Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conditioned responding should develop perfectly readily given the context-specificity of latent inhibition ; but will it be evident on the final test ? |
| 2 | But the borehole must go deep enough to reach the aquifer , even if this means drilling far below the potentiometric surface . |
| 3 | Ideally the agent should reduce bleeding sufficiently to allow the patient to undergo surgery without the need for blood transfusion and should obviate the risk of postoperative anaemia . |
| 4 | Unhappily now we are older it has all disappeared , and we must fight again just to retain the few rights we still have , such as state pensions and what is left of the health service . |
| 5 | She may feel far better leaving the bureau with details of a local self-help group for single parents and information about local child-care facilities . |
| 6 | Stavov supports Van Laue argues that the only way Russia might advance fast enough to avoid the disaster of inevitable global conflict was through a ‘ totalitarian planned economy ’ . |
| 7 | Insofar as the ‘ post ’ of postmodernism points to a lack , an emptying of a previous content , an absence of positive connotations to the present , then the term might do quite well to describe the current mood of dissatisfaction in Italian literary culture . |
| 8 | This could cause the loss of a whole revolution for each member of the chain , because the processing of the link field might take long enough to miss the start of the next record . |
| 9 | To make them pure for drinking purposes is , perhaps , impossible ; but it may reasonably be hoped that they may become sufficiently so to delight the eye and to repress the pestiferous and sickening exhalations which at present affect the multitudes of our population compelled to pass their lives on the bank of such rivers . |
| 10 | It was a gamble , that the economy could grow fast enough to sustain the repayments . |
| 11 | Then you could decide more promptly to do the necessary work of grieving for what you 've never had , recognising how much you still have , and get on with your life in other useful and enjoyable ways . |
| 12 | Here the failure may occur despite the fact that the episode in question has been adequately stored and is potentially retrievable ( if actually asked at the time the drivers could have probably correctly retrieved the information that they were uninsured / driving on full beam / on the wrong route ) , the problem is instead that the driver fails to use the knowledge available at the correct time . |
| 13 | So though it is perfectly practicable to take a trip to Heiden by car ( a direct road leads from Rorschach ) you would do much better to leave the car behind , go along to the station of the Rorschach-Heiden mountain railway near the harbour , take a cogwheel train , sit back in one of the red coaches and enjoy the gradually changing view . |
| 14 | It is a classic example of the waste of local taxpayers ' money by a foolish council which would do much better to spend the money on the services for which it is statutorily responsible . |
| 15 | Both branches would move steadily outwards to form the oceanic crust , which , as it got progressively further away from the ridge would rapidly acquire a thin veneer of deep sea sediments ( muds and clays , mixed up with myriads of tiny shells from planktonic organisms ) . |
| 16 | Trapped in the revolving world of afternoon TV , this is a man who would have quite happily recorded the LP from the comfort of his bed had they been able to fit it in the studio . |
| 17 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |
| 18 | Instead of searching for the musical expression of class standpoints one will do better so to conceive the relation of music to classes that any music will present the picture of antagonistic society as a whole ( Adorno 1976 : 68 , 69 , emphasis added ) . |
| 19 | In general , though , they vary from long-oval in shape to almost globular , are borne on rather long peduncles and , by now , will have almost entirely lost the wizened remains of the flower 's calyx . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the interpretations of historians will have long since superseded the ideas of W. H. Crook . |
| 21 | Similarly they will have only just negotiated the entry of four new members — Austria , Sweden , Finland and Norway . |
| 22 | But the West should know that , however long it takes to end the battle against the Iraqi tyrant , it will take much longer to end the bitterness he has tapped in the unhappy Middle East . |
| 23 | Whether you are providing a 30 hour crash course for pre-intermediate students , or an 80 hour maintenance programme at post-proficiency level , you will find Fast Forward offers the right kind of material , the right amount of material , and the most balanced and effective approach for your learners . |
| 24 | I can remember very well having the first cooker we had , gas cooker we had . |
| 25 | At parish level , individuals can work together either to safeguard the character of their local village , or to improve its appearance . |
| 26 | We have not yet resolved all the detail but I should tell you about the key aspects of these changes so that we can go forward together to put the new arrangements successfully in place . |