in the Aceh study the reduction in mortality in months 4 to 12 would have been 72% rather than the 41% given by the intention to treat analysis . |
| 16 | In the year ended 30 June 1992 , the group pre-tax profit would have been £120,000 higher ( 1991 — £1.23m higher ) under the old basis . |
| 17 | ‘ Today would have been sheep day in the old days , ’ the driver explained , as he hurried in to take over from his wife at the bar . |
| 18 | Had the limit not been stated , the rent would have been unascertainable , and the stamp duty would have been £2 . |
| 19 | And if the work had been put out to tender , savings to the council might have been £5m , the report found . |
| 20 | Under s 98 , the maximum penalty for the delay by this date would have been £4,560 . |
| 21 | Premiums would have been $10.8m lower |
| 22 | Under Labour 's tax regime , he 'd have been £1.5 million worse off . |
| 23 | ‘ We have been monitoring the downward trend over the last 10 years , and our impression is that the decline is beginning to bottom out : there may have been 5m fewer loans last year , but the drop was 15m in 1991–92 . |
| 24 | The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m . |
| 25 | If it had been ‘ five ’ then it would have been rhd . |
| 26 | If it had not been for Elizabeth taking her in off the streets and giving her a home , then Tilly 's own life would have been empty . |
| 27 | If they had maintained the commitment of the last Labour Government — 5.5% of GNP — British education would have been £3.6 billion better off this year . |
| 28 | The cost of the call via BT would have been £29.25 at the cheap rate after 8pm , BT confirmed . |
| 29 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 30 | Yet , had the Sri Lankan and British governments opted for a slightly lower dam , then the most heavily populated area , including the town of Teldeniya , would not have been flooded . |