Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the region has traditionally written off 5 per cent of rates or poll tax bad debts — this year it could be £15 million — the finance director , Tony Taylor , promised yesterday that the council would vigorously pursue non-payers for the rest of the cash . |
| 2 | His ideas are being applied in settings as diverse as a rich Dallas school ( one computer for every five pupils ) and an institution for the severely handicapped ( who use their turtles to thereby explore space in a way otherwise denied them ) . |
| 3 | It has been SCOTVEC 's consistent view that centres can not only prepare students/trainees to the level of occupational competence , but can also model the requirements of the workplace . |
| 4 | Democracy , then , in Syracuse , Akragas and elsewhere , meant the rule of a prosperous agricultural class , which did not necessarily regard Carthage as an enemy , or benevolent co-existence with Carthage as a sin . |
| 5 | So do you think , then , that this policy could only cover people with an income . |
| 6 | Similarly we can only make inferences about the nature of learning from observing these changes . |
| 7 | Thinking can only make use of the patterns we have acquired in the past . |
| 8 | Even if later generations of beam weapons could provide better shields against nuclear attack , they would probably only buy time in the arms race . |
| 9 | Several historians for instance have challenged Shorter 's notion of the emancipating effect of women 's work and have shown that even during industrialisation , it was performed in the context of the family economy and therefore did not necessarily free women from the control of either their families or traditional values . |
| 10 | Better bury gold in the embankments , than put it in ornaments on the stations . |
| 11 | ‘ I should think she would welcome a regular salary instead of her present partnership , which can only yield peanuts at the moment . ’ |
| 12 | ( iv ) Sub-paragraph ( b ) ( iii ) above does not apply to the notepaper of a recognised body if a designation would merely repeat part of the body 's name . |
| 13 | Here the secondary process does not just operate through discourse , but is structured like discourse , while the primary process does not only discharge energy through the use of perceptual memories , but is structured like a ‘ perceptual field ’ . |
| 14 | Matallana , who emphasized that he was not a communist and had no regrets for his past anti-guerrilla role , stated that the M-19 had proved itself to be politically honest and now shared his belief that Colombia could only achieve change via the polls . |
| 15 | They could only speak Greek to the Romans , and it was for the Romans to decide whether they wanted an interpreter . |
| 16 | But the divine message will only bring gloom to the Greens . |
| 17 | Both Soviet and American leaders , by the late 1980s , had a common interest in a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war and in an international agreement guaranteeing freedom of movement in the Persian Gulf , but neither could necessarily manipulate events in the region to its advantage and neither , perhaps , quite understood the nature of a popular movement so far removed from its own cultural assumptions . |
| 18 | The policy as expressed does not necessarily exclude development outside the area specified but directs development areas as a primary consideration . |
| 19 | In fact , the text can only give bones to the story . |
| 20 | Yet literature can only give access to the values entertained by the members of literate communities and in these only for persons able to apprehend what they read . |
| 21 | In the case of an irremediable breach the landlord need only give notice of the nature of that breach and then proceed to forfeiture . |
| 22 | Though the technology that telecoms and computer firms use is similar , success in telecoms services does not necessarily bring success in the computer , or telecoms-hardware , business . |
| 23 | The fact that his life is totally unrecorded until 866 need not suggest that Ermentrude 's own influence was limited , but shows that a royal marriage did not necessarily bring honours to the bride 's close kinsmen . |
| 24 | Because Britain is largely self-sufficient in its main sources of energy , the Government can perhaps claim immunity from the charge that it is exploiting deliveries from oil-exporting states to swell national tax coffers . |
| 25 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 26 | There was so much about her that Louise admired , she could only suspend judgement on the rest . |
| 27 | Of course this is a work where even Karajan 's detractors can only suspend prejudice in the face of his two superlative versions on DG , but Rostropovich communicates a sense of stark yet searing tragedy which makes his performance , of the first movement in particular , very special . |
| 28 | The tightest tight shoppers are in Wales , where nine out of 10 women would only spend £5 on a pair , even for a special event such as a wedding . |
| 29 | The rejection of authoritarian socialism does not necessarily constitute proof of the rejection of programs and values associated with the social market or social democratic welfare state . |
| 30 | First , there is direct inconsistency in the sense that compliance with one would necessarily constitute breach of the other . |