Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old man must have moved very softly to get within twenty yards of him unheard , although the quiet afternoon was in fact a steady rumble and distant clatter of farm machinery . |
| 2 | There are now few poultry farms within listening distance but , according to a nineteenth century folklorist , ‘ In ancient days the cocks must have crowed most lustily to have produced vibrations on either the sensitive rock or the tympanum of man ’ . |
| 3 | After all , you 'll have to move pretty fast to do all that in two years , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | And if Rod sells this house I 'll have to find somewhere else to live . ’ |
| 5 | As you embark on the F-Plan you might have to work quite energetically to convince yourself that the supposed virtues of the old low-carbohydrate method of dieting have been disproved by recent research . |
| 6 | May the author once again intrude upon whatever mood his narrative might have established long enough to report on current events ? ’ |
| 7 | The primary mechanism suggested for this relationship of war with advances in social welfare is political : that the demands of total war forced government to make concessions to organised labour and the working classes in general which otherwise might have taken much longer to achieve . |
| 8 | ‘ And then we 'd have to come here tomorrow to deal with the car . |
| 9 | Governments would have to undertake solemnly not to seek to influence it . |
| 10 | By the time they were old enough to ride ( another three years ) they would have cost considerably more to keep ! |
| 11 | They say that America would have done better simply to import the Canadian system of national insurance financed by taxes . |
| 12 | Senescence in industrialized human societies has become so apparent because of the removal of most extrinsic causes of death and lowered fertility ; in the circumstances in which the life history evolved , these would have predominated , and few individuals would have lived long enough to show evidence of ageing . |
| 13 | I would have to think carefully how to present Archie 's plight . |
| 14 | Of course one effect of the making of these revelations would have been to put D's record ( if he had one ) in issue as well , so that the jury would have had even more to think about to assist them in the weighing of the evidence in this case or ( depending on how you look at it ) to distract them from it . |
| 15 | This ought in theory to have raised the amount demanded by Wolsey , but would have taken much longer to collect . |
| 16 | question , issue three C two and three er we say that in relation to two as a matter of have categorize this as a question of law we say it probably categories a question of fact because if they 're right in there analysis of law and article eighty directive , all it means is , is that there is no market outside and that the restriction is insignificant if that being so one would answer the question , is not capable as a matter of pure law of infringing article eighty five , but in the light of the discussion yesterday afternoon of course when my learned friend comes to apply for this strike out , we may have difficulty in contesting that provision it 's not , not er , a , a major part of our case that we , we would have to re-consider it and , and I did ask your Lordship erm if your Lordship would minded to find otherwise not to block out at least the possibility of application for leave to amend and of course we 'd have to make , have to consider whether we could make a proper case out of it on what we do |
| 17 | However , you will need to decide just where to restart it . |
| 18 | Auditors and tax specialists will have to liaise more closely to ensure that internal procedures allow deadlines to be met . |
| 19 | Once the board has turned you will have to move forwards quickly to kill the turn before it goes too far . |
| 20 | ‘ Retailers will have to work much harder to persuade shoppers to part with their money . ’ |