Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 2 | Clough must act quickly to arrest Forest 's bottom-of-the-table plight because the fear of relegation is spreading through the club . |
| 3 | Although each institutional investor may still only own a very small percentage of the issued share capital of the company , nevertheless , they have the requisite skills to monitor management effectively , and can act collectively to exert pressure on the managers of the company , thereby overcoming the problem that there is little incentive for the individual shareholder to spend the necessary time and money to inform himself of and perhaps challenge the actions of the directors as the managers of the company . |
| 4 | A resolution of this issue , which is not a pressing matter , would need also to take account of the fact that speakers do , in practice , use sentences which could be taken as instances of a third possible equational type ( if this is not to be regarded as merely some kind of linguistic jeu d'esprit ) : ( 37 ) cautiously is the way we should proceed In both of these two cases , the question is whether a property concept can fill a position which would otherwise be reserved for an entity . |
| 5 | You should , therefore , act now to take advantage of a unique investment opportunity . |
| 6 | Later Hungary said that it would act unilaterally to supply water to areas threatened by environmental catastrophe after Slovakia diverted the Danube 's waters to the dam [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 7 | The manager must strive systematically to increase responsibility within his team and thus develop experience and confidence in his staff . |
| 8 | Engineers should contribute effectively to risk management within their organisation by doing everything reasonably practicable to ensure that good practice is being followed . |
| 9 | ‘ Where I stay the police do n't do enough to stop crime . |
| 10 | We have , just in this fact , an argument that if we had to choose one of the two strategies for the indefinite future we would do better to choose pragmatism , because it is so much more adaptive . |
| 11 | The research suggests that hotels would do better to install smoke and heat detectors in all rooms — an expensive procedure . |
| 12 | Making companies release important information more quickly could do more to curb insider dealing than any laws . |
| 13 | But the jungle lodges should do more to make contact with the local communities , to tell them what they are doing . |
| 14 | They are emphatically against making divorce more difficult to obtain and unsympathetic to the idea that society should do more to protect marriage . |
| 15 | Asked if the UN-mandated troops could do more to protect aid workers , Mr O'Reilly said : ‘ One can hardly expect a military escort can travel with every possible aid worker in Somalia … |
| 16 | There 's a lot of truth in the criticism and South African supporters at the World Cup who dismissed all the sides as sub-standard would do well to take note of it . |
| 17 | We would do well to take heed of the American experience . |
| 18 | But ultimately , the pragmaticist may do well to remain agnostic , whatever semantic theory is assumed for working purposes . |
| 19 | While South Africa ponders the results of its workshop and reevaluates its perceived need to cull Cape fur seals , Namibia would do well to follow suit . |
| 20 | But the layman would do well to make use of its survival techniques . |
| 21 | Most people have far too much salt and would do well to reduce salt from major sources such as : salt added in cooking and at table ; tinned vegetables and some convenience meals ( read labels ) ; tinned and packet soups , many sauces and gravies ; salted meats such as bacon ; salted fish . |
| 22 | Anyone interested in this aspect of preconceptual care would do well to contact Foresight who have local counsellors able to give specific individual advice . |
| 23 | Anyone considering switching to a vegan diet ( which eschews all animal produce ) would do well to read Vegan Nutrition by Gill Langley for The Vegan Society ( £6.20 incl p&p from the society at St Leonards on Sea , East Sussex TN37 7AA ) . |
| 24 | Instructors can choose either to discuss trainee 's answers and the provided answers one story at a time or they can choose to ask the trainees to complete all three stories before discussion . |
| 25 | For example , a couple might choose either to limit family size and have more money , or instead to maximise the number of children . |
| 26 | I do expect occasionally to have temper , because it is only when we are discussing the right subjects that temper will arise : if people lose their tempers it is because they are emotionally involved in the problem , and we are probably talking on a subject which needs to be aired . |
| 27 | We all must work together to find Transport alternatives to be rid of the present traffic-hells of Oxford and other cities , and this is urgent . |
| 28 | Calling the agreement the ‘ Frontline Partnership ’ , they say they will work together to develop operating system and hardware for easy-to-use systems , adding the sorts of features Macintosh users take for granted , advance personal computer technology with pen interface and audio capabilities — Microsoft is said to be impatient at the lack of applications for its Pen Windows operating environment , and the two will promote ‘ Plug and Play ’ to make software and hardware easier to integrate and use . |
| 29 | Under the expanded relationship , the two companies will work together to offer HP 3000 users a trade-in programme from HP AdvanceLink to Reflection for terminal emulation ( HP will continue to support HP AdvanceLink customers ) . |
| 30 | He could n't bear the thought of a child like Anna ever being subjected to the indecencies and ugliness of a house such as Claybury 's , and he vowed that from now on he would work only to make life for lunatics stress-free and tolerable , even if it meant less money for himself . |