Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be quixotic , it might be full of contradictions and loopholes ( how will the traffic flow if the ring road is downgraded as Holyoak plans ? why save the Rotunda , when trying to recreate a traditional city centre ? ) , but it does recognise that a city centre works best when it is the sum of a number of interrelated parts . |
| 2 | We must recognise that a trade sale as a single entity is theoretically possible , although we believe that there is no obvious buyer . |
| 3 | The normal course of trials is likely to be different as the court will often direct that a witness statement stand as the evidence in chief , or at least part of the evidence in chief , of its maker and , in any event , a witness statement may put to the maker in cross-examination . |
| 4 | Where a child has been seriously and deliberately injured by his parents the court may consider that a care order would still be in his best interests although a suitable placement can not be found immediately . |
| 5 | Monopoly power would not increase , but price would fall and a welfare gain would ensue . |
| 6 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 7 | After doing an audit to see which modules of your existing machine you can keep you will not only know if a motherboard upgrade is worthwhile , you will also know exactly what your shopping list is ! |
| 8 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 9 | When the band have achieved considerable chart success ( when they have sold approximately a million copies of their albums ) , they should consider whether a royalty examination should be done . |
| 10 | But I do n't think that a committee meeting is the proper or best place to discuss this , do you ? |
| 11 | Elisabeth did not think that a life sentence of Bo-Bo 's knitting was the harshest a man might serve . |
| 12 | People notice its distinct cigar shape as they might a Cartier watch or a Chanel handbag . |
| 13 | Will the Minister ensure that a life cycle analysis is built into the scheme to ensure that a product is judged from the time it is produced until it is recycled or destroyed ? |
| 14 | Iain Robertson , chief executive of Highlands and Islands Enterprise , explained : ‘ By having all types of training meeting one common standard , we can ensure that a school leaver in Caithness with a training credit , a college student in Inverness or Stornoway , and the employer of a trainee in Shetland undertaking a Scottish Vocational Qualification , all benefit from further education and training to a standard which is underpinned by a recognised set of quality measurements . ’ |
| 15 | The user should ensure that a module name is not contained in more than one file . |
| 16 | I could n't swear that a thalidomide sort of accident will never happen again , but the chance of it happening are much less . |
| 17 | However , there are examples which show that we can not always assume that a property word will have a referential locus . |
| 18 | What do you do if a waste pipe freezes ? |
| 19 | It does not really matter if a ten-inch record turns into a nine-and-a-half inch , but it does matter when the shrinkage is uneven , because the grooves become highly eccentric . |
| 20 | The court will look to its own law to determine whether there has been good service , sufficient in a common law system to found jurisdiction ; the same law will identify the steps required to set running the time which must elapse before a default judgment can be entered ; and the same law will , in some countries , apply to determine whether service was so defective that a default judgment must be set aside . |
| 21 | It does n't matter whether a sign causes what it signifies , or is caused by it , or whether both are caused by something else ( like thunder and lightning , either of which might be a sign of the other and both of which are caused by an electrical discharge ) . |
| 22 | Otherwise , the first thing to do is to decide whether you need a drawing package or a painting package and how elaborate you want it to be . |
| 23 | Now , no one could claim that a television set saves time . |
| 24 | Thus , for example , although a miner might not personally believe that a university professor teaching three hours a week for 25 weeks of the year is doing a more worthy or important job than himself , he will nevertheless rank this occupation above his own in the construction of a prestige hierarchy because he has learnt that ‘ professors are more important than miners ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Why do you believe that a computer system is inappropriate for your business ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't believe that a trade union like the NASUWT , let alone the NUT , would wish to put children 's education at risk , would wish to disturb parents , would wish to affect their own professionalism , would wish to diminish their own standing in the eyes of the children that go to their schools . ’ |
| 27 | We must always remember that a panic attack has its basis in the alarm reaction which is a normal bodily mechanism which has helped to keep the species of man alive in situations of danger for thousands of years . |
| 28 | By inspection of ( 3 ) we can see that a column vector xi postmultiplying ( 2I — A ) to give a null result must be such that unc vanishes ; two obvious vectors achieving this are{ 1,2,4 ) and{ 1,0 , — 1 } . |
| 29 | You will see that a contact name is always given , where needed . |
| 30 | She would instantly see that a plastic spoon proffered in open-hearted supplication and tender humility was more beautiful by far than any thorny rose or second-hand diamond given to her with a leer of anticipation . |