Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relatives and friends who are left behind can also become entrapped in an overwhelming feeling that says ‘ I must be there when he takes his last breath ’ ; ‘ I must n't miss any last word he utters ’ . |
| 2 | There are potential pitfalls , the association may become dominated by an unrepresentative majority that could attempt to bring undue pressure on school policies . |
| 3 | When students pick up a BOOKWORM they know that they will rapidly become immersed in an enjoyable , skilfully-written story which provides an excellent introduction to real reading in English . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , therefore , entrepreneurs and managers can become locked into an existing company structure which may perform not particularly well but adequately enough to survive , or to survive while its position is steadily being undermined by import penetration . |
| 5 | Tawney 's argument placed ‘ the world of Labour ’ explicitly before his audience , at a time when he and they were concerned about the WEA 's drift towards the middle class — a drift that any radical , like Tawney , would have regarded as an unqualified loss , an opting for the ‘ line of least resistance ’ . |
| 6 | In five years time from now it will have developed into an all powerful , constitutionally independent institution responsible for the Community 's monetary and exchange rate policies . |
| 7 | Those three operations then are the measure of modern medical practice : cancers which might have developed from an enlarged prostate , some rogue polyps and a spinal tumour , any one of which could have proved fatal , were all pre-empted by discovery and cure ; and I can not be other than deeply grateful for this additional lease of life . |
| 8 | It looks like he may have travelled under an assumed name , God knows why . ’ |
| 9 | But I would like to mention that conflicting evidence is not always the result of a social worker being inexperienced and taken in easily by appearances when he or she should obviously have checked with an independent source . |
| 10 | The copyist who supplied it was , to judge from other manuscripts in his handwriting , almost certainly an amateur — not the kind of musician Purcell would have trusted with an important task — and was not active until 1700 at the earliest . |
| 11 | If you are still anti-bat , so be it , but at least you will have come to an informed conclusion . |
| 12 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 13 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 14 | All the same , the feather in his pocket could hardly have come from an imaginary swan . |
| 15 | Although the rules do not make this absolutely clear it would be extraordinary if they were interpreted as preventing a party from adducing any oral evidence , even that which had been set down in witness statements served in compliance with the direction , simply because he attempts to adduce additional oral evidence at trial which he should have included in an earlier witness statement . |
| 16 | It could have turned into an ugly ruck pretty quickly . |
| 17 | Well we had er the business was quite good er we had er we could do , of course at the end of the war , we could have done with an awful lot more cars , but we could n't get them . |
| 18 | They could have done with an easier game than Bristol but they beat them 38-11 back in October , so it can be done . |
| 19 | RANGER & LOEW 'S embossed stainless steel art deco cigarette case looks like the authentic article — but it 's even better because your king-size cigarettes will fit neatly in — which they would n't have done in an original case . |
| 20 | Some firms may have grown in an unplanned , unforeseen manner , others may have expanded in order to acquire greater prestige and so on . |
| 21 | The organizers were rarely charged in court , probably because such a prosecution would have met with an unpleasant response . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , strong underlying trends have been pushing up costs in the United Kingdom as they have in other countries — the increasing sophistication of medical treatment , the survival of those who would have died in an earlier decade , new and expensive drugs , the growing awareness amongst the public of potential treatments , a reluctance to merely grin and bear pain and discomfort , and above all the ageing of the population . |
| 23 | Even if they were not consciously doing so , feelings of risk may have acted as an important retrieval cue in the context . |
| 24 | any authorised deductions should have occurred at an earlier stage than when the trustees received the monies ; when the monies came to the trust they had " come home " ; and 2. there was no heading under which the deduction could be made . |
| 25 | The speaker was an ambitious young graduate , seeking accelerated promotion and not pleased at the notion he might have got into an accident-prone unit . |
| 26 | But , and it 's a big but , what the enthusiastic driver would once have interpreted as an enjoyable adjustable cornering balance has been squeezed out of existence . |
| 27 | Barry Trevaskis , who had six stitches put in a horrible wound under his left eye after being stamped on in a ruck , might not agree that the Soviets lacked meanness , but had their half-backs Chapman and Rule not missed six penalties between them , Cornwall could have brought off an unexpected win . |
| 28 | The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) . |
| 29 | Even the Government President of Upper Bavaria felt compelled to admit that the relief about Hitler 's survival was not unanimous , but that ‘ part of the population would have welcomed the success of the assassination attempt in the first instance because they would have hoped for an earlier end to the war from it ’ . |
| 30 | In this case depression resulting from the symptoms , may well have led to an increased focus on the self , and therefore to an increased identification of internal causal attributions . |