Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE devastating flames that swept through Windsor Castle did not simply damage part of Britain 's heritage . |
| 2 | The 12,000 crowd expected in Sheffield will be the largest the Coopers have ever played in front of but the publicity that would accompany Olympic success for Great Britain could make Ian into hockey 's first Gazza-figure . |
| 3 | There were hand-outs on ‘ Cruelty Free ’ cosmetics , positively promoting cosmetic companies who did not drip shampoo into rabbits ' eyes in what I knew was called the Draize Test for irritancy . |
| 4 | Mrs Turpin did not know Bernard of Clairvaux 's observation , that the first step into pride is comparison , and the subsequent steps lead into a self-focused life . |
| 5 | Examples of such studies might include aspects of Marcuse 's One Dimensional Man ( 1964 ) , the earlier work of Lukács ( 1971 ) , Barthes 's Mythologies ( 1973 ) , Lasch 's The Culture of Narcissism ( 1979 ) , and studies by Ewen and Ewen ( 1982 ) and Haug ( 1986 ) . |
| 6 | This special pleading is , no doubt , partly emotional but it might very well include reference to children 's lack of knowledge and understanding . |
| 7 | Erm I think of the heroines that we 've studied , Emily also perhaps we could include Matilda from Attranto erm , Maude from Uncle Silas Helen Huntingdon from Wildfowl Hall , and Helena , I would say , not Rosa Budd , she 's not in this tradition |
| 8 | Erm , if we 're not allowing nerve tissue to be used in the feedstuffs of cattle , because we suspect that it might be carried in that , and therefore being transmitted to live , er , one species to another , how is it now we can buy chops with nerve ti tissue in it ? |
| 9 | And although we may concentrate attention on teachers ' socially regulated selves , " their own descriptions of their feelings about pupils , and their relationships with them and with their colleagues remind us that the regressive , passionate and unruly aspects of human nature are always present in the classroom and may sometimes escape from rational control " ( 1989 : 203 ) . |
| 10 | French leaders would humbly seek absolution for Pompidou 's awful error in failing to attend Persepolis , and seek contracts for nuclear power stations . |
| 11 | They have their local medicine and the witch doctors try and cure them of their diseases first so they would even bore holes into people 's skulls to let the spirits out for headaches and things like that . |
| 12 | We and our EC partners have repeatedly made it clear that we will not recognise changes in Yugoslavia 's internal borders unless they are brought about by peaceful negotiation . |
| 13 | Cleo realised she was frightened , but if there was the slightest possibility she could catch sight of Inky 's shade , she was prepared to risk whatever might happen over the next few hours . |
| 14 | This , China claimed , amounted to " direct interference in China 's internal affairs " . |
| 15 | Once the sun goes down you can enjoy dinner in Maravilla 's own restaurant , then sip cocktails and listen to music in the Honolulu Bar . |
| 16 | They may include destruction of parents ' belongings , stealing money to buy friendship , truanting to avoid failure at school , ‘ heart-broken ’ sobbing to ward off punishment , snatching toys from other children , telling lies to avoid punishment . |
| 17 | Gravelle ( 1985 ) points to an implicit assumption which , when relaxed , gives rise to one of them : " that either no managerial effort is required to reduce costs or that such effort does not yield disutility to managers ' ( p. 115 ) . |
| 18 | As shown in Figure 5 , treatment with cyclosporin A ( 5 or 10 mg/kg for eight days ) did not affect synthesis of prostaglandin E2 , 6k prostaglandin F1a , and thromboxane B2 by pancreatic tissue ex vivo . |
| 19 | If the Government are concerned about public expenditure and court time , will they make offences under section 12(1) of the 1968 Act indictable , rather than purely summary , offences for people who are making a second or subsequent court appearances ? |
| 20 | TREVOR Francis is convinced his Sheffield Wednesday team will beat Arsenal in Thursday 's FA Cup final replay after finishing the stronger side during extra-time in the 1–1 deadlock . |
| 21 | ‘ Exactly , and it did n't improve matters from Alfred 's point of view when he discovered that she was already a couple of months pregnant by Matthew when she married him . ’ |
| 22 | In particular , the international projection of nationally-headquartered firms ' corporate identity is a vexed issue : Siegel & Gale 's new survey of 50 leading Hungarian companies , for example , found that if all of them believed that a company 's image was important to building sales , most would also rather do business with German 's sharply-etched Volkswagen that with fuzzy French concerns . |
| 23 | ‘ Why bring things to people 's attention unless they 've noticed ? ’ she asks . |
| 24 | The marking should give credit for children 's grasp of meaning and allow ‘ positive ’ errors to be distinguished from ‘ negative ’ . |
| 25 | They actually did send teams of people erm , nuclear scientists to Chernobyl to try and get just how much damage was being caused and going on being caused , but there was , I think you probably do n't remember because it went right by |
| 26 | Potentially it can accommodate variations in pupils ' affective responses and can enable the observer to differentiate between ‘ Hawthorne ’ effects and more permanent phenomena . |
| 27 | Webber 's job was to locate any pitfalls in the concept which might give substance to Wilson 's original ‘ maybe ’ about the show . |
| 28 | The model used to allocate traffic between competing services is , however , very sensitive to relative prices , so , one would expect increases in Eurotunnel 's costs to give rise to a lower market share and hence to lower revenues . |
| 29 | Can I say to the honourable gentleman , why does n't he give encouragement to Britain 's performance in the financial services sector ? |
| 30 | The annual report should also give information on directors ' remuneration and the cost of non-audit services provided by the auditor . |