Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside . |
| 2 | Anyone trying to understand something will naturally compare it with other things to find similarities and differences . |
| 3 | I can only describe it as naked lust . |
| 4 | But anything other than aquiescence with the regent could only tie them into political and ideological knots of Gordian proportions . |
| 5 | We felt we could only do it through local pressure , using the media and direct action ’ , a member of the group recalled . |
| 6 | Spending our lives in jealousy and envy can only isolate us from other people and make us unhappy . |
| 7 | " It 's odd how you always have to ask that question , that you 'll only see him through other men 's eyes . |
| 8 | We can only use him in one-day games this season because of his commitments with Cumberland , but his qualities are obvious and he is the aggressive type of batsman spectators love to watch . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I think I 'd better provide you with toasted teacakes as well , ’ said Amiss sympathetically . |
| 10 | You can only swap it for nice things . |
| 11 | We can only stop it by international agreement and enforcement . |
| 12 | And then : oh , please , if there have to be more lies , at least let me only tell them to other people , not to myself any more . |
| 13 | The ongoing commitment can only hold us in good stead in the eyes of our established and potential clients as a company of recognised capability . |
| 14 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 15 | She did not merely like him , did not merely hold him in high regard ; she was in love with him ! |
| 16 | The fact that the subject believes himself to be been falsely suspected will not necessarily protect him from criminal liability if he should over-react . |
| 17 | Faldo ruined his chances with a 76 on Saturday — and even a 67 on the last day could only put him in joint second place . |
| 18 | I 'd better get mine on quick fifteen two fifteen four six pairs eight . |
| 19 | This will only involve you in expensive start-up costs . |
| 20 | One can then perhaps forgive them for faulty ( though consistent ) reasoning on the ( conventional ) comparative static effects ? |
| 21 | The statistically ‘ typical ’ rapist — the man who rapes one woman he knows — does not make it to front-page coverage , let alone fifty-nine pages across thirteen newspapers over ten days . |
| 22 | The Final will not make it onto American TV screens until four months after the event . |
| 23 | So , while you may well have some trait or peculiarity about her that will give her a mark of distinction , this must be something that does not disqualify her from maximum general sympathy . |
| 24 | The majority of people accept this because the state , by excluding these killings from the murder category , has signified its intention that we should not treat them as capital offenders . |
| 25 | These difficult questions should so far as possible be confined to those fields of law to which they are immediately relevant and I do not regard them as relevant questions under the Theft Act 1968 " . |
| 26 | The tribunal will generally compensate you for lost fringe benefits , although putting a figure upon them is often another exercise in guesstimation . |
| 27 | compensation package for V A T for pensioners will not compensate them in full as was promised , and in view of the fact that we 've had extremely cold weather for the last week . |
| 28 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |
| 29 | But I 'll not bore you with second-hand accounts of the way he lives . |
| 30 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |