Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , and less depressing than the first two , Corinth is not completely excavated ( most of what the modern visitor sees is Roman ) and there is still hope that the classical agora may produce evidence of the kind we want ; though to get it , the excavators ( the American School in Athens ) will need permission to dig under the main square of the modern town . |
| 2 | But many farmers will need help to adapt to the new conditions , and we will continue to provide assistance . |
| 3 | All must seek leave to appeal from the special adjudicator who is to be appointed by the Lord Chancellor . |
| 4 | In his English writings Richard Rolle , too , sees Christ 's suffering as the pragmatic key to a form of living both as regards external circumstances and internal consciousness , which will free followers to engage with the ineffable reality of the love mediated at the Incarnation . |
| 5 | Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter . |
| 6 | If HaL meets its promised dates , it could beat Sun to market with a 64-bit system — but it is Sun that expects to create a high-volume 64-bit market supplying both its own needs and those of its cloners . |
| 7 | If HaL meets its reported dates , it could beat Sun to market with a 64-bit system — but it is Sun which expects to create a high-volume 64-bit market supplying both its own needs and those of its cloners . |
| 8 | I would like readers to know of the excellent efforts you have made to stimulate community action in Wales . |
| 9 | A no vote by the Danes in their referendum , due in May or April , would condemn Britain to remain in the slow lane of a two-speed Europe . |
| 10 | Let us use SENSE to refer to the basic logical , conceptual , paraphrasable meaning , and SIGNIFICANCE to refer to the total of what is communicated to the world by a given sentence or text . |
| 11 | Impact ‘ The long-ball game is no good to me and it wo n't enable England to succeed in the 1994 World Cup in America . ’ |
| 12 | Further mechanization will enable farmers to cope with a reduced quantity of labour , but further mechanization will require a finer quality of labour — and it is precisely the highly educated and the highly trained who currently shun working on the land . |
| 13 | It 's not unknown for an American to want to show a dozen video tapes , each of which may cost £50 to transfer to the British system . |
| 14 | CAST awards are offered for periods of two to three years dependent on the anticipated duration of the project , and they will enable students to submit for a higher degree such as MPhil or DPhil . |
| 15 | We must take action to deal with the changed situation we presently face . |
| 16 | ( iv ) Pupils should have opportunities to write for a wider range of communicative or informative purposes , including : describing , explaining , giving instructions , reporting , expressing a point of view , persuading , comparing and contrasting ideas , arguing for different points of view . |
| 17 | 17.54 ( i ) Pupils should have opportunities to write in a wider range of forms , including a number of the following : notes , diaries , personal letters , formal letters , chronological accounts , reports , pamphlets , reviews ( of books , television programmes , films or plays ) , essays , advertisements , newspaper articles , biography , autobiography , poems , stories , playscripts. ( ii ) Through experience of a wider range of literature they should learn to produce stories which are more consciously crafted , for example , using some detail in the portrayal of characters or settings or with some attempt to introduce elements of suspense or surprise with a skilfully managed resolution . |
| 18 | In April 1990 the Prince of Wales launched his ‘ Volunteers ’ scheme , under which young people would have opportunities to contribute to the public welfare and learn the value of participation and the feeling of belonging to the community through voluntary work . |
| 19 | While we wait for the pendulum to swing : Gail Counsell warns that house prices could take years to recover after the latest rise in interest rates |
| 20 | Again , we do not have room to delve into the fascinating area of population changes , but it is clearly true that in the Western world there is an older and ageing population that is radically altering the shape of the population curve . |
| 21 | The basic rules of procedure for any such exercise , short or prolonged , remain very much the same : a six-week programme may well include a series of short ten-minute sequences as well as other episodes and exercises and in devising materials for either one would take into account the basic procedures of materials production which we shall have occasion to examine in a later chapter . |
| 22 | You ca n't force tenants to live under a local monopoly , because consumers want choice . |
| 23 | This aspect therefore involved a judgement that low-income families … do not have access to credit at an acceptable price . |
| 24 | Moreover , the association suffers from a very Periclean problem : you can not force people to vote in a self-regulatory organisation . |
| 25 | Similarly , a researcher interested in the determinants of voting choice might select respondents to interview from an electoral register . |
| 26 | The rigidities and continuities of the planning and design process may constrain ability to deal with the unanticipated and often press purpose built systems into unlikely roles . |
| 27 | Such cultures would encourage citizens to participate in the political process , but only occasionally and within the limited rules of the democratic game . |
| 28 | Shaw 's book , however , did encourage Eliot to think of the modern in terms of the ancient , of ‘ creative evolution ’ , of ‘ Darwin' , ‘ biology ’ , and the ‘ ultimate questions ’ raised by ‘ the attempt to expose a panorama of human history ‘ as far as thought can reach ’ . |
| 29 | That 's the main thing and then if you 've got any questions afterwards hopefully we 'll still have time to go through a few questions . |
| 30 | The Security Council , meanwhile , gave its 14,000 peacekeepers in Croatia the right to use force if necessary to defend themselves and extended their mandate until 31 March so international mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen would have time to arrive at a political settlement by then . |