Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RANGERS , having won the Battle of Britain by beating Leeds to progress to the Champions League , begin their quest to successfully invade Europe against Marseille at Ibrox tonight . |
| 2 | He does a little Dirty Dancing with Demi Moore in the absurd phallic pottery scene . |
| 3 | Since a large fraction of the stock market is held by pension funds and insurance companies which will eventually make payments to workers , monopoly profits may indirectly pay income to some relatively poor people . |
| 4 | Overshadowing ( the observation that the associative strength acquired by a target stimulus A is reduced when another event , B , is also present on reinforced trials ) and blocking ( the observation that prior reinforced training with B can effectively eliminate acquisition to A when AB trials are given ) are primary characteristics of conditioning , found in all training procedures and in almost all organisms capable of classical conditioning . |
| 5 | Wessex and Yorkshire are thought possible targets for Compagnie Generale des Eaux and Southern could eventually fall prey to Saur , which owns most of the private water companies in its area . |
| 6 | French leaders would humbly seek absolution for Pompidou 's awful error in failing to attend Persepolis , and seek contracts for nuclear power stations . |
| 7 | If the following sequence is carried out with sensitivity , not only will it relieve tension but it will also effectively stimulate clarity of thought . |
| 8 | It is financed by the film industry , and will only grant certificates to movies which it considers are within the limits of public acceptability . |
| 9 | All the best rock bands come out of art colleges , etc … and it 's still the case they find they can only reproduce music from Beethoven , Mozart , etc . |
| 10 | Pupils with impaired vision will obviously experience difficulty with reading . |
| 11 | Readability researchers often emphasise that it is not possible to use a formula to assess difficulty at the individual sentence level ; a formula or graph can only make predictions about difficulty at a global level . |
| 12 | In future Castle will only make provision for amortisation of audio copyrights for permanent diminution in value . |
| 13 | She 's told him trying to get her back may only make life in Pakistan more difficult for her . |
| 14 | On fixed frames , the weaver can only make rugs in sizes smaller than the inner dimensions of the frame ; adjustable frames allow one or more of the beams to be extended so that larger items can be woven . |
| 15 | As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame . |
| 16 | We do obviously make grants to youth clubs and organizations . |
| 17 | Most people would only eat bran with breakfast cereal . |
| 18 | Talks on privatising Deutsche Bundespost Telekom have entered a critical phase , with a key decision due next month , Germany 's postal and telecommunications minister Wolfgang Bosch told Reuter at Hannover on Friday : ‘ In a few weeks we will know whether or not there will be a change to the constitution , ’ he said , noting that decision will not only affect privatisation of Telekom but also Bonn 's position at the upcoming talks with the European Commission — an agreement on privatisation would pave the way for Bonn to approve the Community plan to open domestic and international telephone calls to competition ; the current strategy to get agreement from Germany 's opposition socialists is to win over the postal union , which so far rejects turning Telekom into a joint stock company for fear of massive job losses . |
| 19 | Unfortunately genital carriage of group B streptococcus is unstable , so a swab taken during pregnancy does not necessarily predict carriage at delivery . |
| 20 | He did apparently display signs of hypochondria , however — Herbert Read remembered how he was " addicted to pills and potions " and , according to another friend , he kept a variety of pills in his lower waistcoat pocket — but hypochondria , if such it was , was only one aspect of a larger nervous disposition . |
| 21 | ‘ Or can you only win races against men of your own family ? ’ the offworlder finished . |
| 22 | Whether or not humans with a thrifty genotype did in the past ( or continue to ) better survive periods of famine has not been directly proved . |
| 23 | We would only need cover for centre-half and of course we have big — bad — jon for that ! |
| 24 | Though explicitly Christian , ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ forms between the earlier and later work a bridge over which the reader ( with access to the gospel word ) may cross into the release of Christianity , the new birth ; but , denied that access , the speaker of the poem can only seek relief in death to escape from having to return to the old way in which he is ‘ no longer at ease ’ . |
| 25 | To ensure the rights laid down in or following from this treaty , they shall especially guarantee freedom of contract , freedom to exercise a trade , freedom of establishment and occupation , and freedom of movement of Germans in the entire currency area , freedom to form associations to safeguard and enhance working and economic conditions and … ownership of land and means of production by private investors … |
| 26 | Private hire cars can only carry passengers in response to requests by phone . |
| 27 | If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months . |
| 28 | Since ‘ compliance ’ is an administrative definition and since production or treatment processes can constantly give rise to changes in water quality , field men must be ever-vigilant in the face of uncertainty . |
| 29 | We would therefore warmly welcome views on issues such as : |
| 30 | ‘ You can only do business in Aberdeen , Inverness and Stirling by being in Aberdeen , Inverness and Stirling , ’ says Mitchell . |