Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A drastic measure considering electromagnetic pollution has , as yet , taken only a handful of lives , but compliance with a new European Directive could make or break and electronics company . |
| 2 | Under normal conditions of plasticity , if the internal and external stresses are not balanced , the form will either expand or contract until equilibrium is achieved . |
| 3 | ‘ Why do they smoke or drink or bet ( or breathe ) ? ' |
| 4 | In spite of being an experimental novelist himself , Charles Newman has recently levelled a fierce attack on postmodernism which he argues ‘ has come to rely upon its own linguistic awareness of itself rather than plot or character development , to provide its own momentum ’ ( Newman 1985 : 98 ) . |
| 5 | When DJ Lethal gets a look in , he seems to be trying to emulate Muggs ' style , choosing breaks from blues or rock-based material rather than funk or soul . |
| 6 | Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise . |
| 7 | We shall examine each of these four claims separately though recognising that they are inter-related and that there are also other claims for the undermining effects of social policy on economic growth — the poverty trap and its damage to incentives , the encouragement of a general attitude favouring leisure and pleasure rather than work and saving , the lack of enthusiasm generated for profit in a welfare state , and so on . |
| 8 | But if it 's the same or related condition , we 're saying , it 's a continuation of the claim , rather than stop and start again . |
| 9 | His wars with France between 1511 and 1514 and between 1522 and 1525 brought no economic returns , the occupation of Tournai from 1513 to 1519 involved loss rather than gain and subsidy payments to continental allies involved the export of national resources ( 82 , p.209 ) . |
| 10 | At the same time , some smart security companies have wised up and realized that such people are bad for business and they have duly set out to recruit the New Bouncer , who is trained to smile and defuse , rather than scowl and disembowel . |
| 11 | the aggregation of node in our approach is always made in the context of symbolic identifiers ( see Figure 2 ) rather than record or card numbers . |
| 12 | In terms of social class , sociologists since the 1970s have successfully revealed the power and class interests behind the acceptance of school art or school music as meaning the classics rather than pop or photography , and have shown that the unquestioned valuation of abstractness , ‘ pure ’ knowledge and literacy in school ( in preference to immediacy , ‘ applied ’ knowledge and practicality ) acts to promote the interests and skills of the dominant elite . |
| 13 | Already the atmosphere is such that companies such as Chubb Insurance Company of Europe is advising client directors to make concerted efforts not only to be familiar with all aspects of their companies ' activities but to take prudent action at the boardroom table : right down to ensuring all documents are prepared ‘ with the expectation that they will be scrutinised at a later date by others who are looking for evidence of wrongdoings ’ , that detailed minutes are taken , and that they should vote against any proposal rather than abstain because abstention could be construed as approval . |
| 14 | The people of Palestine in Kuwait generally are people who just want to live and make and living and support their own erm cause , and on the contrary we have many Palestinians who helped the Kuwaitis and protected them during the invasion . |
| 15 | If you walk into a room full of strangers and there is only one person in that room whom you know , you will immediately see and recognise that person , however many people are in the room , because here is something which interests you — your human oasis in a desert of unfamiliar faces . |
| 16 | Where significant work is envisaged in determining these factors MAS have in the past negotiated a separate investigation fee for a report on the business which can be used to highlight and rectify or address weaknesses prior to any investigation by the purchaser . |
| 17 | I think when I was n't there they used to come in and feed them and the girls all used to come round and bill and coo over them . |
| 18 | Since most of the money being offered was raised through Federal taxation , especially income tax , these mechanisms were being used to try and ensure that State governments did operate the welfare programmes seen as desirable by the Federal government ; if they did not , then their residents were paying taxes to Washington , but receiving relatively little in return . |
| 19 | Other countries are not saying , ’ Let us wait and see if convergence happens ; let us wait and see whether performance improves . ’ |
| 20 | We will have to wait and see whether caper berries take over when fromage frais and raspberry vinegar are exhausted . |
| 21 | We could go and see that picture we missed tonight . ’ |
| 22 | Other countries are not saying , ’ Let us wait and see if convergence happens ; let us wait and see whether performance improves . ’ |
| 23 | No Government in this country today which has not faith in the future , love for its fellow-men , and which will not work and work and work will ever bring this country through into better days and better times , or will ever bring Europe through , or the world through.6 |
| 24 | Now the thing is we , we can refer to sight and touch and hearing , but we do n't refer to the sense of smell just as smell , in modern English . |
| 25 | ‘ They should write , phone and insist that Parliament addresses this issue now . |
| 26 | And the very next day Yussuf , supported , as was proper , by every bearer in the place , went forth to tie and untie and retie the marital knots . |
| 27 | We can change the way we let our past experiences affect us now , so that we are better equipped to handle the impact on us of all kinds of pressure which would otherwise unsettle and upset as time goes on . |
| 28 | This ‘ wind up ’ will show by the front tyres trying to skip and skid and steering feeling heavy and notchy . |
| 29 | That secret self which he drew on , and which he would draw out and test as time went on , was not for public display unless Burton willed it . |
| 30 | They seemed to giggle and shrug and eye Tealtaoich mischievously and be unable to decide where they would like to sit . |