Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [pron] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at the start go for that it does sound interesting . |
| 2 | As GRAMOPHONE readers know , CD prices are substantially lower in America than in the UK , and while we rarely complain about this it does raise the number of units which must be sold to reach the break-even point on a particular recording : this in turn discourages risk-taking on limited appeal issues . |
| 3 | Obviously , th , there is four or five years there 's nothing to speak of , but after that it does acquire more . |
| 4 | But after that I did take up private nursing . |
| 5 | Well I I I would n't er pin point the German attitude on this one , I mean after all we did collaborate with Germany very successfully on the tornado which has a nuclear role but the the four governments must first of all decide if that is what we want to build into this aeroplane and they decided that they did not at that stage . |
| 6 | After all I did know through my discussions with Pasha regarding the plausibility of King Lear 's plot that the Earl of Gloucester was really the Earl of Gloster . |
| 7 | In spite of this we do need to make an effort to define the problem . |
| 8 | He also lived at Pinner and erm then the work dried up and he first of all he did work was a postman at Christmas time , you know just as a thing and then he started you know then he became full time you know . |
| 9 | Erm , first of all I did promise to you that I 'd give you some idea of the sort of material would be on next week 's erm multiple guess questions , okay ? |
| 10 | First of all I do have some sympathy with my colleagues from other districts who , while not being in sympathy with the policy , would n't want to be excluded if there 's er certain development opportunities being thrown in . |
| 11 | For many of those who did remain life was very hard ; family members frequently had to seek outside employment on a part-time or short-term basis . |
| 12 | A substantial minority of all paper readers , 42 per cent , thought their paper was biased in its treatment of the Alliance ; and most of those who did detect bias thought their paper was biased against the Alliance . |
| 13 | On Dunkirk 's sunlit main street , Sid Carter marched again with five thousand of those who did make it back ; old friends reunited , new friendships established , and all remembering a very different June day . |
| 14 | Of those who did marry , comparatively few did so as young as 20 . |
| 15 | Of those who did go to the 30,000 polling booths , set up in mosques and schools , few expressed enthusiasm about the current leaders . |
| 16 | In addition to regulating the chief feasts and rituals of the year , the Church canons prohibited Sunday work , in accordance with the Ten Commandments , and these canons were backed up by the dissemination of miracle stories concerning the fates of those who did work on Sundays . |
| 17 | Of those who did attend , the bias in favour of Oxford and Cambridge has remained effectively unchanged . |
| 18 | Not all of them came , and many of those who did attend represented the panoply of power rather than its reality . |
| 19 | Secondly , about half of those who did attend for worship chose to go to a Nonconformist chapel . |
| 20 | Reporters were n't welcome , but most of those who did attend were unhappy with what they heard . |
| 21 | George said : ‘ The majority of staff are non-smokers and of those who do smoke , it is likely that most will have little difficulty in adjusting to the smoking ban . |
| 22 | The issue is not whether nationals or foreigners control the media , but whether the interests of those who do control the media , nationals or foreigners , are those of the capitalist global system . |
| 23 | Worse still , almost half of those who do suffer from prostate cancer have no urinary symptoms and no inkling that they have anything wrong , until they experience bone pain linked with secondary malignant growth elsewhere in the body , which is likely to cause death within two-and-a-half years . |
| 24 | What is the background of those who do get involved ? |
| 25 | Almost half of all workers are still left without occupational coverage , and , for some of those who do gain an occupational pension , the value is often small ( Occupational Pension Schemes , 1983 , table 3.3 ) . |
| 26 | Of those who do use some form of protection not all use a sunscreen … 13 per cent rely instead on a long-sleeved shirt or T-shirt and another 17 per cent on a sun hat . |
| 27 | Of those who do attend , many do not go until the age of eight or nine because the schools can not fit them in . |
| 28 | For many of those who do take the text seriously however , Christian teaching on the subject of wealth is summed up either by one of the easily remembered phrases from the Gospels such as ‘ Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor , and you will have treasure in heaven ’ ( Luke 18:22 ) or ‘ You can not serve God and Mammon ’ ( Luke 16:13 ) or that ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God ’ ( Luke 18:25 ) or by the way in which the members of the Jerusalem Church as recorded in Acts of the Apostles shared their wealth according to the principle ‘ From each according to his ability , to each according to his need ’ . |
| 29 | This , of course , can be to the advantage of those who do take the subject . |
| 30 | IAN McCANN cruises the mean streets of Kingston to find out what a crap fist they 're making of the great man 's legacy , and to talk to some of those who helped make him the Third World 's finest musical ambassador . |