Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 These typical senses of the infinitive are summed up in the table below : The bare infinitive is therefore no less versatile than the to infinitive in being able to express a happening as real or only potential , which is not surprising given the fact that the to infinitive is composed of the preposition to + the bare infinitive .
2 The visibility was not nearly as good and although the aeroplane was lighter , it was nose heavy , the controls were heavier and the under carriage was narrower .
3 ROS : You march in here without so much as a by your leave and expect me to take very lunatic you try to pass off with a lot of unsubstantiated
4 You … you just started off , brought me all this way , without so much as a by your leave . ’
5 Ron Barton sidled up to her , and , without as much as a by your leave , took a seat , placing his dictaphone between them as he did so .
6 What do you say to the fathers , and I have had dozens from up and down the country contacting me , what do you say to the fathers like that chap over there in th in the front row , who has handed over sometimes tens of thousands of pounds , he 's done his bit , he 's had it rubber stamped by the court , he 's gone ahead in good faith and made his his his future , and then the Child Support Agency comes along and just without so much as a by your leave pulls the rug .
7 ‘ Are you sure they wo n't mind having a total stranger thrust upon them without as much as a by your leave ? ’
8 The third factor that has been given was the effect of the current recession which although these although a of communication is mentioned also provides a steady source of income to the National Federation .
9 The distinction between these two ways of conceiving permission accounts for the use of either the bare or the to infinitive here .
10 It appeared to many that the of the C C P was moving away from one of the most fundamental principles of socialism .
11 It is not the means to an end conceived elsewhere : but an ‘ as if ’ , no less substantial than the as if of revolution itself .
12 While it is true to say that the bare infinitive is more frequent in American English — Algeo ( 1988 : 22 ) found that the Brown University Corpus has only 25 per cent usage of to infinitives after help where the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus has 73 per cent — this begs the question nevertheless because both the bare and the to infinitives are used on both sides of the Atlantic .
13 Although only two attested examples of this usage have been found in modern English , the contrast between the bare and the to infinitive in these contexts confirms the percept/concept distinction observed above : ( 88 ) The smallest pin could be heard drop .
14 The author of this passage has skilfully exploited the contrast between the bare and the to infinitives .
15 Now my Lord I 'm I make the application with no with no joy at all but the for a day this matter has proceeded on the basis that yes these two men might have known each other , but that 's as far as it goes .
16 He dumped them all when the on holiday .
17 ‘ It is time the slaughter of the innocents of Warrington really provoked the people of this Republic and particularly the Government into more than the by now ritual condemnation of such awful acts . ’
18 If it is less than a hundred-per cent change , ignore it ; you are studying the wrong system or have designed the wrong experiment , he insisted .
19 What , what you have to say here , for this one , right , we restrict X to say X is less than the of zero .
20 Common though the to infinitive is after make in the passive , it is , apparently , not ubiquitous .
21 But if you ordered a ten thirty delivery and it arrived before noon , we would just give you the money difference the before twe , ten thirty and the before noon price , not the complete price .
22 As predicted , most passives were produced when the acted-upon was more animate than the actor and least when the actor was more animate than the acted-upon .
23 The effects of animacy and thematisation were additive : the greatest number of passives ( 96 ) occurred when the acted-upon was both thematic and more animate than the actor , and the least ( only 1 ) when the actor was thematic and more animate than the acted-upon .
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