Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't bear it any longer , does that act as the same ? |
| 2 | For example , virtually all university lecturers , if asked to choose concerning next year 's pay between two deals , the first being this year 's pay ( adjusted for inflation ) and the second a 50 per cent random chance of nothing and 50 per cent chance of double this year 's ( inflation-adjusted ) pay , would opt for the former . |
| 3 | Franco 's own forces were similarly , if less virulently , shot through with internal rivalries and disagreements ; but if confronted with a choice between the status quo and the risk of " the reds " returning , they would all opt for the former . |
| 4 | Even if the vendor is selling the whole of his trade , it seems from Inland Revenue Statement of Practice 8/81 that he can invest the proceeds of sale in acquiring new qualifying assets , as part of a new trade , and this will count as the same trade for roll-over relief purposes , so that his gain on the sale of the assets of the old trade is deferred . |
| 5 | We should strive for the same sense of adventure . |
| 6 | I 'm determined that Constance wo n't fall into the same trap . ’ |
| 7 | I trust that I will not fall into the same trap ! |
| 8 | But with understanding had come a growing determination that she would never fall into the same trap — would never allow herself to be ruled by a foolish , hoping heart . |
| 9 | It was early yet , she noted , and , feeling in no hurry to start a day that might well fall into the same luckless category as yesterday and the day before and the day before that , she sat up and leant against the headboard . |
| 10 | To some extent the Dutch and the New Zealanders , with their lamb , must fall into the same category . |
| 11 | A hill or valley can often act in the same way as an enormous sail and bend the wind over a large area . |
| 12 | But the steroids in the Pill are of a different sort — they are the female sex hormones ( or closely related chemicals ) and they do not act in the same way as corticosteroids . |
| 13 | It was inevitable that both would act in the same interests , and command support against putative extravagance and recklessness . |
| 14 | He did not feel that he needed to apologize , and said that if similar circumstances arose he would act in the same way . |
| 15 | Where the employee is working on the employer 's premises , the employer must act in the same manner as a reasonably prudent employer . |
| 16 | There was no doubt that Hari would buy from the same supplier as the Grenfells and what if Hari had an outstanding bill ? |
| 17 | ‘ Because everybody goes and jumps in the river is no reason why we have to go and jump in the same river . ’ |
| 18 | The apparent ritualistic posing , although strongly performed and easy to understand , did not appeal in the same way as his Song of the Earth . |
| 19 | did n't count in the same |
| 20 | Starving people have frequently refused to eat food that is foreign to them , and horses will behave in the same way . |
| 21 | At the moment it seems our American friends had the right of it , but we are still working with the wild-caught fish and quite often these do not behave in the same way as tank-raised fish do . |
| 22 | It does not follow that if subjects are induced to behave in a certain way within the idealized limits of experimental control , they will behave in the same way when these limits are relaxed . |
| 23 | With most sentences , particularly non-observational sentences , no clear answer will emerge because the natives will not all behave in the same way in the same conditions . |
| 24 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 25 | Guy ( 1980 ) has concluded from his study of final stop deletion that the individual follows the group norm very closely ; but since we know that scores for different linguistic variables are not distributed within or between groups in a comparable way , we can not conclude that all variables will behave in the same way as the syllable-final alveolar stop . |
| 26 | Do they behave in the same way syntactically , or , to put it more accurately , do topics , like themes , have no syntax ? |
| 27 | Some program upgrades do truly behave in the same way as their predecessors but this is the exception rather than the rule ! |
| 28 | On a smaller scale , the electrical forces that cause the electrons to orbit round the nucleus in an atom would behave in the same way as gravitational forces . |
| 29 | We have noted that , given a certain type of search space , the A* algorithm may behave in the same way as breadth-first search , since the latter is a special case of the former . |
| 30 | If you are told that your employment is to end immediately , but that you will be paid salary for your notice period , that will fall within the former category . |