Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Foundations etc. can only make donations to non profit-making organisations , 2 . |
| 2 | They must be made to realise that driving skills alone will not prevent accidents , says the AA report . |
| 3 | The report however , claims that protection alone will not restore numbers , and has taken steps towards establishing a more practical and active method of nature conservation . |
| 4 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 5 | The army chief of staff warned that naval and air action alone would not achieve Radford 's objectives , while the troops which were needed to fight a land war were just not available . |
| 6 | Schools alone can not make guarantees about the quality of education . |
| 7 | Film fans also should n't miss biographies of Maggie Smith by Michael Coveney ( Gollancz , £16.99 ) and Judy Garland by John Fricke ( Little Brown , £19.99 ) . |
| 8 | This little fella certainly would n't begrudge Les Stocker his MBE . |
| 9 | To take a similar proportion of everyone 's income away will not affect individuals ' capacities to express their preferences between goods or services though it does bias their choices between goods and leisure . |
| 10 | My clerk just can not keep control of this . |
| 11 | Your presence tonight wo n't cause comment , I promise . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ With the nesting period stretching for up to 10 weeks , the bill for this kind of activity in Orkney alone can quickly reach £20,000 . |
| 13 | Ten-year-old Marvin Grugel just ca n't decide Picture : DAVE KENDALL |
| 14 | This would be fine but the natural type of memory for a modern machine , a 286 or 386 , is extended memory and this means that often a machine will have 4 or 8 MBytes of memory that a simple spreadsheet just can not make use of . |
| 15 | Many pupils who had left a schoolbook behind would rather risk punishment than walk through the dark room with the animals smiling as they watched you hunt for your things . |
| 16 | THE PARTICIPATION of Grand Frere in the opening race at Ludlow today may hardly seem epoch making , but he will propel Martin Pipe to yet another landmark . |
| 17 | Also , a Third World country which depends on an export crop for foreign exchange simply can not change crops in times of recession — it takes several years and many dollars to restructure an industry and to plant new crops . |
| 18 | Less known companies certainly will not get cash from them without ratings , preferably from the two top firms . |
| 19 | Essential oils , expensive patent ‘ cures ’ , anti-cellulite creams and tough massage alone can not shift cellulite — especially that which has been in the hips and thighs for many years . |
| 20 | in the eastern parts of this county Your Majesty 's forests of Windsor are particularly burdened with the innumerable increase of deer , which if they shall go on so fast , in ten years more will neither leave food nor room for any other creature in the forests . |
| 21 | Regardless of the Indonesian investigation , will the Minister tell us exactly what the Government intend to do to convey to Indonesia the message that the international community simply will not tolerate outrages such as last week 's massacre of innocent mourners in East Timor ? |
| 22 | Doing the same calculations today would probably give America the world 's biggest trade surplus . |
| 23 | The image of a body simply can not do justice , we are saying , to the reality of — and our complex emotional reaction to — overpowering physical realities like the sea or the night-sky ( however much we may be told that the stars are a twinkle in God 's eye ! ) . |
| 24 | The demands of social realism require a resolution of problems within the framework of the text — a requirement which must remain unfulfilled since the format of social realism paradoxically can not offer solutions , as the text must ignore politics external to the closed internal world created . |
| 25 | The head alone can not overcome resistances and antagonisms which lie outside school . |
| 26 | The lines made by the two dancers together must always have room to breathe and to be seen separately if the whole design is to flow . |
| 27 | In Band B , address codes alone could not prevent interference . |
| 28 | Spartak have proved themselves the masters of scoring away goals and just one strike tonight will seriously jeopardise Liverpool 's hopes of reaching the quarter-finals . |
| 29 | Sorry , i just could nt let people think green was getting impartial in his old age . |
| 30 | ‘ Jim Smith has done a tremendous job at Porstmouth , ’ says Lyall , ‘ They play quick-pass football and any team who play the ball early can always create space . |