Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , your list of goals should act as signposts to a pleasurable trip . |
| 2 | I can not simply advise you to go out and buy without trying for the simple reason that it can be very slow on anything less than a really fast machine . |
| 3 | But it is by no means difficult if one has a procedure for social research and this procedure we shall now consider by working from an empirical approach to enquiry . |
| 4 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 5 | She had had every opportunity to be , for heaven 's sake , but she 'd never worked hard enough at it and now she did not feel like struggling with a foreign language to search for an item when she did not even know what she was looking for . |
| 6 | From the boardwalks of Atlantic City and on to Route 66 , visiting the U.S. really does feel like walking into an old familiar scene , says Bernice Davison , Travel Editor |
| 7 | Buzz did not feel like sitting in the small lounge at the Eastbourne hotel , which contained a great many genteel , inquisitive , elderly ladies , all of whom seemed to be knitting . |
| 8 | Evidence from the Home Office consultant pathologist , Professor Alan Usher , discovered no abnormality except pneumonia due to lung statis ; ‘ exactly what one would expect in poisoning by a respiratory depressant drug . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps I should refrain from responding to the hon. Gentleman and continue with my speech . |
| 10 | Further , they certainly did not succeed in swimming against the deep tide of recession which engulfed Nigeria from 1983 onwards . |
| 11 | His comment is restrained enough but then he knows that Bill Clinton will soon succeed in creaming off the excess fat that has kept America 's top earners happy for so long . |
| 12 | The Gascon origins of both Clement V and John XXII made this much easier , and although the house of Foix-Béarn did not succeed in marrying into the papal clan , a strengthening of bonds with the Duèse family ( from Cahors ) can be detected in a number of casual , but significant , references . |
| 13 | As a result , bone at the cement body interface can die and in the longer term can result in loosening of the artificial hip and the need for a second operation . |
| 14 | Applying the rules to information available in a graphemic code will result in processing into a phonological code . |
| 15 | While still suffering , the negative feeling of fearful projection may result in craving for the addictive substance or behaviour . |
| 16 | Not only does it refer to developing in a photographic sense , but to the development of a group of young people . ’ |
| 17 | The research should contribute to understanding about the relative roles played by material circumstances and political mobilisation in the shaping of attitudes to welfare . |
| 18 | Politicians should hesitate before reaching for the handy ‘ blame television ’ solution . |
| 19 | To be fair to myself , ’ she added with a faint smile , ‘ if you will insist on looking like the original swinging teenager it 's small wonder that the thought of trusting you with a really ill man put the fear of God up me . ’ |
| 20 | Well I thought you did n't wan na go below a certain amount . |
| 21 | appointment the same day as me , but cos the thing is she said well I , I still want the tooth out but then , I 'm supposed to have a a , a , an appointment for the , the , I thought God that 's , I might have a , she might extract the tooth and then I wo n't would n't wan na go with a bloody mouth to the hygienist . |
| 22 | Let's begin by looking at a well-known poem — William Blake 's ‘ London ’ . |
| 23 | The way I have phrased this criterion implies that we should begin by looking for the biochemical and cellular changes and then on this basis seek the neurophysiological ones , and that in some way the neurophysiology is a mere incidental product of the biochemical and structural changes . |
| 24 | I briefly saw Gina flit by talking into a short-wave radio and was momentarily stunned . |
| 25 | We can then effectively return to fighting for the improved quality of life of all our members . |
| 26 | You can make sure that you will score by following with a snap punch . |
| 27 | It is accepted that such surveys are only carried out by employees of the building society in the case of the Woolwich Building Society , so that the question at issue can only arise in regard to the structural surveys provided by that building society . |
| 28 | If they are able to do so , what resources do they have for dealing with the external world , and how do they use them ? |
| 29 | What resources do they have for dealing with the unfamiliar , and how do they use them ? |
| 30 | Previous holders of Royal Enclosure vouchers should apply in writing in the usual way before the end of April , stating their full names and ages if between 16–25 years , who have not been granted Royal Enclosure vouchers previously . |