Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mainstream Labour left thinks it can call Mr Major 's bluff : he would rather swallow the Social Chapter , they guess , than lose the whole treaty . |
| 2 | In an upwards market this would benefit the landlord , who could never hope to achieve a full market rent pursuant to an interim rent application , but would disadvantage the tenant , who would presumably prefer the old rent to continue during negotiations , thereby acting as a negotiating factor . |
| 3 | He replied that an army of 5–6000 men might still successfully evade the Royal Navy and descend anywhere on the coast , so that the nation needed a minimum of 18,000 under arms , one-third to protect London , another third distributed throughout the country to crush any supporting rebellions , and the final third to provide a strategic reserve — an admirable analysis of the problem . |
| 4 | Which of the various legacies would most influence the post-independence press ? |
| 5 | One good reason why such people ( if they want to become anthropologists ) should start off by studying a cultural system which is radically different from their own is that they can thereby undergo the traumatic experience of discovering that , in other societies , this deeply emotive private/public distinction may operate in quite a different way . |
| 6 | During beta testing , Bristol will be working with small independent software vendors willing to hand their source code over to Bristol so that it can properly babysit the whole operation . |
| 7 | Whenever I talk about these things anywhere in the country , I find that people who have been burgled or mugged , or have had items stolen from their vehicles would much prefer the young man or woman who committed the crime to do something to compensate or repay them instead of spending a brief time in prison , with all the disadvantages that that involves . |
| 8 | The legal terms of this agreement will not necessarily govern the day-to-day relationship between the record company and artist , but it will set out the obligations of both parties , or ‘ who is responsible for what ’ . |
| 9 | It never did much good and even now with all our antibiotics we can not greatly influence the final outcome . |
| 10 | 3 The professors just characterised could not so influence the national press without the tacit cooperation of many of the scholars who study , and the merchants who sell , tests . |
| 11 | Cichlasomaniacs are all too familiar with the current confused taxonomy of their favourites , but for the uninitiated I had better explain the basic situation — even if you find taxonomy boring you may find this helpful in understanding the names currently applied to these fish . |
| 12 | The serum concentration is falling rapidly at 15 minutes , and small changes in the timing of the sample will greatly affect the observed result , which could result in day to day inconsistencies and unwarranted changes in dosage . |
| 13 | Insurance may ONLY cover the current market value of your car , not what you paid for it . |
| 14 | Members heard financial bids made for City Challenge funding would only cover the hard engineering part of the anti-flood scheme at a cost of £800,000 . |
| 15 | MID-RANGE motorcycles may only cover the 25O-65Occ class , but there 's nothing average in the type and style of biking they offer . |
| 16 | Although he made a partial recovery in 1926 , he could only conduct the One-Year course at Wells , where he lived . |
| 17 | Whether you can only spare the occasional day or are prepared to help on a regular basis , Chapter 12 , Voluntary Work , lists a fund of suggestions you might like to consider . |
| 18 | A manor did not necessarily cover the same area as a parish ; indeed , parishes sometimes contained two or more manors and the boundaries between the two institutions often overlapped . |
| 19 | By this means we may greatly enhance the external validity of the study ( see Section 15.3 ) . |
| 20 | " Your presence would greatly enhance the dull routine of colonial life if you chose to attend any of our social occasions . " |
| 21 | For , with some qualifications which do not much affect the main point , he suggests that when we give reasons for an ethical statement we are typically making factual claims acceptance of which we hope will cause others to have the attitude it expresses and he distinguishes this sharply from the case where one statement gives some kind of logical or rational support to another . |
| 22 | The addition of the provincial press , therefore , does not much affect the earlier conclusion about concentration among the nationals . |
| 23 | Whatever was meant to be payable at all , under this agreement , was clearly to be payable by half-yearly instalments of £150 each ; any other construction must necessarily make the conditional promise nugatory . |
| 24 | This lack of transferability does not necessarily make the English sea waybill undesirable . |
| 25 | These subtleties of the war did not entirely evade the British public . |
| 26 | This is true in the sense that electors want stability and do not much want the higher thought . |
| 27 | Of course , it 's also impossible to predict revolution , and we can only recognise the revolutionary character of a particular development after it has happened . |
| 28 | However , as we shall see , in other modes , because does not necessarily introduce the first event . |
| 29 | Horses are all different , and will not necessarily behave the same way in identical situations . |
| 30 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |