Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you think it is about that 's sort of helped this shop survive for so many years . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't count on too many incidents like that , ’ she laughed . |
| 3 | I can think of very few occasions when you would not have the time to state your case . |
| 4 | People are avoided if they are likely to be at all stressful ; phone-calls go unreturned ; even social events that would normally be pleasurable and fun may feel like yet more demands on a person 's time . |
| 5 | They believe moves to tighten the gun laws even further could result in even more firearms flooding the black market . |
| 6 | Nottinghamshire SSD has reacted angrily to an Appeal Court judgement which it says will result in far more children being taken into care throughout the country . |
| 7 | If firms incur fixed costs , a free-entry zero-profit equilibrium may result in too many firms operating with high average costs . |
| 8 | An SSR can refer to as many modules as required , although additional modules can only be added to the end of the list . |
| 9 | Marryat 's readers would bring at least some associations and some understanding to this piece of special pleading . |
| 10 | The finding suggests that vaccination against the virus might prevent at least some cases of Hodgkin 's disease , which attacks 1500 Britons yearly ( The Lancet , vol 337 , p 320 ) . |
| 11 | There are a number of reasons for breaking the existing cycle , and replacing it with a system in which people would work for so many hours a month , not necessarily as many as at present . |
| 12 | Insignia Solutions Ltd , High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , is reminding the world that in the early days of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , all anyone will be able to use in it is Insignia 's SoftPC — integrated within NT to provide the MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows emulation environment that must suffice for almost all users until 32-bit applications come along — in the version of NT that supports the R-series and Alpha chips , Insignia emulates the iAPX-86 CPU and other hardware including graphics boards , disk controllers and floppy disk drives . |
| 13 | Insignia Solutions Ltd , High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , is reminding the world that in the early days of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , all anyone will be able to use in it is Insignia 's SoftPC — integrated within NT to provide the MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows emulation environment that must suffice for almost all users until 32-bit applications come along — in the version of NT that supports the R-series and Alpha chips , Insignia emulates the iAPX-86 CPU and other hardware including graphics boards , disk controllers and floppy disk drives . |
| 14 | I can conceive of very few matrons who would entrust their menfolk to such temptation . ’ |
| 15 | The Council of Ministers could not function with so many interests present , and many of its powers would have to be shifted to central EEC institutions . |
| 16 | We 'd better move before too many questions are asked . ’ |
| 17 | They will apply to almost all workplaces . |
| 18 | In order that the hypothetical choice of loans offered to them would have at least some roots in people 's own experience , the size of the loan was in each case matched to the size of loan which people said they would consider taking out in practice . |
| 19 | ‘ So we are going to bring all the plants that they do n't want over here more rushes and sedges and aquatic plants to diversify the habitat . ’ |
| 20 | These problems concerning the identification of a settlement and a settlor are important with regard to nearly all settlements . |
| 21 | Because it can not cope with so many messages , its only recourse is to sabotage the airwaves themselves . |
| 22 | They are herded here and there , and I do n't think she can cope with so many children . |
| 23 | You might think that combining all these things into one aircraft could lead to so many compromises that the result would be little short of disaster . |
| 24 | When you leave your job , you will probably save at least several pounds a week . |
| 25 | I do n't play at as many events as I used to but I still enjoy playing my musical instruments and entertaining people . |
| 26 | As the project will last for so many years , temporary improvements are constantly being made to the estate . |
| 27 | I hope that we are never foolish enough to take what it does for granted — because that is when it will begin to crumble and fail like so many others have done . |
| 28 | This period will start with still more doubts and uncertainties , and you have to make a choice that will prove decisive in shaping your destiny . |
| 29 | It was subsequently noticed that the corresponding Corporation cars and the ex-Gravesend cars which ran on Brill 22E bogies did not suffer from so many derailments , even though the bogies of the latter were reversed . |
| 30 | He turned back to the frying-pan , and she wondered how anyone could make her hackles rise with so few words . |