Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll need more than a bottle of rum to get through this disaster of a voyage ! |
| 2 | The plaintiff vendors sought to set aside the expert 's decision and to have the court decide the matter , but the defendant purchasers said that the plaintiffs could not do that because the contract bound them to accept the expert 's decision . |
| 3 | They will do that because the Milk Marketing Board has put forward those proposals for reform . |
| 4 | There 's no way they can do that if the person is in Europe . |
| 5 | When the puffer-fish escapes the jaws of the moray eel by inflating itself , we think , ‘ Perhaps I could do that when the moray eel comes for me ’ . |
| 6 | And they must do that as the possibility increases that they might be sucked into a wider Balkans war . |
| 7 | You can tell the solicitor and he will say or she will say to you Good I understand that or Have you thought of this or No you ca n't do that as the case may be . |
| 8 | As she says , you can do this if the pattern is on the mylar sheet by adjusting the pattern width dial , but since she saved the hedgehog she has erased the mylar sheet . |
| 9 | It can do this because the capacity of an input neuron to activate any of the output neurons increases every time the ‘ output pattern generator ’ activates the output neuron simultaneously with external activation of the input neuron . |
| 10 | But now the sun can not do this because the man is dead but his comrades are hoping that by moving his body out into the sun it can use its power to wake him as it used to do . |
| 11 | Negotiation and discussion will achieve more than a row , but if a clash is unavoidable , explain to them why you were shouting . |
| 12 | Secondly , it allowed them to make virtue out of a necessity by pushing law and order once more ideologically centre-stage as another area where the individual could do more than the State . |
| 13 | ‘ You ca n't possibly do more than an hour , not after a full day 's rehearsal . |
| 14 | ‘ To make you happy , Schätzchen , I would give more than a Brancusi , ’ Thomas said softly . |
| 15 | I would n't hesitate about going along to another of the band 's gigs where , it is to be hoped , the audience would give more than a round of applause for the amount of hard work put into the show . |
| 16 | Whilst out selling with sales manager Anne King [ and sold £1,500 in two days ] , they had an appointment with a certain Mr Gomez who could n't speak more than a couple of words of English . |
| 17 | RESPONSORIAL PSALM : Do not begin this until the group who are leading the congregation in gesture are assembled in the sanctuary and ready . |
| 18 | In which case I will suspend this until the talking starts . |
| 19 | perhaps this was because he could hardly see more than a yard in front of his face . |
| 20 | Her shoulder-length hair obscured her face , though Alice moved position to try and see more than a slab of cheek . |
| 21 | As she walked to it , Huy wished that he could see more than the slit in the dress revealed . |
| 22 | This , so Dobry believed , would relieve the overloaded planning machine to deal more thoroughly with the major and/or controversial applications ( which he suggested would constitute less than a half and , it was to be hoped , only a third of the total ) . |
| 23 | If LIFESPAN does not find the QAO log file it will create another when a QAO log is actioned for the module . |
| 24 | ‘ The only kind of central heating possible would be solid fuel and to install it would cost more than the cottage is worth . ’ |
| 25 | A number of software vendors such as Bitstream , Adobe and Microsoft themselves can supply extra fonts but they may cost more than the budget user can afford . |
| 26 | As there were cars to spare , if one was found with a defect , for which a replacement part might cost more than the cost of a licence , it was withdrawn particularly if the route on which it worked was nearing its closure . |
| 27 | The Chelsea Flower Show is probably not the most obvious place to pick up a bargain — lead lions rampant and Medici urns atop Corinthian columns must cost more than the Governor of the Bank of England earns in a week to transport there , let alone purchase . |
| 28 | Also , the cost of services has to be borne , in the main , from central or local government coffers , because most older people can not meet more than a fraction of the costs of the high levels of labour-intensive care they need . |
| 29 | And you can control more than the heating , SECURITY LIGHTING , many WASHING MACHINES , DISHWASHERS AND TUMBLE DRYERS can all be programmed . |
| 30 | I do n't feel I can face more than a snack in this heat … ’ |