Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [noun] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's thrown his life away , and he 'd throw the company away if he was given it . ’ |
| 2 | If you get five do you throw the dice again cos you get five . |
| 3 | Sometimes parents can not answer the questions clearly because they have never thought of observing their child 's behaviour so closely . |
| 4 | If the id is completely in control , and in psychotics for example , you often get the feeling the id is in control , they will eat the cake even if it 's not there . |
| 5 | More often than not they will enhance the surroundings rather than detract from them . |
| 6 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 7 | ‘ It ca n't hurt the Oak now if I stand on it to get in , can it ? |
| 8 | Early in August , after sending the department a recorded delivery letter every month from January , I was finally informed that my husband would be granted his claim — but they could n't make the payment yet because they had lost his file . |
| 9 | That inaccurate but understandable calculation would make the APR more than 5,000 per cent — at least a measure of how very little use following-on is to her . |
| 10 | The antihistamine would have little value , but it might slow the reaction marginally until her medical kit or the allergy kit arrived . |
| 11 | He 'll want the facts right if ever qualifying for some later inclusion in ‘ Champions of the Ring , ’ the life stories of the heavyweight kings that 's out this month . |
| 12 | The fact that the elderly parents acted reasonably and did nothing wrong and yet entered into an agreement , the ramifications of which they did not appreciate , did not affect the creditor so as to afford equitable relief to the parents . |
| 13 | Dear God , who would ever have thought , looking at the insignificant scrap , that she could affect the world more than a dry leaf ? |
| 14 | Yes er that , that 's no problem but what I would like to do is obviously keep er face to face er contact so that we can explain the thing fully because you may have other questions that you want to ask once you 've actually read it so therefore I 'm on hand hopefully to answer all these questions |
| 15 | In any case , she would know the face again if she came across it . |
| 16 | Thompson did not know the details then because he did not want to . |
| 17 | To extend a statute to a regrettably omitted case looks like legislation , whereas refusing to extend it to a casus male inclusus is more like imposing a provisional fetter on legislation ( provisional , because Parliament can always come back and include the case expressly if it wants to ) . |
| 18 | When Mr Major learned the result , he acted as if he had seen Chelsea win the Cup rather than his own MPs come so close to humiliating him . |
| 19 | We all know packaging is often superfluous … an excess to make people buy the product rather than just wrap it up and that must be recovered … so we want the industry to use minimum packaging and we want the industry to come forward with ideas on that — if they do n't then we 'll legislate . |
| 20 | I can buy the house only if a – of $40000 is obtainable . |
| 21 | An anecdote told by a scientist well summarizes this element of randomness : " When I visited the European Medium Range Weather Forecasting Centre they told me , " We can predict the weather accurately provided it does n't do anything unexpected " " ( Stewart 1989 : 131 ) . |
| 22 | The Speaker , Waeta Ben , accepted the government 's claim that , because a motion of no confidence had been moved earlier in 1990 , Parliament could not discuss the issue again until its second meeting the following year . |
| 23 | Make the dog wag the tail rather than the other way round . |
| 24 | If this is the cause , then the child will probably recognise the error quickly if he is asked to read the word . |
| 25 | But as you ca n't or wo n't recognise the truth even when it 's told you , there 's really no point in continuing this conversation . ’ |
| 26 | He could describe the men only as he had seen them , masked , in shapeless tracksuits . |
| 27 | The academy has already said that it will consider the proposition only if the government provides continuing support to operate and maintain the facility , which the report estimates would require DF17 million ( US$4 million ) a year . |
| 28 | Mr Oliver says he will market the rink better than in the past |
| 29 | She did not trust the count even though she admitted that he had a strange effect on her . |
| 30 | When you 're slogging your way uphill , chances are you 'll need a layer less than when you 're cruising along the straight and level . |