Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the request becomes official , we shall send somebody from the very highest level of my Office nothing less . ’ |
| 2 | However , being a BBC staff employee like David Whitaker , Pinfield could claim none of the potentially huge royalties due normally from such an invention . ) |
| 3 | In that view The Silmarillion would have something like the distinctively modern ‘ applicability ’ of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit , for all its archaic setting . |
| 4 | All the drivers are exciting , and people who are stuck in this pattern of behaviour often have an incentive to stay in it — they feel that one day they will succeed , they will finally be perfect , they will at last please everyone ; they will prove that they can get everything done more quickly than everyone else , and they 'll know that they can undertake anything under the most difficult conditions . |
| 5 | If it is true that kings only legislated when faced with an urgent need to enhance their standing with their subjects by prestigious acts of law-making , the appearance of royal codes of law in Kent and Wessex at this time may reflect something of the very considerable crisis through which these regions had recently passed . |