Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Operating under budgets constrained by the government 's public expenditure policies , health authorities can do little other than wait until the new financial year before they provide extra funds for hospitals . |
| 2 | He could do little more than watch porpoises and gulls with them . |
| 3 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 4 | Yet computer cuts in the services sector mean that , for now , it can do little more than mark time . |
| 5 | further , top management may do little more than pay lip-service to computing . |
| 6 | It was only natural that we should interpret all this as preparation for release , that we would go home looking fit and not too pale . |
| 7 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 8 | Lithified materials may require little more than decision on the orientations of thin sections needed for later examination under the optical microscope , but special slide preparation and cementing media may be required , particularly if soluble minerals are thought to be present ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 9 | Artefacts are frequently reconstructed before they are put on display , which may involve little more than repair work , such as sticking pieces of pot together and filling any remaining gaps . |