Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other end of the scale , romantic interest would only exist at a very superficial level , and certainly there would be no question of relationships forming between the TARDIS incumbents . |
| 2 | Therefore , high concentrations of soluble calcium can only exist at the relatively low pH of the proximal small intestine , or when no phosphate is present , as can be derived from the observed negative correlation between the logarithm of the solubility product of calcium phosphate and the pH of faecal water . |
| 3 | Still , the taboos have been the source of much mirth : the stand-up 's traditional reliance on smut and mothers-in-law could only exist in a largely sex-negative society . |
| 4 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 5 | He looked at me , calmly threw his jacket into the car and then launched into what I can only describe as the most unbelievable martial arts display I have ever seen . |
| 6 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 7 | However , re-use of interface details will not necessarily result in a substantially similar expression and , in the example in Figure 3 , the expression ( program listings and structure ) may be quite different . |
| 8 | For the foreseeable future , units involving the microcomputer as a teaching aid can only contribute to a very small proportion of curriculum time — at present certainly no more than a few hundred hours out of about 50,000 hours of ‘ different ’ teaching in the school curriculum for ages 5 to 18 . |
| 9 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 10 | But the former will only switch at a relatively low speed ( 42MHz ) , and the latter produce complex , power-hungry circuits . |
| 11 | Enlightened anticlerical views could only spread among a fairly small educated élite and in Russia , in spite of some ultraconservatives , it was the ruling class which was alienated from the church rather than the mass of the people . |
| 12 | ‘ You ca n't drive round it in a car and say , ‘ I 've seen the Broads ’ , because you can only get to the most beautiful and interesting parts by boat or on foot , and you 've got to be pretty determined . |
| 13 | It can only operate in a fairly narrow range of light intensity . |
| 14 | As such , they may be more appropriate for urban areas , where most of the housing in any area tends to be of a similar age and type and the blanket effect of the area-based policy will at least have some logical basis ( although even in inner cities problems do not necessarily come in a spatially concentrated form — see Smith 1979a ) . |
| 15 | There have in fact been achievements in the care of the mentally handicapped in our society , and one of the fundamental barriers still to be broken — that of public opinion — will only come from a more positive attitude among the media to the good things that are happening . |
| 16 | I had never seen a kiln fired before and the unpredictable behaviour of live flame could only add to the already restless sensuality of the afternoon . |
| 17 | Laboratory experiments can only last for a relatively short time , and have to be held within the confines of the laboratory . |
| 18 | I can not think of a more patsy , unquestioning system better designed to produce the cosy relationship about which the hon. Gentleman so frequently speaks . |
| 19 | But there is no question so difficult that Mr Kinnock can not think of a more difficult answer . |
| 20 | An egoist who tries to ground his ethic in ‘ Be aware ’ would have to break down the analogy between personal and other viewpoints ; and to do so he could not appeal to the most obvious difference , that while ‘ here ’ and ‘ there ’ are exchanged by the agent 's movements , and ‘ now ’ is continuously changing into ‘ then ’ , he remains to himself unalterably ‘ I ’ . |
| 21 | Whatever the origins of the present crisis , does he agree that the brunt should not fall on the most vulnerable in the community — the elderly , the handicapped and school children ? |
| 22 | The loss should not fall on the totally innocent taxpayer whose only fault is that it paid what the legislature improperly said was due . |
| 23 | The zebra loach has become so specialized that it can not survive in a less turbulent environment . |
| 24 | Whether to just photocopy off a very good original |
| 25 | Also , even bureaucrats , those Weberian embodiments of modernity , do not behave in a purely rational-legal manner , we shall find . |
| 26 | The scheme did not focus on the mentally frail ; although a quarter of the cases involved some confusion or disorientation , only three per cent involved severe confusion . |
| 27 | In common parlance ‘ the Crown ’ probably signifies the monarch if , indeed , it does not refer to a rather elaborate piece of headgear on show in the Tower of London . |
| 28 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
| 29 | The capacity to show habituation , he observed , occurs relatively early on in the development of the baby Aplysia , while sensitization does not appear until a relatively late stage . |
| 30 | 16:14 , Judg. 9:23 , I Kgs. 22:21 ) ; later they are personalised in Satan , whose name does not appear before the rather late books of I Chronicles ( 21 : 1ff ) , Job ( 1 : 6ff ) and Zechariah ( 3:1ff ) . |