Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not think this presentation advances the arguments . |
| 2 | How the Other Half Lives A divorced woman rings her ex-spouse : Perhaps you could spare some time to see the children on Saturday … |
| 3 | In any event , the vendor will want some assurance guaranteeing the basis on which central charges will be allocated to the business . |
| 4 | With reluctance , Morton decided that he must make another attempt to identify the dead girl . |
| 5 | The aim is to investigate and explain this shift using the particular example of the English relation to Jamaica . |
| 6 | He was two-thirds drunk but , there again , I suppose any man ordered to discharge such a duty would need some wine to gladden the heart and dull the brain . |
| 7 | ( Note , though , that once prices have risen , people will need more money to conduct the same amount of transactions . ) |
| 8 | Nor did we make much effort to match the potent appeal of Tory policies on privatisation and council house sales . |
| 9 | of what needs to be done to en ensure that while pursuing the cultural objectives . |
| 10 | He must prevent another train entering the tunnel . |
| 11 | One might have expected that at least some of the Labour members would welcome this opportunity to save the airport entrusted to them , but it appears that the ordinary members are unable to use their right to vote in accordance with their wishes , however strongly held . |
| 12 | I believe we should all warmly welcome this opportunity to debate the role of audit ; it gives the users of audit services the opportunity to have their say and it should make a major contribution to dealing with the expectation gap . |
| 13 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 14 | Stop asking , ‘ How can we generate more revenue to cover the cost of our expensive worldwide sales and marketing organisations ? ’ |
| 15 | Aeroflot 's transatlantic flights still need to land at Shannon airport in Ireland to refuel because they can not not carry enough fuel to complete the journey between New York and London . |
| 16 | Briefly he wondered if it would do any good to tell the ship 's administrator that the presence of the newly appointed Admiral of the White on an ordinary survey mission was not an occurrence of special significance . |
| 17 | The few hill-walkers and climbers that fancy a weekend away in February certainly do n't bring enough custom to keep the hotel owners in beaten copper coffee tables and onyx standard lamps . |
| 18 | But we can not expect any Psalm reflecting the years of oppression and revolt to be exactly comparable with the situation described from a later point of view in the Books of Maccabees ; and if we can not use the Books of Maccabees in this way any certain terms of comparison are lacking altogether . |
| 19 | But he ca n't expect any help form the Borough Council . |
| 20 | It does not follow that Parliament had the same intention when , whatever criteria are adopted , all spaces in the school will be filled in any event . |
| 21 | That is to say , all those specific causes of fluctuations in returns should offset each other leaving the majority of risk inherent in the portfolio 's return being solely due to the market . |
| 22 | So on that ground I feel would be very worried by by promoting the right to buy , erm I 've said everything I want to I did n't really want to elongate this this er this debate and I think it 's but I think , I do n't believe that Councillor mentioned the the the er the . |
| 23 | What props can you use that help signify the role — a brief case ? |
| 24 | I 'm wan na use that water to heat the plates ! |
| 25 | We shall use that presidency to end the Tories ' opt-out from the Social Chapter , so that the British people can benefit from European safeguards . |
| 26 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 27 | You can also use this opportunity to change the screen colours , choosing between the eight colour scheme options available . |
| 28 | You can use this function to give the " whole number " part of the answer to a division . |
| 29 | Interpreting this as a phylogeny , we can use this classification to trace the history of the transformation of some characters leading to the condition in gnathostomes . |
| 30 | However , if the mail message has two or more pages , you can use this field to inspect the remaining pages . |