Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the opportunity for this country to help support genuine refugees abroad through various aid programmes is not helped by the fact that , according to a headline in The Times today , bogus refugees bleed Britain of £100 million through benefit fraud ? |
| 2 | But there will be situations where you really feel you may be defending a lost cause , because after all things do go quite disastrously wrong . |
| 3 | And it 's not just the businesses that are obviously involved with the tourist industry , because after all visitors do spend money . |
| 4 | He stated at p494 : If A has the legal capacity to transfer an opportunity to make a gain and in the exercise of that capacity does transfer that opportunity to B by his own act he does so directly . |
| 5 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 6 | This was how the visual comedy of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was conceived , although this was not to be the opening episode of the series ; Michael Mills felt the couple needed to be introduced in another story , which saw Frank go for a job as a door-to-door salesman — one of many jobs — and bungle the practice session in his own inimitable way . |
| 7 | Ware , widely regarded as Britain 's top TV stunt artist and arranger , ran an agency called Havoc , which advised Crawford on his dangerous routines throughout the first two series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em . |
| 8 | Although Crawford had intended to do only one series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , for fear of becoming typecast , the impact of Frank Spencer persuaded him to make another six episodes , which were broadcast at the end of 1973 . |
| 9 | As the second series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was about to begin , he drove to Birmingham to appear as a guest celebrity in the TV show What 's My Line . |
| 10 | After a year 's break , Crawford was back at the BBC , making a final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and a play that would show his more serious side to a large audience in the way that only television could do . |
| 11 | Before making another series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , he starred in a BBC Play for Today double-bill , Private View and Audience , under the umbrella title Sorry … |
| 12 | Crawford was seen in Play for Today after the first two episodes in the final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had already been shown . |
| 13 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 14 | When the third series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em ended , Crawford decided to hang up Frank Spencer 's beret and raincoat for ever . |
| 15 | Dr Sharp , part of the ear nose and throat team writing in the British Medical Journal , reported that the hearing of some patients did improve a little after wax removal , but there was n't a dramatic change . |
| 16 | However , the facts of this case do illustrate the injustice which could arise if Miss Marshall is correct in the admirable submissions which she has advanced on behalf of the landlord , to the effect that in this case he was entitled to resort to self-help . |
| 17 | But this is misleading in the sense that much of this expenditure did generate purchasing power in recipient countries , which led to demand for dollar goods , demand which was not effectively curtailed by the exchange controls . |
| 18 | Much of this work does show a definite effect : though there are still many questions about the precise links between early events and subsequent outcomes in various species , belief in the compelling nature of early experience is powerfully reinforced by this body of findings . |
| 19 | There is plenty of evidence in the Review that taking a professional stance of this kind helped sustain the discursive architecture of English studies in the interwar period , especially in taking the disputative and judgemental stance of Parliament and the Law and borrowing the language from those discourses . |
| 20 | Associations of this kind do seem to be made folklinguistically . |
| 21 | We have suggested that , while competition of this sort does exist , there are serious problems with accepting all the assumptions and propositions associated with pluralism . |
| 22 | Kenotic christology of this sort did have its own internal problems : on closer examination it is not easy to understand what exactly it can mean to speak of this ‘ self-emptying ’ , and attempts to make the matter more precise tend to fade into a tangle of artificialities and contradictions . |
| 23 | Under-age sides are entitled to their share of the cake and it 's encouraging to see a spread of this cash to help underwrite various competitions . ’ |
| 24 | Tokay d'Alsace , or Pinot Gris , is aptly named gris as the skin colour of this grape does fall somewhere between black and white . |
| 25 | Predictably , a greater than average proportion of such children do develop symptoms of schizophrenia — or of some related ‘ borderline ’ condition , such as schizotypal personality disorder . |
| 26 | Although definitions of ‘ poverty ’ and adequate nutrition were ( and are ) debatable , the accumulation of these findings did make an impression and convinced more people of the need for family allowances , particularly when viewed against the background of a declining population at home and the pro-natalist policies of our competitors abroad . |
| 27 | All of these predictions do match real usage as shown in ( 66 ) and ( 67 ) ( underlining , on this occasion , indicates the section of the structure which is to be questioned ) ; we add ( 68 ) to offer the parallel with an explicit clause : ( 66 ) she needs the application translated what does she need ? ( 67 ) ( a ) I would consider the tea-boy ( to be ) reliable what would you consider the tea-boy to be ? ( 67 ) ( b ) I would consider the tea-boy ( to be ) reliable who would you consider ( to be ) reliable |
| 28 | All of these mosaics do exhibit more general affinities , however . |
| 29 | There are even differences between cultures in the development of task and maintenance behaviours , even though the actual emergence of these roles does appear to be universal . |
| 30 | But one aspect of the history of these years does deserve to be recalled . |