Example sentences of "[vb infin] a [noun sg] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Readers willing to invest 12p can buy a leaflet How to make a twin-elliptic harmonograph from the Science Museum bookshop . |
| 2 | Do not direct a beam where people will walk through it : eyes take time to readjust to dark areas again , and this can be a potential hazard . |
| 3 | We may one day achieve a position where a region may elect to disaffiliate from a dominant state , and become a European region without feeling it encumbent upon itself to apply for membership of the United Nations . |
| 4 | A bureaucracy , on balance , promotes efficiency in larger organisations , but it must achieve a balance whereby rules are impersonal but not inhuman , the structure is organised but not rigid , and employees are loyal without being unthinking conformists . |
| 5 | Cizek says : " Child Art and Adult Art are two completely different forms of expression , and no adult can show a child how to draw because of this important difference . " |
| 6 | As my French was better than Brian 's , we agreed that I would do the talking and that I 'd choose a moment when Mazzin was in one of his camarade moods so that neither of us would be starting from a point of anger . |
| 7 | They are they the thing is I was just saying me and you will have to go and get some chips and curry sauce again and sit in Palma Park , you can choose a table where you can get a point of the globe ! |
| 8 | Now in terms of whether it should be five thousand plus , that of course is a matter of whether there is demand , now my my conclusion , from my fairly extensive knowledge of Greater York , is that you just could not fit a new settlement that size satisfactorily into the settlement and landscape pattern of Greater York , or its immediate surrounds , I just can not identify a location where that could be where where the roads , the public transport , the landscape , or indeed the agricultural land quality , from now onto five an area , suitably large for that type of what would be a a new town . |
| 9 | Do you feel a victim when things go wrong in life ? |
| 10 | Let us assume a situation where the owner has a fear of low-flying aircraft . |
| 11 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
| 12 | British pubs and restaurants should follow it without hesitation and who knows , we might all see a time when smoking is considered a bad habit of the past . |
| 13 | I can see a period where the flats will just stand . |
| 14 | But having said that I ca n't see a job where you can just kind of swan in and you know and think about a million different things in one day or whatever . |
| 15 | So th they , yo yo you could n't see a situation where the person who er was previously in disgrace , was no longer in disgrace , and the one , the the the brother , then showing je jealousy , was himself in disgrace . |
| 16 | stuff , if you look on the tiles you 'll see a line where I 've dropped , |
| 17 | It should provide a place where children can meet and talk with adults who live in and serve the local community — the fireman , the nurse , the secretary , the shopkeeper , the police officer , the craftsman and craftswoman . |
| 18 | Apart from that one time when Gloria went off instead to cheer the King , Dot could n't remember a day when they had n't been to visit whatever hospital he was in . |
| 19 | Just as Maggie could not remember a time before there was Fenna , and a time before there was the big house and the three women living in it , so she could not remember a time when there was not the constant tug of tension between her grandmother and her mother . |
| 20 | He can never remember a time when he did n't have a detective to guard him , or private cars , planes or trains to transport him . |
| 21 | Gedge can not remember a time when he did not want to be in a pop group . |
| 22 | And I ca n't remember a time when he said , ‘ Do n't play that ; play this . ’ |
| 23 | Dinah Asshe could not remember a time when she had not enjoyed dressing up . |
| 24 | On the other hand , he could not remember a time when it had not been taken for granted the Hall would one day be his own . |
| 25 | Looking back , I ca n't remember a time when I did n't love you . |
| 26 | He could not remember a time when he had not known . |
| 27 | He could remember a time when he had fallen asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow , and when he had always had a healthy appetite . |
| 28 | They could n't remember a time when they had been without it . |
| 29 | He could n't remember a time when going to bed with a woman had n't dulled his interest , acting almost inevitably as a cure for his fascination . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |