Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [det] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ Merrill said weakly , ‘ we 'll think about that when the time comes . ’ |
| 2 | It is characteristic of the novel that climate and vegetation should count for no less than its comedy of manners , in which the Jewish businessman Harry de Tunja plays an enjoyable part , and that neither of these two elements , so far as they can be distinguished from the rest of the novel , should count for less than the opinions which they help to convey . |
| 3 | No it 's not it 's qu it 's quite disgraceful and nobody would approve of that and the co th th th th the Army if they got hold of anybody on that basis , they would court martial them immediately and they 'd be very severely dealt with . |
| 4 | The marginality they experience within the force might lead them to exaggerate their job satisfaction , but this cuts both ways , for the unpopularity of community relations among many ordinary members of the RUC guarantees it will not appeal to any but the committed , and section duties already afford the work-shy many opportunities to hide . |
| 5 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 6 | Seb did not doubt at all that the man riding Vulcan was Meredith Putt , even though he had been masked . |
| 7 | Where lead pipe is used for the rising main , it may also contaminate the drinking water — particularly in a soft water area — but there is not much you can do about this since the supply pipe into the house is also likely to be lead and this is difficult and expensive to replace . |
| 8 | If we 're going to increase nursery provision , we 've got to do it by putting , putting money where our mouths are , huh , putting our money where perhaps some Conservative government peoples ' mouths are as well , and they 're all very keen to will the ends but they 're not so keen to will the means , anyway this is the means , there 's a million pounds here erm , next year we we effect , and other members can speak about that and the work that they first have erm , I do notice that , that the latest report from the erm commission on on education and the book we all had to read does give us this first priority , er provision in nursery education particularly in areas , er deprived areas . |
| 9 | It would appear from this that the bone assemblages derived from the long-eared owl and barn owl ( and other species , see below ) are but little altered by the predator , whereas the kestrel assemblages are more greatly altered . |
| 10 | The infant Elizabeth will learn that being promised a sweet for behaving herself will result in more than the mere probability of its arrival ; the penny will have dropped when she realises that a promise entitles her to the reward — it is her due , to which she has a right . |
| 11 | You should not smoke at all unless the interviewer positively invites you to do so . |
| 12 | This is a problem for plants because they already have fewer daylight hours in which to manufacture their food , and can not grow at all if the temperature falls below 6 degrees Celsius . |
| 13 | It will then remain like this until the circuit is Set by making S = 1 whereupon Q will become 1 and . |
| 14 | It did not follow from this that the confession should therefore be excluded , however . |
| 15 | the written transcript will only be used in preference to the tape if neither prosecution nor defence sees any advantage in playing it , but it does not necessarily follow from this that the tape discloses nothing more than the transcript . |
| 16 | It does not follow from this that the beneficiary himself can not sue , for if he holds the chattels he seems to have joint possession with the trustee . |
| 17 | Mere are many ways in which governments and their supporters can prevent these methods from being effective , but they can not work at all if the opposition has no real procedural opportunity to apply real scrutiny , nor if its efforts do not arouse the media of information and public opinion . |
| 18 | Too much need not be made of this , and the Roman calendar will suffice for all but the quite rarest occasions . |
| 19 | So we must at least conclude from this that the purposes for which ordinary people wanted political democracy , or the vote , have not yet been completely fulfilled by any means . |
| 20 | So perhaps in some ways er we would deduce from this that the the motive of the revolutionaries in sixty eight was in perhaps to some extent to complete what had been started in seventeen eighty nine but not finished and somebody would , Clinton presumably he would say I 'm gon na complete the programme that John F Kennedy started , but was unable to finish because the tragic way in which his career was ended . |
| 21 | He wrote a book expounding 1 Corinthians 7 to imply that the apostle was not really defending marriage , since his arguments fatally conceded that it was not the most perfect state for the believer , and no true believer could aspire to less than the perfection to which God called . |
| 22 | Caspar , who distrusted most magic on principle , thought that probably nothing would happen at all and the evening would end as so many evenings were ending lately ; with the heating of the squares and the terrible screaming of the victims . |
| 23 | You could go to all where the King , King Teddy owns you know . |
| 24 | Sam was also a masterly shepherd and an expert breeder of Swaledale sheep , a most hardy animal which roams at will along the high fells and can live through all but the most brutal winters , even possessing the stamina to survive being buried for days under several feel of snow , so long as there is an air hole . |
| 25 | It would seem from this that the issue of whether the representation has become a term of the contract can not be avoided , especially if the buyer seeks compensation for loss of profits since expectation damages are linked to breach of contract . |
| 26 | One must add to this that the limitations to an experiment often lie in the performance of transducers , and the experimentalist should always be on the alert for new possibilities . |
| 27 | The presumption probably only operates where the conveyancing history of the land is unknown , and may not operate at all where the land in question is part of a building estate ( Giles v County Building Constructors ( Hertford ) Ltd ( 1971 ) 22 P & CR 978 ) . |
| 28 | Cabra , in which Bates has a stake of nearly 30 per cent , may settle for less than the £22.8 million if it takes into account other shareholders in its subsidiary company SB Properties , which owns the football ground . |
| 29 | After all , why settle for less than the very best ? |
| 30 | If not , should heads settle for less than the whole of their ideal or keep on pressing their colleagues ? |