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

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1 Given the choice , most of us would rather eat a choccy bar than a stick of celery , but good eating habits will pay dividends .
2 Whilst Apple were undoubtedly the first to successfully market a desktop publishing system , it was Xerox who invented it , the business world tends to run on PC-type systems rather than Macintoshes .
3 To enter , just send your name and address , together with your caption and choice of video — Derby or Forest — to : I 'D RATHER WIN A VILLA VIDEO COMP , ZZAP ! .
4 if it is considered that the information content is of paramount importance then it is valid to so construct a resource centre that every student may spend most of his time wired up to a dial-access system so that all he need do is dial a number , press a button and then sit passively absorbing what he sees on a screen and hears in his headphones …
5 Oliver would start by addressing the table : ‘ Shall we perhaps essay a Hunter River Chardonnay ce soir ? ’
6 The more he reads , the more certain he is that it 's garbage — and how can you diplomatically conduct a love affair with a poet whose work you view in that light ?
7 In future students will be under the control of the Education rather than the Service side , and will only make a service contribution of 20 per cent of the student 's time ( approximately 6 months of the 3 year period ) .
8 They will only make a court order if there are major problems .
9 This provides that a court may only make a care order if it is satisfied that the child concerned is suffering significant harm .
10 Rheum palmatum , with its large deeply-cut leaves , will greatly enhance a jungle atmosphere if planted amid wispy grasses and the delicate lacy foliage of Polypodium vulgare ‘ Cornubiense ’ or the leathery tongue-shaped fronds of Phyllitis scolopendrium .
11 Perhaps this is one experiment that had better remain a computer simulation , at least for now .
12 Many of the kids who are out there making music do n't necessarily want a record deal .
13 ‘ Every climbing rope should only undergo a set number of falls before being thrown away , ’ explains Oag .
14 The system does not necessarily include a balance lift that is to say duplicate tanks working up and down duplicate inclines in reverse direction .
15 Even a picture measuring 30 × 25cm ( 12 × 10in ) , which is large enough to display quite a few flowers and takes a fair amount of skill , would only need a backing 30cm ( 12in ) square , so ½m ( ½yd ) of material could be enough for about eight pictures , depending on the width of the material .
16 ‘ I 'd better do a blood glucose straight away , ’ she said as soon as she was lying in bed , with the adjustable part tilted to a gentle angle .
17 This material was bought a year ago for £750 but is now obsolete and would therefore only fetch a scrap price of £50 .
18 Similarly you can only choose a Savage Orc Big Boss if your army includes at least one Mob of Savage Orcs .
19 Similarly , you can only choose a Savage Orc Shaman if your army includes at least one Mob of Savage Orcs .
20 And if Rangers striker Mark Hateley needs a preview of what he 's up against at Ibrox tonight , he need only watch a video replay of that moment of madness .
21 Villages throughout Bihar , Northern Bengal and Assam , once isolated communities with little food or water , need only acknowledge a Darlington firm , Skerne Iron Works , for their very livelihood .
22 Your council will only provide a Building Regulations Approval Notice when Full Plans are deposited , so you will have to use this method .
23 Prior to this service , pump manufacturers would only provide a test pump for a well if the customer agreed to purchase the unit or pay for repairs at the end of the test period .
24 We all know that Britain will only become a world class economy if we have a strong well-balanced manufacturing base , employing skilled , trained workforce , a workforce which has decent conditions of employment and has legal protection , but we do still have some members within the service sector and within the professional rank and what has happened in the last five or six years to those members ?
25 Modules will only follow a process model if they have been defined to be of that particular model subtype via the MODULE-SUB-TYPE-IS keyword in the module header .
26 If I could convince Bill Gates to include it with DOS ( no chance ! ) it would suddenly become a DOS command .
27 However , it is deemed unlikely to reactivate the effort despite contentions that the Intel work taking priority — largely the stuff of Open Desktop 2.0 coming out this summer — could be easily ported to the MIPS platform should it suddenly become a volume player .
28 A high-end offering , the model 620 , destined for the workstation and server markets , will apparently have a performance rating of 100 SPECmarks and is expected to rollout the door mid-1993 .
29 A hotel may apply for a full on-licence ; on the other hand small establishments may merely have a restaurant licence or a residential licence .
30 Harry may only have a walk-on part at Birdland , but he 's still the star of the show .
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