Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What Souness has said will act only as a greater incentive for us in the replay at Selhurst Park . ’ |
| 2 | I hope there will yet be occasion to make use of them again in the same cause , even if we must wait now for a better opportunity . |
| 3 | That is not Mr Lawson 's fault , of course , but he has to live with the danger that while the world 's capital markets will duly bridge the gap between Britain 's domestic savings and investment , they will only do so at a lower price for sterling . |
| 4 | Leyhill is proud of its record in helping to rehabilitate former criminals … and thanks to a spell of gardening , many inmates can look forward to a brighter future … their light fingers turned into green fingers … |
| 5 | If you can clear up this problem , you can look forward to a happier future . |
| 6 | The anger on his brow made him look uncommonly like a younger version of his brother . |
| 7 | Heat can not flow spontaneously from a colder to a warmer body . |
| 8 | IT IS typical of the contrary nature of things that just as the impression grows that Rangers will progress inevitably to a higher plane and leave lesser sides to their own devices , along come Airdrie , all skint knees and sweat , to sow a couple of doubts . |
| 9 | Such dogs do not take well to a lower pecking order and skilful training is necessary . |
| 10 | I mean , do the other do these things happen in cycles and tha you know , is it possible that it 'll happen again on a greater scale ? |
| 11 | I hope we shall leave here with a deeper love and , if I dare suggest it , a more confident love . |
| 12 | ‘ to pass ahead of the foremost part of another moving motor vehicle , being a vehicle proceeding in the same direction wholly or partly within that area ’ This phrase means that the offending vehicle or part of it must pass ahead of a slower moving motor vehicle travelling in the same direction . |
| 13 | He writes : ‘ No knowledgeable reading researcher disputes the fact that a higher level of national literacy will come only through a higher level of nationally shared information . ’ |
| 14 | The planning will need to take account of the fact that the groups should come together at a later stage . |
| 15 | ‘ Moreover ’ , it says , ‘ in the last recessionary cycle the peak in business failures did not occur until some 18 months after the recession ended and even then the level of insolvencies did not reduce significantly for a further years . ’ |
| 16 | Harry Poat left on his mission and Stirling split the remaining force into two groups which would travel independently to a further rendezvous at Bir Soltane , only a few miles from the Mareth line . |
| 17 | We can turn now to a closer examination of the kinds of objectives possible . |