Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If everything continues to go well , she will stay for no more than seven days . ’ |
| 2 | It was an easy way out , but one which could make for a far more enjoyable session . |
| 3 | References may not be recommended where they could be appropriate or useful ; in other places , too many references can make for a very tedious search . |
| 4 | In a typical institutional kitchen the combination of floor tile , water , grease , food spills and so on can make for a very dangerous environment . |
| 5 | If workers are given jobs for life or if their wages are linked to age and seniority does this not make for a much less flexible labour market ? |
| 6 | Few performers would be entirely happy touring the country as , say , Oswald Mosley , although it might make for a more interesting evening dramatically . |
| 7 | I promise it will make for a more positive atmosphere around you . |
| 8 | Some of the procedures of discourse analysis will make for a more profound examination of this process . |
| 9 | The enormous contribution made throughout history — particularly in the arts — to society by homosexuals should surely make for a more tolerant and sympathetic understanding than to refer with such scorn to Wilde 's ‘ abnormal and filthy practises ’ . |
| 10 | If the English paintings in the National Gallery could be included ( and I imagine that is not possible ) , it would make for a truly remarkable museum a real tribute to the ‘ Englishness of English art ’ . |
| 11 | I should yawn my head off in a palace , and I should laugh during the most solemn ceremonies , and I should certainly beat my Ministers . |
| 12 | Yes , the provos do claim to support the PLO , but the PLO do not support the IRA , as they make clear ; ‘ No connection of any nature has existed , does exist or will exist between the internationally accepted representative of the people of Palestine , the PLO , and the illegal organisation , the IRA ’ . |
| 13 | After that , Dinah should disappear for a little ; they must not grow accustomed to her , and he himself had a leading part waiting which demanded full passions ; that of Tamburlaine . |
| 14 | Well I think like Lucy said it has made you think about the really . |
| 15 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 16 | He looked at me , calmly threw his jacket into the car and then launched into what I can only describe as the most unbelievable martial arts display I have ever seen . |
| 17 | Clearly , the military could and did act as a very powerful interest group and had the support of the heavy industrial interest , which was dependent on the manufacture of armaments . |
| 18 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the ability of employers to take out injunctions to prevent unofficial strike action and the ability of the courts to sequester the funds of unions that ignore such injunctions can act as a very firm and much-needed last line of defence against industrial anarchy ? |
| 19 | I I think that er what has been known as an inner northern bypass , that is a road which passes between Harrogate and Knaresborough , could act as a very effective relief road for the A fifty nine . |
| 20 | But Richard Ingham , managing director of Beacham Peplow Noakes Advertising says he would opt for a more down-to-earth approach . |
| 21 | Only when it needs a custom development platform should an organisation opt for the really new stuff . |
| 22 | Only Engels ' 1884 book The Origins of the Family , Private Property and the State , based partly on Marx 's notes , can count as a reasonably complete theoretical account of the state . |
| 23 | This would count as a very serious mistake in spoken language interpreting . |
| 24 | But in historical retrospect it does count as a very early example of visual effects in a TV serial . |
| 25 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 26 | It was a silent final , one of the decisive points being David Smith 's decision to quietly take an easy single at the fourth end rather than wait for a more decisive 2 at the later end . |
| 27 | If you , if you wait for a report from a salesman , you can wait for a very long time , the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet . |
| 28 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 29 | In general , the lower an individual 's class position , the more likely he or she is to leave school at the minimum leaving age and the less likely to aspire and strive for a highly rewarded position . |
| 30 | We would certainly strive for the most equitable route . |