Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , simply in what Scruton classifies as perversions — masturbation , bestiality , necrophilia , paedophilia , sado-masochism , homosexuality , incest , fetishism — he shows himself to have accepted uncritically the sexological/Freudian classification of perversions as developed in the nineteenth century . ’ |
| 2 | But his failure represents a great lost opportunity to have avoided both the damaging interlude of the SDP and the antics of the loony left which kept Labour out of the office for a decade . |
| 3 | ‘ I seem to have got entirely the wrong end of the stick this afternoon , ’ she said sadly . |
| 4 | This means that the initial state of the universe would have to have had exactly the same temperature everywhere in order to account for the fact that the microwave background has the same temperature in every direction we look . |
| 5 | The tablets did n't seem to have had even the slightest effect . |
| 6 | The employment opportunities for working-class girls — whether in factory work or in domestic service — would not appear to have excited either the same sympathy or alarm . |
| 7 | He would have been wiser to have published only the first part of this book . |