Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party . |
| 2 | It might be argued that , even if such a statement were true of certain of Friedman 's works , it would not necessarily reveal anything about the man himself and also that the appeal to cognition was irrelevant . |
| 3 | Even if they are forced to jump , they can not cover anything like the distances achieved by the colobus . |
| 4 | The sums involved are very small and do not cover anything like the cost to the NHS of car accidents . |
| 5 | But do not make one without the advice of a solicitor . |
| 6 | Ravel 's Chansons madecasses , though the music sweats with sultry southern heat , does not bathe one with the swirling sounds of his orchestral timbres . |
| 7 | ‘ People should not read too much into every statement , but I now need to know what everybody is thinking , and I will not discuss anything with the media until I have spoken to the necessary people . ’ |
| 8 | Buying a ticket for last night 's game does NOT guarantee one for the all-Ireland clash in November — unless a formal application was made at the time of purchase to the IFA office . |
| 9 | We do not know anything about the nature of her illness . |
| 10 | Mr. Lloyd , counsel for the defendant , has attacked this part of the judgment by relying heavily on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know anything about the power of attorney and her status thereunder . |
| 11 | The trustees claim they did not know anything about the clause , are a voluntary body on low income and would be unable to pay a market rent and become responsible for maintenance . |
| 12 | Science can not know anything of the kind of necessities with which causes compel effects and does not need to suppose that there are any . |
| 13 | When he was asked on 3 June to protect the Catholics in Moorfields , he is said to have replied : ‘ You do not know anything of the business . |
| 14 | Referring to the burden which subsidies placed on the state budget , Ben Ali said that " we can no longer do nothing in the face of the growth of the compensation costs , which alone absorb one-quarter of state expenditure " . |
| 15 | These relationships are purely technological , and do not assume anything about the degree of competition . |
| 16 | The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) . |
| 17 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
| 18 | Therefore , although we welcome legislation that deals with the serious issues , and although we have promised to consider it carefully in Committee , we can not do anything about the crime figures . |
| 19 | During much of the book you do not feel anything for the androids , but as you see their struggle for survival and begin to sense that they have gained the feelings that humans are losing , you realise the irony of the book . |
| 20 | Two-thirds of a total of 324 companies interviewed said that the environment was not a trading issue last year , and 59 per cent agreed that it would not become one in the forthcoming year . |
| 21 | A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic . |
| 22 | Stung , the League said yesterday that they expect ITV to come up with a new date within the next fortnight and they will not tolerate one beyond the scheduled season 's end of May 5 . |
| 23 | Unlike my mother I can not draw anything but the curtains , so I was bottom of the class at this . |
| 24 | She lived for occasions and would not miss one for the world . |
| 25 | No you do n't this is it , we 'll just dump everything , I said to Mark we 'll just dump everything in the back room and we 'll stay in the back room till we 've sorted the front room |
| 26 | ‘ If there comes a day when I think , ‘ Jesus , I ca n't deal with this any more , it 's too much , ’ I 'll drop it or I 'll just fire everyone in the band . |
| 27 | We can not have one without the other . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll not have one in the house , ’ she had said , ‘ we 've a larder have n't we ? ’ |
| 29 | But most people do not have a dish , and according to the projections of Continental Research , will not have one by the end of the century . |
| 30 | They still have not moved in properly , and do not have anything like the quantity of clothes , books , porcelain and paintings which took the Thatchers three days to pack up . |