Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is the Catholic Christian who will most naturally speak in this way , it is not unknown for the Evangelical Christian to make statements which come fairly close to that . |
| 2 | Therefore my clients would much rather deal with this at a strategic level than in individual district plans . |
| 3 | One should perhaps just add at this point that Proust also underlines the very flexible nature of this existential time . |
| 4 | Pons called Fleischmann who said ‘ We had better not talk about this on the phone , ’ already acutely aware of where this might lead . |
| 5 | They 'd better not go on that thing . |
| 6 | And I had better not think like that , said Fenella silently , or I shall be too afraid to go any nearer . |
| 7 | We 'd better not get into any misunderstandings . |
| 8 | I never did much fucking look at that |
| 9 | Almost alone in Europe , the Early music critics have scorned the triviality and self-indulgence that can so easily spring from this subjectivism ; perhaps without realizing it , they have correspondingly sought to direct the music they love towards the musical tradition of cathedrals and chapels . |
| 10 | If the wife can so easily dispose of this property , it may be that her husband will coax or bully her into parting with it to him or to his creditors , and so it allows her a privilege which no other grown-up person of sound mind in the country can enjoy . |
| 11 | Recorded not long after a live cycle at the 1974 Aix-en-Provence Festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of the composer 's death , these are wide-ranging , run-in performances that completely escape the contrivance and routine that can so often creep into such extensive complete surveys . |
| 12 | And the informal learning that teachers could so usefully acquire from each other , through talking about their teaching and watching each other teach , is often prevented by overcrowded timetables ( and , of course , the vexed issue of ‘ cover ’ ) and/or by a staff ethos that discourages such activities . |
| 13 | Livingstone 's not going to win anyway , so why kow-tow like this ? |
| 14 | Discussion of Sandra 's sex-life could easily stray into the area of his and Marjorie 's sex-life , or rather the lack of it , and he would rather not go into that . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd rather not go into that right now . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd rather not comment on that , ’ he says . |
| 17 | The wrongful sale of goods subject to a hire-purchase agreement will constitute a repudiation and hence vest a right to immediate possession in the finance company even though the agreement does not expressly provide for this . |
| 18 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 19 | Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization . |
| 20 | Vial did not apparently introduce for some time any regular system of instruction which would have concentrated the labours of the students . |
| 21 | States can not entirely depend on such measures , however , and must make provision for their own defence . |
| 22 | ( 1983 ) discuss equally plausible models in which the outcome does not suddenly differ from that obtaining when their conditions hold , as those conditions are relaxed . |
| 23 | Quinn sees large companies as similar to large rivers slowly moving in given directions , but containing within them various ebbs , flows and eddies which , while they do not necessarily contribute in any direct analytical way to the general direction , nevertheless in aggregate help to determine it . |
| 24 | British vital interests might not necessarily coincide with those of the Americans as Suez had shown all too clearly . |
| 25 | But this apparent methodological superiority does not necessarily spring from any intrinsic properties of the stratificational model . |
| 26 | If so , many more Sri Lankans will die before the government learns that more killing does not necessarily lead to less . |
| 27 | Poor listeners often make irrelevant comments ; the most influential contributions do not necessarily come from those vessels making the most noise . |
| 28 | That would not necessarily apply to all cases , The hon. Gentleman must remember that many people are willing to work overtime , including Sundays , at peak periods . |
| 29 | But the American approach to community care does not necessarily diverge from that of Europe where the response of state agencies to public opinion is concerned . |
| 30 | It appears that highly productive authors will not necessarily publish in those journals which have the highest circulation , and which hence are presumed to be those used for those papers which an author wishes to reach the largest possible readership . |