Example sentences of "[vb infin] and [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 2 | Because it keeps happening , boys and girls in their summer holiday keep get getting taken away by people they do n't know and nasty things done to them . |
| 3 | Well , one would never know and either way the effect was the same . |
| 4 | In an address to the Arab League summit on May 27 , Hussein referred to " an exchange of letters " between the two countries , which he hoped would lead to " direct and deep dialogue which would result in a comprehensive peace " . |
| 5 | With these conditions fulfilled , generally or for the time being locally , people would live as free and tolerant individuals , finding their deepest values in the consequent kinds of human diversity and intimacy . |
| 6 | On these points , teachers need clear and agreed guidelines . |
| 7 | as if obeying her the bus did appear and ten minutes later she and Erika were at Frankfurter Allee , a roaring road choked with an army convoy : dozens of lorries , their contents masked by huge tarPaulins . |
| 8 | Alternatively if the process is highly complex the emphasis may be on the pattern of events as indicated by a network of blocks with a specialist symbol indicating the many points within the system for which information for the operator might appear and another symbol for points where he can interfere in the system dynamics ( Fig. 1.27 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Its purpose is to help middle and secondary schools plan their overall curriculum to include an adequate coverage of pupils ’ study needs : the ability to formulate and focus a question , find possible sources , judge their appropriateness , extract the relevant information , reorganize it and prepare it for future use , or reorganize it and prepare it for future presentation to others . |
| 10 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 11 | I took a day to go and fetch and Mid Wales , I had a lot of er of erm erm spruce er Norway , larches and . |
| 12 | ‘ You learn what they can and ca n't do and that experience becomes useful as you go on . |
| 13 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 14 | Only moss will do and 2 tons of it — freshly handpicked — has to be taken on tour to keep them in peak condition . |
| 15 | They have now decided , at a meeting in Luxembourg , that there is one thing the EC can not do and three things it can . |
| 16 | One is being given a chance to show what one can do and this realization often releases amazing reserves of energy , enthusiasm and creative flair . |
| 17 | Traditional administration has been supplanted by active management with its focus on results rather than process and year-on-year improvements in performance . |
| 18 | The are produced from Burgundy 's top grape , making them light and vibrant wines . |
| 19 | Nordic Water , an offshoot of the building and real estate group , NCC , makes water-treatment products and does design and contracting work for water companies , industry and local authorities . |
| 20 | The first sign of tetanus in a newborn baby is the inability to suck or swallow and muscular spasms of the lips and mouth . |
| 21 | But , of course , such a male could never reproduce and natural selection is ultimately a question of reproductive success , not of fitness , and in fact from now on you will find me avoiding the term fitness and instead talking about reproductive success , and you 'll find that all the best literature , like Trivers ' book , does the same thing . |
| 22 | It goes without saying that old birds can , equally , be used for potting , but they are much less delicate , need very long slow and thorough cooking , a larger proportion of fat ham ( or pickled pork but not smoked bacon ) , and must be carefully drained of their cooking juices before they are prepared for chopping and pounding , otherwise sediment seeps through , collects at the bottom of the little jars and causes mould . |
| 23 | On the darker side , there was the fear that ignorance would rule and that deference would fail to hold things in check . |
| 24 | More often than not , if I were awake I would not answer and feigned sleep . |
| 25 | some days I can bend alright , it do n't hurt and other times I ca n't |
| 26 | There is no question that inequalities in health between rich and poor do exist and that poverty causes ill-health . |
| 27 | Professionals and family members have to be very clear about an individual 's own internal experiences and personal needs ; clearly it is no good pretending , for the sake of normalization , that delusions , hallucinations and abnormal moods do not exist and that aberrant and unsocial behaviour is not a real and sometimes pervasive aspect of mental disorder . |
| 28 | oh it says something like J R Green a number which does n't exist and any tradesperson could have the name address type of trade and a real phone number |
| 29 | FOURTEEN volunteers aged 16 to 24 will help paint and clean London 's Westminster Abbey as part of a restoration project this week . |
| 30 | A new 50 tonne Avery road weighbridge was also installed at the Edinburgh Dock and is operated as a Public Weighbridge available to both dock and non-dock traffic . |