Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , we would not want everyone to have this capability or we would spawn lots of different expert systems . |
| 2 | If at any time after a person has been charged with or informed he may be prosecuted for an offence a police officer wishes to bring to the notice of that person any written statement made by another person or the content of an interview with another person , he shall hand to that person a true copy of any such written statement or bring to his attention the content of the interview record , but shall say or do nothing to invite any reply or comment save to caution him in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 3 | We have a clean and green image and produce the healthiest meat possible for consumption and we must do nothing to harm that image . |
| 4 | The lower prices have had a dampening effect on innovative schemes to make better use of the natural resources consumed , and will do nothing to stimulate necessary investment by the generators on modernising their capacity . |
| 5 | These new measures will do nothing to improve industrial relations in this country . |
| 6 | Rightly , the central bank argues that cheapening the peso would do nothing to enhance Mexican competitiveness , since it would feed through swiftly into inflation . |
| 7 | In the end , I want the Tories to win and I will do nothing to prejudice that position . ’ |
| 8 | The system was ‘ crazy ’ and would do nothing to help struggling publicans , he said . |
| 9 | When one passes such messages back to one 's constituents , they say , ’ Who will do something to stop this nuisance , which is causing enormous problems not only to me but to the whole area ? ’ |
| 10 | The exercise would tire him — that always helped : he would seek out Joanna once more and that , too , would do something to unlock this pain of want which would rise up in him from nowhere , and beat against the walls of his mind until he thought he would never be able to bear it . |
| 11 | We can all do something to help endangered species by supporting or taking part in such survey work , because many small observations , when put together , can reveal a hidden solution to a conservation problem . |
| 12 | ‘ You ca n't do anything to stop young people having sex so you have to help them . |
| 13 | Erm he makes a distinction between poor peasants , some being utterly destitute and some just being less destitute but er basically as er seventy percent of the population erm they 're the main group that 's pushing revolution forward and s so therefore I mean it 's this group that the Communist Party must n't alienate , you know , they mu must n't do anything to harm this group , associations the Communist Party must n't attack erm the associations . |
| 14 | It happened that one of the doctors practised hypnosis , and the sister of the ward concerned approached him and asked him if he could do anything to calm this patient who was disrupting the ward routine and upsetting the nurses . |
| 15 | And we 'd do anything to prevent another child dying in the same way . |
| 16 | Family grief : ‘ We talk about Danny a lot and would do anything to prevent another child dying in the same way ’ |
| 17 | The question is : can translators do anything to minimize this skewing ? |
| 18 | Democratic party chairman Ron Brown added : ‘ George Bush has already said he would do anything to win this election . |
| 19 | A mining bargain such as this might include the setting in of timbers though the mine might provide someone to do this work independently . |
| 20 | Obviously he behaved in a highly suspicious manner today , but a guilty conscience can inspire one to do strange things . |
| 21 | I would recommend anyone to read two books . |
| 22 | D' you have anything to do this afternoon ? ’ |
| 23 | At first , 's uncertainty principle might lead one to suppose that high-resolution is sacrificed if one works on such short timescales . |
| 24 | So , geographical variation does n't lead one to have any kind of impression that the boundaries between species are sharp and distinct if you move about . |
| 25 | But if it is a hung parliament , this will be because we do n't really want anyone to have any power . |
| 26 | Accumulation of observations would allow one to specify statistical properties of the motion , such as the average kinetic and potential energy of the pendulum over a large number of periods ( cf. the statistical specification of turbulent motion , Section 19.2 ) . |
| 27 | No one reading them could conclude that the Agency would allow anyone to suppose industrial co-operatives were in any way exempt from commercial discipline . |
| 28 | Erm it sort of backfired a bit on poor er Ray because he 'd actually written up a bid er for us to do , which was about investors in people to actually h appoint somebody to control that process which would take on board all of the training and |
| 29 | Eamonn McCann said that events had shown that the old policies would get no one anywhere : ‘ I do n't advise anyone to charge that barricade , ’ he said . |
| 30 | If you are a B , I should ask somebody to do this test for you , because usually the people on these courses are A's , quite a lot of them are A one . |