Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're the side of Freud , that has tended to be ignored , even by the people you would 've expected to take the greatest notice of them . |
| 2 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 3 | However , he tells us , he did feel compelled to defend the good name of accountants . |
| 4 | Such situations as were faced by these librarians in the early part of 1986 were not new and no doubt will recur , and librarians may well feel forced to take the same course of action in future . |
| 5 | The group claimed that AY should have discovered the alleged fraud and should not have given Alkar the clean bill of health it received in its 1987 accounts . |
| 6 | He may have intended to use the symbolic value of the trophy to emphasise France 's achievements . |
| 7 | This large implication is said to be justified because Parliament must have intended to preserve the long-standing immunity against questioning after charge , and can not have intended to create a régime which would ‘ make a mockery of ’ ( A. v. H.M. |
| 8 | Retrieval of documents on a search topic , by using terms for a broader or narrower concept , relies heavily both on the searcher 's ingenuity and on any additional relationships that the database indexer might have added to link the natural language index terms . |
| 9 | Older characterizations of ‘ speech community ’ , such as that of Wyld ( 1927 : 47 ) , assume that everybody speaking a ‘ dialect ’ speaks in the same way : these scholars would therefore have believed that inner-city Belfast is homogeneous and would simply not have expected to find the enormous diversity that actually does exist , so they probably would not have bothered to investigate it . |
| 10 | Patients were instructed to fill in the two diaries for 14 days , but were not told that the computer automatically records date of data entry , nor were they given instructions of what to do should they have forgotten to make the daily entry . |
| 11 | They will have come to understand the socio-cultural system from the inside through direct participation in the network of transactions which constitutes the daily life of those who are being studied . |
| 12 | By this time , the tigress must have come to know the particular scent , as well as stance , of her hunter and probably recognized him , even when dressed up as an Indian woman . |
| 13 | Well , at those prices I 'm sure none of us would have wished to accompany the old snob . |
| 14 | I am sure that the Prime Minister will have enjoyed reading the Western Mail last Saturday , where he will have seen the results of a telephone survey showing that the people of Wales now support the setting up of a Welsh Parliament by a margin of four to one . |
| 15 | So you had you had twelve pennies in one pile and twelve in another and you 're doing twelve add twelve now you could have done counted the whole lot could n't you ? |
| 16 | Despite these criticisms , recent approaches to decision making have sought to pursue the rational approach . |
| 17 | One suspects that Ibsen , faced with a character like Quisling , would immediately have applied to join the Norwegian Resistance . |
| 18 | Discretion may have tended to appear the better part of valour , and certainly better than defeat and its resultant loss of prestige . |
| 19 | Indeed , if the seller 's consent could have been vitiated in that way , Parliament would never have needed to create the statutory offence of obtaining by false pretences . |
| 20 | Her fellow passenger 's action showed she had also lost her royal mystique and air of untouchability — after all , no one would previously have dared ask the future queen for an autograph . |
| 21 | Even a small amount of power from that engine would have helped to offset the tremendous drag of the wheels hanging out . |
| 22 | However , it is arguable that representatives of subject areas not so conventionally identified with the notion of a school library ( e.g. art , science , and computer studies ) might have helped to break the stereotypical view of school libraries as the preserve of the English department and provided the team with some refreshingly different perspectives . |
| 23 | Whilst this use of ‘ creative ’ accountancy may have helped to avoid the harsh reality of nuclear power 's burdensome construction charges , there have also been major problems in the area of running costs . |
| 24 | Ideological and philosophical issues receive inadequate attention and yet these could have helped define the common context ( or , perhaps , the contrasting contexts ) in which art and science were pursued . |
| 25 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 26 | Bizet need n't have bothered to go the exotic East to write The Pearl Fishers . |
| 27 | But he would have preferred to spend the extra time in bed none the less . |
| 28 | There were limits to the range of territory that could be held together in this way in the sixteenth century : towards the end of his life Charles V abdicated and retired to a monastery , leaving his German lands and his title of Holy Roman Emperor to the line of his brother Ferdinand , even though he would probably have preferred to keep the entire empire together and leave it to his son Philip . |
| 29 | He probably found that Ma was good in bed , but hell as soon as her feet touched the floor and after all , even Walter and Ma must have had to spend the larger part of the day vertical , I bet he ached to crawl back to Hilda , but Ma had him neatly encircled . |
| 30 | You may have had to move the mounting screw pillars to new locations and now is the time you discover if you are correct . |