Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person with no connection with the occult can occasionally experience this when cat-napping during the day . |
| 2 | To begin with , your mother should n't oversympathise with her when you go out , as the dog will regard this as approval of her nervous behaviour . |
| 3 | The ‘ assumptions ’ of the topmost box can include more than experience puts there , but whatever finds its way in has to be transformed by deduction into predictions which can be tested by observation . |
| 4 | Some people are jumping tomorrow , but they are those who have not done a jump for a long time ; I expect I shall do another before leave comes off . ’ |
| 5 | The risk that this might occur is why in general terms ‘ everybody ’ does not do this when interest rates are positioned in this way . |
| 6 | Does it show more than intertextuality |
| 7 | ‘ He 'll do more than weep before we see this out , ’ Nora promised . |
| 8 | You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth . |
| 9 | The juxtaposition of their love-making against Bishop Casey performing his sacred duties will do more than shock . |
| 10 | In all three there is the implication that theorists of social representations must do more than study social representations . |
| 11 | No one farmer could possibly be qualified to advise on all the options , nor could he do more than skate over them in one volume . |
| 12 | Making computers ‘ think ’ ( not necessarily as humans do , but in a logical , inferential way so that they can do more than arithmetic ) is a ‘ grand vision ’ for Edward Feigenbaum , one of the Prometheuses of AI , Feigenbaum is a computer scientist and senior investigator for computer heuristics ( common rules of thumb for thinking ) at Stanford University in California . |
| 13 | Walking into the ISDN User Show at Wembley , North London the other day , the first four stands belonged to communications magazines : cynics might see this as evidence that the technology is still at the hype and talk stage , but most exhibitors seemed pleased by the degree to which visitors ' questions had progressed past the ‘ what is ISDN anyway ’ stage to the ‘ how much does this box cost ’ phase ; some 900 visitors attended on the first day , the second seemed rather busier and at some of the conference sessions , notably British Telecommunications Plc 's ‘ where are we now ’ presentation , it was standing room only … |
| 14 | Bearing in mind the strength of his views on " mere specialists " , we may surely see more than coincidence in the swiftness with which this final commitment was followed by the conversion to Schopenhauer . |
| 15 | For example , when an adult asks them to decide whether two amounts are ‘ the same ’ , they may interpret this as meaning ‘ look the same ’ . |
| 16 | At the other end of the scale , it seems the creation of a large number of smaller authorities would cost less than forecast . |
| 17 | I used to be Harry Maxim , then I was me and Jenny , and now I just do n't know and it 'll take more than lemon tea and a pink silk handkerchief in my sleeve and reading Goethe over breakfast to tell me . |
| 18 | It will take more than oil to make those wheels turn . |
| 19 | We ca n't afford more than food at the moment . |
| 20 | If understanding the way children think , how they respond to experience and how adults can identify the messages which children give through their behaviour , are central to the teacher 's art , then initial teacher training should offer more than lip service to classroom experience . |
| 21 | To be useful as a research technique , they must offer more than description , yet to go beyond description is to interpret . |
| 22 | No other user may have an interest in the module ie. no other LIFESPAN user may have a package which references this module as this would involve more than module baselining . |