Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadly speaking , the established firm would rather price down to average variable cost than leave , whereas the potential entrant would want at least to cover average total cost . |
| 2 | Over billions of years it will slowly fizzle out to become a black dwarf . |
| 3 | Well I can only make much notes as my hand will allow me to . |
| 4 | Instead of positing psychically repressed homosexuality as the necessary and/or sufficient cause of homophobia , we might better regard socially proscribed homosexuality as one of homophobia 's several interconnected and enabling conditions , none of which is independently either necessary or sufficient . |
| 5 | It can not be stressed too often that it is essential to only install commercially designed and built microwaves which conform to the international safety and performance standards appropriate for industrial use . |
| 6 | The principal adviser said that any factual errors would be put right as a matter of course and if there was a professional disagreement they could perhaps discuss how to change the wording of the report . |
| 7 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 8 | Then they will suddenly swoop down to catch mammals or sometimes insects or worms . |
| 9 | ‘ Listen , Kelly , I know you 're still upset about your father 's death , but if you want to play detective , you 'd better give up riding and join the police . |
| 10 | And all of them can only do just carry on , the money 's not there , it 's not there is it ? |
| 11 | Anyone who advertises the deferred rate may only do so provided that the APR is more prominent , and they explain all the terms . ’ |
| 12 | The recent privatisation of the Export Credit Guarantee Department can only do further damage . |
| 13 | Unless a man can put some thematic invention into vers libre , he would perhaps do well to stick to ‘ regular ’ metres , which have certain chances of being musical from their form , and certain other chances of being musical through his failure in fitting the form . |
| 14 | Dear Rothenstein , Now that the Mexican president has provided you with the beak and talons of an Aztec eagle you may perhaps feel better equipped to face me in open contest . |
| 15 | The circumstances under which they did so do not appear from the report of the case . |
| 16 | You know it and so do I. So do n't waste your breath ! |
| 17 | If you would like to share a bit of my life with me , then give me a bit of yours I will reply so do n't make me cry , get me high , and reply to SKY . |
| 18 | Well I think I 'd better do n't want none of these burpers so might as well get rid of them . |
| 19 | Do any better do n't bother dealing . |
| 20 | ‘ Then you 'd better hurry back to find her . |
| 21 | Let's all work together to promote more fostering , get the children into family environments wherever possible . |
| 22 | Democratic government does not necessarily entail locally elected councils . |
| 23 | Now you 're obviously I mean most people are but you can obviously understand better think better if they 're more practical |
| 24 | If you set unattainable goals , you 'll only become extremely frustrated with your running and racing . |
| 25 | As the Quality Improvement Process becomes more and more a part of C&P 's culture , quality education will naturally become more integrated with the mainstream training programmes at all levels . |
| 26 | Sometimes the ferret simply holds the rabbit and by drawing the line you can gently move both ferret and rabbit into reaching distance . |
| 27 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 28 | Individuals from different cultures may not only contract together using different cultural assumptions , but using an entirely different legal framework . |
| 29 | Individual heating appliances such as gas convectors can be controlled by thermostats and time switches just as effectively as a central heating system , and will obviously cost less to install . |
| 30 | We may merely set out to determine the main policies in the areas in which we are interested . |