Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] a [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly we should want to provide a comfortable home full of modern appliances for our families . |
| 2 | Then you 'll enjoy seeing a little bit more of it . ’ |
| 3 | Well we could 've got a second hand one , but I mean what I 'll pay for a second hand one we might as well get |
| 4 | However , the first segment would have given a British hearer immediate access to the contextual assumption about house-warming parties , which means that the extra processing entailed by making these assumptions explicit would not have been rewarded by any contextual effect . |
| 5 | The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter . |
| 6 | An oncologist may have to diagnose a malignant tumour several times a day , an ophthalmologist may have to tell five patients , in the one day , that they are going blind . |
| 7 | Applicants seeking credits for areas of study , for Sections of the certificate level areas C1 or C2 , or for elements from within an area of study at diploma level must submit their application to the HCIMA and should have received a favourable decision prior to enrolment on a programme or area of study . |
| 8 | To do so , they will have to issue a good deal more paper than they would normally like . |
| 9 | Those who will have to work a little bit harder to reach their full potential , coming from east of the Rockies where rugby is a spring and summer game , are Alberta scrum-half Tom Liddle , Newfoundland flanker or no.8 Rod Snow and the Ontario trio of Charron , Lougheed and Scott MacKinnon , a fullback or centre and brother of Gordon . |
| 10 | In retrospect , I would probably have saved a little bit more , but there it is — I did manage to save a little bit anyway . |
| 11 | … and since this is the nature page , readers may just have noticed a Conservative Party pre-election poster featuring a giant , savings-sucking mosquito . |
| 12 | Only then did the American boy notice his extraordinarily long curling fingernails , the mark of a high-ranking courtier that would have made a Western-style handshake awkward and discomfiting for both parties . |
| 13 | For example we could have used a simple computer such as the DEC PDP-8 , or a suitable hypothetical computer such as that presented for didactic purposes by Knuth ( 1968 ) . |
| 14 | In consequence , individuals who wish or need to make their own arrangements will have to buy a new style personal pension ( PP ) . |
| 15 | They 'd have had a nine inch thick |
| 16 | We should have had a general election last Thursday , rather than three by-elections . |
| 17 | Vessels may have been used for eating , drinking , containing and carrying liquids , but each type may have had a specific function such as the use of open bowls as lamps . |
| 18 | Hey they must have had a good meal other night . |
| 19 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 20 | They should n't have found a single gun that day — we 'd have buried the lot if we 'd only known in time . ’ |
| 21 | Is the Minister aware that if the Wakefield district council social services department had to stick to its standard spending assessment it would have to save a further £3 million this year on services for the chronically sick and disabled ? |
| 22 | The hands have T 2 and W 12 , and companions may try to hack a held character free . |
| 23 | The move of Kenneth MacAlpin 's capital to Scone must have meant a great deal more physical comfort for kings and their retainers after the rocks and raw rain of Argyll , but the heads wearing the crown were offered little chance of lying easy . |
| 24 | In real life , of course , you would probably have to master a great deal more information , including details of the premises and the personal particulars of all the key staff . |
| 25 | Danger — AAW always makes it clear what 's going on , but splitting a command into two by asking ‘ with what ? ’ might have worked a little bit better but then again , you ca n't have it all can you ? |
| 26 | Ideally the research team would have liked a randomised control experimental design whereby half the eligible people would have been allocated to the action group and the remainder to the control group on a random basis . |
| 27 | Now , if that had been a finance company , I would have paid a damn sight more . |
| 28 | A total refurbishment is planned for the foyer and front-of=house areas , which will mean adding a new floor level with its own bar , adding a cafe facility , improving wheelchair access , moving and expanding gallery space and refurbishing the studio . |
| 29 | We do , however , appreciate that being creatures of habit , many people may prefer to have a similar breakfast each day , for the sake of speed and perhaps taste also . |
| 30 | Whatever lies behind such a startling transformation in Quebecois mores could hardly fail to create a disoriented generation hungry for new certitudes to replace the collapsing old ones . |