Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [det] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A senior executive of a business once told me that he had difficulty in getting women employees to realize and make known such skills in the working environment . |
| 2 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 3 | We hope to ensure that every candidate will have given some consideration to the issues which affect older people . |
| 4 | During this time Mozart may have given some lessons to the young Beethoven , who was visiting Vienna for the first time . |
| 5 | Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 6 | He may also have developed some connections with the Tempests of Bracewell . |
| 7 | He may also have developed some connections with the Tempests of Bracewell . |
| 8 | If it had been Everthorpe , she would have dismissed this performance as a clumsy pass , but Wilcox seemed teased by some genuine memory . |
| 9 | This probably resulted from the fall in sea level during the glacial period , which would have exposed more land around the continent , allowing the mantle to spread over a wider continent , to cover what is now shallow sea-bed , and to thicken inland along the line of the present coast . |
| 10 | If the dependent subsidiary provisions are triggered then any " chargeable increase in the value of the shares " within s79 Finance Act 1988 can give management a Schedule E income tax charge , at a time when management will not have realised any cash from the increased value in the shares to pay the tax . |
| 11 | Secondly , there is no reason why the vendor should receive payment from the purchaser for the debtors earlier than the vendor would have received such payment from the debtors themselves . |
| 12 | By then we should have completed any changes to the constitution and bye-laws , have decided on the long term future of our examination system and have strengthened our financial position so that we can meet the costs involved . |
| 13 | Tristan would never have won any prizes as an exponent of the haute cuisine . |
| 14 | As we indicate to the general assembly in the printed report , the Board could have insisted on its rights under contract made with those bodies and the Board was confident that it would have won any action in the courts . |
| 15 | None who might have carried that wish to the length of killing her . |
| 16 | There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom . |
| 17 | However , it can cause severe problems especially in mining areas where the smelting of copper , lead , arsenic , tin and zinc might have dispersed these elements over the adjacent downwind soils . |
| 18 | I would have picked these players for the 18 men squad : |
| 19 | He would have earned more income on the seven thousand pounds . |
| 20 | The disapproving proscriptions of puritanism could not have squeezed all impropriety from the area . |
| 21 | The Communist Party , moreover , was a unitary organisation based upon the same principle of democratic centralism , and there was no constitutional court which , as in a true federation , could have resolved any dispute about the respective powers of the republics and of the USSR as a whole . |
| 22 | The prospect of a pension must have attracted many men into a profession in which prestige was low , the pay not particularly good , and discipline strict . |
| 23 | Well , if we had been a little more realistic , we would have included another item in the expenditure side — wasted time , which some of you may have included under the heading private study ! |
| 24 | She nonchalantly waved a hand in a direction that might have included any tent in the camp . |
| 25 | If Cornwall was anything but a land of rich squires and yeomen , it may also have enjoyed some immunity from the scourge of absolute poverty . |
| 26 | ‘ Mike would never have shot this Barak in the back , ’ Sabrina said once Kolchinsky had finished . |
| 27 | Some letters , however , suggest that Leapor was rather dilatory , and may not have done much work in the winter . |
| 28 | I could have done that back in the States . ’ |
| 29 | If Lithuania had scored , as they should have done several times in the second half , maybe that would have shaken the Irish from their slumber . |
| 30 | Who else would have done those things for the NME — hanging out in Dingle Bay with Mike Scott and an accordion-bashing cow farmer , taking in the transvestite clubs with Fabulous , and singing ‘ Would You Take It In Your Mouth , Mrs Murphy ? ’ atop a hotel table in Moscow . |