Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Here we can consider only the final versions . |
| 5 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We can now consider individually the different methods of incorporation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | While managers will pursue broadly the same tasks , they will do so in an increasing variety of ways . |
| 10 | No , let's concentrate not the spectacular disasters — the dysentery and drug busts — but the everyday , inherent hellishness of the holiday perse . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Why do n't you count up the French words in italics and see how many you can learn by heart . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ; |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Do n't be concerned with the feeling that nothing is " sinking in " but do try and seek out the main points . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't how blooming I do n't even know how the blooming gears work ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But she did not know where the young men slept , either . |
| 22 | Do you know where the following areas are ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So he sto , do you know where the two tills are downstairs do you ? |
| 26 | Well now we do n't Do you know where the other things are ? |
| 27 | Do n't know where to go though do n't know where the best places are do n't know where they are . |
| 28 | And this is why your first attempt to conduct a great work will often end up as a disaster , because you do n't know where the real points of stress are , you do n't know how the piece is distributed . |
| 29 | Er I , does anybody know where the past papers are kept ? |
| 30 | And he did n't know where the Em , he did n't know where the Emerald Isles was last week , he had to ask . |