Example sentences of "[vb infin] this [noun sg] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If that is how we still feel , then we must recognise that we can only think this way because the Enemy is not threatening us .
2 ‘ Now we can attack this protein and the tumour without destroying other cells .
3 It will also show this combination when a person reads a single sentence and when a person reads a long passage of prose .
4 One can easily understand this viewpoint since the potential of children has to be maximised and parents should be allowed to consider the ideal outcomes of their efforts .
5 19 , is made and it is suggested that the plaintiff can not utilise this exception because the measure sought is not ‘ indistinctly applicable . ’
6 Without such a compromise , the vendor can not easily recover this sum and the purchaser would have no real interest in pursuing it .
7 However , many computers do not have this facility and a procedure to clear to the end of the screen would be useful .
8 The proposal is that a buyer who is a non-consumer should not have this right where the breach is so slight that it would be unreasonable for him to reject the goods .
9 Usually we do not have this information when a file is set up .
10 You should also read this section if the process you are currently setting up is your live database .
11 As a works convenor , I work along twenty shop stewards , and I can tell this Congress that the message that they 've given to me from the people from the people that have elected them , is that they 're sick and tired of the perpetual bleating of the T U C about how they have to abide by the laws , when the only laws that are there are the laws that are bringing this movement down .
12 Foreigners will fill this region and the land ; and there will be not only a neglect of devotions but , what is harder , religion , piety , and divine worship …
13 I have sometimes whiled away idle moments in speculating how far one could elaborate this figure before the reader became suspicious .
14 We know they can play this game but the defence is shocking .
15 Building extensions to two Catholic schools in Darlington could start this year if the county and the church agree , the schools minister said this week .
16 Thus an invention which represents a remarkable advance on the prior art in a particular field may nevertheless fail this requirement because the employer neglects ( or is simply unable ) to market it properly .
17 Objects such as a shoe or slipper can also evoke this response if the dog was hit in the past .
18 Will the Minister say this evening whether the Government intend to implement , if not immediately , at least in the very near future , those sections of part II of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 that prevent the surrender of a disposal licence until a certificate of completion has been isssued by the relevant authority ?
19 Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread .
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