Example sentences of "by [art] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2.1 TWO TYPES OF MEANING EXPRESSED BY THE TO INFINITIVE |
| 2 | Palmer ( 1988 : 199 ) proposes that when followed by the to infinitive , verbs of perception function as verbs of reporting , so that He saw the children to be eating their lunch means " He reported the children to be eating their lunch " . |
| 3 | An examination of the actual meaning expressed by the to infinitive after verbs of perception in the active voice shows therefore a necessary before/after relationship between the event of the verb of perception ( which has shifted to evoke the notion of inference ) and the event of the infinitive ( which denotes the conclusion reached by means of the inference ) . |
| 4 | The view just proposed accounts for the rather curious fact that there are no passive constructions followed by the to infinitive with the verb watch , as both Fries ( 1964 : 21 ) and Mittwoch ( 1990 : 119 ) have pointed out : ( 75 ) He was seen to cross the street . |
| 5 | Know can also be found in the operative sense followed by the to infinitive : ( 110 ) I 've never known him to lie to me . |
| 6 | Force , for example , conveys an idea of coercion similar to that expressed by make in many of its uses , and yet , like cause , it is followed by the to infinitive : ( 159 ) An injury forced Skorich to quit after the 1949 season . |
| 7 | Oblige , like force , evokes more than merely producing an effect and it too is followed by the to infinitive : ( 164 ) … servants , whom he had obliged to accompany him . |
| 8 | As a consequence , oblige can be used even when the event denoted by the to infinitive has not yet been realized : ( 165 ) The law obliges everyone to pay his taxes . |
| 9 | Although rare , there are some examples of make followed by the to infinitive . |
| 10 | The above contexts where make is followed by the to infinitive , far from disproving the explanation given above of why this verb is generally construed with the bare infinitive , confirm it therefore most convincingly . |
| 11 | Thanks to this way of analysing the movement of to , the expressive effects of unexpectedness , good or bad luck and the like produced by the to infinitive in these cases can be accounted for . |
| 12 | The single premium life assurance market was , over the past two years , dominated by the with profit bond . |
| 13 | way of categorising the names is to list them by the of medium in much the same way as they are listed ie media guides . |
| 14 | In 1681 , the Burgh of Selkirk , having chosen Sir Patrick Murray , who did not reside in that burgh , to be their commissioner to Parliament , a charge was given both to the burgh and to Sir Patrick for payment of the penalty imposed by the of Convention . |
| 15 | Now remember this coral is from the western side of Isabella Island and at this location water temperatures are primarily controlled by the of cold , deep water as the trade winds blow from east to west across the islands . |
| 16 | Because a detailed record of economic activity statuses was collected by the After Redundancy study , it was possible to compare the proportion of time spent by each person since being made redundant in different forms of employment status . |
| 17 | This is the first of er two lectures on the American presidency and erm I want to begin just by putting the presidency in , in context erm thus far I hope it 's clear that the American pol political system is one in which authority is firstly limited by the constitution in which authority dispersed by the by virtue of the separation of powers . |
| 18 | This definition by purpose , by an in effect autonomous intention , is perhaps the most common modern justification of the category . |