Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second half of Darwin 's Descent of Man was devoted to sexual selection , because Darwin thought that this was the only process that could explain some of humankind 's unique features such as our loss of body hair . |
| 2 | And the disciples did n't know that of course . |
| 3 | ‘ If that was the case , Sir John , we would hang half of Cheapside for adultery and still not discover who the real murderer is . ’ |
| 4 | That would be quite unacceptable to good potential MPs who do not think much of popularity ( their own or other people 's ) and would not demean themselves by deliberately setting out to acquire it . |
| 5 | Melting of the Greenland ice sheet would produce a similar rise in world sea level and it may be that its melting would precede that of west Antarctica . |
| 6 | ‘ The Wing Commander wo n't do that of course until we 're all ready inside the block . |
| 7 | But the only way we can do that of course is to erm have some form of funding . |
| 8 | Now if we do n't do that of course we er we 're going to change lots of patterns , we 're going to potentially increase er commuting out of the area into Leeds , that 's not something which we feel is consistent with er planning policy guidance in the realm erm , I do n't think there 's anything as far as I know in R P G two which er says that adjoining authorities around West Yorkshire should n't er seek to make provision reasonable provision for their own er residents ' needs . |
| 9 | However , its immediate and total removal , or ban , could bring much of industry to a halt . |
| 10 | No no women would really see that of course . |
| 11 | Working the roads , we do n't see much of nature except the suddenly arrested kind . |
| 12 | Well we 've had all this trauma about you know , cos I do you , where do you want the he said well do n't see much of daddy or nan and granddad and nana and granddad said they moved in on Christmas Day stay here and Rachael and Steven would n't come up , stay here on Christmas Day , it 's quite likely , quite likely to go with daddy he said but , in many ways I he said I know what we can do is when we send up the chimney we could put nanny 's address , nanny 's address on it , shall we ? |
| 13 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 14 | On the same day the DHSS published a consultation paper proposing changes which would deprive many of income . |
| 15 | The ten-part series , which starts on May 6 and made by HTV , will feature many of television 's favourite puppets , including Basil Brush , Sooty and Sweep and the characters from Gerry Anderson 's cult Thunderbirds and Stingray shows . |
| 16 | Moreover , its mutations must follow those of language : when the functioning of language changes , so must narrative functions . |
| 17 | As far as the Opera was concerned , Mahler had long gone ; but did you see any of Roller 's work ? |
| 18 | Ultimately the spores of the entity would pervade all of humanity , to which it vectored by design . |
| 19 | While the book does contain much of interest , such errors are disappointing at this high price . |
| 20 | There , they proceeded to genetically engineer all of Earth 's large-brained mammals — primates , dolphins and whales — which the entities then replanted , fully evolved , back on Earth . |
| 21 | It has often been objected to this account that it does not fit all of consciousness , that some of consciousness refutes it . |
| 22 | Suppose we have M individuals , each of whom can perform any of M tasks . |
| 23 | If it is the impact of government intervention over a lifetime or series of lifetimes that matters , then existing work on the snapshot distribution , however sophisticated , may have little of relevance to offer . |
| 24 | I 'll have some of nan 's bread pudding I think . . |
| 25 | If you boil up that chicken carcass we 'll have some of grandma 's soup |
| 26 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm too young for pearls , ’ she teased , ‘ and I have shoes enough , but I can never have enough of romance . ’ |
| 28 | The secretory response of gastric acid to pure ethanol and alcoholic beverages may be different because the action of the non-ethanolic contents of the beverage may overwhelm that of ethanol . |
| 29 | Inside , the Sana is extremely spacious , and though the quality of its cabin materials can not match that of west European cars , it is better than some eastern rivals . |
| 30 | Sare also has caves , but dolled-up , tourist ones , and since there are stupendous caves elsewhere in the Pyrenees I shall ignore those of Sare . |