Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 2 | In the middle of page twenty eight , George lists all his different erm qualifications that he says he has and , I am not quite sure what an is an M A Master of Arts , P H D which is a doctor of erm philosophy and and he puts them all together to make up this word , ABMAPHD which does n't exist obviously as a real word . |
| 3 | But he could cash in with a lucrative return against the 24-year-old German early next year . |
| 4 | If the small company audit is abolished , the reason for being authorised will disappear along with a substantial part of their earning capacity which they do not believe they can recoup through selling other services . |
| 5 | Unless they are made available for further research , data which have often been collected at great expense and with significant effort may later exist only in a small number of reports which analyse only a fraction of the research potential of the data . |
| 6 | While I agree that worm watching will probably never catch on as a mass pursuit , something well known here in Cornwall is to observe seagulls tap dancing on the lawn after rain . |
| 7 | Back then , they did n't catch on in a big way . ’ |
| 8 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 9 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 10 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 11 | In the evolutionary version , the payoffs are changes in fitness ; hence , although they may be difficult to measure , they do fall naturally on a linear scale . |
| 12 | Russell sees good opportunities in synthetic leather clothing , particularly if Morton can tie in with a European designer . |
| 13 | Just For the Record will tie in with a nationwide tour of the same name , and will be promoted ( including signing sessions ) by band members Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt . |
| 14 | What 's more , this would be so small that it would behave much like a neutralised proton , or ‘ neutron ’ . |
| 15 | Let your tack dry away from a direct source of heat ; do n't put it in front of a radiator or fire , or the leather will become brittle . |
| 16 | The woody tubers may survive outside in a mild winter , but if they do n't , the seeds certainly do , emerging in thickets the following year . |
| 17 | The strict parent or the sarcastic schoolteacher may act more from a suppressed need to hurt than from his or her desire for discipline or wish to be thought amusing . |
| 18 | However disguised they may be , those are very big tax increases , of a kind which governments can normally introduce early in a parliamentary term only . |
| 19 | However disguised they may be , those are very big tax increases , of a kind which governments can normally introduce early in a parliamentary term only . |
| 20 | Just as a human baby may draw comfort from sucking a dummy , so occasionally a baby elephant will sidle up to a young female and suck her milkless nipple . |
| 21 | But it has to be something good , or it will just fizzle out like a damp squib and you 'll feel worse than ever . ’ |
| 22 | Whilst I stand to be corrected , it may well have been this greasy property which made the finish dry out with a khaki tone . |
| 23 | If all goes according to plan the enemy will fall back into a defensive position to the west of the area , around an airfield . |
| 24 | Pupils can often fall back on a circular argument such as : Why is the relationship linear ? |
| 25 | He wanted the youth to go away , for in his mind he saw him fall back with a suppressed scream of terror and pain , holding a handkerchief to his face . |
| 26 | ‘ You invent , or goad me into , some failing to give you cause for complaint , so that you can then screw around with a clear conscience . |
| 27 | If you could qualify either for a reduced pension of your own or a dependant 's addition , the higher of the two would be paid . |
| 28 | In the gravityless environment of the hulk any unexploded bolts or similar projectiles could ricochet unpredictably for a long time within a confined space . |
| 29 | If he , Neil , was content to leave the house unwatched by day , and to spend his time looking at rocks on the broch island , then I could stay indoors with a clear conscience , and wait for the rainstorm to pass . |
| 30 | And if I could n't make away with myself , how could the malais make away with a whole nation ? |