Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | State provision of toll goods is justified on efficiency grounds if exclusion is relatively costly to enforce or too little of the good is consumed because people are excluded from using a good which is non-rivalrous in consumption . |
| 2 | No industrial society ought to accept that almost half the population can , in effect , be disenfranchised from Technology at such an early age . |
| 3 | Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them . |
| 4 | Very few Branch collecting sheets appear without the names of many cadets , and it is a great encouragement to know that so many are prepared to give up so much of their time to help the Association . |
| 5 | It is very encouraging to know that so many institutions are keen to establish themselves in the important area of advanced IT training and that a significant contribution to costs came from industry . |
| 6 | It is very heartening to know that so many of you are prepared to under-write the future of the Society 's works in such a positive way . |
| 7 | City teachers , even the most experienced , are so accustomed to mobility , access to transport and social competence in getting around that they are continually surprised to find that so many of the children they teach lead lives confined to a few streets . |
| 8 | I have always been impressed with the quality of the precedents contained in the Encyclopaedia , which rarely let us down , despite the intricacies of the subject matter , and it comes as no surprise to me to find that so many firms seem to be basing their standard form agreements and leases on Forms 14 and 29 . |
| 9 | If the clause is the main unit of encoding then we would expect to find that almost all clauses in the speech corpus Beattie analysed should contain pauses , particularly in initial position . |
| 10 | You have to try and please both parties . |
| 11 | Hardly anyone can have learned both to read and to write and probably few learned even to read just by attending Sunday classes . |
| 12 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
| 13 | Offshore wind farms would be more expensive to establish but far less of an eyesore . |
| 14 | It is important to see that even this qualified recognition of authority , the recognition of the authority of just governments to impose prima facie obligations on their subjects , can not be supported by the argument of the normal justification thesis . |
| 15 | It is a pleasure to see that so many museums still have free admission and free events but if you are dropping in on a favourite , remember that many close at Christmas and New Year and booking is advisable . |
| 16 | It 's good to see that so many children are becoming literate in the ways of the countryside and gaining knowledge of their responsibility for the planet . |
| 17 | It 's sad to see that so many people feel that they have to move away . |
| 18 | In other words , although a lot is said about " silent letters " , it 's more helpful to see that almost all words have " silent letters " in a sense , and that they are n't silent at all , but are attempts originally to symbolise regional or personal differences in pronunciation . |
| 19 | It 's nice to report that virtually all these have a sound fishkeeping function built into their design — in most cases they form a nice cave or one shape or another . |
| 20 | By 6th October he was able to report that only some papering and painting remained to be done ; by the 20th he could recommend payment of the final instalment . |
| 21 | It was also depressing to realize that yet another member of the staffroom of the Islamic Boys ' Independent Wimbledon Day School was barking mad . |
| 22 | But it is important for the family counsellor to remember that even such negative family systems provide individuals with a basis for role allocation , and a security based on certainty and predictability , however unpalatable . |
| 23 | Not the type to talk if too many of us arrive like a delegation . |
| 24 | Surely we should n't allow that c to continue and surely that 's er that 's er can be made into quite a semi-formal type of that 's not on is it ? |
| 25 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |
| 26 | Erm like any job you have your ups and your downs , it 's very nice when you see people getting better or you 've followed somebody through their pregnancy and they 've got a lovely bouncy baby at the end of it and sometimes it 's sad when you find out that somebody has got a serious illness or you 're looking after people where somebody has died and it , it 's very hard for the people left behind to cope and so that 's very difficult sometimes . |
| 27 | Every side had too much to lose and very little to gain . |
| 28 | Erm , we both had something to gain , but equally we had something to lose and maybe that 's the sort of things , we think about to change the cost . |
| 29 | ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’ |
| 30 | It may smack of undue determinism to suggest that only this system 's replacement will achieve anything and that its renovation will achieve nothing . |