Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the middle of page twenty eight , George lists all his different erm qualifications that he says he has and , I am not quite sure what an is an M A Master of Arts , P H D which is a doctor of erm philosophy and and he puts them all together to make up this word , ABMAPHD which does n't exist obviously as a real word . |
| 2 | Unless they are made available for further research , data which have often been collected at great expense and with significant effort may later exist only in a small number of reports which analyse only a fraction of the research potential of the data . |
| 3 | Even if flags are not embryos there are many cases in development where the embryo does behave rather like a regulating French flag . |
| 4 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 5 | We should act only in a professional or agency capacity in connection with negotiations ( ie not as principal ) and the client for whom we are acting should be clearly identified . |
| 6 | The firm should normally act only in a professional or agency role . |
| 7 | We should normally act only in a professional or agency capacity in connection with negotiations ( ie not as principal ) and the client for whom we are acting should be clearly identified . |
| 8 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 9 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 10 | In the evolutionary version , the payoffs are changes in fitness ; hence , although they may be difficult to measure , they do fall naturally on a linear scale . |
| 11 | What 's more , this would be so small that it would behave much like a neutralised proton , or ‘ neutron ’ . |
| 12 | Let your tack dry away from a direct source of heat ; do n't put it in front of a radiator or fire , or the leather will become brittle . |
| 13 | The woody tubers may survive outside in a mild winter , but if they do n't , the seeds certainly do , emerging in thickets the following year . |
| 14 | The strict parent or the sarcastic schoolteacher may act more from a suppressed need to hurt than from his or her desire for discipline or wish to be thought amusing . |
| 15 | However disguised they may be , those are very big tax increases , of a kind which governments can normally introduce early in a parliamentary term only . |
| 16 | However disguised they may be , those are very big tax increases , of a kind which governments can normally introduce early in a parliamentary term only . |
| 17 | If you could qualify either for a reduced pension of your own or a dependant 's addition , the higher of the two would be paid . |
| 18 | Initially the king was unsympathetic to Hopton 's petition , claiming that at the material time he had not been acting as a justice owing to a bureaucratic muddle over his appointment , but by December 1290 he had agreed that the money Hopton had already paid towards his fine should count instead towards a fine he had made to secure the wardship of the lands of his late wife . |
| 19 | In the gravityless environment of the hulk any unexploded bolts or similar projectiles could ricochet unpredictably for a long time within a confined space . |
| 20 | If he , Neil , was content to leave the house unwatched by day , and to spend his time looking at rocks on the broch island , then I could stay indoors with a clear conscience , and wait for the rainstorm to pass . |
| 21 | And if I could n't make away with myself , how could the malais make away with a whole nation ? |
| 22 | In addition , its support for the Tunnel project is based on the firm understanding that it can succeed entirely as a private venture . |
| 23 | If , on the other hand , I approached this child — ( he smiles at Geraldine [ disguised as a boy ] ) — my action could result only in a gross violation of the order of things . |
| 24 | The imagination does n't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree . |
| 25 | Active support Joseph could expect only from a small number of officials . |
| 26 | You find a parallel world that knows great beauty but can speak only through a tiny box of plastic and tin . |
| 27 | All four films — along with the week 's three major releases — remind one that not even the most talented director can achieve much without a decent screenplay . |
| 28 | The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed . |
| 29 | A visitor arriving in Zurich for the first time will almost certainly do so with a preconceived idea of a feverishly busy city where austere-faced financiers wearing dark suits hurry past in search of the next billion dollars , where bankers huddle together in back rooms like a secret society , a place resembling a web from the centre of which threads reach out to manipulate the money markets of the world , and everything is subordinate to profit . |
| 30 | Many Opposition Members who will obey the three-line Whip and vote against the motion will do so with a heavy heart . |