Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party .
2 Ravel 's Chansons madecasses , though the music sweats with sultry southern heat , does not bathe one with the swirling sounds of his orchestral timbres .
3 Buying a ticket for last night 's game does NOT guarantee one for the all-Ireland clash in November — unless a formal application was made at the time of purchase to the IFA office .
4 You can not do everything at the same time .
5 Two-thirds of a total of 324 companies interviewed said that the environment was not a trading issue last year , and 59 per cent agreed that it would not become one in the forthcoming year .
6 Stung , the League said yesterday that they expect ITV to come up with a new date within the next fortnight and they will not tolerate one beyond the scheduled season 's end of May 5 .
7 No you do n't this is it , we 'll just dump everything , I said to Mark we 'll just dump everything in the back room and we 'll stay in the back room till we 've sorted the front room
8 I was very discouraged and did not approach anyone in the other region , fearing the same response .
9 This will not surprise anyone in the old tradition which opposes Reason to Experience and contends that the absolute knowledge which science seeks comes only when Reason certifies the findings of Experience .
10 I did not try one with the full sixty degrees , which is almost a full airbrake setting and would doubtless produce a still slower stall speed , but the Bölkow is obviously capable of getting into a very short field if required .
11 There is no small irony in this , as applications to purchase foreign technology in the first place will only be approved if the relevant Soviet machine building ministry can not produce something of the appropriate standard and quantity in the time required .
12 The other one , could I just correct something on the last line of er , comment at the bottom of the , bottom of page two .
13 I , who can not reach anything on the top shelf at the supermarket ?
14 However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description .
15 But Ford could not get one in the new cap ! !
16 ‘ He 's got plenty of pace — but I 'll bet you £1,000 he would not get anything like the same results as Waqar and Wasim .
17 An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise .
18 In their conclusions the researchers did warn , however , that the samples they studied were small and that they could not say anything about the long-term effects of increased exposure to ultraviolet radiation .
19 You can hardly play anything above the 12th fret ( I know Jimi did , but he was Jimi ) !
20 But they could probably learn something from the occupational pluralism practised by crofters as an adaption to living on agricultural holdings too small to be economically viable .
21 Before I refer to the particular provisions dealing with administrative receivers , I should also say something about the statutory background to the provisions and the evident purpose of the innovation of the concept of an administrative receiver .
22 Team-teaching alongside a knowledgeable and enthusiastic colleague can effectively take one to the next stage .
23 And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know !
24 He he did n't make one at the same time as , you know , to actually show the folds and that
25 ‘ I shall get into something comfortable , ’ she said , ‘ and then I sha n't want anything for the whole afternoon . ’
26 If they answer the phone and say they do n't know anything about the bed-and-breakfast bookings , a customer could be lost immediately .
27 ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’
28 But , even if you do n't know anything about the deeper workings , you can apply some common sense guidelines to the same effect .
29 When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession .
30 And do n't buy one with the front headlamp glass missing : they 're almost impossible to replace .
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