Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some authorities require a restriction on the number of weeks a buyer may purchase so as to avoid the possibility of permanent use by a single owner . |
| 2 | Currently much effort is being directed at understanding the organizational processes of questioning and debate which such audits should stimulate rather than seeing the problem in terms of administrative techniques alone . |
| 3 | The EEC should decide soon whether to raise the prices , and help Philips sell more European players . |
| 4 | It was accepted that the review should go ahead as proposed . |
| 5 | Therefore , as the firm takes on more of the cheaper form of financing , debt , the cost of equity should rise so as to offset the advantage and maintain a constant cost of capital regardless of the debt — equity ratio . |
| 6 | Amongst those who disagreed it was frequently asserted that the provision of a sealed form 53 prior to completion might facilitate rather than hinder the commission of a fraud . |
| 7 | But the danger was that the pound would fall further than planned , said Mr Payne . |
| 8 | Soldering must be carried out with great care , noting that most ties will melt instantly if touched by a soldering iron or molten solder . |
| 9 | Although it is argued that the total value of the firm will remain constant , it is shown that this will be so because the price of equity will fall so as to offset the impact of using debt . |
| 10 | But some enterprising sponsor could do worse than bring him over to Scotland before the Scottish Championships and the World Championship trials in Birmingham in July . |
| 11 | Members of the project carry out their own maintenance , as few sites would survive long if handed over to the local authority . |
| 12 | Lucille thought the girl and the cavalry officer made a very fine couple , but she wished the girl would smile rather than hold her face in such a cold and supercilious expression . |
| 13 | However , as my right hon. Friend the Minister of State for the Armed Forces said in the recent defence debate , under our restructuring proposals , the proportion of Scottish units in the Army overall will increase rather than decrease . |
| 14 | A county council will decide tomorrow whether to appeal against the Government 's decision to cap the authority . |
| 15 | Unused buttercream will freeze well until needed . |
| 16 | The exchange will decide today whether to restore short-selling in Bond Corp . |
| 17 | For the same reason of poor ventilation , the less resistant ramblers can suffer badly when grown against walls . |
| 18 | Thus containment can effect rather than defeat change ( and this does not presuppose the desirability or otherwise of that change ; it might be reaction or progress or , as in this play , complex elements of both with each differently appropriated for different audience positions ) . |
| 19 | Unlike the demos you get on ZZAP ! 64 covertapes , PD demos tend to illustrate what the programmer or the host machine can do rather than try to sell you a game . |
| 20 | The West could do worse than to base its policy towards the Middle East on that aspiration . |
| 21 | A job may take longer than planned , but if the project keeps its importance and its relevance to Soviet needs amid the shifting equations of economic growth and need for foreign exchange — then it will be done . |
| 22 | In so far as it is necessary to have new political institutions , the Community should cherish rather than threaten the rich diversity of nations and regions within it . |
| 23 | Undaunted by this tremendous loss , Chris Horsley , co-owner of the Spitfire with Nick , decided that the restoration should go ahead as planned and that MAPS should carry out the work . |
| 24 | A well-reared puppy should have a fair amount of bone and a strong , straight front , that is the forelegs should appear parallel when viewed from the front , the feet turning neither in nor out ( a certain allowance may be made for puppyish softness ) . |
| 25 | The logic of this is defensible enough where there are members of the public to be terrified , but it was subsequently held that the offence need not take place in public , on the grounds that bystanders might become just as terrified in private as they would in public . |
| 26 | He issued a stern warning that western allies could intervene militarily if fighting resumes and humanitarian relief efforts are thwarted . |
| 27 | Since anthropology is so much involved with recreating alien belief-worlds , with all the varied and competing value-systems that exist in other cultures , just as in our own , literary critics who would wish to acquire more flexibility in dealing with that collision of view-points which forms the basic experience of drama could do worse than to consult the anthropologists . |
| 28 | A fourth round of Premiers ' talks was due to be held in Pyongyang , the North Korean capital on Feb. 25-28 , 1991 , although the South 's refusal to cancel the next Team Spirit exercise ( due to begin in January ) made it unclear whether this meeting would go ahead as scheduled . |
| 29 | Veljko Kadijevic on Sept. 12 rejected an order from Mesic ( the nominal commander of the JNA ) to withdraw troops to barracks within 48 hours and reiterated that the JNA would act only if ordered by the Presidency as a whole . |
| 30 | Mahathir said that the formation of such a group would benefit rather than stifle world trade . |