Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She loved the way you could stride on to any stage with that easy cat-like walk of yours and instantly dominate the place . |
| 2 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think he will stay on in that role , ’ Mr Smith added , ‘ but we will consider the future in our own time . ’ |
| 4 | When she 's taking solids , she wo n't want much at each meal . |
| 5 | I do n't think so under those sort of circumstances . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I should n't think so for one minute but I do n't know for certain . ’ |
| 7 | Believe it or not , but we do not tread all over each other to get where we want to go — or at least the majority of us do n't ! ’ |
| 8 | Can you zoom in on that window then ? |
| 9 | You can zoom in on any area of the design by positioning a BOX around that area . |
| 10 | Here senior police officers sit in a windowless room , facing a bank of video-monitors and operating , by remote control , TV cameras which can zoom in on any area of the terraces or stands . |
| 11 | Today , top players can make enough in one year to last a lifetime . |
| 12 | But there is this thing that all of the forms are in the intellect and all of the forms ah are in the intellect and all of the forms do somehow weave together into some sort of unitary thing . |
| 13 | J happen somewhere , and the spaces must relate sensibly to convenient use . |
| 14 | Can you cash in on unwanted space or possessions ? |
| 15 | The one-sided affair ought to have seen the hosts cash in on early superiority , even before Booth struck in the 31st minute to break the deadlock with a well-placed glancing header off Darren Ferguson 's corner . |
| 16 | It was clear from Fräulein Silber 's face that she did not think highly of modern art . |
| 17 | But in its refusal to negotiate culture and politics outside of localised concerns , and its adoption of a methodology which details relations between social structures and their representations largely with a view to correct supposed imaginative misrepresentations , this form of localised history must remain only of limited interest . |
| 18 | The people making the Laws think only of first-class rugby , with first-class players and referees . |
| 19 | As document image processing ( DIP ) , involving the use of optical scanners , mass storage devices and networked computers , becomes a more common way to store paper information new problems will arise , because even those strategic documents and the paper products derived from the operational data will exist only in digital form . |
| 20 | for Community law does not exist only in some faraway place but forms part of our national legal system . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it must be recognized that co-operation by itself can not compensate entirely for inadequate funding . |
| 22 | The LIFESPAN Manager account ( Section 1.2.1 ) on each of the remote nodes provides these privileges , so you should log in to this account on each of the remote nodes . |
| 23 | The LIFESPAN Manager account ( Section 1.2.1 ) provides these privileges , so you should log in to this account . |
| 24 | All brood parasites show a range of fascinating adaptations in support of their unorthodox life style , but the best-known and most fully studied is undoubtedly the European cuckoo which is the species we shall concentrate on in this chapter . |
| 25 | If the Conservatives are the largest single party , should he hang on as Prime Minister in the hope that he can do a deal with another party ? |
| 26 | Oh could you hang on to that lot a minute . |
| 27 | Flupper would pretend to skid and go out of control : it was terrific — we 'd hang on like grim death to the rope . |
| 28 | So , while we heartily approve of such examples as money management ( including credit use ) as an O-level subject , and encouragement to include money management and credit use in liberal-studies teaching for the over-16s , this will hardly help those who leave school early and who would profit most from wiser choice of credit . |
| 29 | Although upper or middle class women in the 18th century managed to negotiate ways in which to participate in the intellectual culture of their day — this is the age of the so-called blue stockings , fashionable women who banned gambling at their parties and invited clever people to come and converse wittily with each other — this period also witnessed the emergence of a sexually discriminating language , which defined women as the gentle and sentimental sex , and proposed a passive ideal of femininity closely tied to nature and biologically determined nurturing role in which intelligence and imagination were to be banished if not carefully hidden — masked . |
| 30 | Certainly , individuals may behave badly in any system . |