Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris Patten , architect of Mr Major 's victory , will remain as party chairman despite losing his seat in Bath but will be allowed to attend Cabinet only for party political discussions . |
| 2 | Certainly the general belief was that , having wantonly thrown away a Conservative majority , Baldwin could not remain as Party leader let alone Prime Minister ; and Randolph Churchill , the biographer of Lord Derby , comments that ‘ It is interesting to notice in Derby 's correspondence , and in that of other leading Tories of the time , how for the first two or three weeks after the Party 's defeat in the Election there was an unchallenged assumption that Baldwin could not survive the catastrophe . ’ |
| 3 | Why do n't you stay for school lunch instead of sandwiches ? |
| 4 | Having predicted that Lewis could rule as world champion for some time , Foreman was asked whether he would like to fight him . |
| 5 | Priced £445+VAT , existing users can upgrade for £99+VAT Lotus : Tel.0784 455 445 . |
| 6 | In fact it 's so regular that Fiona — that 's the girl who does our weekday lunches — is under instructions to leave something we can eat for Saturday lunch . ’ |
| 7 | And this distinction between an hour as sixty minutes and an hour as a section of complex human experience , is I suppose the distinction one would make between clock time and what might be called existential time , time as it 's humanly experienced . |
| 8 | No , it , it 's , it , it , it 's coloured like a fire , fire , fire engine red and all the other things , but it , it 's a commercial vehicle a roll-on roll-off type of vehicle , which you can buy commercially and , and adapt for Fire Service use , and there 's erm I should think there must be about half a dozen pods now , erm at High Wootton , in fact police services are using it , Thames Valley Police I remember coming up here to , to take the idea back , erm I saw yesterday at Hungerford , er the police there going with their pods to , |
| 9 | TAKES 25 hectares of pasture that a farmer wants to drain and plough for winter wheat . |
| 10 | ‘ You let me stay aboard Water Gypsy — even though you hated the idea . ’ |
| 11 | A way round has been suggested : oil sales would pay pre-war creditors ; Iraq 's frozen assets would compensate for war damage . |
| 12 | The SAS method of practising speechreading helps to prevent speech articulation becoming slovenly , especially when hearing-aids can not fully compensate for hearing loss . |
| 13 | Residential homes and hostels can accommodate nurses who can only work awkward hours , and who can cover for staff sickness and annual leave . |
| 14 | The report says that the slow pace of reform will prolong the civil war in large parts of the country , while rapid reforms will siphon off peasant discontent and in turn reduce military activities and spending . |
| 15 | Conservation safeguards exist in the UK , particularly for SSSIs and , to a lesser extent ( under a voluntary arrangement ) in the National Parks of England and Wales , but such afforestation Proposals outside designated areas would not be subject to any significant level of control , particularly because prior approval does not exist for grant aid . |
| 16 | However , the authors of WFP have not thought the matter through and have come up with a set of proposals which will simply divert attention away from the real agenda which does exist for NHS capital accounting . |
| 17 | Secondly , what is the nature of the links between the manufacturing and the service sectors and , thirdly , how should we think about service sector output ? |
| 18 | Whatever people might think about DHSS money , what it has meant in practice is that the global sum of money to help provide for the needs of people with dementia or other long-term needs is much greater than it would have been if they were not attracting DHSS supplementation . |
| 19 | You might think about skill level two . |
| 20 | It does nothing useful , despite what you may think about screen saving , but it 's given me more entertainment watching it than any amount of television soaps — Johnny even celebrates major holidays at the right time ( assuming your PC 's clock is set correctly , of course ) . |
| 21 | The LP in question has never made me personally want to kill cops , but it 's made me think about police brutality . |
| 22 | In general , many of these inquiries were motivated by the need for what we would now regard as manpower planning , especially to do with the defence of the realms concerned . |
| 23 | How much a year , to the nearest thousand , did he earn as Heritage Secretary ? |
| 24 | So sulphur oxides emitted from English power stations may fall as acid rain in Norway and emissions from Poland and Holland may contribute to the haze seen on fine summer days inn England . |
| 25 | Labour 's defeat led Neil Kinnock on April 13 to announce that he would resign as party leader as soon as practicable ; Roy Hattersley would also stand down as deputy leader . |
| 26 | He had let it be known that he would resign as faction leader and as a member of the Diet if he was publicly prosecuted in connection with the Sagawa Kyubin scandal . |
| 27 | From the beginning of 1984 when it seemed probable that Lord Hailsham would soon resign as Lord Chancellor , Sir John was widely discussed as his probable successor in the Thatcher cabinet . |
| 28 | In the meantime , his assistant , Mr Ronnie Moran , would act as caretaker manager . |
| 29 | Almeyda would meanwhile act as party president and Arrate as secretary-general . |
| 30 | They may act as signal warning for developments in other fields . |