Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd much rather get involved that way than just stand about watching . |
| 2 | They may well be cumulative , since poorer groups can less easily afford to bear any organization costs , whereas the wealthy can meet similar costs easily . |
| 3 | If in addition we require that the production function is said to satisfy the Inada ( 1963 ) conditions , but we do not necessarily want to impose these restrictions . |
| 4 | But he would not necessarily decide to honour all rights provided in all statutes . |
| 5 | You do not necessarily have to decide that . |
| 6 | The level of Telford 's line was 54 feet lower than Barnes 's and , having fewer locks , would not only have used less water , but also more water could have been drained into it . |
| 7 | Therefore , if were incorrectly derived from an acoustic waveform that in fact corresponded to an intended production of thanks for sending me your letter , the syntactic/semantic component would not only have to reject all the improbable competitors such as thanks force ending knee your letter , but also to identify that the word knee has been incorrectly derived instead of me . |
| 8 | But Rome did not merely refuse to send any representative to Amsterdam . |
| 9 | They could not easily have found any other body with which they could compare themselves , and in any case the House of Commons of the 1620s was itself not very important . |
| 10 | You should not normally have to pay more than your rates bill plus £52 . |
| 11 | Since almost everyone who writes about computing does not usually bother to make all these distinctions , I shall too . |
| 12 | Because it used not to understand markets , it can not conceivably have rectified this gap in its political intelligence . |
| 13 | It occurs to me now that the man might just possibly have meant this in a humorous sort of way ; that is to say , he intended it as a bantering remark . |
| 14 | But she may not always choose to have fewer children . |
| 15 | In two years Gould could not possibly hope to cover all the areas he guessed would prove rewarding . |
| 16 | Clara could not explain to the school that it was not so much a question of finance , as of her mother 's instinctive opposition to any pleasurable project — and anyone could see that a visit to Paris could not possibly fail to entail more pleasure than instruction . |
| 17 | The point is that the experts were convinced Leakey was wrong when they could not possibly have known this to be the case In his rollicking ‘ Steady-state cosmology revisited ’ , Sir Fred Hoyle recounts what occurred when a paper submitted by his fellow astrophysicist Sir Hermann Bondi was set before that august body , the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 18 | That would have lost them the election , even supposing that such an announcement would not also have alienated any working class Labour supporters . |
| 19 | Eliot himself could not legally have signed such a document since he was separated from her . |
| 20 | He had got a prize for the design , although the users of it would not now have endorsed this since it was both hot and noisy . |
| 21 | Thus if two vehicles collide and neither driver can say what happened after ( and there is no corroborative evidence ) , the judge can not simply refuse to make any finding . |
| 22 | Creative people are often not business minded , and they do not even want to acquire such skills as self-promotion and image-projection , let alone scrabble about with the nitty-gritty of lucre . |
| 23 | The summit did not even attempt to close any of the yawning gaps in the single market , which must come into effect at the end of next year . |
| 24 | Apart from the special area of infringement of third party intellectual property rights , which is discussed in detail below , most sellers do not even attempt to exclude such liability , and this approach is followed in cl 5.1 of Precedent 1 . |
| 25 | They did not even consider doing this . |
| 26 | Had he missed the cut , Woosnam would not even have had that to watch on Saturday , since the network went off the air with about an hour 's play left in a move that would have angered Great Britain . |
| 27 | Excuse me , Lord , but parts of your planet are poisoned , although you may not yet have discovered that fact for yourselves . |
| 28 | If British Rail builds a railway line in South Wales by employing construction workers who would otherwise have been unemployed , the cost includes the wages of construction workers , but these do not represent a social cost if they would not otherwise have produced any goods . |
| 29 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 30 | I do not therefore mind leaving these matters in the safe hands of the Germans , just as many nations before 1914 were content to leave them in the safe hands of the British . |