Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The account should have the login flags CAPTIVE , DISCTLY and DEFCLI set , and the command procedure which it logs into should only give the account read access by virtue of the SYSPRV privilege ( so that the user can not edit the command procedure after executing the break-out ) . |
| 2 | He said a letter sent to competitors informing them of the restriction and threatening possible exclusion of wheelchairs from future London marathons if the rule was not adhered to should not have been sent . |
| 3 | The first thing to realise is that anyone who comes to visit you because they want to will not care — and probably will not notice — if your home is not perfect . |
| 4 | The court said that the conclusion the arbitrator had come to could only have been reached by in effect giving evidence to himself in flat contradiction to the evidence given by the applicants ' expert witness , and the arbitrator was guilty of misconduct in failing to observe the rules of natural justice . |
| 5 | Opening a brewery at a time when Britain 's drinkers are supping less beer than they used to might not seem like a good idea . |
| 6 | I ca n't , I ca n't wait till ca n't wait till Christmas cos I do n't stop eating . |
| 7 | They may reject what they regard as middle-class or old-fashioned values and delight in looking as dirty and scruffy as possible , championing people and causes that most of the people their parents mix with would not consider acceptable . |
| 8 | — Chinese traders when asked by the Romans what country they came from should really have replied ‘ Chung-kuo ’ ( Middle Kingdom ) . |
| 9 | Perhaps this was just as well since the jolly but rather juvenile japes her sister embarked upon might not have pleased her . |
| 10 | Changing between the 0.10 gauge sets that you refer to should not cause any problems ; the first set has a heavy top and light bottom and vice versa for the other , and the difference in tension and playability would probably be too small to notice . |
| 11 | The group I talked to could only recall one prisoner escaping in recent years ; he had been shot during his escape and even then was not recaptured . |
| 12 | Disapplication requires a special resolution , ie a 75% majority , which the minority shareholder referred to could not block . |
| 13 | The person you are dealing with will also find it far easier to be helpful if she/he is clear about what the problem is and what you want . |
| 14 | The shop they went into would n't have anything to do with it though . |
| 15 | The Hellenic ideal — or ideals — that German intellectuals and writers hoped to live by could hardly command full allegiance without some support from the professionals in the field and perhaps some modification from their new ideas . |
| 16 | This is of practical importance particularly in the case of closely held companies or wholly-owned subsidiaries where the conduct complained of may well have received unanimous shareholder assent , which would otherwise have the effect of regularising the transaction and hence preventing the liquidator from taking remedial action . |
| 17 | It was not a unanimous vote but , my word , those who voted against must certainly have been feeling very lonely . |
| 18 | Dr Starkie and her kind are cursed with memory : the books they teach and write about can never fade from their brains . |
| 19 | While I can see that the woman you wrote about may well have deserved what she got — your report says the little girl was badly bruised — I do think we have to be wary of going to extremes . |
| 20 | Nonetheless Mayor Daley had to should now persuade his colleagues to agree . |
| 21 | Even if a 727 could slip into a Caribbean community with all the basic needs of life — video games , CD players , Benetton shirts and Playboy — its operating costs would mean the folk it was delivering to could not afford the service . |
| 22 | I seem to be able to do the thing that she ca n't do ; that Pat ca n't do ; that the women she works with ca n't do : control my weight , my body , my self . |
| 23 | Bradshaw and Millar estimate that up to 70 per cent of lone mothers could be employed if all who said they wanted to could immediately get jobs and child care . |
| 24 | But by the same token , theories like that proposed by Pearce and Hall must come to terms with the evidence that has been taken to show that what the stimulus is predicted by can also play a role . |