Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she told him once she told him two dozen times that he was quite the perfect host , and that he was n't to take this personally , but she wanted to be back in her own house , her own city , where she would feel most protected from the assassin . |
| 2 | It seems as though every area of your life is poised for some new influences , but because of your cautious nature and natural attachment to the past , you may feel somewhat overwhelmed by the rush of momentous events . |
| 3 | if management took an interest in the workforce and allowed them some control over their environment then the workforce would feel less alienated from the workplace ; |
| 4 | If the chronic form of inflammation occurs simultaneously all over the body , as can happen in rheumatoid arthritis , the sufferer may feel physically weakened by the strength of the reaction . |
| 5 | He did n't appear overly impressed with the scheme . |
| 6 | Cones are much rarer ; these are about the size and shape of an asparagus spear , with rows of cavities , which contained spores , so that if they are flattened they can appear almost segmented in the manner of an arthropod fossil . |
| 7 | She 'd feel safer trapped in a cave , with some dark formless danger lurking in the shadows . |
| 8 | However , since the grant only purchased a few hundred books , these tended to " disappear once distributed around the shelves . |
| 9 | The possibility that the generalist advice worker would become less valued through an increase in specialists has not been borne out in practice . |
| 10 | Indeed , if he were to accede to our request , we would probably become so alarmed by the manifestations of his power that you would n't see most of us for dust ! |
| 11 | Female squid do not extend any parental care of protection to their eggs and may become so exhausted by the act of reproduction that they die shortly after . |
| 12 | By such means — so Eisenhower optimistically noted on 8 March 1956 — Egypt might become progressively isolated among the Arabs . |
| 13 | Being told to do things like not run in the corridor , or stand up when the governor comes in . |
| 14 | The point at which two veins diverge may become gradually pushed towards the margin of the wing until the latter is reached , and only a single vein remains evident . |
| 15 | Thus both A and B could become directly linked with a representation of stimulus X as shown in Fig 5.10(a) . |
| 16 | In fact , the whole discipline will become more applied in the sense that the emphasis will be shifted from laboratory studies , which seek to isolate variables in the abstract , towards being a social science , which examines socially shared beliefs , or social representations , in their actual social context . |
| 17 | Fringing reefs may occur directly exposed to the sea or may form on coasts within barrier reefs : the former often have a zonation similar to barrier reefs and atolls , but the latter have no algal ridge and often very abrupt outer edges . |
| 18 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 19 | The regiment would no longer be a one-man band , but would inevitably become increasingly absorbed into the mainstream of army operations , with resulting misunderstanding of what its role really was . |
| 20 | He did not look particularly inspired at the start of the day , but survived to make the semi-final where he met his old rival , Ben Spijkers , of the Netherlands . |
| 21 | If there is no qualifying interest in possession s48(4) ( b ) states that if it can be shown that all known persons for whose benefit the settled property or income from it has been or might be applied or who are or might become beneficially entitled to an interest in possession are persons neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom the gilt relief will be applicable . |
| 22 | Engels ( 1874 ) , in an essay on authority directed against the anarchists , commented upon violent political revolutions that ‘ a revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is ’ , but he did not go on to consider whether the authoritarianism of an armed revolutionary struggle might not subsequently become firmly entrenched in the practices of a post-revolutionary government ; and he could not foresee that the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ( a phrase which he and Marx occasionally used in order to refer to the political dominance of the working class , conceived as the vast majority of the population , in the initial phase of socialist society ) would be transformed into a plain dictatorship and a reign of terror , turned against the people themselves . |
| 23 | He felt his face still flushed from the heat of the shower . |
| 24 | There was an obvious injustice here which could have eventually led to a demand that the ‘ penalised ’ owner should be compensated . |
| 25 | I 'm sure the demand for the venue will have greatly increased by the time we return . |
| 26 | 9.8 Perpetuity period The perpetuity period applicable to this Lease shall be [ 80 ] years from the commencement of the Contractual Term and whenever in this Lease either party is granted a future interest in property there shall be deemed to be included in respect of every such grant a provision requiring that future interest to vest within the stated period and for it to be void for remoteness if it shall not have so vested Despite the importance of the rule against perpetuities , it is surprising that most leases granted today make no mention of it . |
| 27 | In truth , with sensible precautions , Morrissey could have easily travelled to the salon . |
| 28 | His eyes were bulging out of his head , and if he could have easily sprung from the chair , he might have locked his hands round the younger man 's throat . |
| 29 | He shows , for instance , that " A branch curved downwards over the water " could have easily occurred in the language of Lok , while " He had very quickly broken off the lowest branches " would be highly deviant . |
| 30 | The Independent , still at 45p , has put on sales this week , but circulation manager Brian Hutt said they were not as high as he would have normally expected in a week when many people were returning from holiday . |