Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But people who live under the flight path used by the jets say that the report does n't explain properly HOW the accident happened .
2 I agree with what [ the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland president ] said in a recent issue of CA about the importance of non-financial performance measurement , and you 've got to set it in the context that managers and the board ca n't exist on just an analysis of the general ledger . ’
3 We could throw in quite a lot of er , extra manure .
4 And , therefore , the argument is of people whose backs are pinned to the wall before they 're questioned as it were , and that does n't make for a sober and calm discussion , especially as there is some doubt , I suspect , in the mind of ministers , but certainly in the mind of many people in the Conservative Party , about whether these great absolutes , this wall against which ministers and departments are nailed , really need exist in quite the form it 's being constructed or whether the whole issue could n't be handled in a rather more sensitive and relaxed way .
5 So keep the the plaster-spotted faces of the fanatics in your mind as you exercise , and you 'll laugh so much the wrinkles wo n't have a chance .
6 Well , she would stay down here a bit longer , then .
7 Could you hang on just a couple of minutes ?
8 Would you would you hang on just a minute ?
9 Could you hang on just a minute do n't go away just stay there hold on .
10 You disgu I do that hang on just a minute do n't go away .
11 Can you hang on just a minute got to take a quick break do n't go away just a minute .
12 The brown headed ones were tough and could stand any amount of thrashing and the head would hang on quite a while by a mere thread .
13 Finally , it is worth pointing out that the voltage at pin-14 does not behave in quite the way in which you suggest .
14 Could you buy in quite a bit of fresh fish , say ten portions if you plan to have ten fish meals in a month , so that there is always good healthy protein food available as a base for a meal ?
15 From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design .
16 The ‘ other professional officers ’ whose comments might be incorporated if appropriate would include not only the officers and advisers of the authority and centrally employed caring and counselling staff but also teaching and ancillary colleagues within the school .
17 This will include not only the subject matter it is essential to master , but the skills it is essential to practise , as well as social and motivational aims , and subsidiary objectives .
18 The record should include not only the fact that they mate regularly but also that matings are fertile .
19 The differences and similarities to be explained will include not only the value of the debt relief , but also the new credit flows obtained and the economic adjustment required , as part of the ‘ debt bargains ’ .
20 You can win not only a Megadrive 16-bit computer console ( exquisitely styled to produce faster and smoother games playing scenarios and requiring greater levels of skill and dexterity , it sez here ) but also a brand new Michael Jackson game to go with it .
21 Both Robert Jones and Dewi Morris will be in action on the final Saturday of the Five Nations but Jones — probably only Ireland 's Simon Geoghegan has lost more ground than him in the course of the season — would need just about the game of his life to regain his lead over Morris as the other scrum-half to Gary Armstrong .
22 Unfortunately I have been unable to trace any documents after the survey , and so do not know exactly why the scheme fell through or even whether the bill was ever presented .
23 To me , in a book containing so many emotions , I find dialogue really important because it lets me know exactly how the character is feeling rather than leaving me to make my own assumptions which are often wrong .
24 The European Commission 's principal complaint is that , in order to be properly conducted , an environmental assessment should consider not only the station , but the high-speed link — the two should be considered together .
25 For this reason , assessments intended to provide a basis for making decisions about placement should consider not only the child 's performance under ‘ test ’ conditions , but also the child 's capacity for engaging in linguistic interactions in ‘ naturalistic ’ settings .
26 ‘ We must consider not only the quality of the products we buy , but the quantity , ’ thunders Jonathon Porritt from Friends of the Earth in Britain .
27 Good research , therefore , should consider not only the cause of the events that concern us but also their nature and consequences .
28 ( iii ) Pupils should consider not only the extent to which English has changed since Shakespeare 's day but also some of the ways in which it is changing now .
29 We must now consider more closely the pope 's relationship with the law and where Innocent stands in its development .
30 Farms below a labour input of 200 standard man days are excluded from grants for certain buildings and other structures so many part-time farmers do not qualify under either the AHDS or AHGS .
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