Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Terminal courses would probably remain as the bulk of provision — ‘ the breadth of the base of the movement amongst ordinary folk ’ — ‘ the Tutorial Class must be the demonstration that real understanding , whatever the purpose , requires sustained effort ; and a significant expansion of activity at this level is the true index of a significant expansion of a genuinely informed public . ’ . |
| 2 | In the past there has been an assumption that pupils ' attainment will dip as a result of transfer and a settling period will be needed . |
| 3 | ‘ You will stay for a bowl of soup , Sir John ? |
| 4 | You know , I ca n't stay for a week in silence . |
| 5 | Perhaps even more destructively , the Philharmonic Hall acoustic does not make for the clarity of diction experienced in the average theatre . |
| 6 | I am pleased to tell my hon. Friend that the latest estimate we can make for the spend on computerisation this year will not be £20 million but £25 million . |
| 7 | In The Natural History of Nematodes it is unfortunate that George Poinar Jr does not throw off the armour of nomenclature which prevents the general student from getting to grips with these creatures . |
| 8 | You can then paint between the strips of tape with a second colour and remove the tape when the paint is dry . |
| 9 | When official conservation often does not work , part of the problem may lie in the assumptions which the conservationist , government servant or politician may make about the cause of failure . |
| 10 | Alter all , the swarm can only cover about a metre of ground every three minutes . |
| 11 | As we said when introducing an earlier case , managers have to learn to make sense of all kinds of technical documents , so we are not going to apologise for making you wade through a selection of press releases , offers and the like . |
| 12 | On his international debut the sweeper Simon looked the genuine article , while the central defender Monzon showed he can compensate for a lack of height with good positioning and excellent timing . |
| 13 | ‘ Lighting can try and compensate for the lack of colour by creating certain moods . |
| 14 | People got snappy , and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave . |
| 15 | The form used was complicated but could not compensate for the deficiencies of information about a population that was still highly mobile and still undergoing the stresses of war . |
| 16 | Members were told the move would compensate for the loss of car parking spaces in the High Street . |
| 17 | It is also likely , in reference to the matters discussed in Chapter 6 , that under communicative pressure learners will place more reliance on lexical means than on the intuitive assumption that context can compensate for an absence of refinement in grammatical signalling . |
| 18 | The difference lies in the object of the work , that is , they minimize the damage that may arise as a result of entry into the care system and to restore vulnerable families to ‘ good-enough ’ personal and social functioning . |
| 19 | Every scrap of understanding you can glean about the dynamics of bereavement will , of course , be valuable ; but never try simply to ‘ play it by the book ’ — this or any other , for in the long run it will be the way you use your heart , not your head , that will count most . |
| 20 | We could not undress for a week in case of a submarine attack , and you all got a little cross , I remember . |
| 21 | By biding his time in the immediate aftermath of Mao 's death , he could prepare for a rise to power in the CCP . |
| 22 | What do you think about the meaning of life then ? |
| 23 | What we can do is think about the meaning of play and fantasy , and the repercussions of denying a child the sort of toys and television-watching that is allowed to almost every other child . |
| 24 | ‘ The doctors said what does it matter as long as he is alive but they do n't think about the quality of life . |
| 25 | ‘ The book made us think about the nature of health . |
| 26 | I then discuss various ways in which we can think about the relation between brain and behaviour . |
| 27 | The amount of hot air likely to be generated over the 12 days could trigger off the kind of chain reaction that global warming scientists only refer to in hushed tones . |
| 28 | The choice , for example , between " A stick rose upright " and " He raised his bow " is not something which Ohmann could regard as a matter of style . |
| 29 | What the workers might think is a lively practical joke , management may regard as disruption or sabotage ; what workers might see as an intensification of their labour , management may regard as an improvement in flexibility , and so forth . |
| 30 | Requirements may exist about the amount of memory that is required to run a system . |