Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it seek merely to codify the existing case law or to reform on the existing case law ? |
| 2 | While imports increased , exports did not flourish sufficiently to fill the growing gap . |
| 3 | They 'll jump to your tune , but it 's unlikely that they 'll hang around to hear the final Act of the opera . |
| 4 | We do not need here to rehearse the contentious issues which surround integration , but it is sometimes aimed that the placement of a child in a mainstream school constitutes integration , or , in any event , that we all understand the same meaning of this term . |
| 5 | After all " no Gordon would know how to wear the Black Watch tartan " . |
| 6 | At the same time they should know how to order the right meal and whether , when work is done , they should take their client to the opera or a night club or let him go home . |
| 7 | And no doubt she thinks me strange beyond belief I am too tall , not handsome by this world 's standards , and I do n't know how to pay the pretty compliments a young woman expects . |
| 8 | He did n't know who he was anymore , and neither did the Earthlings , hence his name , Doctor Who ; he did n't know precisely where his home was ; he did not fully know how to operate the time-space machine . |
| 9 | So said to me yes carry on you 're doing fine you know and he went up and er well he did n't know how to start the poor fellow doing smashing and he said , Well erm imagine this hall , he said , this hall we 're in now as a big cavern underground . |
| 10 | And the following Wednesday , she just did n't know how to tell the old lady but it 's odd how fate takes a hand occasionally . |
| 11 | She did n't know how to make the poor chap feel at home . |
| 12 | Having put a jumper on I do n't know where to clip the blinking microphone now . |
| 13 | How can the individual prepare best to manage the personal impact of the forthcoming upheaval ? |
| 14 | Instead of coming down on players who , like Bryan Gunn , the Norwich goalkeeper , give rational views of incidents to newspapers , the FA might do better to examine the irrational attitudes created by some of those running the teams . |
| 15 | We might do better to find the hired assassin and let him lead us to McCloy . ’ |
| 16 | However , Townsend 's response would be that true deprivation is indicated by the fact that choice in matters of style of living is an issue that does not arise among the poor : for example , three million people presumably do not choose not to heat the living area of their homes in winter ( see Mack , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | This rna strand is called ribosome , and is somewhat like a computer tape which the rna can zip through to specify the correct amino acid . |
| 18 | In the mid-1880s , Mr Lawson Tait , who as police surgeon in Birmingham during the 1890s exhibited a profoundly misogynist attitude in his treatment of rape victims , commented that ‘ to leave only the inferior women to perpetuate the species will do more to deteriorate the human race than all the individual victories at Girton will do to benefit it ’ . |
| 19 | But in cash-starved rural communities , where every extra pound of meat is a godsend , it can do more to win the active support of local people than any number of anti-poaching patrols . |
| 20 | The SEC hopes that by doubling both the statutory fines and prison sentences this will do more to re-adjust the regulatory imbalance which currently favours insider trading . |
| 21 | They would appear also to overlook the widening gap between the more traditional ‘ cathedral ’ ethos and the comparative informality of many parish church services . |
| 22 | Mr Major would do well to get the bad news out of the way as soon as he can . |
| 23 | Those who have n't would do well to browse the informative manual — an impressive publication liberally sprinkled with graphic illustrations of the program 's functions and various points to note . |
| 24 | Patients can choose either to see the original records or to have a copy . |
| 25 | They also complained about unfairness , but there was no willingness to look at the charges or to have proper consultation with local authorities to see how they and the Government could work together to improve the general standards of our beaches . |
| 26 | Whether the world 's nations can work together to minimize the adverse consequences of the future rise in global sea level , let alone achieve significant reductions in emissions of the greenhouse gases causing global warming and the associated rising seas , remains to be seen ( refer to chapter 12 ) . |
| 27 | In general , where the reward for an undesirable behaviour is withdrawn ( such as the loss of attention ) the child will work harder to regain the lost reward . |
| 28 | ‘ The marketing manager can learn how to take advantage of the growing database and the finance manager can see how to use the special accounting systems . ’ |
| 29 | Despite the quirky characterisations of Mr Amis , my mind returned , albeit lazily , to Brian Harley and his omnipotent putter , but I could not see how to fit the various pieces of evidence together to form a coherent whole . |
| 30 | We will now consider the effect of changing the RHSs of the constraints of P1 and we must first see how to calculate the new resource column in P1/T1 . |