Example sentences of "the [n mass] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So where does the buck stop ? |
| 2 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
| 3 | Alternatively , I could find Scamp myself , then stand back and let the cavalry come . |
| 4 | And please keep your butties to yourself and let the sheep eat grass as nature intended . |
| 5 | It is far easier to let the fry feed naturally than to have to mess around with infusorians . |
| 6 | Azar and Punjab Singh agreed that Delhi was the best place to see the partridge challenge in the whole of the subcontinent . |
| 7 | Flick the switch left , watch the rpm build through 1,000 and , while pressing the igniter button in a bullet-shaped fairing on its top , inch the fuel cock gently forward . |
| 8 | We can not alter these circumstances , but we can try to make good use of such information that is available , and ‘ make the data speak for themselves ’ about other aspects , and this project will continue developments in this direction . |
| 9 | Since our model imposes no restrictions on how reservation wages or the effects of variables change over time , we can let the data decide whether each individual has an increasing/decreasing reservation wage , hazard , etc. over time . |
| 10 | But why do physicists want to unify phenomena , should they try to , and do the data justify their claims ? |
| 11 | We did not want to impose this restriction here but wanted to let the data reveal individual preferences . |
| 12 | How can the reindeer tell which is Norway and which is Sweden ? |
| 13 | Several people saw the aircraft recover from the turn to an essentially wings-level attitude with small erratic oscillations in bank angle . |
| 14 | During take-offs and landings , some Flying Control personnel would occupy a caravan placed near the start of the runway being used , and they would fire green or red flares to let the aircraft know if they were cleared to land or take-off , and on this occasion one of the men was very quick off the mark , saw the crash and was immediately on the spot , helping the crew to get out of the burning aircraft . |
| 15 | Müncheberg shot one of these down at 1715 , seeing the aircraft crash about a mile north-east of the airfield . |
| 16 | I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far . |
| 17 | What role can the Ecu play in the movement towards the economic and monetary union of Europe ? |
| 18 | But where did the gasworks get them from , do you know ? |
| 19 | What did the folk do ? |
| 20 | Maybe this question had some relevance to the fact that there was a large space vacant before the stage — or did the fish smell like fish ? |
| 21 | Let the fish speak for itself . |
| 22 | Why will the fish go into the jug ? |
| 23 | It will also tend to produce more compatible pairings if you let the fish choose for themselves . |
| 24 | The latter manifests itself as smooth , waxy blobs on fins and skin , making the fish look as though it had been swimming under a dripping candle . |
| 25 | Better still a tank divider could solve the problem while still letting the fish see each other . |
| 26 | Which run would the fish take ? |
| 27 | The first time I saw the fish inflate , the only other occupants of the tank were three Green Chromis . |
| 28 | But when he kept salmon in water with lethal levels of aluminium and much higher silicon concentrations , not only did the fish survive , they absorbed less aluminium than other fish kept in normal water . |
| 29 | These must be eliminated prior to any treatment if you wish to see the fish get better . |
| 30 | But , how did the fish get here ? |