Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q. What noise does a sheep make ? |
| 2 | Nobody walks on a slope like this for choice , only sheep , and they do n't let sheep graze this lot . |
| 3 | And please keep your butties to yourself and let the sheep eat grass as nature intended . |
| 4 | His job now was to let the allied headquarters know what he had seen : that the French had crossed the frontier and that the campaign had therefore begun . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll let headquarters know you 're here , ’ Sharpe said . |
| 6 | Flick the switch left , watch the rpm build through 1,000 and , while pressing the igniter button in a bullet-shaped fairing on its top , inch the fuel cock gently forward . |
| 7 | During take-offs and landings , some Flying Control personnel would occupy a caravan placed near the start of the runway being used , and they would fire green or red flares to let the aircraft know if they were cleared to land or take-off , and on this occasion one of the men was very quick off the mark , saw the crash and was immediately on the spot , helping the crew to get out of the burning aircraft . |
| 8 | We can not alter these circumstances , but we can try to make good use of such information that is available , and ‘ make the data speak for themselves ’ about other aspects , and this project will continue developments in this direction . |
| 9 | She stood still for a moment and looked up and down the street ; it seemed to shine ; the light the sun had poured onto the packed dirt of the road glowed back pewter under the stars ; there was no longer any moon , it had set earlier that night , and the dimensions of the scene had expanded , creating a vacancy which made Rosa feel her pulse quicken , as if she too were growing , becoming less stubby , less compact , stretching upwards and turning silvery herself like the leaf of an olive when the breeze lifts it and shows its metallic underside . |
| 10 | The Gestapo was just about running the Communist party by 1944 , but to do that they 'd have to let some small fry run free , and from their point of view the Eismarks would be very small indeed . |
| 11 | But maybe he did see Rosa run heavily for the door of her home ; maybe he was one of the men in the cafe who knew , who corroborated Tommaso 's insult later with their laughter , and made it impossible for Davide to ignore it and fail to issue his challenge . |
| 12 | Several people saw the aircraft recover from the turn to an essentially wings-level attitude with small erratic oscillations in bank angle . |
| 13 | The dangers of disregarding , by ignorance or design , the essentially conditional nature of abstract models and of making data fit into preconceived categories are well attested in the theoretical domain . |
| 14 | Since our model imposes no restrictions on how reservation wages or the effects of variables change over time , we can let the data decide whether each individual has an increasing/decreasing reservation wage , hazard , etc. over time . |
| 15 | O-wait state memory and fast IDE hard disk makes data access exceptionally fast , and built-in parallel and serial ports makes printer and peripheral compatibility easy . |
| 16 | I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far . |
| 17 | It is far easier to let the fry feed naturally than to have to mess around with infusorians . |
| 18 | I could n't let Rosa go when the time came to sell up . |
| 19 | How can the reindeer tell which is Norway and which is Sweden ? |
| 20 | Since the advent of a car-ferry system connecting Denmark , Norway , Shetland , Faroe and Iceland , it has become easier for me to take a vehicle over and , because the ferry terminus in Iceland is in one of the eastern fiords called Seyðisfjördur — see data capture sheet , this has given me the opportunity of exploring the north and east coast of Iceland in greater detail . |
| 21 | We did not want to impose this restriction here but wanted to let the data reveal individual preferences . |
| 22 | Müncheberg shot one of these down at 1715 , seeing the aircraft crash about a mile north-east of the airfield . |
| 23 | But where did the gasworks get them from , do you know ? |
| 24 | What role can the Ecu play in the movement towards the economic and monetary union of Europe ? |
| 25 | But why do physicists want to unify phenomena , should they try to , and do the data justify their claims ? |
| 26 | Lastly , Mr Gandhi has been critical of the decision to let American aircraft refuel in India on their way to the Gulf . |
| 27 | Azar and Punjab Singh agreed that Delhi was the best place to see the partridge challenge in the whole of the subcontinent . |
| 28 | The details of public-sector funds ' investment in the stockmarket are kept murky , the better to make folk think the market is on the mend . |
| 29 | But it 's big Jack 's capacity for making folk laugh — often quite unintentionally — that makes him the great character he is . |
| 30 | I 'd 'a let yu know afore , if yu 'd left us your address … ’ |