Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | They will only make a court order if there are major problems . |
| 8 | This provides that a court may only make a care order if it is satisfied that the child concerned is suffering significant harm . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Perhaps this is one experiment that had better remain a computer simulation , at least for now . |
| 11 | Many of the kids who are out there making music do n't necessarily want a record deal . |
| 12 | ‘ Every climbing rope should only undergo a set number of falls before being thrown away , ’ explains Oag . |
| 13 | The system does not necessarily include a balance lift that is to say duplicate tanks working up and down duplicate inclines in reverse direction . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | This material was bought a year ago for £750 but is now obsolete and would therefore only fetch a scrap price of £50 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If I could convince Bill Gates to include it with DOS ( no chance ! ) it would suddenly become a DOS command . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Harry may only have a walk-on part at Birdland , but he 's still the star of the show . |
| 26 | Driver Number : You will only have a Driver Number if you have already been issued with a New Style ( 10 Year type ) licence . |
| 27 | So , as you can see , there is no need to be discouraged from growing plants for pressing even if you do only have a window box . |
| 28 | It says Windows NT — launched today — will only have a 12% share of the server market — 11% in revenue — by 1997 , by which time Unix should have 64% , 62% by value . |
| 29 | It says Windows NT will only have a 12% share of the server market — 11% in revenue — by 1997 , by which time Unix should have 64% , or 62% by value . |
| 30 | The important thing to note is that such words will only have a value charge as part of their standard meaning , if the users of the language mostly have a certain shared attitude to what answers to the descriptive meaning . |