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

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1 Record-breaking and the alleged mania for quantification can not properly explain the appeal of sport .
2 From approximately 10 months the baby progressively overcomes this error and will successfully locate the target .
3 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 .
4 Harbury rattled on : ‘ I know he 'd rather make a statement later on and give it simultaneously to everyone .
5 Thanks but no-thanks , we 'd rather make the programme we want to , despite the horrendous budget problems .
6 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 .
7 They are the most powerful because they can most effectively expose the discipline for what it is .
8 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 .
9 But it has stressed its commitment to the polluter-pays principle , and plans to introduce charges that will eventually cover the scheme 's costs .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 But not all the skills and ingenuity of law draftsmen could wholly circumvent the deviousness of ancient land law .
13 Yet , Sir Edmund , I am confident the assassin will eventually make a mistake . ’
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 There are , however , two — perhaps three — who might eventually make the grade .
18 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 .
19 Such people ‘ will assuredly prefer the reputation without the reality of goodness [ iustitia simulationem ] to the reality without the reputation ’ .
20 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 .
21 Given the choice , most of us would rather eat a choccy bar than a stick of celery , but good eating habits will pay dividends .
22 Lucenzo ran lightly to the bow and vaulted the rail , landing neatly on the jetty to fasten the rope to the black and gold-striped bricole , timing everything to perfection so that he could single-handedly dock the boat and kill the engine .
23 There is a danger that a voluntary organisation may become involved in trying to run services that should properly remain the responsibility of a statutory organisation .
24 Nevertheless , failures will be encountered and such failures can eventually attain a degree of seriousness that constitutes a serious crisis for the paradigm and may lead to the rejection of a paradigm and its replacement by an incompatible alternative .
25 In the ensuing weeks the two parties negotiated an agreement on a transitional federal coalition which would effectively oversee the dismantling of the Czechoslovak state .
26 Concessionary crownholds were also applicable to ‘ bodies which can effectively supervise the assignment of such houses ’ , such as housing associations .
27 Using this technology SunSelect intends to make Windows emulation available for Solaris 2.1 in the second quarter of next year and will eventually deliver the stuff on multiple platforms .
28 Erm and you never know who 's coming in , it could be anybody and if we start saying things which are n't to , then we 'll eventually damage the project a great deal .
29 However computerised data from other sources would eventually remedy the situation , said Mr Banks .
30 Little mention has been made so far of those elements of material forms which relate to each other in an ordered fashion , and which may thereby influence the manner in which they are utilized in constituting cultural patterns or acting as systems of meaning .
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