Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the percentage of electrification in the Spanish system is much higher than in Britain and will remain so even after the completion of BR 's current major electrification project on the East Coast Main Line . |
| 2 | His shoes , his books , his leather trunks and saddlery would similarly be covered in green mould and would remain so now until the end of the rainy season . |
| 3 | ‘ Well dear , and what do you want so early in the morning ? ’ she asked , rubbing her hands together . |
| 4 | She would n't stay down here in the country until the wedding . |
| 5 | And how do they react to those activities which might not chime so sweetly in the ears of employers … to Rastafarianism , feminism , peace campaigning or the like ? |
| 6 | The connections to the cistern are straightforward : the ballvalve is connected via a tap connector , which has a small fibre or rubber washer to make the seal ( a bent tap connector is often best for this job ) ; the cold feeds are connected to the tank connectors with compression joints and must fall gently away from the cistern to avoid airlocks ; the overflow pipe can be copper or plastic ( with a plastic tank connector ) and should be installed with a fall of at least 1 in 10 from the cistern . |
| 7 | Can you wait long enough for the organism to perform its duties ? |
| 8 | It seems only apposite that he should hover so often on the edge of the ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ , as for instance in the assault on Caradhras , where Aragorn and Boromir insist the wind has ‘ fell voices ’ and that stone-slips are aimed , or on the bridge at Khazad-dûm , where Gandalf is ‘ like a wizened tree ’ , but the Balrog a mixture of fire and shadow , a ‘ flame of Udûn ’ — checked only for a moment by Boromir 's horn . |
| 9 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 10 | But we will focus not just on the City but also training investment and industry . |
| 11 | Reforms , however , should focus not only on the quality of care for detainees and on advice and evidence for the courts but also on services for the victims of crime . |
| 12 | If you simply leave the positive pitch on , the model will fall over backwards during the climb . |
| 13 | The latter was in practice obliged to pledge that it would consult and inform governments at all stages of any initiative , that it would cooperate more closely with the Council of Ministers , and that it would not seek in the future to behave like a government . |
| 14 | They did n't wait any longer for the bus . |
| 15 | We 'll tie up just beyond the lock , just in front of those other boats . ’ |
| 16 | This does not tie up entirely with the records of Hal Far , which noted that three Fulmars went up , and that one was damaged and the pilot slightly wounded . |
| 17 | It 's all right , thought Belinda , she 'll know straight away from the taste . |
| 18 | This means tilting the rear mortise to line up with the front leg , which will mean in turn that the side rail will not line up exactly with the back leg . |
| 19 | As the hon. Gentleman must know perfectly well from the railway safety report , published only last week , the total number of significant collisions in 1989 was 85 , and in 1990 it was 59 . |
| 20 | Such lads of calibre must be sought out early in another respect as well ; for bodily modifications must commence as soon after the onset of adolescence as could be . |
| 21 | Not only does seeing a chair as a three-dimensional object have this character , but so does seeing one line as longer in the Mulier-Lyer illusion ( in which two lines of equal length look unequal when differently slanting lines are drawn at the tips ) despite our knowing that the two lines are really the same length . |
| 22 | Both sides have a point to prove Saints that they can bounce back quickly from the Bradford disappointment ; Leeds that they are on a consistent run of wins . |
| 23 | The skill of the lawyer existed in ensuring that the relationship between the statements in his legal discourse was such that it would lead to a legal outcome which would translate back directly into the outcome chosen by the client as formulated in his or her own , non-legal discourse . |
| 24 | The purchaser will be negotiating the heads from a position of weakness in that it will know far more about the vendor 's business once the due diligence has been completed . |
| 25 | The light breeze wont shift the cloud , which 'll hang around well into the evening . |
| 26 | Alternatively speculators might think that the exchange value of the domestic currency will fall even further in the future , perhaps because they expect the current account deficit to become permanent , and so capital inflows will decrease and capital outflows decrease accordingly . |
| 27 | Well , then , you 'll know why just at the moment the Consul-General does n't want trouble between Moslems and Copts . ’ |
| 28 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 29 | When you tip the seed from the packet it is hard to believe that from almost every one a plant will arise , so do not let them fall too thickly into the soil . |
| 30 | Right , cover up again , come up towards the wrist , if you 've got any more bandage , go round perhaps one more time okay and just make sure at the end of the day that you do n't tie too tightly round the wrist , why not ? |