Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Did you know that whenever the English went to war with France , our soldiers immediately hanged any of these Scottish mercenaries they captured ? |
| 2 | Most importantly , however , we must recognise that neither the individualistic man nor the collectivist man of the philosophers is truly Christian . |
| 3 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 4 | Soft cuttings may root after only a few weeks , so pot individual cuttings as soon as you see new young leaves or white roots at the base of containers . |
| 5 | We do not know whether all the original recruits really were from orphanages and boarding schools , but if so , they were a particularly vulnerable group of people with a very confused class identity and little choice of work when placed under pressure from patrons . |
| 6 | But people are much more likely — and we should stress that only the lunatic fringe is involved — to believe it necessary that those they perceive as only minimally inferior to themselves should be annihilated . |
| 7 | I do not think that even the right hon. Gentleman would be prepared to say that every programme remains the same , irrespective of costs . |
| 8 | I do not think that even the hon. Member for Dover ( Mr. Shaw ) could accuse that authority of being profligate , but those cuts will affect the care of the elderly in Calderdale . |
| 9 | Selection effects may ensure that only the fittest survive to experience old age . |
| 10 | Not only may some modern novelists display at least some of their methods , but it would appear that even the hardest of natural scientists fail to spell out all of the procedures which they follow in their research , indeed that they are sometimes unable to do so ( Mulkay 1979 ) . |
| 11 | On the one hand it would appear that only the traditional problems are being brought in ( see above ) , on the other , the fact that 90 per cent . |
| 12 | You may feel that only a major record company can offer your band the right level of investment and promotion . |
| 13 | Although in theory the organism could reproduce at any time during its growth phase , we can expect that eventually an optimum time for reproduction would emerge . |
| 14 | It does show that even a 26-week gestation baby has , at least within its spinal cord , a mechanism which is associated with tenderness in adults . |
| 15 | The pattern make little difference to the contraction of the knitting and your tension sample will show that only an occasional stitch increase across the whole width will be necessary to keep to the commonly used tension . |
| 16 | Avoid the fire and also the two question marks , as they make you dance and thus a perfect target for the dog . |
| 17 | Few people understand exactly what they are and what they can do and quite a few people have mistaken impressions from the media . |
| 18 | Mr Whitnall reported teaching staff ‘ dismayed ’ by the service from the trade , with titles hard to identify and evaluate and frequently no obvious source of supply for students if texts were recommended . |
| 19 | On lifting financial sanctions , including allowing access to IMF and World Bank assistance , the communiqué said that such sanctions should remain until either a new democratic constitution had been agreed or until there was agreement to lift them " at South Africa 's all-party conference or by an interim government " . |
| 20 | The same is true of the altogether exceptional recording , which held my concentration so effortlessly that I could hardly believe that nearly a whole hour had passed when I emerged elated at the other end . |
| 21 | When Charles heard this news , and we must remember that even the fastest military courier might take weeks to bring such a message , he returned to Saxony with astonishing speed , taking the Saxons by surprise . |
| 22 | Those who advocate a greater emphasis on technology and depreciate the importance of art in education might remember that even the mathematical formulae used by engineers are habitually judged in terms of their elegance . |
| 23 | Although we have offered a fairly simplistic version of these theories we can still see that even a simplified version is very complex . |
| 24 | Compare these prices with cost new and you will see that even the high discounts currently available on new cars become an irrelevance in the face of such horrendous depreciation . |
| 25 | Nuadu could see that even the pale , jellied part of one eye was partly missing and he had the sudden sickening impression that it had been eaten away from within . |
| 26 | ‘ Do you not see that over a million wearying years of galactic history , so-called peace has invariably had its prelude in attack , so that the seeds of further conflict were sown ? |
| 27 | Though the exact nature of the symbiosis between pastoralists and plains game has only recently become understood , administrators in close contact with the Masai could see that somehow the two did co-exist , and they took exception to the idea that in order for game to thrive the Masai would have to be removed . |
| 28 | There are only about one hundred different kinds of atoms in the Universe , each kind known as an element ; and we know that this is the case because we know the fundamental laws of chemistry that determine the structure of atoms , and can see that only a certain number of structures are theoretically possible . |
| 29 | The site may only be viable if adjoining land is included and in fact the planning authority may insist that only a comprehensive planning application will be considered . |
| 30 | However , after conduction an informal poll , I can report that quite a few women of a certain age think Mr McShane is hotter stuff than most of the antiques he sells . |