Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it did n't necessarily mean that they would stay together all the time the they may they may even fall out with one another . |
| 2 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |
| 3 | ‘ I could n't just throw away all the work I 'd already done ! ’ |
| 4 | By definition , you can not do well all the time , you can only try to — your attitude is that you could be a hell of a lot worse off in life than getting out for 30 as opposed to 75 . |
| 5 | Thus although we do not know how the DNA controls development , we are reasonably sure that it does carry almost all the information which has been produced by selection , and which is needed to control development . |
| 6 | Right right , what you did n't do almost all the time was to change those minutes to decimals of an hour was n't it ? |
| 7 | Did n't smell very strong the top 's been off it . |
| 8 | The controversy will disappear once all the member states introduce equivalent conduct of business rules but that is unlikely to be achieved in the short or perhaps even in the medium term . |
| 9 | Equally , an area on a graphics tablet can form an extremely flexible form of control ; for example , a diagram could be laid over such a tablet — the user could then see clearly all the control possibilities and by touching the correct part of the diagram he could control the program with ease . |
| 10 | Not only do women still provide nearly all the care for the old , the sick and the young ( and most of it still unpaid ) , but also social policies are still framed , allocated and delivered on the assumption that they do so . |
| 11 | American car companies now reckon they will use about half the number of suppliers they once did . |
| 12 | When pressing freesias you can use almost all the flower , as well as some of the stem . |
| 13 | It would be a mistake , however , to think that we do not cover extensively all the ground and territory that is available within those limits . |
| 14 | The deal structuring stage should draw together all the information now available about the target ( including the results of the key features review and the purchaser 's assessment of possible synergies and cost savings ) with a view to establishing the most efficient structure for the proposed transaction and firming up on any price expectations already communicated to the vendors . |
| 15 | It w it 'll take erm roughly about erm it 'll perhaps stop about half the light |
| 16 | That proposal , if implemented , would shift almost all the decision-making in homicide cases from the trial to the sentencing stage : the only issue of any consequence in most cases would be the sentence to be imposed , and all the distinctions now drawn at the stage of criminal liability would be reflected in the sentence alone . |
| 17 | He said the increase to £4.25 would affect about half the population and could lead to some hard-up patients being forced to go without certain treatments . |
| 18 | If I do that two or three times I can make about half the cost of the room per day at the hotel — honestly . ’ |
| 19 | They are erm it was er steak and kidney pie , brussels sprouts , carrots and bo plain boiled potatoes I could only eat about half the kidney and meat , I cou I could only eat about a third of the pastry , could n't cope with the carrots at all or the brussel sprouts , they were beautiful brussel sprouts like little cabbages , you know I could only eat a couple of them ! |
| 20 | Field men have ready access to consent documents and will treat as relevant the degree to which standards are exceeded . |
| 21 | Does he regard as sensible the position revealed by Graham Jackson , the cardiologist at Guy 's opted-out hospital , where local people are unable to be treated because the local district health authority 's contract has run out ? |
| 22 | Later , he comments on this , as follows : ‘ In treating of the development of the notion of thought , we may regard as primitive the child 's conviction that it thinks with the mouth . |
| 23 | Now for some of our members choice is is not something that they are fortunate enough to have because they are very needy and they do not have perhaps all the education that some of the tory party perhaps have , that they have been less fortunate in many , many ways . |
| 24 | Martin Clarke , who will serve only half the term , was three times over the legal limit when he struck David Adams as he cycled home from the supermarket on 21 December . |
| 25 | Industry and agriculture would pay about half the bill , the government the other half . |
| 26 | Did not the road lead uphill all the way to Olympus ? |
| 27 | If this does not exist then both the government and its control of the timetable collapse but while the one lasts , the other is intact . |
| 28 | The USAF will operate about half the total from Alconbury , and most of the rest will carry equipment to detect enemy radars . |
| 29 | I often say to my friend — I wish I could retire and live here all the time . ’ |
| 30 | Caro said — and you 've just admitted it — you do n't live here all the time . |