Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hera punished Echo by making her unable to speak , except to always repeat the last words anybody said to her . |
| 2 | Erm and er but I think it 's it 's better to take the time , and provide something that is erm what is needed , rather than to just go ahead and erm do something without referring to the people it concerns . |
| 3 | Of course , it 's a lot easier to turn through shallow angles than to completely change direction , and the slower you 're going obviously enhances your rotation capabilities . |
| 4 | This differential effect on the two parameters of lysosomal stability may indicate that the predominant effect of chronic ethanol administration and of cholesteryl ester is to increase the permeability of pancreatic lysosomal membranes rather than to completely disrupt the organelles . |
| 5 | Ordering me about in front of Candy , knowing I had no choice other than to meekly obey , was downright contemptible ! ’ |
| 6 | So in practice it 's easier to measure the alkalinity and then back-calculate to get that and hence the P H than to actually try and measure the P H directly from sea water . |
| 7 | ‘ But when push comes to shove , ’ says Mr Stafford Smith , ‘ it 's a lot easier to say you 're for the death penalty than to actually kill people . |
| 8 | ‘ There is no legitimate reason for the test other than to further fan the fires of prejudice , ’ Campriello said . |
| 9 | How better to release it than to ritually carve the sacred pattern each year , close to the slowly fading illuminations of earlier ceremonies . |
| 10 | Far better to take what is , and bring in progressive changes , than to radically alter the whole thing . ’ |
| 11 | Ross made no attempt to touch her , other than to gently place his hand occasionally on her elbow as they walked around the house and garden . |
| 12 | Good caddies have good temperaments. just watch Ian Wright getting a lambasting from Seve Ballesteros and see if Ian ever answers back , or , indeed , reacts in any way other than to quietly stand and take it on the chin , metaphorically speaking of course . |
| 13 | The object of this book is to give one person 's view on the possible causes of the present situation and to stimulate discussion , hoping that new and , if necessary , radical ideas are created in the spirit that it is better to express a constructive view rather than to passively accept a disagreeable situation with discontent . |
| 14 | Regrettably , because to forcibly remove the cabins by legal action would take 12 months , the City Council considered they had no option but to approve Lucy 's application . |
| 15 | By the time she decided that this really was a stupid idea the taxi driver had disappeared into the network of streets , and she had no choice but to gloomily knock on the front door and pray that it did n't mysteriously open of its own accord . |
| 16 | She tried to decide whether she should swallow her pride and tell John how she felt or whether to just go on and hope for the best . |
| 17 | So is he to be he does n't know whether to just carry on or to put a stop to it now or what the hell to do |
| 18 | Whether to just photocopy off a very good original |
| 19 | So I mean I I was debating whether to actually send this out I might wait and see what happens . |
| 20 | ‘ Please , ’ Eva begged , ‘ do n't be so rude as to not let your father finish what he 's started . ’ |
| 21 | Indeed by this time Mao is specifically advocating that the Party ought to take a more cautious and less radical approach to land reform so as to not antagonize the interests of the middle and rich peasants . |
| 22 | Going to the shops may be done in such an automatic way as to not seem to be the fulfilment of desire at all . |
| 23 | Having checked the levels at rehearsal , the producer sets the recorder so as to just avoid distortion on the loudest passages . |
| 24 | " So if you 'd be so kind as to just shut up , I 'd appreciate it . " |
| 25 | The two cases analysed so far have been chosen so as to clearly reveal , in a very simple context , the method of determining transient response through Laplace transformation . |
| 26 | To set the problem in more concrete terms , we must seek an answer to the question as to why make and have are followed by the bare infinitive , while cause , occasion , get and all the other causatives are construed with to infinitives . |
| 27 | The view expressed here is that the punishment of those found guilty of insider dealing ought to be sufficient to act as a general deterrent for others who have access to inside information , so as to further reduce the incentive to indulge in the practice of insider dealing . |
| 28 | To refuse or to omit to leave is as much a trespass as to originally enter without any right . |
| 29 | But because this left it so generalised as to sometimes appear to be saying hardly anything at all , it was open to imperialist take-over by more established , but much more mechanistic learning theories such as behaviourism . |
| 30 | ‘ I try to keep prices to a bare minimum so as to still allow people to have lunch without spending a fortune . |