Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are contracts which are essential to the conduct of the business , the purchaser should make obtaining consent to assign or novate these a condition precedent . |
| 2 | This is not enough to show that anyone can have authority to introduce or enforce such a scheme . |
| 3 | It would constitute a typically academic fallacy to believe that analysis on its own — the sheer power of thought — could change or reverse such a situation , but it could well affect it . |
| 4 | The complexities of this network must be understood , and will be explained more fully in Chapter 7 together with suggestions on ways social workers may help to sustain or develop such a network . |
| 5 | How could he forgive or forget such a slight ? |
| 6 | No deduction is made in respect of the joint portion because , for example , one can not buy or drive half a motor car . |
| 7 | This is not faking , however , because waking subjects know perfectly well a child can not write or spell such a sentence . |
| 8 | It is not enough for the Commission merely to show that the merger will create or strengthen such a market position if the maintenance or development of effective competition would not be likely to be impaired . |
| 9 | At the time , descriptive geology could ignore or deny such a theory , by postulating the existence of land bridges and sea-level changes which permitted the movement of organisms between continents . |
| 10 | With their lack of English they were unable to explain why they chose to go hungry rather than eat such a choice dish . |
| 11 | The Consumers ' Association says that rather than give half the cover price to retailers , they prefer to sink the money into campaigning work and more investigations . |
| 12 | rather than walk all the way from Woolworths . |
| 13 | That particular party broke up at five , and two guests were persuaded to go to bed rather than drive all the way back to West Meath . |
| 14 | Christian Aid is not in a position itself to set up and service all the training which it is envisaged might be useful to supporters . |
| 15 | I 've got to go out and buy all the cloth for the new costumes in The Tempest . |
| 16 | Do n't go and buy all the kit until you know what sort of sailing you enjoy . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's true everyone expects me to go out and win all the time , ’ says Gunnell , who has managed to remain as unspoilt as she was before her Barcelona triumph . |
| 18 | Now the Government is to construct , at vast cost , two large new sewers to collect and process all the waste before it enters the river . |
| 19 | Alright , I mean there 's I think we 've got more responsibilities where the husband tends to be able to go away and do that a lot easier than what a woman would be able to do . |
| 20 | See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that . |
| 21 | Have you done all your homework , you can go and do half an hour 's homework quite usefully could n't you ? |
| 22 | in fact I 'll go up and do half an hour before dinner |
| 23 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 24 | Everyone wants us to work and work all the time and not stop . |
| 25 | We the undermentioned agree to cut and secure all the corn grown on the farm in a workmanlike manner to my satisfaction ; make bottoms of stacks ; cover up when required ; hoe the turnips twice and turn or lift the barley once ; turn the pease once — each man to find a gaveller . |
| 26 | How anyone can ridicule and trivialise such an attempt to make life more pleasant in Darlington is totally beyond me , particularly when the person primarily responsible is the Mayor and first citizen of the town . |
| 27 | And , as we have already seen , it is the Bible 's function to feed and foster such a relationship . |
| 28 | After three miles Nathan had to turn round and ride all the way home again . |
| 29 | Where did you go and take half an hour over choosing your books ? |
| 30 | The very fact that I had only properly discovered a foundation of happiness when separated from the world should have shown me that the tendency of the world was to flood and destroy such a thing . |