Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like those cases where women were , perhaps are , discriminated against because they were not ‘ strong ’ enough for a job or part of a job ; but most people would prefer for such a task a strapping wench to a seven-stone male weakling , who gets the sand kicked into his eyes by the beach bully , courtesy of the Charles Atlas advert . |
| 2 | It is easy enough to see how someone , especially someone who has suffered a childhood of poverty , can be led to a fear of emptiness , of not getting enough to eat , of starvation itself , and so in later life to stave off or compensate for such a fear . |
| 3 | she must think about that a lot . |
| 4 | But now , my dear fellows , let's just think about this a moment , shall we ? |
| 5 | Oh according to Josie , I really do n't know about all the cabbages , it might consist of one or two . |
| 6 | To automatically qualify for all the offers and services described in this leaflet you must begin or be a first year student attending a full time DESIGNATED course of study for which a Local Education Authority MANDATORY award is available and be personally eligible for such an award . |
| 7 | ‘ Could it possibly wait for half an hour , sir ? |
| 8 | We can certainly substitute for these no problem . |
| 9 | In other words it 's , it 's sticking from east to west , people will know of all the thing , it 's er tell you that many from eastern parts and western parts were called and reclined at the table , in other words this , well this good news that Jesus was sticking on this |
| 10 | All the voting members must approve of such a resolution . |
| 11 | The only persons who may appeal against such a decision are the applicant and the licence-holder . |
| 12 | No human relationship can recommence with such an attitude ; there has to be the admission of failure . |
| 13 | Phil 's gon na basically , when we 've all had as you would know with all the other girls , then erm he basically has to come and sin erm , we repent to him , basically ! |
| 14 | The word from Woburn House was that everybody should cooperate with all the enthusiasm they could muster . |
| 15 | GMB regional organiser Mary Kenny said : ‘ We do n't see how the company can survive with such a small workforce unless they have a hidden agenda . |
| 16 | If monks could act in such a way , tormenting relics , it was hardly surprising that ordinary people resorted to spells and superstitious practices . |
| 17 | A month ago the committee Labour members rejected this Scheme and I still have an enormous sense of amazement and anger that the local , and I express local , because it 's not a national policy , that the local Labour group could act in such a callous and spiteful way , putting political dogma , party political dogma , before the needs of the unemployed in the district . |
| 18 | Both Conservatives and Labour refused to commit themselves as to how they would act in such an eventuality . |
| 19 | Special attention will focus upon half a dozen versions of the Camden Town murder paintings , including the small but particularly dramatic ‘ L'affaire de Camden Town ’ ( 1908–1909 , private collection ) , the two versions of King Edward VIII ( 1936 , Beaverbrook Art Gallery and private collection ) , and the large study for ‘ The Raising of Lazarus ’ ( 1929 , Art Gallery of South Australia ) , originally executed in broad sweeps of the brush on the wallpaper of Sickert 's studio . |
| 20 | We accept then that , responsibility or no responsibility , commission or no commission , prices may behave in such a way that profits rise faster than a certain rate , that rate being the rate at which incomes other than profits — or perhaps incomes including profits ? — are increasing . |
| 21 | It was something that Harriet had particularly noticed and which made her both angry yet hopeful : angry that her daughter could not or would not always behave in such a way and hopeful that perhaps some day Liza would come to her senses and throw off the mask of invalidism behind which Harriet felt sure she was hiding . |
| 22 | It was unthinkable that two vibrancers could behave in such a manner . |
| 23 | Why would they behave in such a fashion ? ’ |
| 24 | Objects in the real world do not behave in such a crazy way , so the brain can safely filter out the apparent echo as background noise . |
| 25 | It is hard to believe that anything can survive in such a hostile environment . |
| 26 | In Chapter 10 we explained that only one private firm could survive in such an industry . |
| 27 | He would jump to all the wrong conclusions . |
| 28 | With no food and only a couple of bottles of Lucozade in the car , she knew that if the delay lasted much longer , her blood glucose could fall to such a dangerously low level , that she risked slipping into a diabetic coma . |
| 29 | That is , the underlying holdings of serious reference works , older classics , local history and other works of more than ephemeral interest would fall to such a low level that most readers ' questions and serious enquiries could not be answered without outside help . |
| 30 | They would not object to such a tight fit , in fact it would help them keep their restless horses under control , but once they had set spurs and the horses bolted , murder occurred . ’ |