Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |
| 2 | It pays to examine all gutter brackets and clips to ensure no water will drip on to walls . |
| 3 | Heavy machinery : Machines can range widely from bandsaws to bottling plants . |
| 4 | A RECORD number of 16-year-olds will stay on at schools and colleges next month — but for many it is simply a way of avoiding the dole queue . |
| 5 | Should he sweep her into his arms and kiss the daylights out of her first , or should he slow down for explanations ? |
| 6 | Doubts could arise only about matters of , as it were , taste , such as manners and morals , where simple quantitative accumulation provided no guidance There could be no question that men in 1860 knew more than ever before , but whether they were ‘ better ’ could not be demonstrated in the same way . |
| 7 | We have noted that chaotic behaviour can arise only for systems governed by non-linear equations . |
| 8 | The exclusion of parts of the centre " let or constructed or adapted for letting " is fair and reasonable , but quite often an exclusion will relate only to parts of the centre " not let on the same terms as this lease " which could result in the occupying tenants paying part of the service charges for unlet premises . |
| 9 | The scientific evidence may be lacking , but there is a colossal body of anecdotal evidence in favour of ESP — and there are few people who , in honesty , can not recall one or more instances in which they themselves have had an experience which they can explain only in terms of it . |
| 10 | He did n't think much about houses . |
| 11 | But for a beetle who can think only in terms of two dimensions , it does appear to shrink . |
| 12 | It seems clear then that life , at least as we know it , can exist only in regions of space-time in which one time and three space dimensions are not curled up small . |
| 13 | They can not concentrate wholly on matters put before them by civil servants because they have to deal with parliamentary duties , party business and constituency cases . |
| 14 | So what is incorporated in there , is the minimum that you could ever survive on in terms of running a totally enabling authority . |
| 15 | Fear of losing our grip may make us hang on to jobs for longer than we should , in an attempt to reassure ourselves . |
| 16 | They reckon investors should hang on to shares in both National Power and Powergen . |
| 17 | At recombination these scales were larger than the Hubble radius , and because microphysical processes can act only on scales less than the Hubble radius , these fluctuations must have been produced by the Sachs-Wolfe effect . |
| 18 | The treaty will probably include a clause on ‘ subsidiarity ’ , the principle that the Community should act only on issues where it is inappropriate for decisions to be taken by national governments . |
| 19 | You could dress up or strip down to sports gear , lycra , leather , rubber , jock-straps , uniforms , work gear , torn jeans , boots , socks … |
| 20 | He did not know enough about women to discover from Bathsheba 's manner whether she wanted to see him or not . |
| 21 | Mrs Stych protested coyly that she did not know enough about books to be of any use , while she wondered privately how she was going to fit this new commitment into her already overcrowded schedule of social events . |
| 22 | You may think that in a democracy you too can flick idly through ice-screws and ropes , but the moment you prod anything with an inquisitive finger , an assistant will leap on you with a quiz as to your standard of rock-climbing . |
| 23 | There was a mixed area near the finish in the stadium where press and athletes were supposed to meet and chat convivially after races . |
| 24 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 25 | Probably most such birds possess more powerful navigational skills , such as those we shall discuss shortly for pigeons , but it takes special experiments to demonstrate the fact . |
| 26 | As I said before , people do fall over during fights . |
| 27 | Mauve kept insisting that he should concentrate more on studies from plaster casts . |
| 28 | Can I recruit directly in schools ? |
| 29 | Do you know more about engines than this stupid engineer here ? |
| 30 | ‘ People should know more about devils . ’ |