Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ You will stay for a bowl of soup , Sir John ? |
| 3 | You know , I ca n't stay for a week in silence . |
| 4 | Alter all , the swarm can only cover about a metre of ground every three minutes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We could not undress for a week in case of a submarine attack , and you all got a little cross , I remember . |
| 9 | By biding his time in the immediate aftermath of Mao 's death , he could prepare for a rise to power in the CCP . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Here is a guide to some of the hand tools you 'll need for a range of d-i-y activities . |
| 12 | ‘ I was quite a young man , ’ said Lester , ‘ and Melvin Frank was quite experienced and assumed that I would act as a kind of surrogate director . |
| 13 | In fact St Andrew 's House will act as a kind of brokerage for grant applications . |
| 14 | In such cases , the object , in this case building form , may act as a kind of material ‘ ideology ’ , but the meaning of this term is open to considerable dispute . |
| 15 | There must be something she ate that would act as a cover for paraquat or whatever he was going to use . |
| 16 | But even if Kants idea of a unitary space is granted , it is still not entirely clear how places in such a space can act as a principle of individuation . |
| 17 | The traffic impact of any development could be accommodated without serious detriment to the surrounding area , but although the above constraints are not seen as insurmountable , they may well act as a deterrent to development . |
| 18 | However , during that poor run which ultimately cost them the title , they were knocked out of the FA Cup by lowly Wrexham , and that must act as a warning in neon lights for their trip to non-League Yeovil . |
| 19 | The hands will also act as a stabilizer for balance . |
| 20 | The screens do , however , act as a block for sound and security and this should be borne in mind when the changes are considered . |
| 21 | Health professionals can act as a resource on adoption issues . |
| 22 | These data indicate therefore that the octamer motif in HPV 16/18 can act as a target for repression by Oct-1 . |
| 23 | This plausibly supports the view that it is relative deprivation which is causally related to crime , and that in conditions where unemployment is perceived as unjust and hopeless by comparison with the lot of other groups , this will act as a precipitant of crime . |
| 24 | At most , third-party states , whether aligned with a superpower or non-aligned , could act as a brake on superpower action , though there is no strong evidence that they did so to much effect in the last 40 years . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the predominance of keiretsu groups does often act as a brake on competition in Japan . |
| 26 | Constrained resources will inevitably act as a brake on research and new developments , but there are other factors which work against this , and give us reason to be encouraged . |
| 27 | Hence the social value of a salient feature , in terms of its associated stereotype , may act as a brake on accommodation where a speaker is concerned with preserving his/her own identity , but may promote accommodation where the speaker is eager to identify with the other-dialect speakers . |
| 28 | While such Parkinsonian notion has an attractive simplicity it has so far eluded empirical verification ( see Blumstein , Cohen and Gooding , 1983 , for the refutation of one such claim ) , it is clear that under certain circumstances capacity may act as a brake on population expansion . |
| 29 | If the object is not removed , it can act as a focus of infection and , in the case of the male , may produce a urethritis which will be resistant to treatment until the offending article has been removed . |
| 30 | 2 ) To encourage each member to develop particular expertise so that s/he would act as a focus for training others . |