Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] and [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then goes on to list and classify a lengthy and diverse list : visions , dreams , voices , discussions , parables , speeches , proverbs , rituals , laws , songs , drama , poetry , letters , ciphers , anthologies , history , records and stories , and for each he gives chapter and verse . |
| 2 | If it is a loss of earnings the court has only to ascertain and add up the net earnings lost , and if it is loss caused by out-of-pocket expenditure the court has only to ascertain and add up the total expenditure . |
| 3 | If it is a loss of earnings the court has only to ascertain and add up the net earnings lost , and if it is loss caused by out-of-pocket expenditure the court has only to ascertain and add up the total expenditure . |
| 4 | What makes her set-up different is that husband Roland is also an accountant with his own practice , and they have developed a symbiotic business relationship that allows both to work and share in organising the family . |
| 5 | Section 3 describes how to maintain and change LIFESPAN processes . |
| 6 | Bob Gledhill outlines how to recognise and maintain quality cutlery without forking out a fortune |
| 7 | He tends not to formulate and face the difficulties that he encounters sufficiently rigorously , and erm to on the whole get away with difficulties by the skilful way in which he writes about them and by his wit . |
| 8 | Talk by lecturers of students developing their critical abilities is just cant when students are obliged to adopt atomistic and surface approaches just to assimilate and reproduce the course content , and where they are expected to spend many hours every day in the laboratory or to complete an essay every week , and to sit ten or more 3-hour papers in 2 weeks . |
| 9 | It is almost inherent in the nature of the passions and the acts we are concerned with that feeling overcomes or ceases directly to control and regulate action . |
| 10 | The mobility of city life , with its increase in the number and intensity of stimulations , tends inevitably to confuse and demoralize the person . |
| 11 | The fourth : the shops are half-empty but everyone finds enough to eat and clothe themselves with . |
| 12 | ‘ It all boils down to supply and demand , ’ he explained . |
| 13 | But whereas the Demoiselles is a stylistically disjunctive painting , here each figure seems simply to qualify and reaffirm the properties and existence of her neighbours . |
| 14 | In theory , the Ministry of Education welcomed schools which it did not have to pay for and in which the instructors — student volunteers — confined themselves to teaching adult illiterates how to read and write . |
| 15 | Bub , an army vet , vaguely remembers how to salute and shoot — but he also responds in some physical way to books and Beethoven , learning how to operate the controls of a Walkman ( again , the actor 's contribution ) . |
| 16 | This serves only to confirm and reinforce the illness . |
| 17 | They illustrate some of the problems the policeman/anthropologist faces when he sets out to describe and interpret police culture , for he must — if the ethnography is to count — reveal hidden aspects of the relationships of power which are an integral aspect of this institution of state . |
| 18 | It 's a system which sets out to restore and maintain good health by inserting needles into specific points on the surface of your skin . |
| 19 | With the authority and control characteristic of the highly acclaimed Headway course , Headway Advanced sets out to clarify and resolve those areas of language which remain problematic for advanced students , and which present a barrier to the fluency and accuracy they seek . |
| 20 | Project Galileo ( it was actually the Polish astronomer Copernicus who first proposed that planets , including the Earth , orbit the Sun ) sets out to define and develop an overlay for current graphical user interfaces that operates and behaves the same way , regardless of which operating system and hardware lies underneath , providing a common working environment . |
| 21 | Criticism of the phenomenological approach to RE was given in Chapter 4 , particularly on the grounds that in practice it tends to lose touch with much of the religion it sets out to understand and include . |
| 22 | An understanding of ‘ mass ’ in choreographic terms only means how to organise and manipulate the dancers within that mass of objects . |
| 23 | The demanding processing requirements imply very fast , high performance computers , probably equipped with special chip sets either to compress and decompress the fast-changing , high volume information flows or to digitise sources of information drawn into the multimedia environment which are not initially in digital form . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't mind more work , ’ Anna said , ‘ but I have to confess that my heart does rather quail and fail at the thought of three times as much French jacquard-weaving machinery specifications to translate as I have already . ’ |
| 25 | The procedure does not generate and enter the desired structure . |
| 26 | The reason why ( to answer an old critical fallacy ) he does not go and ask Desdemona whether she is Cassio 's lover is that , by the end of this scene , he no longer believe what she — or anyone but Iago — would tell him . |
| 27 | Whose heart does not leap and travel as far , |
| 28 | But for certain reasons , which I will mention presently , we do n't want to use it ; so we pretend that it does not exist and hope that no one will be guilty of such bad taste as to refer to it . ) |
| 29 | I also , I also actually said that a co a country that does not promote and sustain its cultural heritage in the widest sense of its world w in a word e er i is a country without a history and if you lose your social history and your culture , then you ca n't progress |
| 30 | But if there is a particularly wet season and its lake does not shrink and dry , then its larvae retain their feathery gills . |