Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that architects should design for the new life style which was to arise , and design " for service " , making economical and logical use of space and using mechanical devices in order to provide comfort and to make housework pleasant by lightening the time and effort spent doing it ( 1934 p 32 ) . |
| 2 | We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit … made them . |
| 3 | Industrial manufacture would remain as the basic technique of production in the society which would replace capitalism . |
| 4 | They returned to the room where she explained about Philpott 's heart attack and his subsequent convalescence at the Bellevue Hospital where he would remain for the next few days . |
| 5 | They are well understood , cheap to collect and very difficult to evade … rates should remain for the foreseeable future the main source of local revenue for local government ’ ( DOE/Welsh Office 1983a : 14 ) . |
| 6 | Although a good deal of success has been achieved with regard to mapping vegetation ( Hathout , 1980 ) , there are still problems with resolution and cloud cover ( Allan , 1980 ) and although these are gradually being resolved by radar , the problem of more detailed and fine-grained interpretation will remain for the foreseeable future ( Deane , 1980 ) . |
| 7 | Two years later , however , in a further White Paper , Rates : Proposals for Rate Limitation and Reform of the Rating System ( 1983 ) , the government recognized that wide consultation had failed to find any consensus for an alternative local tax , and conceded that rates should remain for the foreseeable future as the main source of local government revenue . |
| 8 | But , that niggle aside , London is where he will remain for the foreseeable future . |
| 9 | Although microfilm will remain for the foreseeable future by far the more acceptable medium of preservation , as a versatile aid to the scholar the computer image is far in advance . |
| 10 | A change in magma composition may occur during a single eruption as different parts of the magma chamber are tapped , but more significant compositional changes , often leading to the production of more acidic ejecta , may arise during the overall lifespan of a volcano as a result of chemical changes in the magma reservoir . |
| 11 | Following the conclusion of the Heads of Agreement , we will be available to assist should any issues arise during the due diligence carried out by the acquiror 's accountants . |
| 12 | Pam , 63 , said : ‘ They used to come every summer for a couple of weeks and the rest of the year they would stay for the odd week . |
| 13 | So erm how did it , did you stay for the full six months or did it er extend further than that ? |
| 14 | Our fascinating day among the gentle giants is completed by a drive down to Los Angeles where we will stay for the next two nights in the Anaheim area of the city . |
| 15 | He was starting to appear distinctly shopworn , Lucy noted ; he seemed to have bought himself a new shirt , but a dip-through in a hotel washbasin did n't exactly make for the best possible finish . |
| 16 | I would make for the Federal Republic . ’ |
| 17 | It might be part of her job to parade through the ballroom but she surely did n't want to have to prattle facts and figures for what she was wearing now , a skin-tight concoction of bugle heads and sequins that probably cost more than she 'd make for the entire year . |
| 18 | If the point is finally disposed of by the European Court and if the judgment goes against the United Kingdom , then the question will arise about the appropriate response to bring the legal system into line with the State 's international obligations . |
| 19 | If , on its own , borrowing more created value , then an arbitrage opportunity would arise between the two sorts of security . |
| 20 | The DRO can follow up a placement to discuss any problems that may arise between the disabled worker and his employer . |
| 21 | They do , paradoxically , thread through the dead experience of work a living culture , which is n't simply a reflex of defeat . |
| 22 | The plain fact is that some elements of the social charter would run the risk — indeed , would make it a real possibility — of this country returning to some of the trade union practices that did so much damage during the 1970s . |
| 23 | With four minutes left I was worried — worried whether I would be able to go out and eat for the next week or so . |
| 24 | This will ship during the first quarter of this year . |
| 25 | With the Matisse exhibition just opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ( until 12 January ; see interview with the curator , John Elderfield , The Art Newspaper No. 20 , July-September 1992 , p. 8 ) , the discerning visitor should budget for the complete experience with the following : |
| 26 | Here you can browse through the book-lined shelves , catch up with the day 's papers , or simply relax with an after-dinner liqueur by the roaring log fire . |
| 27 | Its body is sheer muscle , it could double as the severest whip . |
| 28 | As she shares Christmas dinner with her brother Charles , Diana will experience for the first time the trauma she has dreaded since the cracks first showed in her marriage . |
| 29 | If Nodform Wonder is in anything like the form he was at Wetherby on Friday , he will laugh off the six pound penalty that is intended to slow him down in the Levy Board Handicap Hurdle at Kelso . |
| 30 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |