Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will do better either to abstain from voting , or to vote with management as a low cost ‘ rule of thumb ’ . |
| 2 | And in many abolitionist minds this would ultimately lead to emancipation ; slaves would not only gradually become more able to live in freedom but better conditions would so enhance the population of labourers in the West Indies that it would be cheaper to employ workers on a waged basis than as slaves . |
| 3 | Such regularly superimposed implications can then become quite hard to disentangle from sentence or literal meaning ; in order to prise them apart , the theorist has to construct or observe contexts in which the usual pragmatic implications do not hold . |
| 4 | In so doing we are probably , assuming such abilities exist , mixing chalk with cheese : clairvoyance , for example , may have as little to do with precognition as vision has to do with touch . |
| 5 | Do you have very much to eat at lunch time , in between I mean you tend to eat erm take the take your big meal at lunch time or at night ? |