Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second volume will include 410 examples of late-Roman and Byzantine glass ( fourth to seventh centuries ) and the third will cover 460 pieces of Roman free-blown glass ( first to third centuries ) . |
| 2 | Other services — like the police and fire brigade — do not make administrative sense in smaller areas . |
| 3 | Maybe other industrialised Nations will affect European trade in the future , as the Japanese have over the last 10 years . |
| 4 | It will also eliminate 500 jobs through attrition and lay-offs at its Armonk headquarters . |
| 5 | Well trampled ground may remain that way for some time . |
| 6 | Should an apparent truce in Bosnia lead to the sending of substantial peacekeeping forces , the subsequent breakdown of such an agreement would trigger acute pressures for sending sufficient troops to achieve peacemaking ( ‘ smothering the war by force ’ ) . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley said , in 1991 : ‘ I do n't frankly think that abuse against the elderly is a major problem . ’ |
| 8 | Do you think that variation in pricing strategy will be er contrary to what you 're trying to do in terms of your image projection for the brand ? |
| 9 | I mean a do you think that kind of thing would work here ? |
| 10 | If it was n't that we had to develop from an egg in every generation , I do n't think that kind of conservatism would be observed . |
| 11 | He did n't think that way at all ! |
| 12 | I pretended to ignore this and he said something in German after me which I took to mean : ‘ You must be a very dull fellow if you do n't think that sort of thing funny . ’ |
| 13 | Or , to put it the other way round , affines only remain friends so long as they remain affines ; they are bonded together by political alliance rather than by common substance , and , if the parties concerned want to maintain that alliance , they must repeatedly reaffirm that bonding by the appropriate exchange of imperishable valuables of a visible and identifiable kind . |
| 14 | He opts for a single fragment of European culture and , by way of compensation , he must at once reaffirm that ideal of personal and cultural wholeness which on various grounds he now sees immediately symbolized in Schopenhauer — and not least because Schopenhauer , for all his scorn of the contemporary world , unquestionably belongs to it . |
| 15 | The reason for this is that it is in the discount market that the authorities conduct those operations which they hope will influence monetary conditions in the economy . |
| 16 | Because every individual is different XYZ Foods do not make specific claims about the amount of weight loss to expect , but most people will lose three pounds or more . |
| 17 | Where the English language does make specific references to the female , it often has derogatory implications . |
| 18 | It does not make specific demands of the growing medium , and will even grow on just fine gravel . |
| 19 | To take child care for instance , we can suddenly get two or three ah admissions to secure units at a cost of two thousand pounds a week and that 's er you know a hundred thousand a year per child so we can really there are other votes that can , can absorb that sort of money . |
| 20 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |
| 21 | Purcell did not make extensive changes for the Fairy Queen revival — and indeed he had two excellent reasons not to . |
| 22 | Charles did not make extensive changes in the Lombard government , and retained many of the governors and administrators who had originally served under Desiderius . |
| 23 | The revised perambulations did , however , make extensive concessions in Derbyshire , Northamptonshire and Wiltshire ; the hundred of Tendring in Essex was disafforested , as was the whole of Sussex with the exception of two demesne woods — the ‘ broils of Chichester ’ and ‘ Falconer 's Wood ’ . |
| 24 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 25 | The repository would make extensive use of cement and concrete as ‘ engineered ’ barriers . |
| 26 | The objective of the course provision is to produce office professionals who can make extensive use of technology but who are able to accept responsibility and operate heuristically as well as technically within organisational systems . |
| 27 | Patten also announced that he would make extensive use of enhanced capping powers in 1991 . |
| 28 | It was anticipated , however , that at least during the first stage Gorbachev would make extensive use of emergency powers , granted to him in September , to introduce reforms by presidential decree . |
| 29 | Adults may remain -5 months without feeding or notably moving in their winter aggregation site . |
| 30 | As for Hunter Square , there is no way one can design that space before putting the Tron Kirk to an appropriate re-use . |