Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change of context can influence only an excitatory association and thus the result of Fig. 4.6 , a loss of the CR , can be expected . |
| 2 | How do you know like an eighteen year old is someone responsible |
| 3 | Our existence would lack even an Adamic fig leaf of meaning if we ignored our capacity to glide over our past , coalescing and juxtaposing our memories , irrespective of their temporal spatial or circumstantial labels . |
| 4 | The four men , as McKenzie had suggested , did present rather an odd spectacle . |
| 5 | A delegation travelled to Lisbon to present their case ; FLEC-Renewal president José Tiburcio Luemba called on Portugal to revise the agreements which had brought about the independence of Angola in 1975 , and said that his movement would carry on an armed struggle until independence for Cabinda had been achieved . |
| 6 | Yet , as Samuel warns : ‘ even if nation is expelled from the class-room , it will still carry on an underground existence in the corridors and playground and an altogether more uninhibited one on television and the football terraces . |
| 7 | Wilson fears for education generally , that the market pressures could bring in an entrepreneurial ethos which could change the nature of institutions and leave the morality of the market-place unchallenged . |
| 8 | They 'll also bring in an independent security auditor to estimate its effectiveness : Eagle will be installed on the user 's Sparc or RS/6000 . |
| 9 | A single machine-gun , two at most , could bring down an entire battalion , as the men advanced , on Rawlinson 's orders , at a steady 90m/100yds a minute . |
| 10 | However , it will not do so an indefinite number of times . |
| 11 | Planck used the idea of quanta to explain why a red-hot piece of metal does n't give off an infinite amount of heat ; but he regarded quanta simply as a theoretical trick , one that did n't correspond to anything in physical reality . |
| 12 | Then he named them , along with Liverpool 's Rob Jones and still injured John Barnes , as the five he believed might embellish further an encouraging performance by a Paul Gascoigne-inspired England . |
| 13 | Better carry off an embarrassing situation with as much panache as she could muster . |
| 14 | Shindler will carry out an environmental compliance audit , to establish how well a company is complying with existing legislation . |
| 15 | ( Piaget did carry out an oral version of the task , but he does not report details of the results . ) |
| 16 | They would carry out an initial assessment , based on an evaluation of your lifestyle , age , level of anxiety and so on . |
| 17 | Will the Minister confirm that the Scottish Office , or somebody , will carry out an initial selection process if there is more than one employee-management buy-out effort and that there will be , in effect , a preferred bid for assistance ? |
| 18 | Local authorities are required to take reasonable steps to ascertain entitlement to discount , but in the absence of firm information they can send out an undiscounted bill . |
| 19 | A bright , cornflakes-ad kind of day could bring out an airy item like ‘ Sometimes I Feel Like … ’ |
| 20 | As this is a disk-only game , you 'd expect quite an accomplished product with many detailed screens . |
| 21 | Anyone who has a history of epilepsy ( even if that condition is being fully controlled by medication ) should never on any account be hypnotized , as the process of entering the appropriate altered state of mind can actually trigger off an epileptic fit . |
| 22 | They can work down an excellent tilth after ploughing so long as there is no unrotted turf . |
| 23 | Some idea of the variation that may occur along an individual plate boundary can be gained by considering the eastern margin of the Indian Ocean . |
| 24 | Receiving such help can undermine further an already-fragile self-esteem . |
| 25 | It is too soon to know if the initiative will touch off an Italian-style mop-up of Brazil 's mob . |
| 26 | The Imperial War Museum 's arrival in the town and 300–400,000 visitors it is expected to attract every year is just the sort of development the town needs to help fend off an unjustified reputation recently and most controversially fostered by the Wall Street Journal as a dying town . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I do keep up an entrepreneurial connection with the local pool interests , ’ Ken admitted . |
| 28 | What 's done is done , Tremayne would say , but one could n't wipe out an enveloping feeling of pathetic waste . |
| 29 | The EC labelling will revolve around an international panel , comprising representatives of industry , trade unions , environmentalists and consumers , who will draw up criteria for each group of products on a " cradle to grave " basis . |
| 30 | Without underestimating the possibility that we may still witness some increase of private medical insurance , it would not be realistic to pretend that one can see how an alternative system could now grow up beside , or be substituted for , the channelling of this £1,000 million of the national income through government agencies . |