Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is — for all our reflection — so much we do not know about even the simplest town scene . |
| 2 | All these can act against only the aquatic stages , that is to say they are ‘ larvicides ’ and , as I have already emphasised , malaria control by such an attack is likely to be effective only in limited situations . |
| 3 | They would possibly attack with all the more force , to avenge him . |
| 4 | But soon the big stories were written in the knowledge that readers would know at least the bare bones from a news bulletin , and the 24-hour cycle of the daily paper lost much of its point as a news medium . |
| 5 | He added , however , that his firm would win at least the same revenues as 1992 — $40m . |
| 6 | What proverb do you think of when the key word is ship , time , apple , gold , friend , cooks ? |
| 7 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 8 | The user will be able to obtain an Abbreviated Report which will consist of only the structured listing . |
| 9 | Distanced from the day-to-day world of his youthful and not-so-youthful listeners , he could speak with all the more understanding , all the more authority , to their needs . |
| 10 | You can choose from either the graceful resilience of hardwood or the fresh , flawless look of uPVC . |
| 11 | Your personality sets boundaries on what you can and can not do in rather the same way that your physical build also sets constraints . |
| 12 | But … perhaps you do not know — how could you ? — what cannon and mangonels can do to even the stoutest walling . |
| 13 | A ‘ soft ERM ’ of this kind could work alongside both the existing ERM and — later — a monetary union comprising Germany and its closest monetary disciples . |
| 14 | I have never flown in a tail dragger before but I would like to in the near future . |
| 15 | With the Arkansas governor a Rhodes Scholar at the university in 1968-69 looking all set for victory , it meant the US would become at least the 10th nation this century to boast a leader taught at the city of the dreaming spires . |
| 16 | In particular , we will look at why the delinquent response is attractive to working-class male youth . |
| 17 | Let us look at how the full set of English vowels might be analysed in terms of a small number of distinctive features . |
| 18 | Cockcroft stated that the list should " constitute by far the greater part of the syllabus of those pupils for whom CSE is not intended , that is , those pupils in about the lowest 40 per cent of the range of attainment in mathematics " . |
| 19 | In contrast , Watford 's teamwork and crisp passing made them look by far the better side on view at Vicarage Road . |
| 20 | For those regular expert witnesses who feel the need to charge more than £90 an hour ( or £500 for their initial report in a medical negligence case ) an explanation should be proffered to avoid subsequent substantial difficulty on taxation , and the words ‘ as recommended by the BMA ’ would not normally suffice for either the retaining lawyer or the court . |
| 21 | We will meet with exactly the same words in the Hebrew again in 1 Samuel 4.5 , when the ark is brought into the Israelite camp and , the storyteller reports , ‘ all Israel gave a mighty shout ’ ( it is a pity that variations in the English translations of the verses obscure the echoes in the original ) . |
| 22 | If managers say that they gain their vision and their pragmatic skill informally and from diverse sources , if they see their own development as something which took many years and came from a wide range of contexts , it is unlikely that a short-term substitute can be found which will fit into either the narrow limits of brief in-service training courses , year-long secondments or part-time study in higher education . |
| 23 | In carrying out the work , the research will draw on both the available documentary evidence and on interviews with key actors . |
| 24 | How useful this vision is will depend on where the undamaged areas are on the retina . |
| 25 | The colour developed at any point will depend on where the sonic pressure-pulse had got to when the light arrived , i.e. on the distance of that part of the scene . |
| 26 | properly will depend on either the specific instructions given to him or arguments about the implied duties of an expert conducting a reference : for three possible examples , see 14.8 , 14.9 and 14.10. a breach of the implied duty under s14 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 , unless there is a specific time provision or the duty has been expressly excluded by agreement with the parties . |
| 27 | The second approach may have similar weaknesses , but this will depend on how the individual curricula are combined . |
| 28 | Whether the headlong rush to develop and industrialise the world 's last great wild places can be controlled to ensure the survival of the unique river dolphins will depend on how the respective governments accept their responsibilities to care for and conserve the wonders of natural evolution . |
| 29 | You may return to where the original stroke was played and , under a one-stroke penalty , play another ball . |
| 30 | He could only guess at where the angled metal of the sprung bolt might be , and hope that with sufficient working around the card would eventually ease it back . |