Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] to [noun sg] " 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 | Although they are a larger and less tightly-knit group , this might well also apply to agency secretarial workers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These in turn could again both contribute to vulnerability and increase the occurrence of adverse events . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This may as easily refer to discourse type as to discourse topic ( Lecture notes on X , for example , or An article about Y ) . |
| 7 | In other exercises , the goal was to reduce the variety of link types so that visual inspection of the semantic net would more readily lead to recognition of repeating patterns . |
| 8 | Neither will sit side by side with Sinn Fein because they do not concede the right of anyone to bomb their way to the conference table and they fear that , if the talks hit problems , Sinn Fein would once again resort to violence to get its way . |
| 9 | Blackie , commenting on the evidence given to the 1968 Select Committee , claimed that those wishing to see reports abolished did not realise that ‘ the written report is a safeguard for teachers , and if abolished … would almost inevitably lead to information being passed orally and , in effect , secretly ’ . |
| 10 | The Minister will probably also refer to availability to colleges and educational establishments of access funds to alleviate instances of hardship . |
| 11 | By 1995 , it reckons , founders will no longer have to fork out the $4.5m they do at present to keep the organisation going . |
| 12 | Perhaps the women of the next generation will no longer submit to defloration in the normal way and will give birth to children only on condition of freedom from pain … ’ |
| 13 | Sugar and fat are also frowned on in the report because they can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , by selective choice , the articulate , financially secure and politically active can also indirectly contribute to school failure — not perhaps in their district and their child 's school , but in the schools and districts to which such influence is never brought ( or the area from which they have moved away ) . |
| 15 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |