Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [det] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not intend to rehearse at length — the opportunity for that will come tomorrow — the powerful arguments , financial and practical , which would support the abolition of this rule at the earliest possible date . |
| 2 | However , as a strategic planning authority , it is through the Structure Plan process that it can influence the protection of natural resources such as peat lands , and the opportunity for this will arise in the current review of the Plan which will be available for public consultation in the New Year . |
| 3 | He was not seduced , although his excuse for this would have been much better than most , by the politically widespread enthusiasm for the alternative of his old friend Halifax . |
| 4 | Some support for this might come from the archaeological evidence , which attests Kenchester 's increasing importance through time . |
| 5 | Much of the responsibility for this will rest with health authorities who will play the key role in demonstration projects recently announced by the Government . |
| 6 | It 's thought that a lot of the spending money for these would have come from redundancy payments when people lost their jobs . |
| 7 | If a fragment is stuck badly , a solvent should be used to loosen it again , but it is advisable not to use force for this may result in fresh breaks . |
| 8 | The restriction of membership to regular workers means that less than one in seven private sector union members are women and the bulk of these will cease to be members when they follow the convention of ‘ retirement ’ to child raising by the age of 30 . |
| 9 | As for colourful flowers , many of the world 's bulbs grow in hot dry habitats and a succession of these will provide star quality in every season . |
| 10 | The sufficiency of this must depend on circumstances , as , for example , the ramifications and complexities of the transaction , the amount of deception practised by the husband upon his wife and the intelligence and business understanding of the woman . |
| 11 | The two members , Simmel emphasized , are interdependent , for ‘ the secession of either would destroy the whole ’ social unit , and its ‘ affective structure is based on what each of the two participants gives or shows only to the one other person and to nobody else ’ . |
| 12 | The effect of this would have been to transfer responsibility for venue decisions from the magistrates to the prosecution , while preserving the defendant 's right to opt for jury trial . |
| 13 | The effect of this may have been beneficial to some of the British potters , especially in Oxfordshire where good quality imitations of provincial samian vessels were produced . |
| 14 | ‘ The effect of this will fall much more on less mainstream client groups , by which I mean drug and alcohol misusers , and highly physically disabled people ’ . |
| 15 | I hope that figure is right er , I have to confess that I have not added it up and er the copy that I have , the five and the nine could be mistaken for other figures , but I hope that there the right figures to that must be added first the general damages a calculation which like all by other calculations need to be carefully checked , I would er calculate the interest on general damages to date would be five thousand , two hundred and seven pounds future care totals six hundred and twelve thousand , five hundred and seventeen pounds suitable accommodation , seventy one thousand , one hundred and fifty two pounds , transport costs thirty nine thousand , eight hundred and sixty six pounds , that makes a total of one million , two hundred and six thousand , three hundred and thirty eight pounds that is the amount which I would be minding to award , I understand that the parties in the light of that would wish to have further discussions about the matter |
| 16 | To write a biography of another can involve one in autobiography . |
| 17 | Moore suggests that recognition of this may open our minds to the possibility that there is a plurality of goods . |
| 18 | ‘ A boat like this can carry a lot of food and drink . ’ |
| 19 | If they give you an equation like this let's say the weight you 're making up a a load for a lorry and you 're putting erm crates on with car engines in , and the car engine weighs erm I du n no say it weighs a hundred kilograms . |
| 20 | If a flagrant oversight like this could occur it says little for the prospects of men of lowly status being correctly recorded . |
| 21 | A Health and Safety Executive spokesman said : ‘ Research like this can help us take steps to reduce the risk of a mistake being made that could have catastrophic consequences . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ However bad a crime like that might seem to people , in the great scheme of things , when there are 55,000 murders each year in the US , that is not the sort of crime that should be getting the death penalty . |
| 23 | Only someone like her would be able to receive it and only a figure like that could understand the pain of it and yet also discern , beneath the scum of the surface , the beauties and longings which eddied in a clearer or cleaner current within him . |
| 24 | Yeah , scrub the switch up that 'll do for a change , paint it black inside the hose thing . |
| 25 | Oh well , perhaps I did n't put enough tea in that 'll do |
| 26 | The SAD working group suggested that the development of options depended on clarification of the responsibilities between health Boards and local authorities — perhaps we have to await Griffiths and the NHS Review before this can happen conclusively . |
| 27 | If training succeeds in raising the " operating intelligence " in a broader way , then the spin-off from this will have benefits elsewhere . |
| 28 | Perhaps they had thought such a warning from one soldier to another might have seemed an impertinence . |
| 29 | Well I mean if they 've got the key to both might have n't decided on both of them you might as well go and see them . |
| 30 | That the party actually increased its vote by half will come as a surprise to any reader relying solely on Wilson 's article . |