Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we have n't , erm talking about er cars as to other forms of transport and on the whole there 's been more complaints about the public transport than they have about cars , but you surely do n't think or maybe you do , I mean what 's bad about cars ? , |
| 2 | These can either disappear or more often look larger and uneven in single-bed Fair Isle . |
| 3 | Many brands will perish or never be so profitable again |
| 4 | Never rinse reusable filter materials in tap water and never use detergents or you will damage or totally destroy the beneficial bacteria that have built up the efficiency of the filter unit . |
| 5 | Indeed , Moscow entertained some hopes that the growth in interest in non-alignment in Latin America , a phenomenon which had induced Soviet writers in the mid 1970s to talk of a ‘ Latin American stage ’ of the Non-Aligned Movement , could weaken or even undermine the military treaty system which bound this continent to the United States . |
| 6 | There was a real fear that an amendment which satisfied developers would seriously weaken or even wreck the planning machine ; the scheme was part of a complex of planning controls which might easily be upset and result in a return to the very problems which the 1947 Act was designed to solve . |
| 7 | A mechanism must thus be provided whereby one set of pairs can modify or suddenly change into another . |
| 8 | In addition , it is open to the producer or director to show that he did not know or reasonably suspect that the offending programme would be included in a cable programme , or that in the context of the broadcast the programme would probably provoke racial hatred . |
| 9 | Some clients may feel that no-one can know or therefore write about their company as well as they can . |
| 10 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 11 | The problem is getting an answer , or a least one that does n't tell us anything we do n't already know or indeed anything at all . |
| 12 | I would binge and vomit or just not eat at all . |
| 13 | ‘ An order under section 61(1) that the third , fourth and fifth defendants and each of them pay such sum as the court thinks fit to the plaintiffs or alternatively into court or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 30 or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 31 in such manner as the court may direct or alternatively that they take such other steps as the court may direct for the purpose of remedying the contravention by the first defendant of sections 47 and 57 . |
| 14 | This duty also prevents an employee from taking advantage of any approach which is initiated by a customer or supplier even though the employee did not seek or even encourage it , as happened in Sanders ' case . |
| 15 | The European Commission will have to review and approve or otherwise IBM Corp 's proposed acquisition of Compagnie Generale d'Informatique SA : it has four weeks to decide whether the alliance could harm competition in Community markets ; if it has ‘ serious doubts ’ about the transaction , it will then launch a deeper , four-month probe . |
| 16 | ( i.e. does it manufacture or just buy in and sell ? ) |
| 17 | I could ABAB ABAB or even ABAB CDCD . |
| 18 | Though he 'd never really believed that any woman would behave that coldly and that violently in response to an attack . |
| 19 | She would know that well enough ) … . |
| 20 | It 's not an elected person in who actually sets them cos although he might present , Heseltine does n't know that well . |
| 21 | She does n't know that yet , but |
| 22 | Those who have viewed the Lombardy Plain from a distance will know that even on clear days Milan has its own atmosphere , the way that other cities do , although , in fairness , it is very much less than many others , despite its low-lying position . |
| 23 | She 'd know that deep bear-like growl of his anywhere ! |
| 24 | ‘ You mean how did they know that today was a big one ? ’ |
| 25 | First I 'll divulge that I went to Bristol — they 'll know that already if they 're bright enough — then I 'll say I went to this Bed and Breakfast — then I looked for a job … |
| 26 | Little did they know that shortly after the conference their services would be required in the lounge of a local public house by a group of frustrated dykes and an infuriated publican . |
| 27 | I did n't know that either , some of the other things were good , right . |
| 28 | The police will know that soon if they do n't already . |
| 29 | ‘ She 'll know that anyway , ’ said Camille , ‘ on account of all the dirty dishes and the gâteau and stuff . ’ |
| 30 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |