Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again . |
| 2 | Life would be a whole lot easier , mutter government officials in Tokyo , if the devious Europeans would only behave more like the tough but plain-speaking Americans . |
| 3 | Even so-called ‘ fundamentalists ’ usually insist that although it is an axiom of faith that God really created the world , he did not necessarily do so in a literal six days of twenty-four hours each . |
| 4 | It will not necessarily do so in a judicial manner ; a matter with party political implications may well result in voting following party lines . |
| 5 | My constituent concludes : ’ The present government wants education standards to be improved but in the case of students , it will only result again in the rich' families being able to afford to send their children on to further education . |
| 6 | I shall only speak ill of the dead , and regret it afterwards . ’ |
| 7 | We may perhaps speak here of a discontinuous semantic constituent . |
| 8 | We could not sensibly plan ahead for a doomsday-type catastrophe . |
| 9 | Its name in Greek means ‘ that which looks downwards ’ , a reference to its head being so heavy that it would only loll lazily in the hot sand , waiting for a victim to walk by . |
| 10 | Unexpected , it was like a surprise confrontation , and for a moment she could only stare blindly at the familiar name . |
| 11 | We have a powerful new ministry which would sensibly communicate directly with the Regional Arts Boards , and , I now believe , should fund the national companies direct . |
| 12 | Come to that , it had better go straight into the soiled linen . |
| 13 | However , it can be shown that the runaway greenhouse effect , had it acted on an Earth-like quantity of water , can perhaps lead initially to a copious escape of hydrogen with no enhancement of D/ 1 H during this process . |
| 14 | A more fundamental reason for the failure of these control bodies is suggested by the Spanish case : they can only operate effectively in a propitious political environment . |
| 15 | Also , most prey can only flee fast in a forward direction , so attacking the head is the best way of hampering their escape . |
| 16 | Pilger told him they had better get together for a serious talk the minute he got off the plane . |
| 17 | His star could only rise again with the economic stagnation of the early 1980s and , even more clearly , following the appearance of Mr Gorbachev . |
| 18 | The firm should normally act only in a professional or agency role . |
| 19 | We should normally act only in a professional or agency capacity in connection with negotiations ( ie not as principal ) and the client for whom we are acting should be clearly identified . |
| 20 | However disguised they may be , those are very big tax increases , of a kind which governments can normally introduce early in a parliamentary term only . |
| 21 | However disguised they may be , those are very big tax increases , of a kind which governments can normally introduce early in a parliamentary term only . |
| 22 | Still , ideas that the reflective pronoun herself and the item anyone which is called a negative polarity item , the item anyone needs to have something else in the sentence in order to license them they ca n't just occur freely in the normal position for er nouns , even though they are nouns . |
| 23 | Whether or not a new solution in region IV satisfies these conditions will generally depend both on the particular technique that is employed and also on the initial seed solution . |
| 24 | In the case of DAF and , specifically the van-making plant at Birmingham , it must be increasingly apparent that this is an area where the company can no longer compete effectively in the short-run . |
| 25 | She had seen him surrounded by people shouting and screaming , ‘ Go on , my son ’ , not one of them down to lose or win as much as Jack , and he 'd just stand there like a beautiful , pale statue . |
| 26 | Now , why do n't you just go upstairs like a good little girl and get out of those wet things ? |
| 27 | No , well that 's it int it ? so er if things are reasonable we might just go away for a long weekend or something , go find us a place in Southport for a weekend |
| 28 | PITS which British Coal can no longer operate profitably in a competitive energy market will be offered for sale to other companies as a first step towards full-scale privatisation given impetus by yesterday 's white paper reviewing the industry 's future . |
| 29 | If you do not flip him off balance he can quite easily crash right into the marginal weed some distance along your own bank . |
| 30 | It can not just point smugly to the late-flowering green shoots of recovery and wait for economic summer to arrive . |