Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Record-breaking and the alleged mania for quantification can not properly explain the appeal of sport .
2 88open has decided to offer its system and application compatibility test suites — ITS/88 , AVS/88 and ACT/88 — to industry consortia and companies : although to date they have only been available for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC based systems , interested parties would presumably customise the sets for other architectures .
3 From approximately 10 months the baby progressively overcomes this error and will successfully locate the target .
4 Both at home and at school , methodologies may fundamentally obstruct the negotiation of meaning and , in doing so , reduce the likelihood of deaf children enriching their language skills .
5 The mainstream Labour left thinks it can call Mr Major 's bluff : he would rather swallow the Social Chapter , they guess , than lose the whole treaty .
6 Harbury rattled on : ‘ I know he 'd rather make a statement later on and give it simultaneously to everyone .
7 Thanks but no-thanks , we 'd rather make the programme we want to , despite the horrendous budget problems .
8 Of course , Irish clergy and laity are sometimes at the forefront of political religious change in other countries , and a lively Irish intellectuals ’ religion will continue : but whether or not it will eventually affect the structure of power is another matter .
9 They are the most powerful because they can most effectively expose the discipline for what it is .
10 Progressive rock was over-dressed , the music of a leisured rock aristocracy , who possessed the money to lavishly construct a LUXURIOUS palace of sound , and the time to squander in excessively fastidious attention to detail .
11 In the major eruption of Laki in Iceland in 1783 over 10 km 3 of lava was produced in just 50 days , and it spread to eventually cover an area of 370 km 2 .
12 But perhaps , too , we go to observe our death , prefigured in the element in which we can not survive , and which may eventually cover the earth for all time .
13 But it has stressed its commitment to the polluter-pays principle , and plans to introduce charges that will eventually cover the scheme 's costs .
14 They do n't believe that government promises of an increase in benefits will properly compensate the pensioners , and worry that those just above the level eligible for benefits will be hit hardest of all .
15 For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward .
16 Its just difficult to explain how the defence works as a team , and one weak link can badly affect the rests confidence .
17 In an upwards market this would benefit the landlord , who could never hope to achieve a full market rent pursuant to an interim rent application , but would disadvantage the tenant , who would presumably prefer the old rent to continue during negotiations , thereby acting as a negotiating factor .
18 But not all the skills and ingenuity of law draftsmen could wholly circumvent the deviousness of ancient land law .
19 On 24 November the lawyers replied ‘ respectfully to state our opinion that Your Majesty may properly grant a Royal Charter ’ , but it was not until 14 February 1844 that Thomas Turner was able to report to the standing committee of veterinary surgeons that their determined efforts had been rewarded and that the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons had been incorporated .
20 It was already chaotically busy with officials and administrators knitting together the many responsibilities which would eventually make a successful tournament .
21 Yet , Sir Edmund , I am confident the assassin will eventually make a mistake . ’
22 If the poetry of the early part of the eighteenth century is already grappling with the problems associated with a realistic treatment of agricultural labour , it is not surprising that an agricultural labourer should eventually make an impact as a poet .
23 This may take a few iterations to achieve a good balance , but should eventually make the zero crossings correspond to more or less zero field .
24 There are , however , two — perhaps three — who might eventually make the grade .
25 So what has to happen , ideally , is that your detective must learn piece by piece things which will eventually make the answer to the fundamental puzzle clear .
26 Too much control and predictability might eventually subvert the organizational goals .
27 That Sri Lankans were involved in much litigation and that the judicial system was based on alien principles can not be denied , but contemporaries did not successfully explain the link between these two facts .
28 Such people ‘ will assuredly prefer the reputation without the reality of goodness [ iustitia simulationem ] to the reality without the reputation ’ .
29 For some species of spider will blatantly mimic the ‘ come-hither ’ sound signals and even sex pheromones of female moths , luring lusting males to a dinner party they had not expected .
30 First , the cognitive model which structures the mental space in terms of the schemas of BALANCE and LINKS admits of diverse more superficial realisations , for example the " financial-numerical " metaphors of the play , and this diversity means that a number of alternative image schemas could also arguably explain the patterning .
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