Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [det] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils could be asked to pick out or underline all the things which suggest bias or which are opinion rather than fact . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | rather than walk all the way from Woolworths . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rather than pile all the bodies into one large mass grave , Davis had had his men dig serried rows of shallow graves and lay the bodies into them as they were , without coffins , which would have taken far too long to make . |
| 6 | If a group arrives in the morning before the housekeeping department has had time to clean and service all the rooms , then the group must be made comfortable whilst waiting to gain access to their rooms . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ In fact , if we 're busy at work I can see that having to try and explain all the complexities of the London Metal Exchange to someone who knows absolutely nothing about it is going to be a real drag . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd use it to identify and locate all the landmarks which he had stared up at during his exhausting explorations , now seen from a very different perspective ; he knew the names of all the streets where the distant , anonymous towers of the banks and finance companies were sited , having worn himself out many times by walking along them , fascinated by the scenes glimpsed behind their mirrored , darkened or tinted glass windows and walls . |
| 10 | so erm , he went to speak to one of the Director 's secretary , to go and buy all the cups , I had to provide the sugar |
| 11 | I 've got to go out and buy all the cloth for the new costumes in The Tempest . |
| 12 | Do n't go and buy all the kit until you know what sort of sailing you enjoy . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , you obviously ca n't go and buy all the fish and throw them straight in , nor can you go and buy fully-grown specimens to fill the tank on this sort of budget . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One of his sons , Noel , a retired university lecturer , decided to sort out and study all the documents , including the stories which had been confided to him by his father , to whom he was very close . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And be doing all our they will be gon na come and do all the jobs that we do n't want like in , in catering and , and things like that . |
| 19 | We called up all the record companies to see shows and they let us go and see all the shows because we had American accents and we were crazy . |
| 20 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 21 | The eight self-contained villages which comprise this modern Club each have their own character but there are no boundaries , you 're free to wander and use all the facilities . |
| 22 | Everyone wants us to work and work all the time and not stop . |
| 23 | By the laws of hospitality , they should be bound by the strictest rules of honour , custom , decency , each one to help and preserve and defend all the others . |
| 24 | I already knew that the forebrain roof of the chick was particularly rich in the receptor , and the assay method was fast enough for me to measure it in a couple of hundred brain samples during a single twelve-hour day ( although , inevitably , it took several subsequent days to analyse and calculate all the results ) . |
| 25 | A strong wind chased the rain over their heads and away as they approached , and the trees tossing beside the walls made the outline of the huge house appear to tremble , as if it might roll over and crush all the homes of the people who depended on it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You must collect , sort and select all the facts , opinions , ideas , options and proposals which make up your particular message . |
| 28 | After three miles Nathan had to turn round and ride all the way home again . |
| 29 | Secondly , just because a few old vegetables have survived so long , it does n't mean we should try and resurrect all the others . |
| 30 | Tonight she was to chair the meeting , so she left the front door unlocked for any late-comers , and , having seated the nervous little reporter from the Advent in a position where she could see and hear all the ladies present , giving her at the same time a hastily written list of the names of those expected to attend , she called the meeting to order . |