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 | Most will stay on for an extra year at school or go into some form of further training . |
| 3 | Sheena Falconer , senior lecturer in textiles , has been told by the principal , Dr David Kennedy , that there is room for only one textile lecturer , but that she could stay on as an ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But he could cash in with a lucrative return against the 24-year-old German early next year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If she went out into the rue du Bateau her suspicions might latch on to an innocent person coming from one of the other flats . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Back then , they did n't catch on in a big way . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Russell sees good opportunities in synthetic leather clothing , particularly if Morton can tie in with a European designer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What 's more , this would be so small that it would behave much like a neutralised proton , or ‘ neutron ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Bachelard 's work on the formation of scientific disciplines led him to argue that the proper form of historical analysis should focus not upon an empirical history but upon the cognitive or epistemological status of concepts that distinguish a new science from an old one . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Such policy appears to place political beliefs above the concept of needs when some individuals demonstrate that they can not flourish educationally in an integrated environment . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , the arrival of fresh management does not translate automatically into an immediate upturn in Saatchi 's performance . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's called feminism , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I hope you never get it , because it is absolutely awful and it makes you swell up to an enormous size and when you have it really badly you go round bonking men on the head and blaming them for everything . |
| 28 | But it has to be something good , or it will just fizzle out like a damp squib and you 'll feel worse than ever . ’ |
| 29 | Whilst I stand to be corrected , it may well have been this greasy property which made the finish dry out with a khaki tone . |
| 30 | If all goes according to plan the enemy will fall back into a defensive position to the west of the area , around an airfield . |