Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] [be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CBI gloom and a call from Peter Shore to reflate or resign was met by the advice from Geoffrey Howe to ‘ keep our nerve ’ . |
| 2 | Most are women and children — the men either opted to stay behind to fight or have been captured by the Serbs . |
| 3 | I 've never heard so much rubbish in my life and what I 'm gon na try and do is speak to the policy of Percent for Art . |
| 4 | To set the problem in more concrete terms , we must seek an answer to the question as to why make and have are followed by the bare infinitive , while cause , occasion , get and all the other causatives are construed with to infinitives . |
| 5 | The aristocracy — ie. titled landowners — do still exist and have been joined by the very wealthy ( through ownership or investment ) : it has been reckoned that this 1% of adult population owns one-quarter of all the wealth in Britain . |
| 6 | Capacity to buy and sell is regulated by the general law concerning capacity to contract and to transfer and acquire property . |
| 7 | He concluded : ‘ But in my judgment the powers to seize and retain are conferred for the better performances of public functions by public bodies and can not be used to make information available to private individuals for their private purposes . ’ |