Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many patients are quite fit when admitted to the ward , they will become completely dependent when they have an anaesthetic and may only slowly return to independence after a surgical procedure . |
| 2 | In other words , Bukharin completely forgot that the extended reproduction … must not only lead to growth of c and v but also to that of α , i.e. to the growth of the individual consumption of the capitalists . |
| 3 | But you should not simply stick to subjects in which you did well at school . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll not even get to Reggane and that 's only a hundred and sixty kilometres into the desert . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll damn well speak to Miranda myself , ’ Mike growled . |
| 6 | The fact that the power of was not confined to the Mufti alone is of some importance in assessing the nature of the Muftilik in general and will therefore be dealt with in greater detail further on ; suffice it to say for the moment that Mustakimzade 's argument is disappointing in its lack of development and of positive evidence in support of it and that , in the terms in which it is stated and in view of the material he seems to have used in compiling his book , his argument might equally well apply to Molla Fenari . |
| 7 | Although they are a larger and less tightly-knit group , this might well also apply to agency secretarial workers . |
| 8 | I 'd rather not go to Liverpool ! |
| 9 | It was sufficient for the king 's purpose to avoid excommunication , but Anselm could not yet return to England because ‘ not being willing [ as Eadmer reports ] in any way to violate his obedience to the pope ’ he could have no dealings with the king 's excommunicated ministers . |
| 10 | ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money . |
| 11 | ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money' |
| 12 | He could not even mention to Dinah that he felt uncertain , unsteady , blind with pain ; he could imagine her brisk reply ‘ Take it to a doctor . ’ |
| 13 | He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance . |
| 14 | That is something one could now probably do to Kinzu . |
| 15 | When he was at school , but he used to go home for the Christmas holidays and nobody saw him again till about March cos he was , he could n't even get to Rothbury he was snowed in . |
| 16 | My mind was so wrapped round with skeins of my own distant past that I could n't immediately come to grips with the demands of the present . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never been into that ‘ I wandered lonely as a cloud ’ type poetry , could n't really get to grips with it . |
| 18 | ‘ Raymond 's family could n't quite come to terms with eating something sweet at the start of a meal , ’ said Ilsa , laughing . |
| 19 | One died recently , but she could n't ever come to terms with the fact that her house had been burgled , and that the er , that some of her most valued contents had been taken . |
| 20 | The same reasoning could equally well apply to weasels and badgers , who live in burrows , but the Hopi follow a quite different line of thought ; they hold that the meat of these animals is favourable to child-rearing because of their habit of working their way through the ground and ‘ getting out ’ at some other place when they are chased into a hole . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was because she went to an early Mass to have breakfast ready for them when they returned ; but she did n't like lying in bed in the mornings anyway , and as he had said many times ( admittedly without great enthusiasm ) they could quite easily go to Mass together , and wait a lit–de longer for breakfast . |
| 22 | These in turn could again both contribute to vulnerability and increase the occurrence of adverse events . |
| 23 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 24 | Yet the first statement could very easily apply to Death and Hell ( Matthew xvi , 18 , ‘ and the gates of hell shall not prevail ’ ) , the second to Christ and the Second Coming . |
| 25 | Wendy 's boyfriend was pleased with the idea of being a father at first but he could never really come to terms with the reality of it , nor his responsibilities . |
| 26 | This may as easily refer to discourse type as to discourse topic ( Lecture notes on X , for example , or An article about Y ) . |
| 27 | The profane word elohim ( which need not necessarily refer to Yahweh ) is now used to describe Saul 's fits of mania and ecstasy . |
| 28 | Every community will have its secrets , and every individual in it will have views that they would not normally express to others , but do express to the researcher . |
| 29 | This would not normally apply to emergency resolutions . |
| 30 | I wonder whether Christ would not rather go to Calvary again than to suffer the unfaithfulness of some of his friends . |