Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions , however , might arise about whether a dispute is a valuation/technical dispute to be referred to an expert or one that should be referred to an arbitral tribunal or the court . |
| 2 | Holders of this theory would suggest that syphilis was already established in Europe in pre-Columbian days and it was the increase in knowledge and the travel resulting from the Renaissance that made it appear as if a new disease had been introduced . |
| 3 | Simply plugs into socket and controls any appliance which can be plugged into 13amp socket , to make it look as if a house is occupied . |
| 4 | TO overstate the attendance is both a good public relations exercise — making it look as if a team is better-supported than it is — and a possible outlet for laundering ‘ dirty money . ’ |
| 5 | ( 2 ) The adequacy of pension funding Whether or not an insurer will wish to exclude warranties relating to funding adequacy will depend on whether a recent valuation is available from the managers of the fund and whether the vendor can claim against the valuation if the funding is shown subsequently to be inadequate . |
| 6 | Also , Bourdieu 's presuppositions make it seem as if a rational way forward is more or less ruled out in the political field . |
| 7 | Admittedly , we do sometimes talk as if a person could have a pain in his foot and be unaware of it , perhaps while his attention is on something else , but this is explained by there being different levels of consciousness , or self-consciousness , in the mind ; it does not require our saying that pains have the same sort of mind-independent existence as tables . |