Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ Merrill said weakly , ‘ we 'll think about that when the time comes . ’ |
| 2 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 3 | ‘ The common denominators in all these factors , as a mathematician would say , are Dacourt and Millet but , first , we do n't know for certain if the wine sent to the Abbe Gerard was in fact the same he was drinking the night he died . |
| 4 | But music types in Manhattan and Hollywood say that they can see a country act as plain as a barn door . |
| 5 | Even if they were noted , they might not survive for longer than the solution of the particular case or point . |
| 6 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 7 | Seb did not doubt at all that the man riding Vulcan was Meredith Putt , even though he had been masked . |
| 8 | Where lead pipe is used for the rising main , it may also contaminate the drinking water — particularly in a soft water area — but there is not much you can do about this since the supply pipe into the house is also likely to be lead and this is difficult and expensive to replace . |
| 9 | If we 're going to increase nursery provision , we 've got to do it by putting , putting money where our mouths are , huh , putting our money where perhaps some Conservative government peoples ' mouths are as well , and they 're all very keen to will the ends but they 're not so keen to will the means , anyway this is the means , there 's a million pounds here erm , next year we we effect , and other members can speak about that and the work that they first have erm , I do notice that , that the latest report from the erm commission on on education and the book we all had to read does give us this first priority , er provision in nursery education particularly in areas , er deprived areas . |
| 10 | It would appear from this that the bone assemblages derived from the long-eared owl and barn owl ( and other species , see below ) are but little altered by the predator , whereas the kestrel assemblages are more greatly altered . |
| 11 | You should not smoke at all unless the interviewer positively invites you to do so . |
| 12 | This is a problem for plants because they already have fewer daylight hours in which to manufacture their food , and can not grow at all if the temperature falls below 6 degrees Celsius . |
| 13 | It will then remain like this until the circuit is Set by making S = 1 whereupon Q will become 1 and . |
| 14 | For every dollar you spend on software , he alleges that you 'll spend between one and a half and two dollars simply on getting that software to work the other software you have . |
| 15 | A good gooseberry will weigh between one and a half and two ounces and is the size of a golf ball . |
| 16 | Just as a change in liquid assets may lead to little or no change in credit , so a change in credit may occur with little or no change in liquid assets . |
| 17 | Loss of confidence will hasten the insolvency of the institution if a ‘ run ’ occurs , and fraud can occur in any and every function of a financial institution , and the risks involved can often be counted in millions , particularly in cases of computer fraud . |
| 18 | However , it does not follow from this that a scientist will not be able to attempt to articulate the presuppositions involved in his paradigm , should the need arise . |
| 19 | What is the ‘ essence ’ or ‘ nature ’ of a horse , and why does it follow from this that a horse has a certain type of head or feet , or lives to the age it does ? |
| 20 | It did not follow from this that the confession should therefore be excluded , however . |
| 21 | the written transcript will only be used in preference to the tape if neither prosecution nor defence sees any advantage in playing it , but it does not necessarily follow from this that the tape discloses nothing more than the transcript . |
| 22 | It does not follow from this that the beneficiary himself can not sue , for if he holds the chattels he seems to have joint possession with the trustee . |
| 23 | Mere are many ways in which governments and their supporters can prevent these methods from being effective , but they can not work at all if the opposition has no real procedural opportunity to apply real scrutiny , nor if its efforts do not arouse the media of information and public opinion . |
| 24 | Regardless of where their support came from , the fact was that possession of 38 seats in the Volkstag meant they could now rule with little or no reference to the other parties . |
| 25 | Modrow did not return with more than a commitment to set up a joint commission of experts to consider monetary union ( which first met on Feb. 20 in East Berlin ) . |
| 26 | He wrote a book expounding 1 Corinthians 7 to imply that the apostle was not really defending marriage , since his arguments fatally conceded that it was not the most perfect state for the believer , and no true believer could aspire to less than the perfection to which God called . |
| 27 | It was the sort of distance that Olympic sprinters can cover in less than a minute on their lap of honour . |
| 28 | In his cluttered roof-void office-cum-spare bedroom , where clothes dry under the skylight and ergonomics is too big a word to fit in , he writes massive chunks of operating software for mainframe computers , programmes which can take between one and a half and ten ‘ man years ’ to complete . |
| 29 | The Central Committee reaffirmed an old pledge by Mr Deng : China 's GNP will quadruple between 1980 and the end of the century . |
| 30 | Caspar , who distrusted most magic on principle , thought that probably nothing would happen at all and the evening would end as so many evenings were ending lately ; with the heating of the squares and the terrible screaming of the victims . |