Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , they do rather want to take in a show , but we 'll have to see what 's open .
2 And he would probably rather enjoy looking after a woman , even one he had as little time for as her .
3 If this were not the case , then the two components would necessarily remain coupled in a way that would allow little difference from convection due to just one of them .
4 The court will obviously need to refer to the checklist in s1(3) when deciding whether an order will be better for the child than no order .
5 I am hoping to meet some of the children before the Marathon and when the pain barrier hits me at around 20 miles I will only need to think of the courage and bravery of these young children to give me the extra incentive I need to finish the race .
6 For it to have left archaeological evidence it would have been necessary for it to have been manifested by a physical act of some kind , which would necessarily need to result in the production of something capable of preservation in the archaeological context .
7 But why does it suddenly feel threatened by the contact of its peaceful owner ?
8 This was done by cross-tabulating the answer to the question : ‘ To what extent did you personally feel threatened by the review ? ’ against all the other items in the questionnaire .
9 I can only remember listening as a child 's body was carried down the stairs of my husband 's house , and the way the moon came into my kitchen as I listened .
10 Very frequently counsel will only begin to prepare on the night before the case is to be heard and will only meet with the client on the morning of the hearing .
11 ‘ We had good people in south London , but people do n't necessarily like talking to the South East .
12 As emphasised , sufferers in relapse do not necessarily return to use of the substance or behaviour of addiction .
13 How do you personally hope to change by the end of the millennium ?
14 Do n't suddenly stop moving at the end of a training session .
15 If he had not had this picture in his mind , he might inadvertently have written in a way that tried to satisfy different types of individual in the same book .
16 Any rise in aggregate demand which was rationally anticipated would have had no such effect — it would merely have led to a rise in prices .
17 Had she not met Flynn , she would merely have asked for the farms to be restored to Maran Hill ; but the news from London made her too bold .
18 Even if this outcome had not occurred , and by some miracle the world economy had continued to grow after 1918 , it is not possible that States would merely have accommodated to the requirements of growing world trade .
19 Kirkman and Hendy , the Earl of Camden 's agents , may merely have responded to the College 's advertisement , but another explanation for their involvement seems possible .
20 Nothing traumatic happened ; there were just the ordinary ups and downs which would naturally have occurred in the life of a humble family striving to make a reasonable living in a somewhat precarious way .
21 Whilst the smallest kind of town can only have served as a market point , those with populations exceeding 500 usually provided more extensive services to their localities , and some had developed specialised manufactures even if on a modest scale .
22 While this can only have arisen on the basis of particular cases , it too has now become fossilized ; it is now described in terms of relative order of fixed groups of adjectives , and there are even cases where purely formal requirements concerning serial order actually override the organization appropriate to the semantics of what is intended ( see Chapter 8 for some instances ) .
23 Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design .
24 Pictures that could only have come from the Americans or the British , ’ Kragan answered warily .
25 The Palace believes that information could only have come from the princess 's office .
26 After that , there was a series of horrific , shaming cameos that could only have come from the unconscious .
27 Your investigators now will not only have to keep to the law but they will have to obey regulations as well , or only occasionally and with their eye very much over their shoulder slide past them .
28 She could only have driven about a mile , she estimated , but as she trudged back along the road it seemed like a marathon trek .
29 During the period the hired car will be insured under this policy in exactly the same way as your own car is insured and you will only have to pay for the petrol used .
30 Fribble was not really very much of a loss to this expedition , because he would only have got in the way , falling asleep at important meetings ( Lugh liked meetings ) , and eating all of their supplies .
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