Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm then he moves on to the middle peasants erm they 're similar , I mean once again they , they 've got enough to eat , they are , they are n't under as much stress , I mean th th they can su survive and so the idea of them risking all to support a revolution would be very er you know very risky at the time at the beginning er the opening period erm so once again th th I 'd say their conclusion is afraid not , you know , I wo n't join a peasant association , i it wo n't last . |
| 2 | Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast . |
| 3 | Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ? |
| 4 | In the inflationary expansion one might expect that eventually the symmetry between the forces would be broken , just as supercooled water always freezes in the end . |
| 5 | Both dramatic playing and performance use dramatic metaphors , abstractions which immediately qualify the kind , intensity and degree of emotional response — one can reasonably assume that neither the actor on stage nor the child in the classroom is actually going to experience murderous intent , overwhelming grief , spiritual ecstasy or sexual arousal during the drama experience . |
| 6 | One would feel happier about the anthropic principle , at least in its weak version , if one could show that quite a number of different initial configurations for the universe would have evolved to produce a universe like the one we observe . |
| 7 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
| 8 | Taking responsibility for your joints and limbs — knowing that it can only enhance and better the quality of your life — is this easy ! |
| 9 | Depression , which is expressed in tears , can follow or else a sense of outrage at not being taken seriously , which can explode in the form of tears of rage . |
| 10 | Erm , it 's been an important year for us , and I think that , you may recall that last year we talked a bit about the Nathan report , and er , if you look at the Directors er , report , you will see that quite a lot of the work that we talked about and was in the Nathan report , is now under way , and I think it 's very important . |
| 11 | In looking at future development the service providers must address the geographic problems that can occur and also the duration of provision ( days , hours , weekends etc ) and consider whether these can best be met in a joint planning context . |
| 12 | Fish Sparks , who 's been a bit down in the mouth since we rumbled his story , thought it was terrifically funny to start calling the Indians things like Sitting Bull and Tonto , but of course they did n't understand and anyway the rest of us sort of froze him out . |
| 13 | From the point of view of its spatial support , we can understand as well the use of the to infinitive as what Jespersen calls the " infinitive of specification " ( 1940 : 262ff ) . |
| 14 | We might even decide that only the universe as a whole has value . |
| 15 | I mean I would love to see a newspaper but the current staffing of the office does n't permit that also the costing of it erm but I 've very little input from this department and really while all out and about in the force and just a tip off about something human interest or whatever would be appreciated . |
| 16 | it follows that s.4 of the fatal accidents act 1976 does not apply and therefore the value of the fathers services should be taken into account when assessing the damages payable to the plaintiff . |
| 17 | It is surely fitting that this should happen since nearly every member of the congregation contributed in some way to the result . |
| 18 | Make one mistake and even a kid of 13 goes for your jugular ’ |
| 19 | A real blow this was , as United need every point they can get and now the fight for survival is really on . |
| 20 | You might imagine that somehow the discrepancy in Figure 5.2 can be explained by supposing that the planets have withheld from the atmosphere different proportions of their supply of the different isotopes . |
| 21 | you go up along drive in and Newminster is on your left and Chantry is on your right , at , but I should imagine erm I should imagine that quite a lot of Chantry School children would be sent home because they 're for the children outside of Morpeth , you know they go there from |
| 22 | Many people would say that even the possibility of a link would justify action , but the ITC already has detailed restrictions and before jerking one 's knee it 's necessary to know the nature of the material that may be subject to cuts . |
| 23 | However , I do accept that once an order for possession is made , the extent of his right as a statutory tenant can and will be curtailed . |
| 24 | you 'll find that quite a lot of what you 're saying is then seen |
| 25 | An observer moving out from the origin would find that initially the area of the spherical surface he reached would grow steadily with s until he had travelled a distance . |