Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He accepts as-if legal rights in that spirit and for reasons of strategy will make mostly the same decisions a conventionalist would make when statutes are plain or precedents crisp and decisive . |
2 | Therefore , I would see from a public point of view a substantial expenditure on this subject and I do n't think necessarily a level cuts from county planners . |
3 | There is , however , no clear one-to-one relationship between discourse type and sender and receiver , and for many words denoting discourse type ( song , for example , or article ) we can make only the vaguest connections . |
4 | His description of the recovery of a Hunter over a Swiss airshow served as another graphic reminder that a performance should emphasize the aircraft 's character but should utilize only the established skills of the pilot — and should never require his super-human efforts to get out of a situation . |
5 | Here we can consider only the final versions . |
6 | This should need only a few turns |
7 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
8 | But now the old paternalism began to reassert itself , determined that whatever shackles had been placed around the BBC should also tie down the commercial companies . |
9 | We can now consider individually the different methods of incorporation . |
10 | Even the currently flourishing Pinnacle Distribution did a kamikaze act just a few years ago , decimating the indie scene . |
11 | So he hired a lorry , bribed the demolition men to let him cart away the finest doorcases , moulded corner cupboards , cornices and chimney pieces and stored them in a London County Council Historic Buildings warehouse at his own expense . |
12 | While managers will pursue broadly the same tasks , they will do so in an increasing variety of ways . |
13 | No , let's concentrate not the spectacular disasters — the dysentery and drug busts — but the everyday , inherent hellishness of the holiday perse . |
14 | It might be possible , using the latest technology , to build a computer today that could put scores on a million positions a second ; such a machine would need more the 30 years to look five moves ahead . |
15 | It is sometimes very difficult indeed not to be very cross , and there have been some occasions when I have had to go and chop up a few logs in order to abate my own aggression before replying . |
16 | Why do n't you count up the French words in italics and see how many you can learn by heart . |
17 | I shall discuss later the theoretical objections to technological determinism ; Goody in any case recognises the dangers and in a later essay himself rejects such determinism , refuting the claims that this is what he was doing . |
18 | We could hang up a few politicians too. , ‘ There 's that farmer who used a plough with horses . |
19 | to develop a microcomputer-based information retrieval system for use in secondary schools that will demonstrate realistically the basic principles of information storage and retrieval and at the same time serve as a practical system which can be used in the classroom to locate teaching and research materials ; |
20 | Once this is accepted we can seek out the logical consistencies in contextual use which constitute ‘ structural principles ’ and which make sense of otherwise apparently baffling practices and beliefs . |
21 | Do n't be concerned with the feeling that nothing is " sinking in " but do try and seek out the main points . |
22 | The woman is looking me straight in the eyes , Alida thought , she does not know even the basic elements of courtesy , she has paid no attention at all to the very relevant account of my condition . |
23 | Do n't forget to let your old auntie know how the other things are progressing , but I 'm sure everything will work out just fine . ’ |
24 | I do n't how blooming I do n't even know how the blooming gears work ! |
25 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |
26 | Categories such as ‘ theatre and entertainment ’ or ‘ cinema and film ’ did not include quite the same things in 1987 as in 1961 , or not in the same proportions . |
27 | But she did not know where the young men slept , either . |
28 | Do you know where the following areas are ? |
29 | Hidden watercourses also pose problems ; thus if he has an urban patch , the officer must know where the foul sewers and any culverted watercourses run ( a formidable task in some cities ) , as well as the nature and source of any discharge into the watercourse . |
30 | In rugby , as in most aspects of life in South Africa , we have agreed to let go of the old ways and leaders even though no-one can know where the new ways will lead us — or where the new leaders will come from . |