Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What begins by looking just a little off parallel might become wildly different . |
| 2 | Leaving an outside light on after dark can discourage a potential burglar . |
| 3 | There is a risk that what is intended to be an aid only during training can become an undesirable crutch in that performance comes to depend on it but this is rare and can be avoided by using a suitable time delay , thus ensuring that it is really learning and not action feedback . |
| 4 | The guaranteed customers ( even if at cut-price ) twice daily during term-time can assist the financial success of many rural bus routes , which can sometimes also be used by adults to travel to nearby centres . |
| 5 | Only that essential easing down of training should deviate from the norm . |
| 6 | Then , in open recognition of the novelty of the charge and the conviction , and the circumstance that Tan genuinely believed herself to be operating within current criminal law , the Court of Appeal suspended the custodial sentence for two years with , however , a stern warning that others offending in like manner would receive immediate and substantial custodial sentences . |
| 7 | The mediation theory is founded on the notion of acquired equivalence and only with difficulty can predict an acquired distinctiveness effect . |
| 8 | These three colours when mixed together with black will produce a reasonable reproduction of all other colours . |
| 9 | This would lead to a mixing of chemicals and cause explosions that together with flooding would make evacuation practically impossible . |
| 10 | Transarc Corp , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , has signed for the software and together with Retix will integrate it with the Encina transaction processing monitor it markets . |
| 11 | Lifestyle is important — irregular bedtime hours and spending too long in bed can contribute to over-sleepiness . |
| 12 | If the client 's product is to be shown , special labels to show up better on film may need to be ordered . |
| 13 | Sitting down to breakfast could become an expensive family business with the cost of raw cereals likely to rise — along with sugar and honey . |
| 14 | Indeed any attempt to relate them prematurely to reality may restrict the development of the model . |
| 15 | The attempt to hold it together at gunpoint may succeed only in blowing the Soviet Union apart more violently . |
| 16 | For instance , an extra demand at home or abroad for goods made either cheaper or better by electronics will add to employment . |
| 17 | ( Amendment only by referendum would make sense . ) |
| 18 | Apart from the general doubts and suspicions this shift away from power may raise in feminist minds , it also raises internal questions for the difference theorists themselves . |
| 19 | Dr Neil Douglas , Director of The Scottish National Sleep Laboratory , says : ‘ Anybody who is falling asleep once a day when not in bed should consult their GP to have their sleepiness sorted out . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Employers with work-stations already in place will have four years to make any improvements , providing there is no immediate health or safety risk to employees . |
| 21 | But Chancellor Kohl appears to have been startled by suggestions that his letter to President Mitterrand last week implying an intention to go slow on EMU might have been inspired by a desire to play the German unity card in the West German general election next year . |
| 22 | Sources close to the leggy catwalk queen , who signed a £1.2 million pop deal , say she has written a lot of lyrics and whoever matches them best to music will go into the studio with her . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) Where the third party is prevented from making the valuation by the fault of the seller or buyer , the party not at fault may maintain an action for damages against the party at fault . |
| 24 | Additionally , animal studies have shown that monaural occlusion early in development can influence the development of auditory receptive fields in the central nervous system . |
| 25 | Such technology once in place may signal a new era of competition : for example , it might allow the Chicago exchanges to try to wrest some of the specifically European interest rate and index derivatives away from the Europeans . |
| 26 | Even a reference to some current event close to hand can offer a lead in to a topic . |
| 27 | He had thought that perhaps Osbern or some of his friends still on horseback might have got through , provided the fighting was over . |
| 28 | ‘ Have faith in the future , my princes , ’ she had concluded , ‘ and be of good cheer — you are your father 's sons , and he who laughed always at adversity would have been proud of you . |
| 29 | In those early days Bain worked out that the 23 houses most under threat could have been rescued and restored for £240,000 . |
| 30 | Expecting something to be bad can turn out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy and thinking positively about labour may reduce the amount of pain relief needed . |