Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 2 | In the middle of page twenty eight , George lists all his different erm qualifications that he says he has and , I am not quite sure what an is an M A Master of Arts , P H D which is a doctor of erm philosophy and and he puts them all together to make up this word , ABMAPHD which does n't exist obviously as a real word . |
| 3 | But he could cash in with a lucrative return against the 24-year-old German early next year . |
| 4 | If the small company audit is abolished , the reason for being authorised will disappear along with a substantial part of their earning capacity which they do not believe they can recoup through selling other services . |
| 5 | Unless they are made available for further research , data which have often been collected at great expense and with significant effort may later exist only in a small number of reports which analyse only a fraction of the research potential of the data . |
| 6 | You want to be very careful er , Mr Chairman , how we put out erm , information , I mean , let's face it , you know , you start sort of raising a lot of hairs if you 're not careful and if , if , even if it 's totally irrelevant people will latch on to a particular com comment and make it their own . |
| 7 | Even if flags are not embryos there are many cases in development where the embryo does behave rather like a regulating French flag . |
| 8 | While I agree that worm watching will probably never catch on as a mass pursuit , something well known here in Cornwall is to observe seagulls tap dancing on the lawn after rain . |
| 9 | Back then , they did n't catch on in a big way . ’ |
| 10 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 11 | We should act only in a professional or agency capacity in connection with negotiations ( ie not as principal ) and the client for whom we are acting should be clearly identified . |
| 12 | The firm should normally act only in a professional or agency role . |
| 13 | We should normally act only in a professional or agency capacity in connection with negotiations ( ie not as principal ) and the client for whom we are acting should be clearly identified . |
| 14 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 15 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 16 | In the evolutionary version , the payoffs are changes in fitness ; hence , although they may be difficult to measure , they do fall naturally on a linear scale . |
| 17 | Russell sees good opportunities in synthetic leather clothing , particularly if Morton can tie in with a European designer . |
| 18 | Just For the Record will tie in with a nationwide tour of the same name , and will be promoted ( including signing sessions ) by band members Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt . |
| 19 | What 's more , this would be so small that it would behave much like a neutralised proton , or ‘ neutron ’ . |
| 20 | Let your tack dry away from a direct source of heat ; do n't put it in front of a radiator or fire , or the leather will become brittle . |
| 21 | The woody tubers may survive outside in a mild winter , but if they do n't , the seeds certainly do , emerging in thickets the following year . |
| 22 | The strict parent or the sarcastic schoolteacher may act more from a suppressed need to hurt than from his or her desire for discipline or wish to be thought amusing . |
| 23 | However disguised they may be , those are very big tax increases , of a kind which governments can normally introduce early in a parliamentary term only . |
| 24 | However disguised they may be , those are very big tax increases , of a kind which governments can normally introduce early in a parliamentary term only . |
| 25 | Just as a human baby may draw comfort from sucking a dummy , so occasionally a baby elephant will sidle up to a young female and suck her milkless nipple . |
| 26 | The worlds they encompass read end to end do n't add up or line up along a single straight trajectory . |
| 27 | A host of current Irish League stars who came through the ranks will line up in a special BB challenge match . |
| 28 | But it has to be something good , or it will just fizzle out like a damp squib and you 'll feel worse than ever . ’ |
| 29 | Whilst I stand to be corrected , it may well have been this greasy property which made the finish dry out with a khaki tone . |
| 30 | How could clothes not dry out on a warm sunny day ? |