Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd much rather get involved that way than just stand about watching . |
| 2 | They may well be cumulative , since poorer groups can less easily afford to bear any organization costs , whereas the wealthy can meet similar costs easily . |
| 3 | It occurs to me now that the man might just possibly have meant this in a humorous sort of way ; that is to say , he intended it as a bantering remark . |
| 4 | This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could . |
| 5 | You can usually then begin to see some kind of crazy logic in them . |
| 6 | His next letter produced this bombshell — something new out of Africa indeed : ‘ I 've often wondered if I 'd ever actually have to write this … |
| 7 | However , because of the increased numbers of applicants applying to polytechnics in the past few years , it will most probably decide to implement such a scheme . |
| 8 | We should also especially like to thank those who have provided essential feedback , through participation in seminars , questionnaires , and interviews , which will enable us to ensure that general SVQs are a truly relevant and worthwhile qualification . |
| 9 | You will probably also want to fit some kind of thermostatic control . |
| 10 | and er , which we finished , and I would really just like to say that erm , thanks very much for the cooperation that we received from the offices generally across the authority . |
| 11 | She wore a wedding ring , but she could surely never have had any children of her own . |
| 12 | A control freak might be interesting to play around with , he was thinking , especially in his weakened condition — get her so far along , and then she 'd almost certainly want to do all the work . |
| 13 | As you read of the great virtues of dietary fibre in the prevention of illness you will almost certainly want to introduce more fibre in the general family diet . |
| 14 | The government will almost certainly have to do some unpopular things to the welfare state . |
| 15 | A further point which suggests that these provisions , if not actually written in his reign , were in any event written not long after his death is the fact that the medrese attached to the mosque of Bayezid II in Edirne , completed in 893/1488 and of higher rank than the Sahn , would almost certainly have received some mention in any such provisions written subsequent to that date . |
| 16 | Observational surveys by Tombaugh , Kowal and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) would almost certainly have revealed another Pluto or larger planet , but their failure to do so has not stopped many predictions from being made , including two more in just the past year . |
| 17 | It should also be noted that breaches tend to have a ‘ ripple effect ’ and that a practitioner who does not fully understand his obligations has only to proffer one piece of investment advice ( which may in itself be perfectly sound ) and he will almost certainly have breached several regulations in the process . |
| 18 | As he listened with mounting alarm he began to realise that the flames would almost certainly have reduced some of the world 's finest baroque woodcarving to lumps of featureless charcoal . |
| 19 | A lot of worthy efforts , from a Tory viewpoint , but creating more controversy than popular support : in a political context which may no longer fail to penalise such cavalier indifference to the priorities of the masses . |
| 20 | Marxism 's inability to deal with the political interventions of other oppositional groups has meant that its History can no longer claim to subsume all processes of change . |
| 21 | It was a great relief that they would no longer have to scheme some way of getting Anna out , at the right moment , while he himself was touring somewhere . |
| 22 | ‘ Pakistan can no longer afford to continue this British romantic tradition of the tribal areas . |
| 23 | We can no longer afford to have any high faluting ideas . |
| 24 | I said , ‘ I 'd very much like to see some of her work . ’ |
| 25 | Coun Mrs Harker said : ‘ I would very much like to see more speed limits on all the roads coming into West Auckland . |
| 26 | I 'd very much like to borrow that shirt sometime . |
| 27 | Glimpsed working up a sweat were designer JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER , HOOKY and the OTHER TWO from New Order , CHRISTOPHER QUENTIN and hiding in the gloom was a small figure in a baseball cap with his hands in his pockets … a man Carter would very much like to have half an hour with … a man who went unnoticed due to the abundance of facial hair under his proboscis … yes , it was the rocking grandad himself , MICK JAGGER ! |
| 28 | Although we did very sincerely attempt to treat all four children alike , we soon realised that in fairness we would have to modify that intention . |
| 29 | ‘ I do trust you , and I do love you , though perhaps I 'd never really have found that out without this test . |
| 30 | Financial or other support given to sufferers from addictive disease by well-meaning family or friends will therefore simply tend to enable more drug or alcohol consumption . |