Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So do you think , then , that this policy could only cover people with an income . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It also follows that the fact that a variation order has been issued after the contractual completion date does not necessarily provide grounds for an extension of time . |
| 6 | Implicit in the name is the ridiculous idea that you can only have fun on a funboard . |
| 7 | In some bedrooms , there may be enough space to fit a shower cubicle , but others may only have space for a bedroom basin . |
| 8 | ‘ A renewal of confidence in the UK will only take place through a change in Government policy , ’ he said . |
| 9 | However , the hard copy formatter will only add modules into a volume when : |
| 10 | The use of COMMUNITEL as a package linked to the use of Prestel and the development of information skills is well documented in the Houghton Regis School project and has been used by Prestel Education as publicity material The potential uses of such packages can be seen by examining the different ways in which school librarians and pupils can effectively present information in a novel and professional way . |
| 11 | Exclusion of liability for breach of warranty does not cover breach of a condition ( Wallis Son & Wells v Pratt & Haynes [ 1911 ] AC 394 ; Baldry v Marshall [ 1925 ] 1 KB 260 ) . |
| 12 | Masculinity is defined by what it is not ; the term ‘ masculinity ’ does not make sense without a knowledge of the term ‘ femininity ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ You should not make friends with an elephant keeper , ’ he had said , ‘ unless you first have room to entertain an elephant . ’ |
| 14 | The reply , then , it can be said , does not make use of a feature of effects independent of their being necessitated events , which feature can be used to argue that they are necessitated events . |
| 15 | An observational study of a production line , say , although it might want to talk a great deal about the alienative effects of such work , could not make use of an attitude scale in the way that a questionnaire study might . |
| 16 | We should be cautious about using these results to argue that verbal pretraining does not influence performance on a recognition memory test . |
| 17 | Secondly , Meshkinpour did not regard confirmation of a diagnosis as influencing patient management whereas we felt that it was of value in certain situation such as in patients with suspected achalasia before myotomy . |
| 18 | Equally , the rules and practices of the SRO should not restrict competition to an extent which is greater than necessary for the protection of investors . |
| 19 | The report comes out strongly against the imposition of trade sanctions against countries on environmental grounds : in an implicit reference to the recent US action against tuna imports from Mexico [ see ED 55 ] , the report says , " a country may not restrict imports of a product solely because it originates in a country whose environmental policies are different . " |
| 20 | ‘ Can I make it absolutely clear we do not intend this to happen , will not let this happen and will not introduce change in a way which might cause it to happen ? ’ |
| 21 | You can not stimulate success by a tax policy that penalises the successful and drives small traders bankrupt . ’ |
| 22 | The DC does not need assessment by a user ( other than the specified user ) , who manages a package outside the structure referencing one of the modules in the steering file . |
| 23 | Punchy thermals which delight the wings of gliders and do not trouble planes with a bit of weighty metal behind them are no longer conjured up by the morning sun to drive trepid microlight flyers back to earth . |
| 24 | ( 10 ) The references in this section to the execution of a deed by an individual do not include execution by a corporation sole and the reference in subsection ( 7 ) above to signing , sealing or delivery by an individual does not include signing , sealing or delivery by such a corporation . |
| 25 | That person may hold ‘ citizenship ’ as a legal , national status , but does not display citizenship as a quality . |
| 26 | Do not buy snails from a tank containing empty shells or dead snails . |
| 27 | It is one of civil politeness with the inn keeper realising that he could not beat Turnour in a fight and so he is prepared to bend under Turnour 's will as shown by his ‘ almost ’ friendliness when telling Turnour about his house and his asking of when Turnour would like to eat . |
| 28 | If the present article can not answer every question raised by Carse , it will answer this one : ‘ did they [ at the Opéra ] or did they not beat time with a baton throughout the whole opera ? ’ ( p.311 ) . |
| 29 | Pauline Mitchell , head of housing , said : ‘ We do not have any areas for any particular people and we certainly do not identify travellers as a group . |
| 30 | PERT and CPM do not permit loops to be formed and can not accommodate repetition of a job . |