Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think so never heard of it . |
| 2 | His only problem was , would he survive long enough to see through what was in some ways the most monumental task he had yet set himself ? |
| 3 | Hyperactive and overactive young children often can not concentrate long enough to sit at the table and so teaching this is a very important part of learning to control them generally . |
| 4 | People should know exactly how to vote for animal rights in the election and that is for one of the parties that unanimously supported this Bill . |
| 5 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 6 | JE : Am I right in saying , Peter , that you did n't feel entirely well cast as Essex ? |
| 7 | How could she feel so physically drawn to him , when intellectually she was detesting him for this arrogant charade ? |
| 8 | So why did she feel so irresistibly drawn to him ? |
| 9 | My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary has said that he will always defend the Department 's policies in this House ; he will do so whenever challenged to . |
| 10 | If we must be so very careful , then , in using what people write about themselves , would we do any better to turn to what other people have to write ? |
| 11 | Partnerships will do well not to accede to requests for financial support for the bread and butter resources of schools . |
| 12 | Some women ( internalising sexism ) may feel even more devalued without a man with whom to be identified . |
| 13 | I looked forward to the time when I could speak well enough to talk to them . |
| 14 | The precautions you take to make you feel safer often result in you restricting your life , following a self-imposed curfew , unable to go out unless you can be sure you can drive — or get a lift — back . |
| 15 | But even here the story does not end , for after fifteen or twenty years , the urge to breed and migrate once again comes upon them and down to the river mouths they proceed , slithering over wet meadows by night until they reach the greater river , lying up by day in damp holes , enough water remaining in their gills to enable them to breath . |
| 16 | ‘ I can hardly believe so much came from just two schools — I hate to think what is lying in basements around the country , ’ Alistair said . |
| 17 | By accurate and sensible reporting , mirrored by intelligent coverage in the press and on the radio , the public could become much better informed about mental handicap and this increased awareness could have a tremendous impact on the ways that our mentally handicapped population are perceived in modern society . |
| 18 | Whereas once the Stock Exchange was dominated by relatively small , lightly capitalised partnerships , the likely future is that trading will become much more concentrated in the hands of a limited number of massive financial conglomerates . |
| 19 | An organisation might become so widely diversified in the range of products or services it offers that it becomes difficult , if not impossible , for management to integrate all of the organisation under a common objective and within a single ‘ management philosophy ’ and culture . |
| 20 | Similarly , a blouse which is purchased from a shop as an alienable commodity may then become so intimately associated with a particular individual that it may not even be borrowed by a sibling , After some time , however , the object may lose this close association , becoming , as jumble , an alienable commodity once again . |
| 21 | There are , however , homœopathists who carry about with them on their visits to patients the homœopathic medicines in the fluid state , and who yet assert that they do not become more highly potentised in the course of time , but they thereby show their want of ability to observe correctly . |
| 22 | Language … is the instrument through which , by means of individual adjustments in response to feedback , both " languages " and " groups " may become more highly focused in the sense that the behaviour of members of a group may become more alike … |
| 23 | Consequently , it is often impossible for lone appointees to represent the views of users effectively and authorities must become more seriously committed to listening to service user 's opinions and providing opportunities for them to exercise real influence . |
| 24 | It presupposes that it is possible , in modern circumstances , using modern tools and resources , to find a way whereby men and women can become more fully integrated into their social environment and find in it something deeply expressive of their own personality and aspirations . |
| 25 | Do n't use awkward subdivisions of the scale ; stick to units , twos and fives ; computers can calculate accurately how to plot on scales rising by sevens but you will make mistakes . |
| 26 | They seem to be experiments in animal design that did not work efficiently enough to survive in the competition that became more and more intense as time passed and animal life proliferated . |
| 27 | ‘ Except in the celebrations that greeted the end of World War II , I have never seen England look as unashamedly delighted by life as it did during the World Cup , ’ Arthur Hopcraft has written . |
| 28 | It was true however that Doris Smythe , an elderly widow who lived on the opposite side of their suburban road in a small rented house , did n't like too much bustle around her . |
| 29 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 30 | The candidate can become too closely related to the PAC money and thereby become alienated from local politics . |