Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can rediscover the continuity of time only in the novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded . |
| 2 | It seems that , while she was married to Earl Spencer , she regularly had her lunch and her tea in one of her silk and antique negligees , gave orders that because the noise might disturb her , no-one should flush the loo before noon when she got up , and was forever tracing her finger around the furniture to make sure the servants had dusted properly . |
| 3 | Nor is it to deny that a society capable of providing for the fulfilment of all human needs , all the time , would eliminate the need for money altogether . |
| 4 | You refer in part d erm , to recent Government announcements which you say will make the fight against crime less effective . |
| 5 | In a compliance system , in contrast , there is much less concern for proving a violation took place ; indeed widespread reliance on strict liability would make the question of proof relatively straightforward if matters ended up in court . |
| 6 | It would make the conduct of business more difficult . |
| 7 | As the binary divide recedes and vanishes a further revolution in creating links with schools will make the management of transition more rational . |
| 8 | And of a truth vile Epicurism and Sensuality will make the soul of man so degenerate and blinde , that he will not only be content to slide into brutish immorality , but please himself of this very opinion that he is a real Brute already , an Ape , Satyre , Baboon ; and that the best of men are no better , saving that civilising of them and industrious education has made them appear in a more refined shape , and long inculcate precepts have been mistaken for connate Principles of Honesty and Natural Knowledge , otherwise there be no indespensible grounds of Religion and Virtue , but what has hapned to be taken up by overruling Custome . |
| 9 | But he must now know that an Iraqi démarche around January 15th — perhaps a partial withdrawal from Kuwait — would make the use of force bitterly controversial at home . |
| 10 | The answer was that it would make the study of literature highly historical and linguistic . |
| 11 | But the Chancellor yesterday replanted the seeds of worry , even though another interest rate rise would make the risk of recession unacceptably high . |
| 12 | However that is resolved ( and opinion seems now to be in favour of the admissibility of others too ) it does not affect the point at issue here . |
| 13 | Whilst religious traditions may prefer the theme of light as more poetic , their theologians find more prosaic ways to represent the divine presence . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , we do not know the time of year when Lady Godiva is supposed to have ridden out . |
| 15 | You can not count the features of loveliness here , but I attach some pages from my notebook to discover to you the ingenious flora of this fair isle and their many productive and rich uses . |
| 16 | We can introduce the idea of culture here in relation to a special use of the term which was fashionable in the early 1970s . |
| 17 | The benefits can outweigh the cost in time considerably , of course . |
| 18 | This category of graded numerical sayings thus yields two more examples of the parallelism of greater precision , but on the whole it does not display the feature under consideration here . |
| 19 | Sometimes a party will win a period of office outright ; more commonly perhaps two or more parties will share power . |
| 20 | Tonight I feel I 'd enjoy a pint of ale more than a text from the New Testament . |
| 21 | With the moulded plastic nozzle attached , the Blower Vac can concentrate a jet of air up to 140mph |
| 22 | Although Goldmann does introduce a measure of reflexivity not present in Marx , Engels and Lukács , it is as a characteristic of the sociology of knowledge which allows for a variety of competing perspectives . |
| 23 | Any approach that makes doubt a problem of faith rather than a problem of knowledge is wrong . |
| 24 | Mr Johnstone said the group could no longer guarantee a bed for life regardless of whether residents were privately funded or eligible for income support . |
| 25 | The new single-issue groups , he believed , represented a potential new element in Labour 's complex power brokerage which might tip the balance of power decisively in his direction . |
| 26 | The problem with this method is that we must generate the species of interest continuously — often by mixing two gases or solutions — in a way that can be matched to the timescale of the measurement . |
| 27 | With central heating and fewer smokers these days , the decoration in a home can last 10 years or more with only a couple of adult occupants and you could therefore feel the need for change long before it really needs doing . |
| 28 | Suggested Compromises : The Purchaser to have the right of rescission for breaches which are ‘ so material ’ that they effectively change the nature of what the Purchaser thought it was acquiring ; any such compromise should ideally specify the measure of materiality either by reference to a specific amount of money or a percentage of the value of the business to be acquired although this may be felt to be impossible to quantify ; or |
| 29 | You will , no doubt , be amazed to find that you can recite the list in order quite easily . |
| 30 | Basically , the levy will bring the price of food up to the level set for that product by the agricultural policy of the EEC , a price the EEC will pay European farmers . |