Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're holding an arm-wrestling and spinach-risotto evening at the Cock and Pullet in Poplar and we 'd very much like you to do a twenty-five minute cabaret and cut the first slice of a twelve-metre onion quiche , baked by MOLES , you know , Mothers of Optometrists Lesbians , Esperantists and Social Security Clerks . ’ |
| 2 | Even if a firm has roubles in a Kazakh bank , it can not necessarily use them to pay a Russian supplier . |
| 3 | Callaghan seemed to be implying that it was not enough to offer young people a broad liberal curriculum in school , if such a curriculum did not prepare them to face the unthinking anonymity of the factory production line . |
| 4 | She did not want to talk to her friend about Jamie , and she did not trust herself to hold a lengthy conversation with Bridget without mentioning his visit . |
| 5 | Cassie , who by now was trembling so violently that she could not trust herself to lift the loaded tray , said lightly : ‘ Take the tray , will you , Jenny ? |
| 6 | The second list tells you which foods naturally contain those items — but remember , if you really can not bring yourself to eat a particular range of foods , it is always possible to take the lacking vitamin in tablet form . |
| 7 | ( I can not bring myself to follow the grotesque habit which Methodists seem to have learned from the Labour Party of dropping the definite article and so ‘ Conference does this or that ’ never ‘ The Conference . ’ ) |
| 8 | Each passenger is a different face of white colonialism : the overt racist who can not bring himself to use a Black doctor to treat his sick wife ; the hypocritical racist who secretly has an affair with his Black housekeeper ; the white liberal who alternates between ’ slumming ’ it with the natives , and living with the whites , not quite willing or able to give up his white privilege . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was a show of support for his disciplining of Gilchrist ; perhaps there was the feeling that Worrell had drifted away from the hub of West Indies cricket ; or perhaps once again the selectors simply could not bring themselves to appoint a black man . |
| 10 | In a curious way , and despite its commitment to vigorous prosecution of the war , Common Wealth provided a refuge for pacifist-minded individuals who could not bring themselves to oppose the anti-fascist war . |
| 11 | For a moment Louisa could not bring herself to answer the frail smile . |
| 12 | Betty Rizzo suggests that Leapor 's metaphor is a sign of her limitations as a poet ; she can not bring herself to write the simple word ‘ mayfly ’ [ Rizzo ] . |
| 13 | Likewise , there is no reason why adjectives which are restrictive in attributive position should not be acceptable if used , say , predicatively with the same nouns ; only in that case , we do not normally expect them to have a restrictive value . |
| 14 | It is perhaps surprising that Mr Lamont did not do something to stop the iniquitous practice of large firms delaying due payments to small firms , which has put may of the latter into serious difficulty . |
| 15 | It is perhaps surprising that Mr Lamont did not do something to stop the iniquitous practice of large firms delaying due payments to small firms , which has put many of the latter into serious difficulty . |
| 16 | Peter had discovered that his five villages would not like him to have a working wife . |
| 17 | ‘ It would not occur me to drink a low-alcohol beer , ’ says Alison , a 23-year-old sales assistant . |
| 18 | In our opinion his health will no longer enable him to sustain the heavy burdens inseparable from the office of Prime Minister . |
| 19 | If they fiddle around with the short-term situation that will not enable them to win ; it will not enable them to get a better general election performance . |
| 20 | It does not enable us to identify the faulty premise . |
| 21 | However , this is insufficient because by itself it does not enable us to understand the diverse experience of women of different ethnicities . |
| 22 | All three IBOA Resolutions on the Order Paper were adopted unanimously and as space does not enable us to reproduce the full statements made to Congress a precis is given here-under . |
| 23 | You , Mr. Speaker , would not permit me to give a full answer to the right hon. Gentleman 's question , which reminds me of a minute that I sent out , when I went to the Home Office in 1987 , to the then permanent secretary . |
| 24 | However , the fact that the defence may resort to procedural tactics or that the weakness of some investigations may become apparent under re-investigation should not lead us to reject a formal mechanism of quality control . |
| 25 | I did not intend it to include a mere error of law . |
| 26 | I mean the erm I still had to have completely new guttering in the summer because you can not get anything to mend the other walls because it 's the wrong side ! |
| 27 | The farmers were efficient but the size of the unit did not allow them to make a full-time living . |
| 28 | Satan was never wronged nor despised in Heaven ; the exaltation of the son was meant for the good of all the angels but he was so stupid his pride would not allow him to tolerate the unintentional insult . |
| 29 | But it would not allow one to predict the detailed sequence of changes in any run . |
| 30 | Just like it does not allow us to sing an old song that was sung often , Show Me The Road And The Miles To Dundee perhaps that 's the song we should be singing just now in these particular circumstances and be it the day , maybe even in Portsmouth this particular day . |