Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book does not cite all the cases on the subject , and does not cite a case where to do so would serve only to record the existence of that case , with no other purpose . |
| 2 | I could never stand and watch so would walk away to wink and flirt with the young novices . |
| 3 | Increasing their market share domestically might serve only to increase political resentment . |
| 4 | The evidence discussed above might seem immediately to refute this theory . |
| 5 | With further autonomization and the advent of modernism , culture becomes either inaccessible and thus no longer can function positively to construct such a stable identity , or more commonly , as argued above , modernist culture comes to undermine and destabilize bourgeois identity . |
| 6 | Furthermore , certain commercial practices such as ‘ meeting competition clauses ’ , ‘ most favoured nation ’ ( MFN ) clauses , and tie-ins that release the buyer if she can find a lower price supplier elsewhere can serve both to ensure information-sharing about discounts and price-cutting and to give ( in the case of MFN clauses ) an incentive not to cut price ( see Salop , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | Making companies release important information more quickly could do more to curb insider dealing than any laws . |
| 8 | But if a judge errs the other way and fines a rapist a few hundred pounds , or puts on probation a bank robber with previous convictions who clearly ought to go directly to jail , nothing happens . |
| 9 | ‘ We really must campaign vigorously to ensure that the government stands by its earlier intentions and undertakings , ’ adds PA chief executive Clive Bradley . |
| 10 | The second is that IQ , as measured by conventional intelligence tests , does not seem a sufficient explanation of it ; even though it might be a necessary accompaniment — and indeed might help entirely to account for some other forms of high intellectual achievement . |
| 11 | I never used to have much to eat , you know ? |