Example sentences of "[vb infin] [subord] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After doing an audit to see which modules of your existing machine you can keep you will not only know if a motherboard upgrade is worthwhile , you will also know exactly what your shopping list is ! |
| 2 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 3 | When the band have achieved considerable chart success ( when they have sold approximately a million copies of their albums ) , they should consider whether a royalty examination should be done . |
| 4 | What do you do if a waste pipe freezes ? |
| 5 | It does not really matter if a ten-inch record turns into a nine-and-a-half inch , but it does matter when the shrinkage is uneven , because the grooves become highly eccentric . |
| 6 | The court will look to its own law to determine whether there has been good service , sufficient in a common law system to found jurisdiction ; the same law will identify the steps required to set running the time which must elapse before a default judgment can be entered ; and the same law will , in some countries , apply to determine whether service was so defective that a default judgment must be set aside . |
| 7 | It does n't matter whether a sign causes what it signifies , or is caused by it , or whether both are caused by something else ( like thunder and lightning , either of which might be a sign of the other and both of which are caused by an electrical discharge ) . |
| 8 | I beg your pardon , it does look like a Beech bowl does n't it ? |
| 9 | That 's a lot more than you can say for Bowe , whose actions in coming to Britain to throw his WBC belt in the dustbin and make Lewis look like a garbage picker was sheer bravado . |
| 10 | Software manufacturers should at least make it clear on the pack that the programme wo n't work if a disk compression program such as a stacker is in use , and/or you do n't have ‘ X ’ megabytes of memory . |
| 11 | From these scientists could calculate whether a metal road was needed across the beach or if tanks could pass over it without help from engineers , and what size of wheeled vehicles could pass over the pebble bank . |
| 12 | If you are on Income Support the CAB can calculate whether a prepayment meter or deductions from your dole is the best option . |
| 13 | Further problems with self-investment can occur when a pension fund invests heavily in its parent company 's shares in order to fend off a takeover bid , particularly if those shares are bought at a premium during the bid , and have to be off-loaded at a loss afterwards . |
| 14 | It had been suggested that the Regulations did not apply if a business purchaser arranged with the buyer to sack employees in the business a short time before it was sold . |
| 15 | Former drug abusers fear addicts could die if a rehabilitation centre is forced to close . |
| 16 | This can happen if a map series is being updated ; for example the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain changed its standard scale from I : 63360 ( one inch to a mile ) to 1 : 50 000 ( one centimetre to 500 metres ) during the 1970s . |
| 17 | The Hon. Gentleman asked what would happen if a pension scheme collapsed . |
| 18 | This may happen when a government department settles a case out-of-court or decides to make an ex gratia payment . |
| 19 | This can also happen when a doctor experiences discomfort in the face of death , or an inability to come to terms with his own helplessness . |
| 20 | But even they will blench if a marble statue waves at them , for you would have to live dealions of years longer than even they do to see a miracle of this magnitude . |
| 21 | If the babies will not feed unless a mother figure is near , how must they feel when their mother suddenly falls dead in front of them , blasted by a submachine gun ? |
| 22 | So , for example , the courts have indicated that they would interfere if a Chief Constable decided not to take action against housebreakers in any circumstances . |
| 23 | To this end each transput device has an associated one-bit register , which is cleared as an operation starts and is set to one when it terminates ; an instruction is provided to read this register , and thus the programmer can establish when a transput operation is complete . |
| 24 | Sub-tenants may , of course , suffer if a head lease is forfeited for a breach of covenant by the tenant , however , they may apply for relief under s. 146(4) ( see above ) . |
| 25 | Mr Lamont also gave the green light for the Jubilee Line extension in London , but work will not start until a banking consortium has been set up to provide £400 million of private-sector money for the Pounds 1.8 billion project . |
| 26 | This process will continue until a price level is reached which is so low as to make so high as to ensure that the effective labour demand function eventually coincides with the notional labour demand function . |
| 27 | Visitors are thoroughly searched before they are allowed in to the jail which houses two hundred remand prisoners , killers , I R A terrorists and rapists , and the investigation will examine whether a prison officer may have brought in the phone . |
| 28 | A legitimate expectation may arise when a government agency , by its words or conduct , leads a citizen reasonably to expect that it will act in a particular way . |