Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other services — like the police and fire brigade — do not make administrative sense in smaller areas . |
| 2 | Maybe other industrialised Nations will affect European trade in the future , as the Japanese have over the last 10 years . |
| 3 | Well trampled ground may remain that way for some time . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley said , in 1991 : ‘ I do n't frankly think that abuse against the elderly is a major problem . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | I mean a do you think that kind of thing would work here ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He did n't think that way at all ! |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The repository would make extensive use of cement and concrete as ‘ engineered ’ barriers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Patten also announced that he would make extensive use of enhanced capping powers in 1991 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As for Hunter Square , there is no way one can design that space before putting the Tron Kirk to an appropriate re-use . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't make that decision for you , ’ he said raggedly . |
| 20 | Software for Free has been written especially to help you make that decision without having to plough through mountains of Shareware and Public Domain Software first . |
| 21 | That 's the only way you could actually make that work at all . |
| 22 | With this foundation a student usually has a choice of two , or maybe three , subjects to pursue to degree standard , and can make that choice on the basis of experience . |
| 23 | No one can make that choice for you . |
| 24 | Anyone could make that mistake in the urgency of a business flight , yet the airline concerned must pay the Government for that . |
| 25 | He proved that he could make that journey on a primitive craft . |
| 26 | If we suppose that Nietzsche did feel committed to the plan 's extra-tragic Greek aspects ( ethics , politics and the rest ) , we must make that supposition without much in the way of supporting evidence . |
| 27 | ‘ Mother did n't make that kind of mistake . ’ |
| 28 | And it 's really to provide , according to Derek , it 's to provide the Secretary of State with some ideas of costings of , if she decides the new careers services to run careers conventions , she would make that part of the specification and she would know how much that that was likely to cost her . |
| 29 | I will make that feedback to Jenny so that she 's clear , I think that 's a good way to handle it . |
| 30 | There is only one thing to say about the Home Secretary 's speech : I have heard more intellectual contributions from Lord Waddington on the subject , and I never believed that I would make that statement about anyone holding the office of Home Secretary . |