Example sentences of "[prep] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I can see that the woman you wrote about may well have deserved what she got — your report says the little girl was badly bruised — I do think we have to be wary of going to extremes . |
| 2 | This is of practical importance particularly in the case of closely held companies or wholly-owned subsidiaries where the conduct complained of may well have received unanimous shareholder assent , which would otherwise have the effect of regularising the transaction and hence preventing the liquidator from taking remedial action . |
| 3 | Putting ( 12.27 ) the remaining components of must then satisfy the equations . |
| 4 | They sort of could n't care less if you were going to leave at the end of the fourth year . |
| 5 | It seemed to me that they assumed and air of could n't care less you know that that was their attitude after nationalization . |
| 6 | There 's a follow-up series on a Sunday evening now called king of something , king of ca n't think of the name , ca n't remember the name of it but it starts this Sunday evening at nine o'clock |
| 7 | They had n't thought about that do you know , I reckon that Sister Josephine erm behind all this , she wanted that hall and she and Father used to talk about this you see they want to extend the church back and do away with the car parking area as well , oh that 's alright , but erm sort of ca n't see any point in it , I mean congregations are going down , they 're not increasing , the church is big enough for what is necessary I would of thought would n't you ? |
| 8 | Other choices of will thus generate fields and e which are approximations to the actual values . |
| 9 | If it 's dry it sort of wo n't stick together will it ? |
| 10 | Under a similar provision in the Bankruptcy Act 1914 it had been held that a defect in a bankruptcy notice of a kind such as could reasonably mislead the debtor was not a mere formal defect or irregularity within the meaning of that provision , and therefore rendered the notice a nullity even though it was not calculated to cause substantial injustice . |
| 11 | those against may now vote |
| 12 | It was not a unanimous vote but , my word , those who voted against must certainly have been feeling very lonely . |
| 13 | But it was something like could n't afford two thousand pounds . |
| 14 | Thus the male is required to identify with other males but he is not allowed to desire them ; indeed , identification with should actually preclude desire for . |
| 15 | The kind of explanation we come up with must not contradict the laws of physics . |
| 16 | The account should have the login flags CAPTIVE , DISCTLY and DEFCLI set , and the command procedure which it logs into should only give the account read access by virtue of the SYSPRV privilege ( so that the user can not edit the command procedure after executing the break-out ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Lady , most of the females I pump liquor into would n't know a nefarious purpose if they saw one . ’ |
| 18 | The shop they went into would n't have anything to do with it though . |
| 19 | I seem to be able to do the thing that she ca n't do ; that Pat ca n't do ; that the women she works with ca n't do : control my weight , my body , my self . |
| 20 | They may reject what they regard as middle-class or old-fashioned values and delight in looking as dirty and scruffy as possible , championing people and causes that most of the people their parents mix with would not consider acceptable . |
| 21 | The person you are dealing with will also find it far easier to be helpful if she/he is clear about what the problem is and what you want . |
| 22 | You with her , you with can not pronounce it . |
| 23 | This may not be immediately obvious , and in some cases in may even appear to be contrary to what one would normally regard as " common sense " . |
| 24 | — Chinese traders when asked by the Romans what country they came from should really have replied ‘ Chung-kuo ’ ( Middle Kingdom ) . |
| 25 | The oranges were given to him by Mr. Singleton of Houghton 's … he realised in Supt. Learmont 's office that the people he received them from might not have the right to give them . |
| 26 | Perhaps this was just as well since the jolly but rather juvenile japes her sister embarked upon might not have pleased her . |
| 27 | Nabil Shaban in Nativity ; Tricycle : see Theatre Seamus Newham , The Vanek Plays ; Soho Poly : see Theatre Suzanne Packer and Clive Russell in Our Country 's Good ; Garrick : see Critics ' choice Reg Stewart and Howard Crossley in Ca n't Pay ? |
| 28 | But , as things stand , cases of a person feeling cold when conditions are such as would ordinarily make him feel warm are the exception to the rule . |
| 29 | Changing between the 0.10 gauge sets that you refer to should not cause any problems ; the first set has a heavy top and light bottom and vice versa for the other , and the difference in tension and playability would probably be too small to notice . |
| 30 | He said a letter sent to competitors informing them of the restriction and threatening possible exclusion of wheelchairs from future London marathons if the rule was not adhered to should not have been sent . |