Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It would be an excellent idea to provide your Porcupine Puffer with a separate tank , but do n't introduce another into the same tank because they just do n't get on and one of them would almost certainly die .
2 You can buy one of the many reproduction plaster or fibre-glass cornices by the foot and have it added to your room just under the ceiling or , if you can not afford this luxury , go for a stylish compromise with a paper border .
3 Otherwise , such business will remain subject to the Own Funds and Solvency Ratio Directives .
4 I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible .
5 You can do this through the many Hall and Department associations , through clubs and groups at home and abroad .
6 All the general advice given to improve your interview performance holds equally good when being interviewed by an agency and you can expect many of the same questions .
7 The cost of the low-end word processor and desktop publishing program combined may well be more than the cost of a good word processor that can do many of the same functions .
8 Make the most of this heightened public awareness of the Medau name , it creates a climate of public interest which gives each of you a wonderful opportunity to discuss and show all of the many sides of our work — specialist classes for the handicapped , classes for Toddlers , relaxation and Breathing classes , and recreational classes for every age and ability , each one structured to the needs of its class members .
9 So the idea is that erm , a parent may have an interest in diverting the sources from older offspring to younger ones , because younger ones might benefit more from the same unit of resource .
10 It is exactly the same tension that made The Smiths a success , and in their low-key way I suspect that Felt will keep some of the same cult appeal now they are gone .
11 They would become subject to the same conditions of claiming benefit as men : for example , it would be a matter of discretionary decision on the part of the allocators of SB as to whether the existence of children or other dependants at home would relieve them of the need to register for work ( DHSS , 1978a , p.95 ) .
12 Through trial and error and careful practice the body learns how to balance , pedal and steer all at the same time .
13 Very few of us can afford all of the appliances we would like all at the same time .
14 All of these have strategic aspects to consider , and strategic developments in these areas will not occur all at the same pace or even , necessarily , in the same direction .
15 If , however , we accept that the effects of non-reinforced exposure can become context-dependent in the same way as associative learning itself can , then the entire pattern of results can be accommodated .
16 The Lurgan schoolteacher is keeping his fingers crossed that his club Clan na gael will lift the Armagh senior county football title and that Derry will emerge triumphant in the All Ireland final .
17 Clearly the retrieval-failure hypothesis will make many of the same predictions as other theories of latent inhibition .
18 Often one colony will enslave another of the same species , or one species will exploit another .
19 They will perform some of the same functions , but they will not be an exact replacement for traditional trams .
20 The only point that I would make is that if you are giving an opiate it will have many of the same effects and if I had to choose , I would probably prefer the opiate to diazepam .
21 Fortunate that things do n't happen all at the same time .
22 ‘ If you wear that , ’ he said curtly , ‘ you 'll destroy one of the few things your father possessed .
23 This would require that for the same amount of light energy ( measured incident solar radiation has not varied by more than 0.5% since the beginning of the twentieth century ) more carbon is fixed per unit chlorophyll ( the quantum yield has changed ) .
24 Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute .
25 If you think you will get bored with the same kind of exercise , experiment with different types .
26 I could make a few inspired guesses that the machinery will get , not so much cheaper , although it is getting a bit cheaper , but you 'll get more for the same money — rather like calculators _ they have n't actually got very much cheaper in the last two or three years , but you get more for your fiver .
27 No , that 's funny I should get two on the same survey
28 They were also raising money for the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Appeal and making a dream come true at the same time .
29 she would n't want two in the same house I 'm sure
30 As the novel progresses , however , it becomes apparent that Xorandor does in fact address many of the same concerns as Brooke-Rose 's earlier novels , and that her assumption of the narrative idiom of the popular novel and her mimicry of a childish language are carefully calculated .
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