Example sentences of "[subord] [det] [noun pl] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not suggested that any but a small proportion of private homes are like this , but where such conditions do occur , it indicates that the vetting , registration and monitoring procedures are failing . |
| 2 | Rather where such cases do occur it is because the health and social care system can not provide the type of care these patients need . |
| 3 | Where such projects did produce their ‘ fair return ’ ( a minimum of 5 per cent ) , their tenants were drawn from the relatively prosperous upper working class of artisans , and not from the truly indigent for whom they were intended . |
| 4 | Although some dogs do adapt if they have a very placid nature , the majority carry real scars — and I 'm afraid leaving her for eight-hour stretches certainly is n't helping . |
| 5 | The proclamation of George as King in August 1714 provoked little discontent , although some observers did notice that the celebrating was not that extensive either . |
| 6 | Although some patients do attend with a letter from their GP , many prefer to come directly to the clinic , as this saves time and possible embarrassment if they would rather that their family doctor did n't know about the particular problem . |
| 7 | It does , however , show clearly that when assessing suffering it is important to have a framework that goes beyond the narrow concerns of selective or functional assessment approaches , although such approaches do have some value in distinguishing between ‘ appropriate ’ and ‘ inappropriate ’ suffering . |
| 8 | Where possible , some overlap of working between the staff employed in the old and new locations can help to ease this difficulty although such arrangements do present their own problems in terms of transporting staff to and from the old or new buildings . |
| 9 | But although these figures do tell us how few families had a grandparent in their own home , they can be misleading . |
| 10 | Although many firms do continue to diversify , there has been a growing mood against conglomerates and away from the notion that diversification was an automatic virtue and an inescapable trend , views which were accepted by most people in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 11 | The inevitability of the process can be hard to accept and it 's normal to have these feelings , although many women do like the sense that they have relinquished control . |
| 12 | What I do mean is that although most women do hope for a happy and loving relationship with their husbands , the attainment of this is not the purpose of marriage . |
| 13 | At this stage perhaps I can emphasize Jan this is such a flexible concept that er we are anxious not to lay down any rigid rules as to how it works because if some things do n't work very well , they can be altered and if some things do prove to work well like the event we had at Felixstowe we can build on that success so quite consciously we 're not laying down any rigid rules as to how things go and we will look to review how officers we , we erm advise you as members in the light of practical experience . |
| 14 | If such problems do occur it will be necessary to reduce the fish numbers , getting rid of the excess to friends or neighbours who have a pond , or , if you can make the necessary arrangements , to a local aquatic shop . |
| 15 | I told the European Council that , if such occasions did arise , we should consider the case for majority voting on its merits . |
| 16 | We return to this point directly , but must first remark that , even if these adjectives do modify the verb , they certainly do not have the status of adverbs . |
| 17 | Even if these differences did tell us something about differences in attention to ‘ objectivity ’ , this would not necessarily be the same as attainment of ‘ objectivity ’ , as we saw above in relation to ‘ academic language ’ . |
| 18 | I feel that we must take it almost immediately , because if those bricks do go , we 're going to have a major . |
| 19 | If most members did want a director general for the Institute , then their wishes should obviously prevail . |
| 20 | It would not be possible to talk of error of law at all unless such elements did have a ‘ given ’ meaning because , says Gould , such language implies a departure from a criterion laid down by the courts . |
| 21 | Finally , because the examination is set on knowledge and abilities required for secondary school entry , and because all children do aspire to such entry , it forces teachers to cover material with their pupils whether they are able to understand it or not ; the very antithesis of sound pedagogy . |
| 22 | While some schools did evaluate in committee the development of the library in the context of the project — and it is clear that developments in pedagogy were attributed at least partly to the project — we were not made aware of any which specifically monitored the number of times children and teachers borrowed or read books purchased specifically with project funds . |
| 23 | But since some writers do seem to have an aversion to the hyphen — just as they have lost the art of splitting words in the logical places ( tran-sport , winds-creen , ins-pector , screwd-river , etc ) — let them run them together for clarity . |
| 24 | While these visions did appear . ’ |
| 25 | Since most women did marry , most teenage girls assumed that they would do so and that they would give up work then . |
| 26 | The question before me is whether these assignments did have their intended effect for compensation purposes . |
| 27 | However , this generalization hides the fact that many areas of the countryside are actually traversed by good main roads , even though some areas do lie well away from major transport networks . |
| 28 | This is largely true , though some artists do use ‘ body colour ’ occasionally , especially solid white to give that additional accent such as highlights and sparkles of light on water which sometimes give the same results as scratching out . |
| 29 | Secondly , even when some paths did have to be pursued in parallel because their scores were above the threshold , the finite-state arrangement of hypotheses restricted the candidates for any particular slot , and cut short the combinatorics through backwards pruning ( Fig. 9.2 , point A ) . |
| 30 | But when such circumstances do arise , questions with respect to the appropriate procedure to be followed in requiring drivers to provide specimens of blood or urine have given rise to some difficulties in the courts and it is to the resolution of those questions that this appeal is directed . |