Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The making of a bankruptcy order may effectively lead to a professional no longer being able to practise in his or her profession , and therefore all possibility of income generation would be lost . |
| 2 | Although many parasites can probably attack a variety of related species in the initial development of the relationship , the parasite fine tunes its metabolism as the symbiosis progresses and may eventually adapt to a single species of the host . |
| 3 | We should also not rule out the possibility that one may properly look to a historical explanation , just as a historical explanation underlies the fact that the comparatives of tired and spoilt — derived from verbs — are analytic , as in : ( 56 ) Declan is more spoilt than Karen Declan 's mother is more tired than Karen 's mother rather than the synthetic forms — tireder , spoilter — which we should expect from the monosyllabic adjectives which they have become . |
| 4 | This stands for Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering and erm under this scheme , a company erm can have a problem tackled by a research student working in a university and erm a supervisor , and indeed in this case , the input , the financial input , by the company may be quite small , may only amount to a few hundred pounds . |
| 5 | If two male or two female cats find themselves together , sexually aroused but lacking suitable mates , one member of the pair may suddenly switch to the mating pattern of the ‘ wrong ’ sex . |
| 6 | A person 's social development is thus crucially linked to the physical fact of ageing : no one can be fixed in a low position , but must eventually succeed to the highest status , simply by staying alive . |
| 7 | The theory of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ predicts that the old and weak must eventually succumb to the young and strong , and that this is necessary for the future vitality of the species . |
| 8 | He added that special incentives should perhaps apply to the top 10 managers , whose performances will be crucial in retaining the franchise . |
| 9 | Not allowing the family member to take any form of responsibility that : should rightly belong to the primary sufferer or to someone else . |
| 10 | The most important thing — of course — was being seen with the right people , and the Mirza Nama opens with a salutary warning : ‘ He [ the mirza ] must not speak to every unworthy person , and should regard men of his own class as the only [ fit ] companions [ for him ] . ’ |
| 11 | In order to prevent the display from scrolling , you must not write to the last column of the last row . |
| 12 | It should not lead to a restricted curriculum , and its use was set in the context of a range of other methods which ‘ use pupils ’ own talk , interests and writing as the starting point for further work' ( NCC 1989a : 33 ) . |
| 13 | During a mass in Cape Verde on Jan. 25 , he said that the developments in Eastern Europe should not lead to the international community forgetting the plight of the Third World , while in Mali on Jan. 28 he appealed for harmony between the Christian and Moslem religions . |
| 14 | I also operate with the assumption that , although my results pertain strictly only to the sample of forty housewives I interviewed , there is no reason why they should not relate to the wider population of housewives , since it can not be shown that the forty women are unrepresentative of the larger population . |
| 15 | In his electoral speeches , Boris Yeltsin had emphasised that the president of Russia should not belong to a political party . |
| 16 | This breaks one of the basic tenets of configuration management ; that once an object is identified , then the identifier must always refer to an identical object . |
| 17 | Godwin also offered guidance on moral problems ; we must always look to the general good , calculate the consequences of the courses of action open to us , and arrive at an unbiased decision . |
| 18 | The title Duke of Cornwall and the estate to go with it dates back to 1337 , when Edward III created it to give his eldest son , the Black Prince , an income and somewhere to live ; it was he who decreed that it should always go to the eldest son . |
| 19 | Dierdriu said , ‘ You know the ancient curse laid on Tara at the beginning of her history ? ’ and looked at him and waited , and Fergus said , half to himself , ‘ If Tara should ever belong to a pure-bred Human , then it will fall into ruin , and the Bright Palace will be no more … ’ ’ ‘ ‘ … and all Ireland will seethe with evil , and the skies will darken , and the rivers will run with blood . ’ |
| 20 | The private right must usually yield to the greater public interest . |
| 21 | While many gardens combine formality and informality satisfactorily in adjacent areas , and often to a limited extent within the same part of the garden , a pool must strictly adhere to the overall aspects of its surroundings . |
| 22 | Much credit must also go to the new Congress chief minister , Beant Singh , and his police chief , K.P.S. Gill . |
| 23 | A novelist adapting his or her work for the screen must also adapt to the different status of the writer in the production process . |
| 24 | IFAs belonging to the association must also belong to a contributory compensation fund that protects your investments from unforeseen problems , such as fraud . |
| 25 | ( No. 2 ) [ 1990 ] 1 A.C. 109 ( one of the many Spycatcher cases ) , although referring to a common law ( or more strictly equitable ) action to protect a right of confidentiality , must also apply to the common law action of defamation to protect reputation . |
| 26 | Most participants also agreed that , when fish stocks crossed the boundary between a 20-mile zone and international waters , the coastal state 's conservation and management measures should also apply to the high seas portion of the stocks . |
| 27 | I shall be happy to receive them in any form in which the hon. Gentleman cares to send them — but they should probably go to the independent regulator , as he well knows . |
| 28 | Fairfax should now say to the assembled Masai : ‘ Whatever happens to her she will always remember that it was the Masai who showed her that the human race shares one , universal , spirit . ’ |
| 29 | We should now turn to the second question that I raised , whether Quinean epistemology is , in fact , sufficiently continuous with traditional Epistemology to provide the self-consciousness about his practice desired by the reflective inquirer ( see Putnam 1982 ) . |
| 30 | We must now return to the general situation in which 5 Corps found itself at the end of 15 May . |