Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hoped Miss Grimes would n't think them too extravagant . |
| 2 | Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right . |
| 3 | However , despite some change in secondary selection , it remains the case , most remarkably , that though wartime and free education made the arguments of economy , fairness and impartiality more applicable they did not make them universally acceptable . |
| 4 | Mud is today rejected because of the inegalitarian social plan of most developing nations and because it does not allow housing professionals any control over the housing process , and indeed would make them largely irrelevant . |
| 5 | As in the case of the sauropod dinosaurs they seem to have got bigger and bigger during the Cretaceous — some of these later pterosaurs are supposed to have had wing spans exceeding lo metres , which would make them almost comparable to a man-made glider . |
| 6 | On some models you can adjust the distance that the blades will open and this can make them less tiring to use for a prolonged period . |
| 7 | The fewer susceptible people in urban areas would reflect the prior sporadic exposure to the widespread relevant agent , which would make them less vulnerable to an epidemic caused by new and sudden population mixing . |
| 8 | Does this make them less right-on ? |
| 9 | This will make them less decisive and may inhibit them from giving orders or taking charge of the situation . |
| 10 | We are aware that serial killers and the like are merely expressing themselves , working out their various hang-ups and generally freeing themselves from those inhibitions which might , if suppressed , make them less complete human beings . |
| 11 | Never evade their letters or telephone calls , it will only make them less amenable to your predicament . |
| 12 | But , insurers point out , this may make them less able to compete against other financial institutions . |
| 13 | ‘ Just because they are small does not make them less precious . |
| 14 | Supermarket trolleys have to be fairly cheap and brakes would make them less economical to produce . |
| 15 | Salt concentrations near the surface may make them especially inhospitable to vegetation ; only the soils of damper areas , in which salts are distributed evenly or concentrated at depth , are likely to support plant propagules . |
| 16 | Among the birds , body-armour is absent for the obvious reason that it would make them too heavy to fly . |
| 17 | This may be clever and amusing , but you will have to decide whether it would make them too obscure for your students . |
| 18 | They had the moral flexibility to meet shifting organizational demands and still enjoy the sleep of the just — their ability to relativize other moral imperatives whilst constantly prioritizing the pursuit of organizational goals did not make them necessarily immoral , but it did facilitate a moral flexibility others denied themselves . |
| 19 | But however effective these arguments may be in political debate , that does not make them necessarily adequate as theoretical explanations of racism . |
| 20 | Shopkeeper — Sorry , madam , we do n't make them that big . |
| 21 | Our ability to ‘ read ’ objects for their social appropriateness and to impose upon any series or new forms that order which would make them culturally acceptable does not in any respect lessen the place of strategy , or the possibility of intent ; both , however , are accomplished within objective conditions of which we have an underlying experience , even if we choose to deny them in formulating strategy . |
| 22 | Ecology was a parallel move designed not to transcend field studies , but to transform them in a way that would make them genuinely scientific . |
| 23 | Well why does he make them so busy ? |
| 24 | But there they were , four of them , just where they said they 'd be , in a clearing on a bend in the river , naked as nature intended , standing very upright which still did n't make them very tall and looking at us without any fear . |
| 25 | For example the task could be to produce a news item which would amuse the audience , or which would surprise the audience , or which would make them very happy . |
| 26 | Welfare rights services , for example could be defined in a variety of ways which may not make them readily understandable . |
| 27 | 2.00am : The borough solicitor , barely comprehensible through a jungle of subordinate clauses , warns councillors that failure to set a rate by midday would make them personally responsible for losses incurred . |
| 28 | This poses the danger of weeds crossbreeding with genetically engineered crops , which will allow them to inherit traits that will make them better able to survive drought , frost or pests . |
| 29 | Such actions did not infringe the Corrupt Practice Acts but they did make them virtually inoperative . |
| 30 | Comment If these results seems rather too trivial to bother about , let's see if we can make them more impressive ( and less " obvious " ? ) by stating their conclusions in words : ( i ) The product of the additive identity with any integer always yields the additive identity . |