Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [det] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen , for instance , that the magnitude of transaction costs in the market for control may shield all but the most egregious cases of management failure . |
| 2 | Senior professors at our university , for example , may earn less than the staff at the nearby Westernised hotel and considerably less than the street corner cobblers or entrepreneur peasants , but they get massive banquets and use of the university 's chauffeur-driven cars . |
| 3 | An established hebe may survive all but the worst winters , but a young plant may succumb to moderately severe weather . |
| 4 | This stress on will — " loke what wil is for in al " ( 70r. – 205 ) — is an aspect of the concern he expresses in Mixed Life for the importance of a " continuel desire to God " and in Scale 1 ( 22.295b. – 95 ) for a " hole and a stable entencoun " to please God which must underly all that the anchoress does . |
| 5 | And they must do that as the possibility increases that they might be sucked into a wider Balkans war . |
| 6 | The Chelsea Flower Show is probably not the most obvious place to pick up a bargain — lead lions rampant and Medici urns atop Corinthian columns must cost more than the Governor of the Bank of England earns in a week to transport there , let alone purchase . |
| 7 | Sotheby 's Harry Dalmeny said : ‘ You ca n't estimate the price of notoriety , his Military Cross and other medals may fetch more than the £2,000 we estimated . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll keep this unless the police want it . |
| 9 | As there were cars to spare , if one was found with a defect , for which a replacement part might cost more than the cost of a licence , it was withdrawn particularly if the route on which it worked was nearing its closure . |
| 10 | The young man put two half crowns and two pennies on the counter , saying as he did so , ‘ We 'll take more than the sweets away with us tonight . |
| 11 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |
| 12 | Similar to ( age-related ) personal allowance , the married couple 's age-related increases are subject to a couple 's income so it is possible that they might get less than the full addition — or maybe nothing extra at all . |
| 13 | If an established pair is subjected to the presence of a new animal their compatibility may become less and the interaction mode may regress to one of the earlier behavioural stages . |
| 14 | Gail Adshed , 18 , student ( right ) : ‘ I 'd buy all but the tights . ’ |
| 15 | When the puffer-fish escapes the jaws of the moray eel by inflating itself , we think , ‘ Perhaps I could do that when the moray eel comes for me ’ . |
| 16 | Secondly , it allowed them to make virtue out of a necessity by pushing law and order once more ideologically centre-stage as another area where the individual could do more than the State . |
| 17 | As she walked to it , Huy wished that he could see more than the slit in the dress revealed . |
| 18 | She could put all but the most essential tasks off until the next day , or the next , and did it all the time . |
| 19 | Females were particularly vulnerable in the ‘ falling in love craze ’ and could suffer more than the males as a result of their romantic encounters . |
| 20 | Old binders can still be found at farm sales , but few are in good working order and spare parts and canvases may cost more than the machines themselves . |
| 21 | A number of software vendors such as Bitstream , Adobe and Microsoft themselves can supply extra fonts but they may cost more than the budget user can afford . |
| 22 | It is widely known that the new repository will run on AIX and OS/2 , but it may surprise many that the thing is also up under OS/400 as well as on Ultrix , HP-UX and Solaris and that IBM has funded development work internally for it to appear on these non-IBM versions . |
| 23 | The club night is very much part of ’ talking DJ ’ dance culture , with Pete winding the audience up , making dedications over the PA and observations that would make all but the most committed sexist cringe ’ Hello ! |
| 24 | Independent control of water supplies to individual sections would facilitate this and the flexibility and effectiveness of the extinguishing system would be further improved if zones could be triggered by remote manual means linked into the automatic system and terminating at the same point as isolation valves and of venting controls . |
| 25 | A compromise on this issue , they wrote , would damage all that the French Republic has stood for since the Revolution . |
| 26 | The metal would withstand all but the most concentrated laser fire . |
| 27 | On the other hand , you do n't produce something like this in a week and the time taken would deter all but the most committed workshop man . |
| 28 | The only constraint on attempts to acquire a larger budget is that it would cost more than the total value to the politicians of the service , the value of additional output being zero . |
| 29 | ‘ The only kind of central heating possible would be solid fuel and to install it would cost more than the cottage is worth . ’ |
| 30 | The report argues that such environmental subsidies would cost less than the sum earmarked by the Ministry of Agriculture for this year 's CAP , the administration of the proposed scheme being facilitated by the CPRE 's knowledge of the state of Britain 's farmland . |