Example sentences of "[vb infin] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd have been better off getting them to help him compose a Dear Marje letter . |
| 2 | Concurrent Computer Corp , Oceanport , New Jersey has launched a Series 7000 Investment Protection Programme under which its customers can buy and install a new Concurrent Series 7000 system and then order the compatible upgrade to the next generation system , which will be introduced later this year . |
| 3 | When your client is buying land with an unregistered title within an area of compulsory registration , you will seek a good unregistered title with a root at least 15 years old . |
| 4 | In advance of the meeting it had been anticipated that Iran would seek a lower overall quota , in the region of 22,000,000 bpd , to drive prices up to nearer $25 per barrel . |
| 5 | ‘ Both voters and candidates in the coming parliamentary elections in Jordan shoulder a grave responsibility and should therefore seek a true democratic rule based on the tenets of the constitution , avoiding rashness and extremism . ’ |
| 6 | In an interview with the Financial Times of Aug. 28 Singh confirmed that India would seek a further three-year loan from the IMF under its extended fund facility ( EFF ) . |
| 7 | However , there is the possibility that if motorists are sufficiently inconvenienced by the traffic-calming measures , they will seek a quicker alternative route . |
| 8 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 9 | Well , they did during the Underground strikes , and I honestly did know a young brat-race type who went to work in the West End on a unicycle . |
| 10 | A further detail which supports the view that let evokes the lifting of all obstacles to the event denoted by the infinitive and concomitant actualization of the latter is the tendency for let to form a tight unit with the infinitives of certain verbs : ( 222 ) Kreisler let fall a further heavy hint . |
| 11 | y you might need a wee these tablets |
| 12 | You do not need a complete conventional circuit with a long downwind leg , although this will obviously give you more time in which to have a better look at the field . |
| 13 | I will also need a good black-and-white photograph ( face and shoulders ) . |
| 14 | If we are to have a leaner , meaner , keener regular Army , inevitably we shall need a good Territorial Army to support it . |
| 15 | Mr Albert 's voice came from a distance : ‘ You 'll need a good white shirt with it , and a tie … . |
| 16 | Remember that once you start camping above the valley floor , you 'll need a higher rated sleeping bag . |
| 17 | If the Prime Minister wants to win , he may need a new mean streak |
| 18 | But where the strings pass through the body , the holes have opened up , so it may need a new wooden bridge plate or something placed underneath the table . |
| 19 | You do not need a new up-to-date machine , a Pink Passap Duo 5 will knit these as easily as will the Duo 80 or the E6000 . |
| 20 | A contract engineer called to my machine at work said that I should have a least eight inches of space all around it to prevent it from overheating or , if that did not solve the problem , it would need a new hard disk . |
| 21 | If they work five days , there would , in theory , be a 20 per cent increase in periods worked , therefore on paper you would need a fifth fewer people . |
| 22 | Teachers do not need a specialist social work teaching qualification . |
| 23 | Unlike the normal DIP switches , you do n't need a small pointed object to change the settings , as the switches themselves are large and easy to manoeuvre with a fingernail . |
| 24 | We really do need a whole new approach to the job . ’ |
| 25 | They do not even need a basic social work qualification . |
| 26 | Lower windspeeds will need a longer front leg ; stronger wind calls for a shorter front leg . |
| 27 | It does not need a massive administrative apparatus for this , but can work through negotiations between a few key individuals in the state and business sectors . |
| 28 | You will then need a further five minutes to look through the application form ( or application letter or c.v. ) of the next candidate , and to remind yourself of any particular questions which need to be asked as a result of what it contained . |
| 29 | Those at home often need opiates ( morphine-like medicines ) for pain , while one in five will also need a special battery-operated syringe pump , especially if they are too weak to swallow . |
| 30 | I do n't need , I said to Jim get us my matches , I said give us yours , mine 's upstairs says you do n't need a light sure Jean , I 'll have a light |