Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is not disputed by the Legal Aid Board , and indeed it is obvious , that the existing practice is highly convenient and may avoid unnecessary costs being incurred which would eventually fall on the legal aid fund if it were necessary in every case to set in motion a procedure for filing of evidence .
2 Society reaps a benefit because the invention will eventually fall into the public domain and because , in the meantime , commercial enterprise is stimulated .
3 In some circumstances , it may be preferable simply to keep the idea secret and rely on the law of confidence ; this costs nothing and there is no requirement that the invention must eventually fall into the public domain .
4 The requisite consent and authority to establish the relationship could only exist in the International Tin Agreement .
5 The huge oil spills off Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the burning of oil wells in Kuwait during the Gulf War in early 1991 did less damage to the marine environment than had been feared , according to scientists .
6 Children start off as self-centred little beings and they do not naturally think of the other person .
7 Such a disaster can only arise from the inherent structure and culture of the company .
8 It has been supposed that a vocal response must necessarily emanate from the left hemisphere and that a stimulus presented in the left half field of vision must therefore be transferred from the right to the left hemisphere .
9 By the time she decided that this really was a stupid idea the taxi driver had disappeared into the network of streets , and she had no choice but to gloomily knock on the front door and pray that it did n't mysteriously open of its own accord .
10 However , ‘ FAST CASH ’ withdrawals and all transactions on machines which are not ABBEYLINK machines can only relate to the Primary Account , and no other account can be selected for these particular transactions .
11 She 's worried any of them could be killed … and for now she can only wait for the missing cat to return
12 As a body corporate , a building society can only act through the human agency of its officers and employees .
13 The message added : ‘ The district council has taken legal advice from senior counsel who have confirmed that the district council did have a case which it could competently pursue against the local paper .
14 Enough has been said , however , to make it clear that regulation need not necessarily act in the public interest .
15 Cynics will automatically suggest that with the market at a low point , the art celebrities of the 1980s will naturally gravitate to the obvious locus of celebrity : Tinseltown .
16 We can all watch for the Labour block vote at the end of this debate as a matter of principle , I could never vote in support of the Labour whip .
17 The developmental stage follows , when maladaptive learning and abnormal family communication patterns may each perhaps contribute to the young person 's vulnerability to schizophrenia .
18 Pabulum Consultants ' Jennifer Rust comments : ‘ Many companies will only invest in the minimum training required to get the system up and running ; it is not surprising in these cases that the systems are not being used to their full potential .
19 These will only appear after the final moult , except in damsel flies which take two moults , one very soon after the other , to bring their wings to perfection .
20 . I 'd better look under the big light .
21 To achieve profound change , women must necessarily work within the existing structure .
22 It will only look at the premium status up to the fifteenth of the month , it wo n't take into consideration when so recall 's gone through on the sixteenth of the month .
23 But I would say that we should obviously look at the financial aspect of the review erm dates , which might be yearly .
24 The public relations executive , as a manager of the corporate personality , can only sustain in the long term , an identity that is based upon reality .
25 But this can only work at the individual level : it can not work for the economy as a whole since the quantity of nominal money is fixed , and so one person obtains more money by selling bonds only with the result that someone else — the person who buys the bonds — finds himself with less .
26 The ruler does n't only work in the horizontal direction .
27 The facilities available in each division will obviously depend on the particular system , but a fairly common division would be as follows .
28 It may , however , be possible for a plaintiff to achieve the desired result by making a concurrent application for a similar order in the courts of the relevant foreign country , though the availability of such orders will obviously depend upon the local law .
29 Against that , Labour in the person of Harold Wilson had a more widely respected leader then it has now , and many experienced Tory canvassers are convinced that thousands of former Tory voters who are now thinking of defecting will gloomily return to the Tory fold within the next few days as they come face to face with the possible reality of a Kinnock government .
30 Individual members can be strengthened by the acquisition of personal and committee staff , whereas the legislature as a whole can , by employing its own bureaucracy , better compete with the vast bureaucracy of the executive branch .
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