Example sentences of "[vb infin] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women with severe emotional problems may need counselling on a long-term basis . |
| 2 | In a workshop session which the BA might consider restaging as a full day seminar , Peter Mouncey of the AA , Leslie Henry of Book Marketing Ltd and Sue Morris of W H Smith tackled ‘ Targeting the book market — the role of research ’ from three different though complementary angles . |
| 3 | They will also be able to supply you with a list of suitable short-term homes for the elderly in your area , to which your parent might consider going for a few weeks each year in order that you may have a holiday , if there is no other member of the family who could take over your responsibilities in your absence . |
| 4 | Once the system is fully operational , then one may consider moving to an in-house installation if the economies are worthwhile . |
| 5 | To a certain extent the pamphlet states the obvious , but it does at least focus thinking in a formal manner to the issue of 1992 . |
| 6 | Given the availability of very fast spectroscopic techniques , using either photographic recording or pulsed lasers , we can consider working with a non-flowing sample and simply recording a spectrum at some interval after sudden generation of the species , but before its decay is complete . |
| 7 | However we also made it clear that as one part of Labour 's wider democratic agenda , that we were sympathetic to looking at a plurality of electoral systems and that this might include legislating for a regional list system of proportional representation for future European elections . |
| 8 | With a few words a woman can give meaning to a whole day 's struggle , and a man will be very grateful . |
| 9 | Article 38 is the only specified exception , for it preserves the position that a rule set forth in a treaty can become binding upon a third party as a rule of customary international law . |
| 10 | He moved towards her , and at the expression in his eyes , Robbie felt her heart begin thumping in an irregular crazy rhythm . |
| 11 | Disregard any fields which would entail landing on a downhill slope . |
| 12 | ‘ So you 're saying the beetle did keep driving in a straight line — a straight line as far as he was concerned — in his two dimensions , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 13 | ‘ However , I would n't mind living in a huge London house in Knightsbridge , and being waited on by all those servants . |
| 14 | It is relief , I think , and we must marry soon , I can not bear to wait , and you wo n't mind living in a little house in Vetch Street when you are used to this , will you ? ’ |
| 15 | Anderson 's history must work according to a rational principle , the dialectic , and be moving towards an end which will reveal and enact its meaning . |
| 16 | He adds : ‘ I do n't like living like a big star — where everyone has the potential to hurt you or want something from you . |
| 17 | He did n't keep going in a straight line . |
| 18 | I would n't , I would n't mind going for a few days |
| 19 | People do n't like coming into a cigarette-filled church . |
| 20 | Not only are peak users paying for the high marginal costs they impose , but also those users who would not mind consuming at a different time ( e.g. households with night storage heaters , who can use electricity at a time when marginal costs are low ) are induced by cheaper prices to switch to consuming at off-peak times . |
| 21 | But we do n't mind hearing about a few ‘ weeds ’ — they are often more vigorous and more interesting than the cultivated varieties . |
| 22 | This will certainly work transferring from a four to five millimetre machine to a nine millimetre machine , but some chunkies are not nine millimetres , so you will have to check your make of machine . |
| 23 | If you feel this makes your first attempts at pressed flower pictures rather too complicated , you can begin working with a simple picture arranged on a plain cream card and make your designs more ambitious each time . |
| 24 | All agreed it was n't ‘ a designer 's car ’ but a pragmatic commercial shape that may well look imposing outside a posh hotel but will never win any design awards . |
| 25 | I bet you 'd look smashing in a wotchermercallit , he said . |
| 26 | People will soon stop listening to a monotonous voice . |
| 27 | ( 1978 ) point out , this leads to the denial of any specific effectivity on the part of the management of particular enterprises : each enterprise will function according to a uniform mode of calculation , as a mere ‘ aliquot part of the total capital ’ . |
| 28 | The deaths of only eighty-one men of Hampshire at the battle of Æthelingadene in 1001 does not suggest fighting on a large scale , and it is noticeable that the same raiders shortly afterwards attacked Exeter and were repulsed . |
| 29 | But why not try experimenting with a contrasting thread ? |
| 30 | The terms of the Soviet plan , now made public , were that ( i ) Iraq would make a full and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait ; ( ii ) the withdrawal would start on the second day after hostilities ceased ; ( iii ) Iraqi forces would depart according to a fixed timetable ; ( iv ) after two-thirds of Iraqi forces had withdrawn economic sanctions against Iraq would be lifted ; ( v ) after all Iraqi forces had left all UN Security Council resolutions against Iraq would lapse ; ( vi ) all prisoners of war would be released when the ceasefire became effective ; ( vii ) the troop withdrawal would be monitored by forces from countries not involved in the conflict , under direction of the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) work on details and specifics would continue and would be presented on Feb. 22 to Security Council members . |