Example sentences of "[vb infin] [subord] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He needs top of the ground and I 'll wait until later in the week before deciding whether to run , ’ added the trainer . |
| 2 | The Conservatives did not do as badly in the South East as elsewhere ( average swing to Labour , 4.7% ) , whereas Labour performed much better in another traditional area of weakness , the South West , with the Conservative vote dropping substantially in Bristol ( -6.7% ) , Exeter ( -8.8% ) , Penwith ( -11.6% ) , and Torbay ( -17.4% ) . |
| 3 | We 'll do as well with the two of us do n't you think ? |
| 4 | May be she did not do as well in the major championships as in previous years but in 1990 she still managed to win one Australian , get in to the final of the French and the US Opens , and the semi final of Wimbledon . |
| 5 | He called his acceptance of human sexuality and respect for the female energy Red Thread Zen , acknowledging that life itself would not exist if not for the umbilical cord that connects us to the feminine . |
| 6 | However , when he poses the question of whether his method could work as well for the class struggle as for the boxing match , Sartre admits that he finds it impossible to answer and returns instead to the much easier case of sub-groups . |
| 7 | It says a great deal about the natural stupidity of tyrants that , having discovered that torture works extremely effectively in intellectual or political cases , they immediately assume that it will work as well in the inspiring of desire in young women . |
| 8 | Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 9 | Its cuisine was as varied as Hong Kong or Bangkok ( you could eat as well at the Mai Thai restaurant , Wimbledon Broadway , as in anywhere around the Gulf of Thailand ) . |