Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As all around me a nation explodes into an orgy of joyous celebration , I feel a little of what Mrs Thatcher must 've felt when the tabloids went into rapture about her ‘ ten glorious years ’ . |
| 2 | The only doubt concerning whether she would succeed occurred before the tournament began , when she was spotted with a neck brace . |
| 3 | For example , if the transfer price is set below market price , then the selling division might feel penalised and the buying division would be ‘ feather-bedded ’ . |
| 4 | According to this alternative view , the target association may be formed perfectly normally but since , on a subsequent test trial , both this and any previously learned association will become activated when the CS is presented , the subjects may fail to retrieve the ‘ correct ’ one and the likelihood of the CR will be reduced . |
| 5 | In a kind of bemused horror , Melissa imagined the ugly pattern of stains that must have formed as the lifeblood flowed remorselessly away . |
| 6 | When they first shared a tent in the rainforest , how could they have foreseen that the camp would be Jane 's home for almost her entire adult life ? |
| 7 | When he and others advocated extra divisions in the Edwardian period they could not have foreseen that the formation of a Third Division in 1920 would create an extra demand for players of talent at a time when a large part of the male population had been wiped out in a world war . |
| 8 | However , there is no truth in the story you may have heard that the Ponderosa also distils ’ its ’ own Poteen , so if your drink seems somehow stronger , it 's probably due to the thin air at that altitude ! |
| 9 | If , for example , we were trying to explain attendance at non-selective schools , the d for the service class would have been 0.281 - 0.763 , or -0.482 ; the magnitude of effect would not have altered but the sign would have been reversed . |
| 10 | They should have guessed that the weekend would fail them . |
| 11 | How could anyone have guessed that the movement the bowlers had found throughout the game would suddenly disappear ? |
| 12 | But as he and Sara looked about their new home in a winter twilight , they must soon have recognized that the Lime Street cottage would be one major obstacle in the path to contentment of any kind . |
| 13 | It was the Controller of the Household who later established that no one in authority who was within a reasonable distance of the incident could have realised that the members of the first team of bearers , most of them worthy if nervous burghers of Kinsai , had doctored strung-up nerves with wine and k'miss to such an extent that they were no longer capable of reacting with either fortitude or common sense to the kind of diversions which were now to be expected as part of the rejoicing . |
| 14 | Had I read the brochure carefully I would have realised that the experience I was heading for was anything but tedious ! |
| 15 | This letter from Mactavish reveals the assumption made in 1926 that it was the WEA 's exclusive duty and responsibility to provide working class education , but had he read the 1926 UEMCC report more searchingly he would have realised that the universities ' role was not merely advisory but intended to promote the development of liberal adult education independently of other providers . |
| 16 | The crew of the yacht must have realised that the game was up by this time . |
| 17 | And while the improvements helped somewhat , Air Force planners must have realised that the combination of poor flight stability , lower than anticipated speed and range limitations would place the Airacomet at serious risk if ever sent to engage enemy aircraft . |
| 18 | Before you come up against this situation you will have realised that the manual and ‘ first garments ’ books are intended for the Ms/Mrs/Mr Average Figure . |
| 19 | It was a mistake to have come , of course , he should have realised that the role of voyeur was always " gnoble . |
| 20 | He should have realised that the employment of a number of secretaries was both unnecessary and costly , but he continued boldly to maintain a lavish office establishment . |
| 21 | Two out of three dentists said they had extracted teeth that they might have filled before the contract was introduced . |
| 22 | The easel may have fallen but the picture somehow still holds up — just . |
| 23 | ‘ A pre-agreed percentage is deducted for those pensioners it is felt would not have travelled if the fare had not been free . ’ |
| 24 | The dewar , 3.6 m high and 2 m in diameter , holds 70 kg of liquid helium , sufficient to keep the telescope cool for around 6 months , by which time , calculations indicate , the helium will have boiled and the temperature of the whole assembly will rise rapidly . |
| 25 | So in relation to section 13(1) of the Acts of 1974 and 1976 , for a judge ( who is always dealing with an individual case ) to pose himself the question : ‘ Can Parliament really have intended that the acts that were done in this particular case should have the benefit of the immunity ? ’ is to risk straying beyond his constitutional role as interpreter of the enacted law and assuming a power to decide at his own discretion whether or not to apply the general law to a particular case . |
| 26 | Parliament can not have intended that the right to compensation should turn on fine legal distinctions between an assignee 's rights to a deposit under an absolute assignment and a beneficiary 's rights under a declaration of trust . |
| 27 | He also notes that the fact that transcendental meditation changes one 's brain waves does not imply that it is in any way helpful ; he might have added that the brain waves during meditation show a remarkable resemblance to those of someone who is drowsy or even asleep . |
| 28 | The Court might have added that the value of the drug had also been enhanced . |
| 29 | This provided Railfreight with valuable contracts for long-distance bulk coil traffic , traffic which would not have materialised if the steel industry had survived the 1980s unscathed . |
| 30 | One would never have expected that the author of Tintern Abbey would be reduced to this sort of stage-management ! |