Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The political historian , raised from the cradle to insist on the importance of chronology and context , would rather think in terms of intellectual biography .
2 On 6 March the Copyright Office conducted the second of two hearings to gather testimony for the recommendations it will eventually make to Congress on artists ' re-sale royalties .
3 ‘ But , because I am relatively young , I still have the option of aiming for line management , though I would have to decide whether I would rather stay in contact with the patients . ’
4 Alternatively , eustatic changes in non-glacial periods can be produced by changes in the cumulative length of active spreading ridges , which will obviously relate to changes in plate patterns ( Hallam , 1977 ) .
5 Rather , Poulantzas says , ‘ What makes them function concretely as a distinct class , as a social force , is in fact the historical phenomenon of Bonapartism ’ , thus seeming to imply that the two are interconnected in such a way that each can only exist in conjunction with the other .
6 The Inquisitor knew that he should only think of Meh'Lindi as a wonderful , living weapon .
7 or kind of oven in nine , I can only think of Oakhouse as a kind of oven but erm I do n't know whether that 's it or not .
8 It is a cardinal error , and one to which intellectual historians are especially prone , to suppose that people can only think in terms of one set of assumptions .
9 In that case should they perhaps think of variations in human culture as expressions of permutations in the working of the human mind ?
10 If becoming a person can only arise through communion with God , then in the same way the marriage of two persons arises and is sustained only in God .
11 However , it was agreed at the outset of this appeal by Mr. Leonard that these two latter matters would only arise for consideration in the event that his contentions upon his first and principal ground of appeal were upheld in this court ; and in the circumstances we heard argument from both sides upon that ground separately and distinct from the remainder of the matters raised in this appeal .
12 We do not necessarily think of pigments in the context of metalwork , but there are traditions of painted metal statues .
13 In many ways , the issue of knowledge acquisition has been one that has separated the practicable representations of natural language semantics from those that can only remain as theories in textbooks .
14 And I 'm putting this forward as something to encourage us all , because sometimes we ca n't be articulate , sometimes we ca n't look beautiful , most of the times you ca n't look beautiful , but we can all think of ways of creating an interesting story .
15 Lamb is another minor casualty ; he is all right to bat , but he can only throw in underarm at the moment because of a niggle , which at first was thought to be a reaction to an inoculation , but is now believed to be a minor ligament problem .
16 ‘ The procedural issue on which the appeal turns will naturally fall for decision in the light of the principles expounded in the speech of my noble and learned friend , Lord Diplock , in O'Reilly v. Mackman [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 237 in which judgment has just been delivered .
17 For this , those feminists , such as Finch and Groves ( 1983 ) , who espoused the cause of their older sisters , can take some credit , particularly in the challenge they threw down to those who assumed without question that such roles would naturally fall to women on their own .
18 Being an enabler of pupils ' learning is an unselfish task and " imaginative " teachers do not necessarily excel in qualities of humility and standing back and giving space to others .
19 The haulier will not necessarily know from week to week what products are to be transported — if any — but must have a range of vehicles available to cover all eventualities .
20 The attendance of a member at a meeting of a committee or subcommittee of the local authority is regarded as attendance at a meeting of the authority , but attendance at a meeting of a joint committee , joint board or other body will only count as attendance at a meeting of the authority when any functions of the local authority have been transferred or delegated to those bodies .
21 I should perhaps apologize on behalf of the hotel for the temperature in the room this morning er I stayed here last night and woke up to find that not only was there no heat in the radiators , but there was no heat in the hot water .
22 Aye , you 'd better jump in bed with him ,
23 Indeed in 1244 , Thurkleby J. disallowed a widow 's appeal of rape ‘ because a woman can only appeal concerning rape of her virginity . ’
24 They do n't necessarily contribute in terms of the creative ideas .
25 Some people love the excitement of the most innovative styles in furnishings ; others can only feel at home in settings with a warm traditional feeling or a breath of country air .
26 But Miss Dallam would not only feel at ease with it but would look well in it too .
27 Sadly , this is what Arts educationalists like Malcolm Ross ( 1978 ) would deny our children , for he can only perceive of drama as a Performing Art .
28 We 've heard the voice of the Party professionals , we 've heard the voice of the Labour leadership , now let's all speak on behalf of the ordinary trade unionists and say with all the force that is necessary on behalf of those millions , men and women , young and old , we support the Party , we pay for the Party , we have a right to democracy in the Party because never forget it is our Party too , I move .
29 It should be pointed out that , because the employing firms are themselves not perfectly competitive but possess some monopoly power , the union 's actions will not necessarily result in losses for the firms involved ; however , it will of course reduce their profits and result in a redistribution of income from profit-earners to wage-earners .
30 The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person .
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