Example sentences of "[vb infin] [coord] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if the other party shall commit any act of bankruptcy , shall have a receiving order made against it , shall make or negotiate for any composition or arrangement with or assignment for the benefit of its creditors or , if the other party being a body corporate shall present a petition or have a petition presented by a creditor for its winding up or shall enter into any liquidation ( other than for the purpose of reconstruction or amalgamation ) , shall call any meeting of its creditors , shall have a receiver of all or any to its undertakings or assets appointed , shall be deemed to be unable to pay its debts , or shall cease to carry on business |
| 2 | ‘ The business carried by our urban railways could double or treble within three to four years , ’ Pettitt believes . |
| 3 | When the sentence has been passed , possibly ( as the sentencer indicated in this case ) with the benefit of some mitigation , it is discovered that the means to pay either did not exist or have in one way or another disappeared . |
| 4 | With this in mind , the BBC has bought the rights to a clutch of old black-and-white feature films , which it hopes people will buy or rent for lazy Sunday afternoon viewing . |
| 5 | The novel administrative tasks of industrialized and competing nation — states — public education , public welfare , urbanization — all create powerful pressures for centralization and bureaucratization , none of which would lessen or disappear under socialist governments . |
| 6 | If we can not predict or cope with major discontinuities should we bother about them ? |
| 7 | Much attention has been given to the seemingly altruistic behaviour of dolphins , with various authors citing such examples as the way cetaceans will assist or stand by other ill , injured or stranded animals even to the point of their own death . |
| 8 | The five foolish virgins with no oil for the lamps could neither buy nor borrow from those who had supplied their own lamps . |
| 9 | Yet I am sure that Messrs Noah , Forget and Leconte neither did n't know nor care about that . |
| 10 | They took a soaking no doubt relieved in an attitude of ‘ rather you than me , mate ’ as they watched the canoeists jump and sit in one motion the way they had practised boarding . |
| 11 | None the less , Salmon did know and correspond with other Ranters and sectarians associated with them , and he was imprisoned with Coppe and Wyke . |
| 12 | Each company is given considerable autonomy so it can know and respond to local markets . |
| 13 | The ozone layer ( spread out between 12 and 50km above the Earth ) , has always existed and , left to its own devices , will regenerate and interact with other airborne gases to create a perfect balance . |
| 14 | Only women who are not in the same circumstances as most women can up and off for six months . |
| 15 | Can one person count and cope with that sort of flow ? |
| 16 | Supported by the Countryside Commission , the Countryside Comes to Town was designed to help people enjoy and learn from first-hand experience about the Trust 's work in the countryside . |
| 17 | I think what I w ill do is wait and watch until late afternoon . |
| 18 | And even then you 're a bit dubious and then you say well I 'm gon na wait and see about this . |
| 19 | You should wait and look for other improvements to follow . |
| 20 | But they could only wait and listen for any scrap of news . |
| 21 | But if I am going to bring anybody in , then they will have to be somebody I can trust and live in this area . ’ |
| 22 | The accord exists because all promises of a ‘ happy ’ after-life are related to ‘ happiness ’ with the meaning it has acquired in the worldly sense , for indeed , it can mean nothing else , as human beings can neither experience nor envisage with any real conviction , any other kind of happiness . |
| 23 | The US National Commission on Air Quality ( 1981 ) typically found that models may overpredict or underpredict from actual concentrations by a factor of two . |
| 24 | Do not dress or interfere with severe burns until expert help is available but do treat the shock . |
| 25 | A toy should not have sharp edges or be small enough to be swallowed or jammed in the throat , neither should it break or tear into dangerous pieces . |
| 26 | I have already identified more than one type of contradiction ; those that can exist between one 's fantasies and what one would actually do or enjoy in real life , and those that can exist between one 's understanding of the oppressive nature of some discourse or practice and one 's continuing investment of desire and finding of pleasure in it . |
| 27 | The Act also empowers the Secretary of State to define the structure and content of each of these subjects in considerable detail , and to specify what pupils of different abilities should study and achieve at various ages . |
| 28 | You must either study and cater for existing markets or create hew markets for your own special products . |
| 29 | The text will appear and disappear in 200 frames of the movie . |
| 30 | He says : ‘ In the sectors we are targeting , the need is for a highly specialist sales force which can identify and respond to ever-changing demands . |