Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , differences did exist between the outside and inside view . |
| 2 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 3 | For London-born pro footballer Vince Hilaire , the realization was more gradual : ‘ I did n't really think about the black and white thing until I was about 14 or 15 . |
| 4 | This chamber should be a nice treat for the adventurers , allowing them to gain some resources they will need for the harder and more dangerous encounters to come . |
| 5 | The adoption of such a procedure raises the question of who would act as the regulatory or responsible body to oversee implementation of the Freedom of Access to Information on the Environment procedures . |
| 6 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 7 | Furthermore , it remains something of a puzzle that , when this movement did flourish during the 1920s and 1930s , Pound went out of his way to distance himself from it . |
| 8 | Ancient games did survive amongst the young and continued to be enjoyed into the middle of this century , but their songs and rhymes , and the old chasing , throwing , and racing games were increasingly regarded as puerile . |
| 9 | This can tie into the occupational or ‘ canteen culture ’ explanation of police racism , which in the words of the Policy Studies Institute ( Smith and Gray 1983 ) suggests that racialist talk : |
| 10 | The conference also called on the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) to convene a conference with prospective donor countries to formulate an aid plan which would assist in the social and economic integration of refugees who chose to return to Rwanda and of those seeking naturalized status in their present country of residence . |
| 11 | And then , reassuring myself , I would gaze upon the white and gold protector , the messenger of the Almighty , and know that everything was in order . |
| 12 | That 's how we built our company , and we did maximize from the hundred and thirty girls from three years ago . |
| 13 | He would not survive in the open if he had no strength . |
| 14 | Wickham ( in press ) , in a study of teachers and children in the UK , shows the same problem of the ‘ drop-out ’ of information in teachers ' use of simultaneous communication , Maxwell ( 1983 ) , in a direct attempt to examine the effect of simultaneous communication using MCE on deaf children 's writing , produces the results one might predict from the above and from our preceding discussion of BSL . |
| 15 | The king 's concession that the cost of troops should fall on the rich and powerful rather than the poor of the community was insufficient to placate the commons , and in the October parliament of the same year they presented a petition entitled ‘ La demande de la Commune ’ in which they called for the abolition of the maltote , the punishment of purveyors who took prises without making payment , and pardon for debts . |
| 16 | A straight mantleshelf will appeal to the bold or those unconcerned by the prospect of knees or feet catching the underside of the projection causing this impasse , while the downright devious will immediately start to shuffle , heart in the mouth , leftwards to the other side of the arête , from where a straightforward step up gains the shelf and relief . |
| 17 | Where their interests overlapped with the Maud Committee they reached similar conclusions , and we may concentrate on the latter as dealing in greater detail with the concerns of this chapter . |
| 18 | The consultations will focus on the economic and diplomatic issues surrounding the plant , although officials also made clear that these issues are " not relevant " to the government 's final decision , saying that the consultations were being held as a matter of " good governance " because of the great public interest in the plant 's future . |
| 19 | It will focus on the social and political origins of the newly forming political and business elites in Eastern Europe with particular reference to Russia and will analyze their place in the system of political power . |
| 20 | Before we consider how these ideologies affected attitudes to death , we must glance at the social and economic changes that provided the context within which they operated . |
| 21 | What , then , do we make of the substantial and growing literature on informal carers ? |
| 22 | First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him . |
| 23 | And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end . |
| 24 | At times , of course , we know that the rate of subsidence ( and the rate of uplift ) has influenced the type of sedimentation , so the two are connected , but my general thesis remains that for the preservation of the bulk of the continental stratigraphical record we must think of the two as separate and independent phenomena . |
| 25 | Bill Clinton , writhing amid the dilemma that most of his election campaign has been an attempt to persuade the white middle class that he does most emphatically not speak for the poor or the coloured , announced , after much shilly-shallying , that ‘ We have refused to confront our differences … and for this neglect , we have all paid . ’ |
| 26 | But little of all this results in rational or systematic debate about what people should study during the three or four years that lead to their first degree . |
| 27 | Potential cross-references in symbolic form are checked against the current data-base and must succeed for the new or changed record to be accepted without reservation . |
| 28 | If this guillotine motion goes through , what do I do about the thousand or so letters that I have downstairs ? |
| 29 | What on earth will the Government do about the irresponsible and scandalous actions of Commissioner Millan who is withholding money , to which we are legally entitled , on the basis of a bogus bureaucratic point ? |
| 30 | You can choose between the 2 or 4 star accommodation and stay on either a bed and breakfast or half board basis . |